Education
University of Delaware (UD) M.A. in History, Certificate in Museum Studies, 3.93 GPA May 2013 University of San Francisco (USF) B.A. in History with summa cum laude honors, Minor in Art History/Arts Management, 3.93 GPA May 2011 Cultural Institution Experience
Lead tours of mill, assist with school programs, operate front desk, open/close buildings and park, update website
Relevant Experience
Center for Bright Kids, Golden, CO Residential Assistant for Gifted/Talented Elementary, Middle, and High School Students June 2011 - July 2012
Department of History, UD Teaching Assistant – Western Civilization to 1640 August - December 2011
History Department, USF Student Editor January 2010 - May 2011
Department of Art + Architecture, USF Research Assistant for Dr. Paula Birnbaum January 2010 - May 2011
College Players, USF House Manager, Membership Coordinator, Assistant Stage Manager, Producer (various dates) September 2007 - May 2011
Publications and Speaking Engagements
Free and Easy Website Design for Museums and Historic Sites (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, American Association for State and Local History Series, 2015). "Model for William Penn Statue," in Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, 2015. http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/artifact-model-for-william-penn-statue. "Centre Square Pump House Model," in Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, 2015. http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/artifact-centre-square-pump-house-model. "Anyone Can Create a Website (No, Really!): A Practical Introduction to Free Website Creation & Maintenance" presented at the Small Museum Association Conference, Ocean City, MD February 2015 "Sustaining Places: A Resource for Small Museum Professionals" presented at the Small Museum Association Conference, Ocean City, MD February 2014 David Ryan, editor (2010) “The Story of Cormac mac Airt,” Writing For a Real World anthology, 56-72. Book review in the Swiss American Historical Review: Smith, Robert Douglas and Kelly DeVries. The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477. Rochester: The Boydell Press, 2005. June 2013 “Transporting Bodies and Minds: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Travel” graduate student conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Presented “Yours, Anonymously: One American’s Self-Fashioning and Exploration of the Foreign in 19th Century Latin America” September 2012 “Guarini’s Grand Goal: Architectural Eclecticism and Humanist Optics in Turin’s Dome of San Lorenzo” Presented at the Bay Area Undergraduate Art History Research Symposium May 2011 Celebration of Student Research and Artistic and Scholarly Creative Activity: Presented “No Need to Draw Battle Lines: Thomas More’s Views of Female Humanist Education” April 2011 Awards/Appointments
Lesley van Der Lee Scholarship (to attend the Small Museum Association Conference) February 2014 Phi Alpha Theta Member (History honors society) 2010 - Present Alpha Sigma Nu Member (Jesuit honors society) 2010 – Present Graduate Student Representative (MA Track) August 2012 - May 2013 Student Adviser to New Generations Student Showcase (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) January – April 2011 Dean’s List (USF) Fall 2007 - Spring 2011 Lincoln History Scholarship (USF) 2008 - 2010 Skills
Adept with FileMaker, PastPerfect, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, iMovie, Weebly, and Wix Proficient with CuadraSTAR, Archivist’s Toolkit, WordPress, MailChimp, SurveyMonkey, Google Sites, and social media Confident using both Macintosh and Windows-based computers Good word processing skills, 100 wpm Experience with both journalistic and academic editing and writing Web design experience as webmaster for Sustaining Places, Arden Craft Shop Museum, and Newlin Grist Mill Print design experience as section editor/editor-in-chief of the Pirateer, award-winning high school newspaper Reading fluency in French To download a copy of my résumé, click on the file below.
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