Education

Master of Arts, History, Certificate in Digital Humanities

August 2012 — University of Nebraska-Lincoln — Lincoln, Nebraska

• Advisor: Dr. William G. Thomas III
• Thesis: "'On our way to the Sunny South, land of Chivalry': Northern Imperial Attitudes in the Civil War South" — Awarded Folsom Distinguished Master's Thesis Award, February 2013

Certificate of Achievement, Accelerated Legal Assistant Program

2007 — Metropolitan Community College — Omaha, Nebraska

• Litigation Option

Bachelor of Arts, History, Minor in Film Studies

May 2005 — University of Kansas — Lawrence, Kansas

• Senior Thesis: "Beyond the Sphere: Revolutionary Women in Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War"
• Study Abroad: British Summer Institute in the Humanities, 2004 — England, Scotland

Professional Experience

Research Associate, Project Manager — November 2014 - present

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities — University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• U.S. Law and Race Initiative
• "To Enter Africa from America": The United States, Africa, and the New Imperialism, 1862-1919
• Animating History
• O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C. Law & Family

Project Manager and Researcher — October 2012 - October 2014

William G. Thomas III — University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C. Law & Family

Project Manager — September 2013 - October 2014

Jeannette Jones — University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Locating Lord Greystoke: U.S. Empire, Race, and the Africa Question, 1847-1919

Independent Contracting

Website Development — March - August 2021

Women on High Courts Database

• Women on High Courts

Researcher — July - December 2015

Joe Starita — University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016)

Researcher — May 2013 - November 2013

Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs — Lincoln, Nebraska

• Chief Standing Bear Trail Project
• The Long Struggle: Standing Bear & the Ponca (Lincoln: Center for Great Plains Studies, 2016)

Research

Articles

"Emancipating the Bell Family: An Inquiry into the Strategies of Freedom-Making." In O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family, edited by William G. Thomas III, et al. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

With William G. Thomas III and Robert Shepard. "Places of Exchange: An Analysis of Human and Materiél Flows in Civil War Alexandria, Virginia." Civil War History 62, no. 4 (December 2016)
Awarded the 2017 John T. Hubbell Prize

Books

The Long Struggle: Standing Bear and The Ponca. Lincoln: Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2016

Film

Story. The Bell Affair. 2022. Random Media

Digital Scholarship

"With Unabated Fury: The Civil War Journal of Alcander O. Morse, 1862-1864" (2011-present)

"'On our way for the Sunny South, land of Chivalry': Northern Travelogues and the Southern Landscape" (May 2011)
Honorable Mention, George Edward Woodberry Prize, 2011, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Conference Papers

"Emancipating the Bell Family: An Inquiry into the Strategies of Freedom-Making," D.C. History Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2, 2018

"O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family," electronic poster session, Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 14, 2016

"Following Chief Standing Bear: Investigating the Ponca Removal Trail," Standing Bear and the Trail Ahead Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 15, 2015

"From Toronto to Grasshopper Falls: The Westering Impulse of the Codys to 1865," 1862-2012: The Making of the Great Plains Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 29, 2012

"Union Veterans and the Fight over Civil War Memory," Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 9, 2010

Invited Presentations

"The Making of a Digital Humanities Project," with Jeannette Eileen Jones, Western Association of Women Historians Workshop, online, December 8, 2022

"O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family," project showcase, American Society for Legal History Pre-Conference Digital History Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, October 27, 2016

"Following Chief Standing Bear: Investigating the Ponca Removal Trail," Meeting of the Friends of Homestead National Monument, Beatrice, Nebraska, May 28, 2015

"Mapping the Chief Standing Bear Trail," Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Tribal Council Meeting, Lincoln, Nebraska, August 24, 2013

"Mapping the Chief Standing Bear Trail," Chief Standing Bear Trail Planning Committee Meeting, Omaha, Nebraska, August 2, 2013

Alternate Publications

Exhibit Text, "Looking Back, Looking Forward: Native American Art from the Permanent Collection," Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 2015

Workshops

"Mapping Lab," Digital Humanities Bootcamp, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 9, 2015

"Mapping Lab," Digital Humanities Bootcamp, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 10, 2014

Skills and Expertise

• Project management
• Research: Archival, legal, and online research, document digitization, paleography
• Web Design/Publishing: HTML, CSS, PHP, XML, Drupal, Omeka Classic, Omeka S, WordPress, GitHub
• Metadata: TEI, Dublin Core, LCSH, VIAF
• Office Software: Microsoft 365, macOS, Windows, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat
• Digital Tools: Voyant Tools, Esri Story Maps, StoryMapsJS, Palladio

Research Fields

Nineteenth-Century America, American Civil War, Family and Social History, New Military History, Digital History