MY BIO

I am a public historian with expertise in developing creative, collaborative, multimedia projects for a wide range of audiences – with a special interest in forgotten, lost, and contested histories.  My institutional work has included an intellectual mapping project of mid-20th century child psychiatry leaders working with Jewish communities in New York City; the development of States of Incarceration, a major nationally traveling exhibition and series of dialogues on mass incarceration and immigration detention; and a number of curatorial and research initiatives for the Guantánamo Public Memory Project. From 2013-2017 I was the Assistant Director and a co-founder of the Humanities Action Lab, originally based at The New School.

I earned my M.A. from NYU’s Experimental Humanities program in 2013, where my coursework intersected heavily with the public history and museum studies programs; and my B.A. in International Relations and French from Emory University in 2008. A native of Newton, Massachusetts, and currently based in the beautiful Berkshire Hills, I have spent the last several years becoming fully immersed in New England history and its mysteries. I am also on the Board of Directors for the Monterey Historical Society.

Alongside my historical consulting work, I am currently developing a hybrid book and digital multimedia project that reexamines the legacy of the Puritans. Sparked by a surprising discovery in my own lineage, this work challenges the stereotypes I once held myself. Using social network analysis to map my ancestral tree, I am uncovering a network of Puritan idealists who operated not just as religious figures, but as political revolutionaries in early America.

MY WORK