Education
Master of Arts, History, Certificate in Digital Humanities
August 2012 — University of Nebraska-Lincoln — Lincoln, Nebraska
Certificate of Achievement, Accelerated Legal Assistant Program
2007 — Metropolitan Community College — Omaha, Nebraska
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
Project Manager and Researcher — October 2012 - October 2014
William G. Thomas III — University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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
Researcher — July - December 2015
Joe Starita — University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Researcher — May 2013 - November 2013
Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs — Lincoln, Nebraska
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
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
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
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
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
Awards & Honors
John T. Hubbell Prize, 2017, 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)
Lowe R. & Mavis M. Folsom Distinguished Master's Thesis Award, 2013
Research Grant, 2011, Sheldon Fund, History Department Graduate Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Scholarship, 2011, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, British Columbia
George Edward Woodberry Prize, Honorable Mention, 2011, Nineteenth Century Studies, Departments of History and English, "'On our way for the Sunny South, land of Chivalry': Northern Travelogues and the Southern Landscape," digital project
Skills and Expertise
- Project management
- Archival research
- Transcription of eighteenth and nineteenth-century personal and legal documents
- Document digitization
- Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop
- Web design and encoding, including the following markup languages and styles: HTML, CSS, PHP, XML, TEI
- Omeka and WordPress web publishing software
- Git version control
- Mapping tools: Google Maps, CartoDB, StoryMapsJS, Esri Story Maps
Research Fields
Nineteenth-Century America, American Civil War, Family and Social History, New Military History, Digital History
