Experience

Westminster University

• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Kim T. Adamson Chair in Honors

  • Jul 2017 - Present

  Associate Professor, Honors College

• Director for Fellowships Advising

  • Jul 2017 - Present



Temple University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Director for Special Programs, Intellectual Heritage Learning Core

  • May 2015 - Jul 2017

  The Intellectual Heritage Learning Core promotes university-wide communal learning experiences and enhances teaching and learning through workshops and circles devoted to pedagogy; the advancement of digital tools in online and traditional classrooms; and support for all student populations and learning styles.

• Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Faculty Fellow

  • Aug 2016 - Jun 2017

  Fellows support the mission of the CAT by supporting peers in their own professional development process, and serving as faculty advisors to CAT. Facilitating workshop sessions on online teaching for College of Liberal Arts faculty as well as course design workshops to support GenEd faculty teaching online. Mentor faculty members or TAs and support CAT wit promoting faculty development and peer review and support throughout Temple University.

• Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage

  • Jan 2013 - Jun 2017

  Taught four classes each semester (including one honors and one online class) of the Mosaics Series, Temple University’s mandatory one year Great Books/World History program. Designed and taught the course around the base curriculum while integrating multi-faceted teaching elements, such as museum trips, community art projects, modern movies, digital technologies, and visual arts, with critical thinking and paper writing skills in order to allow students the opportunity to engage with both ancient and modern material in thoughtful and analytical ways. In addition, organized and piloted the first Temple VoiceThread based online course in order to design a non-time dependent classroom and discussion based environment, linking the new technologies with BlackBoard, WebEx and Wimba, to create a seamless, and highly interactive, online course environment. Show less

• Intellectual Heritage Program Digital Learning Coordinator

  • Jul 2014 - Jun 2015

  Served as supervisor for all Digital Learning faculty in the Intellectual Heritage Program. Worked with faculty to improve their online course design. taught workshops to all digital faculty in the College of Liberal Arts on effective digital pedagogy, course design, and tools.



Yale University Careers

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Curator and Digital Coordinator for "Echoes of Egypt" Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs"

  • Feb 2011 - Jan 2014

  Worked with all museums involved in the exhibition including organizing the lending, transportation and documentation of all of the objects. Helped to design the exhibit organization, layout and narrative as well as to write the object descriptions. Worked with museum curators and web designers to design and build a new type of online museum experience. Also served as project manager for the creation of an interactive mobile application for the exhibit.

• Dissertation Fellow

  • Oct 2011 - Aug 2012

  . Fellowship given for the writing and finalization of Ph.D. Dissertation.



American Research Center in Egypt

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• U.S. State Department ECA Fellow

  • Jan 2011 - Oct 2011

  Worked at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and the Nubia Museum, Aswan on the Meroitic Offering Tables Worked at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and the Nubia Museum, Aswan on the Meroitic Offering Tables