I'm an experienced researcher and writer, recently I have worked more closely with geospatial visualizations. I completed a thesis project digitally visualizing spaces of confinement with the Krakow Ghetto of Nazi-Occupied Poland as a case study. My project looks at survivor testimony as evidence, and aims to develop a possible methodology in working with LIDAR data, GIS mapping, and 3D modeling. I'm looking for opportunities to work with Digital Humanities projects and pedagogy, I have a keen interest in both museum and university opportunities that might allow me to consult and work in support of projects. If you have something cooking or want a brain to pick, let's chat.
Education
- University of Maine
- August 2021-Present
- PhD student in History
- Research Assistant for Anne Kelly Knowles.
- Duke University
- MA, December 2019
- Computational Media/Digital Art History
- Thesis: "Mapping and Visualizing Testimonies of Spaces of Confinement: A Digital Analysis of the Kraków Ghetto"
Full text available online here.
- University of California, Berkeley
- BA, May 2016
- History, Minor in the History of Art
- Thesis: "By Reasons of Race: Ruth Asawa and the San Jose Japanese American Internment Memorial"
Research Experience
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- September 2020 – August 2021
- Digital Humanities Associate Fellow
- Researched and experimented with modes of visualizing experiences of hunger in the Lodz Ghetto, with special interest in attempting to represent sensorial experiences
- Created a dataset of official ration allotments based on ghetto administrative announcements in the museum’s collection of unpublished materials
- Integrated Airtable data with Streamlit data visualizers with minimal
- Developed a syllabus for a Holocaust-oriented Digital Humanities summer course taught during Summer 2021. Conducted discussions, created software tutorials, and introducing fundamental DH approaches to Master’s students in Holocaust Studies
- Wired! Lab at Duke University
- September 2018 - December 2019
- Researcher & Graduate Assistant
- Collaborated on Paul Jaskot’s "Mapping German Construction" project with focus on the Kraków Ghetto, responsible for identifying and creating a GIS of perpetrator and Jewish spaces based on archival sources and Polish texts
- Conducted site specific research and field survey in June 2019
- Created lesson tutorials for ArcGIS for seminar, and reviewed scholarship on Digital Humanities research and methods
- Cataloged and archived projects on the lab’s site; wrote community profiles and conference summaries for social media/blog posts
- Researched digital platforms, workflows, tools, and software of interest to lab needs
- Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life, UC Berkeley
- September 2013 - May 2016
- Research Assistant
- Researched artifact provenance; experienced with best practices in collection handling, including works on paper and archival holdings
- Designed marketing materials, worked on the research team for the Fall 2014 exhibit, “Gourmet Ghettos”
- Lectured for Pop-up Exhibitions (2016), “Jews, Travel and Assimilation in Nineteenth-Century Bohemia,” presentation based on research on Reichel Family Papers
- Cataloged and archived projects on the lab’s site; wrote community profiles and conference summaries for social media/blog posts
- Created object descriptions and notes for over 100 silver objects from the Levy Collection acquisition
Work Experience
- Plympton Inc.
- March - September 2020
- Literary Fellow, Freelance
- A Noise Within
- February - November 2018
- Digital Marketing Associate
- Steven Academy
- June - December 2017
- English Instructor, Seoul, South Korea
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
- September - December 2016
- Registration Administrator, Contract
Skills & Software
- Digital Publishing: Omeka, WordPress, HTML/CSS
- Digital Mapping: Google Maps, ESRi ArcGIS, ESRI Story Map, ArcGIS Online, Neatline
- Additional Tools: Knight Lab Web Tools; Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
- Project Management: Asana, Airtable
Presentations
- “Mediating Testimonies of Spaces of Confinement: Mapping and Visualizing the Kraków Ghetto,” Culture Mapping, New York University (Digital, April 18, 2020).
- “Mediating Testimonies of Spaces of Confinement: Mapping and Visualizing the Kraków Ghetto,” Mapping Space, Mapping Time, Mapping Texts, Chronotopic Cartographies, University of Lancaster (Digital, UK, September 2020).