Public History, Museums, and Archives
Research and development of content for exhibits at the the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. • Serve as primary content specialist for all nineteenth century US history and pre-Ellis Island migration history content. • Development of script outline and immigration timeline • Focused research of materials for display (artifacts, images,
documents) • Review and provide feedback on script drafts and final script • Functioning in a curatorial role for gallery-specific exhibit elements • Collaboration and coordination with project’s Lead Content Specialist and other content specialists on the development and review of historical content for additional galleries and exhibits. • Collaborate in the development and review of media briefs and media pieces with RAA media team.
Responsible for redesign and development of the IEHS website and digital communications systems in collaboration with IEHS members, board, officers, and external contractors.
• Direct ongoing maintenance of the website and communication systems for regular operations of IEHS.
• Supported and promoted online events and publications. Assisted in the editing, design, publication, and distribution of the IEHS’s digital edition of its bi-annual newsletter. Oversaw the newsletter’s transition from print to an exclusively digital publication.
• Serve on membership and digital projects ad-hoc committees alongside members of the IEHS board.
Collaborative research with the Vice President for History Exhibitions et. al. involving the New York Historical Society's archival collections, external archives, and libraries for the development and execution of public history exhibitions.
• Conducted research, wrote reports, provided historical analysis, and engaged in discussions with the history exhibits team.
Delivered thousands of artifact-based tours in a department that led over 180,000 tours on average per year.
• Designed and delivered curriculum, live talks, public programs for wide ranging audiences.
• Collaborated in delivery of live online webinars for thousands of students, reaching over 200,000 students annually in 2018 and 2019.
• Developed specialized programs for high-ranking government and military officials, foreign dignitaries, survivors, families of victims, and other VIP and stakeholder communities.
• Trained docents and other public-facing education staff.
Collected, processed, analyzed, and organized metadata for hundreds of oral histories held by Tamiment Library, NYU, in the Archives of Irish America.
• Ensured consistency, technological compatibility, legal compliance, and accessibility of archival holdings.
research
Asylum Lab Assistant
New York University, New York City, 2021–2022
Worked with a team of researchers sponsored by the NYU Humanities Center and the
Bennett-Polonsky Foundation’s Humanities Lab (H-Lab) on an extensive investigation into government
record-keeping that pertained to US immigration and immigration policy. •
Developed and managed Keeping Records and the Golden Gate: U.S.
Immigration Control and Pacific Migrations, a digital public history project that stemmed from the
H-Lab’s initial research. • Trained and managed undergraduate assistants on the development
and maintenance of digital exhibitions, collections, and metadata. • Utilized Wax,
a minimal computing system for building a sustainable static websites.
Research Assistant for Professor Kevin Kenny
New York University, New York City, 2020–present
Sourced archival images, organized payments, and collected documentation for image rights, use, and permission in
collaboration with Professor Kenny in the publication of The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (OUP 2023).
• Provided copyedits and proofed all footnotes and citations to ensure precision of formatting in accordance with professional standards of the field and publisher.
Research Fellow
Irish Visions, New York City, 2017-2021
Primary archival research on the career and life of political revolutionary and intellectual
Ernie O’Malley in the Ernie O’Malley Archives at Tamiment Library, New York University. •
Transcribed hundreds of handwritten manuscripts, collated archival holdings, wrote reports,
and applied historical analysis in preperation for the publication of edited collections.
Research Assistant for Professor J. Joseph Lee
New York University, New York City, 2017
Collected and collated archival and secondary source materials for Dr. J. Joseph Lee for use in future publications. •
Wrote and edited copy for speeches, lectures, and other official and public engagements. •
Transcribed oral dictation, lectures, and keynote speeches and adapted for publication.
Libraries
Data Services Consultant
New York University Division of Libraries, New York City, 2022-present
Provide qualitative data analysis and research data management support to the faculty,
staff, and students of NYU through ask-a-librarian chat service,
leading Data Services instructional tutorials, preparing training documentation,
participating in select projects, and providing qualitative data analysis and data management support
consultations for software packages including MAXQDA,
Atlas.ti, Taguette,
OpenRefine, Git and others.
Journalism
Writer and Editorial Assistant
Irish America Magazine, New York City, 2015-2017
Conducted interviews with high-profile professionals and public figures. Wrote numerous articles for each issue on topics including politics, history, pop-culture, the arts, and current events.
• Additional duties included copy-editing, research, fact-checking, transcription, writing online articles and blog posts, and aiding in the digital publication of bi-monthly issues.
Teaching and Education
Intercultural Communication and English Language Instructor
Berlitz Corporation, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 2012-2014
Designed client need-based curriculum and lead programs for intercultural communications, professional development, and foreign language instruction in classroom and corporate settings for a diversity of students of all ages and backgrounds.
• Clients included the Federal Republic of Germany, Solcom, DKMS, et. al. throughout the Baden-Württemberg region.
• Functioned as a cultural liaison, teaching not only language but also intucultural understanding and communication.
"Asylum in Crisis" Graduate Student Instructor
New York University, New York City, Spring, 2020
Planned and designed interdisciplinary semester-long undergraduate course with faculty and graduate instructors, cross listed in both History and Spanish and Portuguese departments at NYU.
• Co-taught weekly plenary sessions and led weekly colloquia which examined the history of U.S. immigration policy over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Led students in developing competencies for the creation of machine-readable and linked open data metadata schemas and optimizing user experience interfaces for building digital public history projects.
• Collaborative coursework culminated in an ongoing digital history project, Keeping Records and the Golden Gate: U.S.
Immigration Control and Pacific Migrations and a special issue of Esferas, focused on migration and asylum in which faculty, graduate instructors, and students all contributed.
[ For museum education, see also: Senior Interpretive Guide ]
Service
Volunteer Digital Collections and Exhibitions Consultant
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, New York City, 2020-2022
Advised MoRUS archivists on best practices and industry standards for sustainable digital collections and exhibitions using static sites, minimal computing, and long-term hosting platforms.
• Built machine-readable metadata to allow searchability and accessibility for collections.
• Customized digital exhibitions and collections platform using Markdown, HTML, and CSS.
• Trained and oversaw MoRUS’s collections and exhibitions teams on the development, deployment, and maintenance of publicly accessible digital collections and exhibitions,
namely the Green Oasis Community Garden/Gilberts Garden Records and Fly Prints Collection.
Volunteer Digital Collections and Exhibitions Consultant
Coronavirus Chronicles Archive, 2020-2021
Supported development of a crowd-sourced digital archive and public history project designed to share and preserve the everyday stories of all people during the global pandemic.
• Managed collections acquisitions, supported metadata schema and ontology development, and advised on systems for digital presentation of collections.
