This is an abridged version of my CV updated on August 7, 2026. A full PDF version is also available for download.
EDUCATION
George Mason University
PhD, History and Art History, May 2024
Dissertation Title: “Imagining Acadiana: Cajun Identity in Modern Louisiana”
University of New Orleans
MA, History, concentration in Public and Local History, 2016.
Master’s Thesis: “Picturing the Cajun Revival: Swallow Records, Album Art, and Marketing an Identity of South Louisiana, 1960s-1970s.”
BA, History with Honors, minor in Sociology, summa cum laude, 2013.
CURRENT POSITION
Program Manager, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, funded by the Mellon Foundation to enhance collaboration and community partnerships. Coordinate ongoing projects and reporting, strategize new digital humanities initiatives, organizing programming, and facilitating relationships with community partners. November 2023-present.
CURRENT CONSULTING CLIENTS
Ascension Parish Government, lead historian. Develop book project on Parish history and companion digital exhibition platform in collaboration with Ascension Parish Library system. January 2026-December 2027.
ACE Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, digital humanities consultant. Lead strategy for public website and 100+ digital products; support collaboration between and across 31 project teams through training, networking opportunities, and project management. September 2022-December 2026.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Produce, Prepare, Propel: Reflections from the ACE Mellon Program’s Digital Humanities Team,” Parks Stewardship Forum special issue, Now and Here: Public Humanities and National Parks in Tumultuous Times, co-author with Michael Faist and Cait Johsnon, January 2025, https://escholarship.org/uc/psf/42/1.
“Save What You Can: Tending Katrina’s Community Archive,” Southern Cultures: Katrina’s American special issue, August 2025. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55518.
“Hearing the Americas: Understanding the Early Recording Industry with Digital Tools,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era special issue: New Approaches to Music and Sound, Co-author with Matthew Karush and Michael O’Malley, December 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537781423000178.
SELECTED DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
Now & Here, Digital Humanities Consultant, 2022-present. Led content strategy and development of open-source website to collect 100+ public humanities projects created by the ACE Mellon Humanities Fellowship Program.
Frenchmen Notes, Project Associate, February 2022-present. A community-rooted project supported by the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans and the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies.
New Orleans Historical, Managing Editor and Contributing Author, May 2014–July 2016; Fall 2022-present. A project of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies.
Hearing the Americas, Project Associate, 2017-2022. A Project of RRCHNM, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ReSounding the Archives, Project Manager, January-December 2018. A Project of RRCHNM, funded by 4-VA.
Papers of the War Department, Project Manager, 2019-2020. A Project of RRCHNM, funded by National Historical Publications and Records Commission, American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
DIGITAL MEDIA PROJECTS
Now & Here podcast, in development, a storytelling project through America’s national parks and historic sites based on the research of ACE Mellon Fellows, launching Fall 2026.
New Orleans Jazz Museum Educational Videos, interviews and lesson plans with local culture bearers. Created through an Open Outdoors for Kids Grant from the National Park Foundation, 2021.
States of Incarceration, created video essay on the use of music at Louisiana State Penitentiary as part of national traveling exhibition sponsored by the Humanities Action Lab, 2016.
EXHIBITIONS
Amongst Ourselves, advisory board member. Supported development of scripts and companion materials for exhibit about slavery and resistance at Whitney Plantation, opened March 2026.
Do You Know What It Means: Katrina @ 20, lead curator. Led development of a physical exhibit at LSU New Orleans Library and digital companion to mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in collaboration with students, archives and research staff, and community members, opened August 2025.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“On Record: Documenting the History of Local Music Scenes,” chair and organizer, American Historical Association annual meeting, New Orleans, January 2027.
“From NPS to A250: Digital Humanities in Place,” panelist and organizer, joint Association for the Study of State and Local History and National Council on Public History meeting, Providence, RI, September 2026.
“Homefront Frequencies: Radio Messaging and Community during WWI.” panelist and organizer, Organization of American Historians, Philadelphia, April 2026.
“Rethinking Cajun and Acadian: New Directions in Southwest Louisiana Studies Roundtable, part one and part two,” roundtable panelist, Louisiana Historical Association, Lafayette, LA, March 2026.
“A Doctorate with a Difference: 25 Years of Digital Humanities and the PhD in History,” panelist, American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2026.
“To what extent is historical digital storytelling replicable at a wide variety of institutions?,” roundtable panelist, Voices of Grambling Fall 2025 Workshop: Digital Technologies + Historical Storytelling, October 2025.
“New Orleans and Music History,” panelist and organizer, Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2025.
“Postdoctoral Fellowships in Public History: Understanding their Role, their Labor, and their Possibilities,” panelist, Montreal, QC, March 2025.
“Frenchmen Notes: Documenting and Advocating for a New Orleans Music Scene,” panelist and organizer, National Council on Public History, Montreal, QC, March 2025.
“Mapping the Past: GIS Technology Implementation for Historic Sites,” chair, Louisiana Historical Association, Baton Rouge, LA, March 2025.
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
“Produce Prepare Propel: Reflections on Digital Humanities in the ACE Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program,” Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, April 2026.
“The Katrina Memory Project,” Learning Before Lunch monthly speaker series, September 2025.
“Community and Popular Culture in the Crescent City: The Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies,” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2025.
“Pathways to a Digital History Career,” Dr. Marline Otte’s PhD Course, Tulane University, November 2024.
TEACHING
HIST 6008: Introduction to Public History, University of New Orleans, Fall 2025, Fall 2026.
HIST 4885/5885: Special Topics in Public History: Digital Humanities, Spring 2026.
HIST 4991/5991: Digital Humanities, University of New Orleans, Spring 2025.
DGHU1010: Introduction to Digital Humanities Part Two, Xavier University of Louisiana, Spring 2021
DGHU 1000: Introduction to Digital Humanities Part One, Xavier University of Louisiana, Fall 2020
HIST 390: The Digital Past, George Mason University, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
SERVICE
American Historical Association Local Arrangements Committee, 2026.
National Council on Public History G. Wesley Johnson Award Committee, 2025-2028.
Goat in the Road Productions, Advisory Board Member, 2025-present.
Louisiana Music Museum Advisory Board member, Acadiana Arts Council, June 2023-present.
Louisiana Historical Association Publications Committee member, June 2023-June 2026.
