Welcome!

A little about me: I graduated in May 2013 with my PhD in Public History (with a concentration on museum Management) from Middle Tennessee State University’s Public History Program. I immediately started work as the Executive Director of a historic site in Knoxville, Tennessee where I worked with the daily operations, a massive historic preservation project and federal grants, and many other things!  I left that position after 2 years to accept a teaching position at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.  I currently teach Interdisciplinary Studies at CCU.

I worked in museums and historic sites throughout Tennessee for about seven years in various capacities. I focus on museum collections, development, interpretation, participatory education, public programming, public history, accessibility and inclusivity, and museum studies.

My dissertation was published as Programming For People With Special Needs: A Guide For Museums and Historic Sites in 2014.This book helps museums and historic sites create truly inclusive educational experiences. The book is unique because it covers education and inclusion for those with both intellectual and learning disabilities.

I followed that up co-editing the volume Museums, Heritage, and Death with Dr. Trish Biers, and more recently, Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology with Drs. Carolyn Dillian and Charles Bello.

I’m currently working on papers on conspiracy theories and politics of death, and I continue to slowly peck away at my solo manuscript, What Remains, about the historical contexts of human remains in museums.