Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. Student in Texts and Technology - University of Central Florida, In Progress

  • Master of Arts in History - University of Central Florida, May 2022

  • Gender Studies Graduate Certificate - University of Central Florida, December 2019

  • Bachelor of Arts in History - University of Central Florida, May 2015

  • Associate of Arts - Valencia College, May 2010

Select Professional Experience

Publications

  • Book Review for Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917–1945 by Allison S. Finkelstein, European Journal of American Studies (June 2024), https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/21748.

  • “The Sunshine State in Darkness: A Digital Approach to Florida and World War I,” with Michael Burke and Tyler Campbell, Florida Historical Quarterly 97.3 (Winter 2019): 330-344.

  • Book Review of Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System by Jessica L. Adler, Journal of American Studies 53.4 (November 2019).

  • Entry for Jane “Jennie” Margaret Gadde, with Benjamin Aubrey, UCF & NCA: Veterans Legacy Program, https://vlp.cah.ucf.edu/biographies/bpnc/B42-2-17-F.html.

  • Biographical Sketch of Helen Hunt West, Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920, https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1008342616.

Select Conference Presentations, Symposiums, & Colloquiums

  • “‘Meet Me at Purple Moon’: The Digital Community Archives and Artifacts from the Girls Games’ Movement Today,” Digital Culture Research Group #DayofDH24, Orlando, Florida (December 2, 2024)

  • “A Morbid Passion for the Past’: Parasocial Kinship with the Deceased in Vernon Lee’s ‘Amour Dure’ and ‘A Phantom Lover’,” The Vernon Lee Symposium 2024, Virtual (October 16 & 17, 2024)

  • “Designing a Flexible Geospatial Mapping Platform:​Challenges, Key Values, Tools and Processes,” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium 10-Year Anniversary Conference, Orlando, Florida (September 20, 2024)

  • “Nursing Narratives: Mapping Nurses’ Convalescent Homes and Rest Clubs from the First World War,” University of Central Florida’s 2021 Student Scholar Symposium, Orlando, Florida (March 2021)

  • “Nursing Narratives: Mapping Nurses’ Convalescent Homes and Rest Clubs from the First World War,” The American Historical Association Conference (AHA), Seattle, Washington (January 7-10, 2021) - Canceled due to COVID-19.

  • “Nursing Narratives: Mapping Nurses’ Convalescent Homes and Rest Clubs from the First World War,” The Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, St. Augustine, Florida (March 27, 2020) - Canceled due to COVID-19.

  • “‘Worn Out by Their War Work’: An Examination of the Gendered Aspects of Psychological War Trauma of World War I,” Imperial Legacies of 1919 Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas (April 19-20, 2019).

  • “Exploring Military Archives: New Perspectives on Old Texts”, with Tyler Campbell and Mike Burke, 2017 UCF History Department Research Colloquium & UCF Veterans Speaker Series, Orlando, Florida (7 November 2017).

  • “‘Death Was Choice of Red Cross Twins’: Preconceptions of Female War Trauma during the Great War,” HOTCUS Winter Symposium, British Library, London, England (February 18, 2017).

  • “Over There and Over Here: Florida in the First World War,” Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida (May 21, 2016).

  • “‘The Most Courteous Relations’: The Relationships between British Voluntary Aid Detachments and their Patients,” Phi Alpha Theta Biennial National Conference 2016, Orlando, Florida USA (9 January 2016)

Digital Projects & Exhibits

  • Jones High School Museum Digital History Exhibit - https://joneshighschoolhistoricalsociety.org

  • Florida-France Soldier Stories - https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/fl-francesoldierstories

  • Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 to the March on Washington, 1963 Traveling Exhibit, The Center for Emerging Media (UCF), Orlando, Florida (September 2016-November 2016) | Programming: “Untold Stories: A Look at Changing America“- Talk by Dr. Scot French (29 August 2016); “Justice and (In)Equality: A Community Discussion” (24 September 2016); “Love and Equality: A Community Discussion” (21 October 2016).

Podcasts, Radio, Other Media

  • “Episode 5: Exploring Military Archives,” Knights Historycast Podcast, 2017, [https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/5] (Interviewed by Holly Baker with Tyler Campbell and Michael Burke).

  • “Episode 4: Alexander Hamilton and the Newburgh Conspiracy,” Knights Historycast Podcast, 2017, [https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/4] (Narrator).

  • “Episode 2: The African American Experience of World War I,” Knights Historycast Podcast, 2017, [https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/2] (Interview with Dr. John Morrow, Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia and author of Only America Left Her Negro Troops Behind: The African American Military in the First World War; UCF History Department’s 2017 Pauley Speaker Series on Global Affairs Lecturer).