CV

CURRENT POSITION

Program Manager, Youth Humanities Academy

Adjunct Faculty, Humanities

Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Humanities Center

Cuyahoga Community College

EDUCATION

PhD, History, Carnegie Mellon University    

MA, History, Carnegie Mellon University

BA, History / Psychology, Kent State University

PUBLICATIONS 

Book Manuscripts

Disciplining Democracy: How Political Activism Became Service Learning (under contract, Cornell University Press, Histories of American Education Series)

Refereed Journal Articles

2020: “A Bridge Between Two Worlds: The Political and Economic Geography of SNCC’s Friends Network,” Current Research in Digital History, 3. 

2018: “Service Learning: The Peace Corps, American Higher Education, and the Limits of Modernist Ideas of Development and Citizenship,” History of Education Quarterly, 58/4 (November 2018): 475-505. 

2018: “The Politics of International Volunteerism in the 1960s: The Peace Corps and Volunteers to America,” Diplomatic History, 42/4 (September 2018): 669–693.

Book Chapters

2022: “To the Students: Education for Nonviolence in the World,” in India in the World: 1500 Present, ed. Rajeshwari Dutt and Nico Slate (forthcoming). 

Public Essays 

2022: F. Scott and the Qatar World Cup,” Inside Higher Ed.

2021: “Policing, Protest, and the Role of the University,” History News Network. 

Teaching and Learning

Articles

2022: “Introducing Digital Text Analysis in First-Year Writing: “Data” Evidence and Source Limitations,” The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy (April 2022)

Textbook Contributions

2020: “Transportation Protests,” in Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching (Teaching For Change, Digital)

SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2022: “Virtual Reality + Humanities.” Workshop. Community College Humanities Association. Cleveland, OH. 

2022: “To the Students: Education for Nonviolence in the World.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association. Virtual.

2021: “Whose Voice is Heard?: White Volunteers, the Freedom Summer, and the Political Geography of Narrative.” Paper presented at HOTCUS (Historians of Twentieth Century United States). Virtual Conference

2019: “‘Evolutionary Not Revolutionary’ Change: South African Students and the Politics of American Higher Education in the 1980s.” Paper presented at the African American Intellectual History Conference. Ann Arbor, MI. 

2019: “The Moral Politics of Divestment: South Africa, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and American Higher Education in the 1980s.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, Ill. 

2018: “The University of the Movement: Mapping the 1964 Freedom Summer.” Digital Project presented at Our (Digital) Humanity: Storytelling, Media Organizing and Social Justice    Conference, Lehigh College. Bethlehem, PA. 

2018: “College Students, Civil Rights Activism and (Re)Interpreting the Roots of Service Learning.” Paper presented at the 5th Global Service Learning Summit, Dignity and Justice in Global Service-Learning. Notre Dame, Ind.

2017: “The Student, the Activist, and the Academic: Pauli Murray’s Quest for Effective Social Action in Higher Education.” Paper presented at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting. Little Rock, Ark.   

2017: “Historical Memory as Activism: The International Student Conference and Remembering the Role of Students in Anti-Colonial Struggles.” Paper presented at the United States Intellectual History Conference, Histories of Memory, Memories of History. Dallas, TX.

2017: “‘Socratic Seminar Writ Large’: The Peace Corps and Its Vision for the Liberal Arts.” Paper presented at the Mount Royal University, Liberal Education Conference: The Idea of the University & The State of Liberal Education in the 21st Century. Calgary, CA.

2014: “‘The Education of America’: The Peace Corps and the Origins of Service Learning, 1960-1970.” Paper presented at the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. New Orleans, LA.  

SELECT GRANTS/AWARDS

Research:

2020 / 2021: Freedman Center Digital Scholarship, Case Western Reserve University  

2019: The History Makers, Academic Research Fellowship 

2018: Susan van Horn Writing Fellowship

2017: Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), Scholarship


2017: A.W. Mellon Foundation, Fellowship in the Digital Humanities


2016: Social Science Research Council, Digital Literacy Grant


2016: Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), Research Grant

2016: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Dissertation Grant

2015: Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship 

TEACHING 

Previous Teaching Positions:

2019-2021: SAGES Teaching Fellow / Lecturer, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

2018: Instructor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and Doha, Qatar.

2014-2016: Teaching Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. 

2012-2013: Instructor, Phoenix Charter Academy, Boston, MA.

2011-2012: Instructor, Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, Pittsburgh, PA.

Awards:

2020: Expanding Horizons Initiative, Teaching Grant, Case Western Reserve University

2019: Goldman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Carnegie Mellon University  

OTHER UNIVERSITY & COMMUNITY-BASED WORK EXPERIENCES

2020-2021: Writing Instructor, Summer Enrichment Opportunity, Case Western Reserve University, Center for Science, Health, and Society 

2019-2021: Mentor and Instructor, Cleveland Humanities Collaborative, Case Western Reserve University

2018-2019: Program Associate, Office of Community Engagement, Wayne State University 

2016-2017: Researcher, Teaching for Change, Washington D.C. 

2015-2016: Curriculum Coordinator, Arts Greenhouse, Carnegie Mellon University