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I’m a white settler historian living on Peoria homelands in Springfield, IL. I’m an independent consultant, currently working with the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) on women’s history-focused digital humanities projects.

I was previously employed as a Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow with American Conservation Experience, specializing in creating accessible and engaging online women’s history content for the NTHP’s Where Women Made History initiative and the National Historic Landmarks Program.

I earned a PhD in History with minors in Heritage Studies and Public History and Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2023.

My research has appeared in online blogs including Living Landscape Observer, Nursing Clio, Early American Studies Miscellany, Insurrect!, and All of Us.

I’ve published in Early American Studies and Park Stewardship Forum, as well as collaborating on essays for The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and An Accessible Past: Making Historic Sites Accessible.

As a public historian, I’ve worked on projects like Women’s History Illuminated, a project that teaches women’s histories through the power of place; the National Register and National Historic Landmarks’ 2024 Jewish Heritage Month article series; REPAIR: Disability Heritage Collective’s mapping and interpretation of disability histories; and history-based Ethnic Studies lesson plans for high- and middle-school students in Minnesota.

My work is shaped by my values: equity, empathy, and care. Learn more about causes aligned with my work that I enthusiastically endorse and support.