Education

Doctor of Philosophy, George Mason University (in progress)

• 2003–present.
• Major Field: U.S. History; Minor Fields: History and New Media, Cultural History
• Advisor: Michael O’Malley;
• Committee: Paula Petrik, Josh Greenberg

Master of Arts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• 2001–2003
• Major: U.S. History
• Thesis: “We the ‘White’ People: Race, Power, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902”
• Advisor: Crandall Shifflett.

Bachelor of Arts, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise

• 1998–2001
• Major: History, Political Science

Experience

Creative Lead, Center for History and New Media

August 2006–present

Web Developer, Center for History and New Media

December 2005–August 2006

Graduate Lecturer, “History 120: U.S. History Survey”, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University

August 2006–present

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University

August 2003–December 2005.

Publications

Book Chapters

• “Gilded Age and Progressive Era” and “Electronic Journals,” in Dennis Trinkle and Scott Merriman, eds. The 21st Century History Highway

Book Reviews

• Review of White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1940 by Lisa Lindquist Dorr. H-SAWH, July 2006
• Review of In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker, by Claudia Bushman (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). North Carolina Historical Review (October, 2002).
• Review of Democratic Dissent and Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America, by Stephen John Hartnett (University of Illinois Press, 2002). Maryland Historical Magazine (Winter, 2003).
• Review of A Separate Circle: Jewish Life in Knoxville, Tennessee, by Wendy Besmann (University of Tennessee Press, 2001). Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Winter, 2003).
• Review of Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South, edited by Christopher Waldrep, and Donald G. Nieman (University of Georgia Press, 2001). Southern Historian (Spring, 2003).
• Review of The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914, by Nancy Cohen (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Florida Historical Quarterly (Winter 2004).
• Review of The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena, by Thomas Borstelmann (Harvard University Press, 2001). North Carolina Historical Review (October, 2004).

Conference Presentations

• “Weblogs: Breaking Barriers between History and Public.” American Association for History and Computing Annual Meeting, Brown University, April 19–21, 2007
• “Material Cultures of Filth and Cleanliness: The American Bathroom at the Turn of the Last Century.” Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of American History Association, January 5–9, 2007
• “Past/Forward: Collecting, Teaching, and Writing History (in the Digital Universe).” Collaborative presentation (with Sheila Brennan and Stephanie Hurter) for the American Association for History and Computing Annual Meeting, April 22, 2006.
• “Historical Scholarship on the Web: Problems, Possibilities, and Progress.” Sixth Annual Brian Bertoti “Innovations in History” Graduate History Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, April 4–5, 2003.
• “The ‘Cement of the Union’ Revisited.” Fifth Annual Brian Bertoti “Innovations in History” Graduate History Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, April 19–20, 2002

Projects

ClioWeb

Professional and personal weblog.

ScholarPress

ScholarPress is a series of WordPress plugins for academic activities.

Professional Service

President, American Association for History and Computing.

March 2008–Present.

Technical Editor and Electronic Resources Editor, Journal of the Association for History and Computing.

August 2006–Present.

Research and Teaching Interests

Digital humanities, new media; 19th and 20th-century social/cultural history; history of computing, history of design; history of the senses; cleanliness and filth, order and disorder, history of personal productivity; history of technology.

Skillset

Web Development

HTML, XHTML, PHP, XML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, AHAH, ActionScript, web standards, web accessibility.

Image and Video Editing/Multimedia

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Final Cut Studio, iMovie, GarageBand.

Membership Affiliations

• American Association for History and Computing
• American Historical Association
• Organization of American Historians
• Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
• Society for the History of Technology