Selected CV:
Academic Positions:
2022-: Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Public History, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
2021-22: Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
Academic Associations:
2020-: ITPS Research Associate in New York History, Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, Iona College
Education:
2020: Ph.D. History Program, City University of New York
2016: M.Phil. History Program, City University of New York
2013: M.A. Department of History, George Mason University
2008: B.A. Communications, Rowan University
Publications:
Books
“The Amazing Iroquois” and the Invention of the Empire State, Oxford University Press, January 2023
Refereed Articles
“‘The Great White Mother’: Harriet Maxwell Converse, the Indian Colony of New York City, and the Media, 1885-1903,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 24:4 (October 2022): 279-300
Other Scholarly Publications
“Zombies in the Museum,” New York Archives Magazine, forthcoming 2024
Multimedia
Host, ITPS History Podcast (ITPS Pod): Season Two, “Indigenous Public History”
Solicited Blog Post, “‘We Built the Bones of This City’: An Iroquoian Reclamation of Space and Memory,” Round-table on Monuments and Memory, Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City, October 12, 2020
Encyclopedia Contributor, “Indian Peace Medals,” The Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington, forthcoming
Contributor, The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: to 1877, August 1, 2019
Curated Blog Post, “The Many Faces of a Primary Source: Philip L. White and the Beekman Family Papers,” From the Stacks: A New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Blog, July 8, 2015
Doctoral Dissertation
“The Amazing Iroquois”: Haudenosaunee History in Myth and Memory, 1776-1955
Nominated for the 2021 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians by the CUNY Graduate Center History Program (nomination declined)
Successfully defended and submitted June 2020
Advisor: David Waldstreicher. Committee: Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, Andrew Robertson, Camilla Townsend
Other
Editor, H-AmIndian Network, H-Net, 2021-2023
Archival Processing of Beekman Family Papers, 1720-1920s, The New-York Historical Society, MS 51, 2015
Public History Positions and Selected Projects:
Founding development of Evelyn Gandy House Museum, Hattiesburg, MS, 2022-2024
Secretary and Founder, Indigenous Working Group, New York State’s 250th Anniversary Planning Commission of the American Revolution, 2021-2023
Public Historian, Roosevelt House Institute for Public Policy, 2014-2019
Co-curator, “A Forward-Looking Place”: The Roosevelt House at 75 Years, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, NYC, November 18, 2018–September 10, 2019, http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/exhibits/a-forward-looking-place/
Research and planning, “See How They Ran!”: FDR and His Opponents, Campaign Treasures From the New-York Historical Society, September 9-December 17, 2016, http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/seehowtheyran/
Research and installation of other short-term exhibitions
Historical interpretation
Research Internship, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian NYC, 2018
Haudenosaunee subject matter specialist for Native New York
Supervisor of Interpretation and Interpreter, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, 2011-2013
Historic mansion and grounds
University Affiliations:
2023-: Affiliate Faculty, Center for the Study of the Gulf South, University of Southern Mississippi
2023-: Affiliate Faculty, Center for Digital Humanities, University of Southern Mississippi
2022-: Board Member, Center for Ethics and Health Humanities, University of Southern Mississippi
Selected Honors and Awards:
Honors College Faculty Fellow, University of Southern Mississippi Honors College, 2024
Conville Endowment Award for Community Engaged Teaching and Research. “Ellisville State School Cemetery Restoration Project,” Center for Community Engagement, University of Southern Mississippi, 2023-2024
Fellowship, Center for History & Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast, Lamar University, 2023-2024
Research Fellowship, Larry J. Hackman Research Residency, New York State Archives, 2023
Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern Mississippi, 2023
University Nomination, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship, 2023
Nomination (declined due to pre-existing book contract), 2021 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians, 2021
Residential Research Fellowship, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, 2019
Selected Conferences:
Chair and Panelist, “Public History in the Hub City: University, Community, and Collaboration in Hattiesburg, MS” with Stella Mackabee, Vanessa Molden, and Dr. Rebecca Tuuri, Organization of American Historians Conference on American History, April 11-14, 2024
Panelist, “(Mis)Remembering Indian Removal in Mississippi,” 41st Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, October 11-13, 2023
Moderator and Organizer, “Disability and the Holocaust” panel hosted by Hattiesburg Public Library, Dale Center for the Study of War & Society, USM Center for Ethics and Health Humanities, and USM Public History, February 6, 2022
Panelist, “Painting Red Jacket: George Washington, the Iroquois, and the "Patriotic" Legacy of Native American Stereotypes” in the panel "Washington's Many Afterlives in the Antebellum United States: A Roundtable," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic 42nd Annual Meeting, July 16, 2021
Chair, “Teaching Protest Throughout Revolutionary America,” Foundations of Independence: Protest and Communication in Revolutionary America, 1770 to 2020 A Virtual Conference Hosted by Iona College and the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (ITPS), September 26, 2020
Organizer and Panelist, “Reconsidering Native American Biography in the Late 19th-20th Century,” paper title “The Woman Who Works for the Indians: Harriet Maxwell Converse, Adopted Seneca Chief” with Chair Stefan Eklöf Amirell, panelists Andrew H. Fisher, Brenden Rensink, and Tara Keegan, The American Historical Association 134th Annual Meeting, New York City, January 5, 2020
Invited Panelist, “The Radicalism of Matilda Joslyn Gage,” Erased Women of the Catskills: Literary Salon and Gala, Café de la Culture Salon, Woodstock, New York, June 9, 2019
Media, Historian, “Alaska Highway, Tale of Beatrix Potter and Cleopatra's Needle,” The Travel Channel’s “Mysteries at the Museum” Season 18, Episode 5, aired February 2, 2018
Podcasts:
Guest. Unsung History, “The Haudenosaunee Confederacy,” November 13, 2023, https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/haudenosaunee/
Guest. Historically Thinking, “The Amazing Iroquois,” Episode 321, June 2023, https://historicallythinking.org/episode-321-amazing-iroquois/
Media:
“Ellisville State School and the University of Southern Mississippi announce cemetery preservation project,” Impact, February 16, 2024
“Evelyn Gandy online encyclopedia launched at USM,” Mississippi Business Journal, October 16, 2023
“USM students lend a hand with vehicle exhibits at upcoming Moeller Military Vehicle Museum,” The Pine Belt News, October 10, 2023
“USM history students present mock exhibition proposals for new military vehicle museum,” WDAM 7 Hattiesburg, MS, October 5, 2023
“USM students to submit mock exhibition proposal for new Moeller Museum,” WDAM 7 Hattiesburg, MS, September 19, 2023
“Historic Bay Springs School, Ellisville State School projects funded by Conville Endowment,” The Laurel Leader-Call, July 5, 2023
“‘Disability and the Holocaust’ discussion held in Hattiesburg Public Library,” WDAM 7 Hattiesburg, MS, February 6, 2023
Teaching:
Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern Mississippi. 2022-
World Civilizations Survey
First and Second Half US History Survey
Public History
Native American History
Presenting Heritage (graduate-level museum studies)
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Westminster College, 2021-2022
Public History
Native American History
America to 1877
Liberal Arts Inquiry
Instructor, Pace University-Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, MA in American History Program, Summer 2021
Director of M.A. Theses in Native American History
Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow in History, Hunter College, CUNY, 2018-2019
Instructor of Record, Hunter College and Baruch College, CUNY, 2015-2018
Topics in American History: Native American History
Topics in European History: The Enlightenment and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
American History Survey: Civil War to Present
Teaching Assistant, Hunter College, CUNY, 2015-2019
American History: Colonial to 1865
American History: Civil War to Present