Experience

Special Collections Research Library & Archive at Kean University
• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Research Library Associate

  • Sep 2023 - Present


Rutgers University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Digital Media Coordinator at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities

  • Mar 2022 - Aug 2023

  Compose and publish news stories attributed to Public History in the Mid-Atlantic Region for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH).• Manage all of MARCH’s social media platforms.• Write, edit, and digitally distribute a monthly newsletter highlighting news and events from MARCH and the National Council on Public History.

• Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia Editorial/ Research/ Digital Publishing Team (MARCH)

  • Sep 2021 - May 2022

  Served as a fact checker, caption writer, and web page designer for the professional historic essays submitted to The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.



Kean University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Historical Researcher

  • Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

  Part of a team of scholars assembled from Monmouth University and Kean University investigating the Battles of Connecticut Farms and Springfield, the last major military confrontations in New Jersey during the American Revolution. • Employ documentary, cartographic, and archaeological techniques to better understand this significant but understudied campaign.• Present research findings.

• Academic Specialist, College of Liberal Arts

  • Sep 2020 - Aug 2022

  Served as a researcher for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant-funded project William Livingston’s World.• Conducted primary source research on William Livingston, his family, and his constituents.• Collaborated and shared information with archives and institutions on the Livingston and Kean family dynasties. • Designed a website for the William Livingston’s World project for educators to obtain information on cultural, intellectual, and political eighteenth-century topics.• Assisted in organizing and presented at a K-12 workshop. Show less


Rutgers University - Camden
• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee
• PHILADELPHIA250 Research Assistant

  • Sep 2022 - Dec 2022


American Philosophical Society

• Libraries
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Humanities Research Intern

  • May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Recipient of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies C. Dallett Hemphill Summer Internship at the American Philosophical Society. I am a contributor to the “Revolutionary City: A Portal to the Nation’s Founding,” a public-facing digital archive. • Contributed to the American Philosophical Society’s digital humanities project Revolutionary City: A Portal to the Nation’s Founding. • Transcribed eighteenth-century manuscripts created or received in Philadelphia between 1774 – 1783. • Composed short descriptions and metadata for the transcribed manuscripts. • Conducted biographical research on men and women found in the archival record, with special attention paid to recovering the voices of marginalized individuals. • Surveyed the Smith-Houston-Morris-Ogden Family Papers for relevant material to incorporate in Revolutionary City. • Digitized documents from the Religious Society of Free Quakers Records, 1781-1975. • Delivered a Brown Bag presentation titled Marching to the Beat of Their Own Drum: Female Camp Followers of the American Revolution to the American Philosophical Society and the Revolutionary City stakeholder team. • Contributed to the American Philosophical Society’s blog: Marching to the Beat of Their Own Drum: Female Camp Followers of the American Revolution Show less

• Research Library Associate

  • Sep 2019 - Aug 2020

  Served as a Research Library associate in Kean University’s Special Collections Research Library and Archive (SCRLA).• Transcribed and interpreted eighteenth-twentieth-century manuscripts and entered relevant metadata for the Liberty Hall Collection.• Pulled and refiled eighteenth-twentieth century archival and manuscript material and books.• Utilized online subscription databases and microfilm to search for historical information.• Collaborated with other archives to obtain and share information pertaining to the Liberty Hall Collection.• Created a finding aid for the New Jersey Collection.• Assisted in putting together the Da Vinci Inventions Exhibit displayed at Liberty Hall Academic Center Exhibition Hall, Spring 2020. Show less

• Special Collections and Research Library Intern

  • Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  • Assisted in moving 900 + linear feet of collection material from two different locations into the new Liberty Hall Academic Center’s Historic Research Library.• Checked and added material to inventories.• Pulled early America material for the inaugural exhibit Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness displayed at Liberty Hall Academic Center, Fall 2019.• Prepared display cases for the Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness exhibit.• Obtained five quotes for the digitization of the Liberty Hall Collection. Show less

• Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) Research Recruits Peer Mentor

  • Sep 2019 - May 2020

  • Mentored five researchers conducting original research through the Research Recruits Program. • Held biweekly meetings with each student to discuss their research projects. • Assisted students with poster templates and oral presentations for Research Days 2020. • Gave PowerPoint presentations on the ORSP Research Recruits Program and the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) Program. • Mentored five researchers conducting original research through the Research Recruits Program. • Held biweekly meetings with each student to discuss their research projects. • Assisted students with poster templates and oral presentations for Research Days 2020. • Gave PowerPoint presentations on the ORSP Research Recruits Program and the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) Program.



Liberty Hall Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Museum Educator and Tour Guide

  • Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

  •Acted in period clothing and prepared props for the Liberty Hall Museum Education Programs Changing Childhood and Crown to Country. •Changing Childhood: Taught elementary and middle school students about life in the colonial period with a focus on transportation, communication, cooking, lighting, toys, music, and clothing. •Crown to Country: Taught elementary and middle school children about William Livingston, the history of Liberty Hall, the colonial period, and the Revolutionary War. • Researched and cited primary sources about William Livingston to share with other museum educators. • Provided a sixty-minute public tour of Liberty Hall Museum and grounds. • Greeted visitors, finalized sales for tours, special events, and gift shop purchases. • Relocated stanchions and set up for weddings and special events on the property. Show less

• Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Research Recruit

  • Sep 2018 - May 2019

  • Conducted original primary source research on William Livingston’s role as a propagandist during the Revolutionary War. • Created a timeline that reflected the number of pseudonymous pieces he published in the New Jersey Gazette from 1777-1779. • Collaborated with other archives and institutions to share relevant information that pertained to eighteenth-century print culture. • Conducted original primary source research on William Livingston’s role as a propagandist during the Revolutionary War. • Created a timeline that reflected the number of pseudonymous pieces he published in the New Jersey Gazette from 1777-1779. • Collaborated with other archives and institutions to share relevant information that pertained to eighteenth-century print culture.