Professional Activities

Teaching Experience

Introduction to American Studies | Autumn 2014 | Spring 2015 | Autumn 2015 | Spring 2016 | Autumn 2016
Towson Seminar: Maryland Plantations, Then and Now | Autumn 2014 | Spring 2015 | Autumn 2015 | Spring 2016 | Autumn 2016
The History of the United States to the Mid-19th Century | Spring 2014

Launching America | Spring 2014
American Civilizations, 1607-1877 | Winter 2012 | Spring 2012 | Summer 2012 | Autumn 2012
African American History to 1877 | Spring 2013 | Summer 2013 | Autumn 2013

“Enslaved at Homewood: Sources on Individual Experiences” at the “From Fells Point to Homewood Farm: Perspectives on Slavery” Homewood Symposium, Baltimore, MD, April 19, 2015
"Research Notes," Docent Enrichment, Homewood Museum, Baltimore, MD, January 22, 2013
"The Grand Old Ditch: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal,” On the Road: Travel and Transportation in Early Maryland Exhibit Speaker Series, Homewood Museum, Baltimore, MD, February 25, 2010
"By His Account Rendered,” Piscataqua Decorative Arts Society, Portsmouth, NH, June 9, 2008
“The Business of Cabinetmaking in York County,” Agreeable Situations at 21: Art, Objects and Culture in Maine, Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME, May 10, 2008
“Wood Grain and Material Selection,” Collector’s Circle, Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, DE, November 2007

“Roads, Canals, Rails: Environmental Change Resulting from Baltimore’s Flour Trade” as part of panel “Commodity Flows into and out of the American South” at the Atlantic Environments and the American South Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX, February 5-6, 2016
“Baltimore Merchants and the Caribbean, 1790-1830” as part of panel “Merchants and Empire in the Atlantic: Interactions between American Merchants and the British Empire in the Atlantic Colonies, 1780-1830” at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, July 18-21, 2013
“’To Promote Your Interest & Gain Your Confidence’: Baltimore’s Merchants in the Atlantic World, 1790–1830,” as part of panel “From Mid-Atlantic to Mediterranean: Merchant Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century” at the 19th Annual Omohundro Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 13-15, 2013
“The Role of Baltimore Merchants in Caribbean Material Culture, 1790-1830,” as part of panel “Production, Trade, and the Creation of Regional Economies” at the Association of Caribbean Historians’ 45th Annual Conference, San Ignacio, Belize, May 12-17, 2013
The Spatial Turn in American Studies: A Pecha-Kucha Roundtable, New England American Studies Association conference "Digital Revolutions: Interpreting and Historicizing American Culture" October 12-13, 2012

Homewood Museum, Baltimore, MD, Enslaved at Homewood Research Associate, funded by Maryland Heritage Area Authority Grant, 2016-2018
Homewood Museum, Baltimore, MD, Homewood Research Database Project, 2014-2016
Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, DC, Curatorial Intern, Summer 2010
Homewood Museum, Baltimore, MD, Museum Services Coordinator, Jan 2009-Dec 2009
“Folkskunst: Decorative Arts of the Pennsylvania and Texas Germans,” San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, Assistant Curator, Summer 2008
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, Curatorial Intern, Spring 2006
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, Curatorial Intern, Summer 2005
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD, Registrar’s Intern, Spring 2005