About

I currently work as the Creative Lead and a web developer/designer at the Center for History and New Media. In that capacity, I manage the design and development process on a variety of projects. Additionally, I’m the project manager for Omeka, a web publishing system for cultural institutions.

I co-organize THATCamp, the Humanities and Technology Camp, sponsored primarily by CHNM. Started in 2008, THATCamp is an academic unconference that gives participants the opportunity to shape the event themselves. It is, quite possibly, the most fun you can ever have at an academic conference.

I do lots of plugin and theme development on the WordPress blogging platform. (A platform that, by the way, totally rocks). In addition to developing one-off solutions for numerous projects, I started ScholarPress in 2006 as a development hub for academic and educational plugins for WordPress.

I am also an ABD in U.S. History at George Mason University. My dissertation explores the early history of web design, particularly the development, adoption, and implementation of Cascading Style Sheets as a presentational language for the Web. My other research interests include the history of design, the history of technology, and social/cultural history.