​Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument

As the first Historian at this new unit of the National Park Service, I managed historical research, oral history, historic preservation, and museum collections at the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. I conducted original historical research, including archival research and oral histories, to tell the story of Medgar and Myrlie Evers, their family, and their legacy. I also managed historic preservation and rehabilitation initiatives, including ensuring compliance with NEPA, NHPA, and the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards. I oversaw the park's museum collection and collaborated with the interpretation division to develop programs, exhibits, and partnerships to support the park's mission.

My favorite projects included exhibits about Medgar and Myrlie Evers's love story, Juneteenth and the civil rights movement, and civil rights activists who served in the military; managing the development of our park's Cultural Landscape Report and Historic Structure Report; collaborating with the Oxford American​ to bring the No Tears Project to Jackson; and decorating the Evers Home for Christmas just like the family did during their time in Jackson.

Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL)

Combining my skills as a public historian, curator, theatre-maker, and educator, my role as Director of Heritage and Interpretation at the ISJL was a wonderful challenge. I was responsible for public-facing Jewish historical and interpretive programming throughout a thirteen-state region, from Texas to the Carolinas. I produced and hosted the podcast Southern & Jewish, organized and guided our Southern Jewish Heritage Tours, and managed Temple B'nai Israel, a historic synagogue in Natchez, Mississippi. In fact, I won a Save America's Treasures grant from the National Park Service to preserve the temple in perpetuity. My six years at the ISJL also made me fall in love with Mississippi and decide to continue my career here.
Southern & Jewish is a digital tour through the history and culture of the Jewish South. My favorite episodes explore the hard truths of southern history, especially stories about the ongoing fight for civil rights. Two of my favorite episodes are linked below.
This episode explores the early Jewish history of south Florida through the lens of the Stephen Sondheim musical Road Show—a story of boom and bust, of destruction and creation, of capitalism and its discontents.
This episode unpacks the complicated legacy of Rabbi Milton Grafman and his 1963 Rosh Hashanah sermon, delivered in the days following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing.

​Glasnevin Cemetery Museum

As a curatorial intern at the Glasnevin Cemetery Museum, one of the most unique heritage sites in Ireland, I worked in archives across Dublin to develop content and source materials for an exhibit on Glasnevin in images. 

​New Bedford Whaling Museum

Selected projects:
  • Research and installation of "For the Love of Beauty: The New England Aesthetic Style in Fine and Decorative Arts"
  • Development of a mini-exhibition for Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage 'Round the World, a 1275-foot panorama painting
  • Maintenance and label writing in each of the Museum's eleven galleries
  • Writing and editing captions for the new book Treasures of the Whaling Museum: Touchstones to the Region's Past
Read a reflection on my time as a curatorial intern at the museum.

Carleton College History Department

I combined my work as a Writing Consultant, my museum experience, and my training as a historian to deliver unique support to a Carleton history professor as a Student Exhibition Assistant. I coordinated an exhibition exploring word and image in medieval manuscripts; assisted with designing, writing, curating, and installing the exhibition; and led a class session about producing effective exhibition narratives.

I presented a paper on my work as a Student Exhibition Assistant at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in October 2014. 

​National Museum of American Jewish History

Selected projects:
  • Development of drama curriculum for the exhibition "The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats"
  • Creation of docent scripts for the interpretive program "In Their Shoes," which introduces children to life during the colonial period, westward expansion, and New York City tenements
  • Planning and executing children's and family activities at the museum, collaborating with museum educators and administrators, and working with visiting school groups
My experiences as an education intern at NMAJH prepared me to tell Jewish stories in my current role at the Institute of Southern Jewish Life.

Mercer Museum & Library and Fonthill Castle

As an archival intern at the Spruance Library at the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, I spent the summer of 2013 developing an over-100 page research guide​ for the Library's collection of Bucks County Courthouse records, spanning from the late 1600s to the 1970s.

​Scholarship

Over the years, I've had the opportunity to take on numerous research projects, from explorations of the legacy of French colonialism on the coast of Maine to the intersection of nationalism and theatre in Ireland to the foodways of Mississippi's Jewish community from the 1950s to the 1980s. Highlights from my research are available below.
What does it look like to be both a historian and an athlete? ​Being awarded Carleton College's Edward H. "Ted" Mullin '06 Fellowship Prize led to three weeks spent in research libraries and on hiking trails in pursuit of deeper understandings of the life and works of Samuel de Champlain. This research contributed to my senior comprehensive thesis at Carleton, and built on a lifelong love for the Maine coastline.

More research highlights are coming soon!
This charming font is my actual handwriting!
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