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Education | Teaching Experience | Professional Activities
 Publications & Presentations | Grants & Awards  
Citations, Features & Quotes | Service Activities 

 

   

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, University of Maryland

M.A., American Studies, California State University Fullerton 

B.A. English Literature, University of Michigan

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, BSOS 359T: Online Democracy, Activism, and Leadership, University of Maryland, 2001 - present:
   

• Spring 2001

Instructor, American Studies 418P: Electronic Publications and Virtual Exhibitions in American Studies, University of Maryland, 1998 - 1999:
    

• Summer 1999
  
• Winter 1999
  
• Summer 1998
  
• Winter 1998

Graduate Teaching Assistant, American Studies 201: Introduction to American Studies, University of Maryland, 1996 - present:
    

• Performance and Cultural Identity, Spring 1999
  
• The Construction, Maintenance, and Interactions of Cultural Identities, Fall 1998
  
• White Skin, Black Face: The Culture and Politics of Racial Cross Dressing in America, Spring 1998
  
• White Skin, Black Face: A Politics of Representation in America, Fall 1997
  
• Power, Pleasure, and Performance, Spring 1997
  
• Dance in American Culture, Fall 1996

Teaching Assistant, American Studies 301: The American Character, California State University Fullerton, 1993 - 1995.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected)

Consultant, Leadership Learning Community, Oakland, California, September 2001 - present.

Electronic Communications Coordinator, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, College Park, Maryland, 1999 - present.

Co-founder and Site Designer, Public History Resource Center, 1999-present.

Co-founder, Cyberculture Working Group, University of Maryland, 1998 - present.

Researcher, "E-Mailing It In," Washington Post Magazine April 9, 2000: 31+.

Co-chair, Students' Committee, American Studies Association, July 1997 - June 1999.

Reference Archivist Technician, National Archives and Records Administration, Special Media Services Division, Still Pictures, College Park, Maryland, 1997 - 1999.

Site Designer, Live Wire: Praxis, Projects, Pedagogy, Spring 1999.

Research Assistant, Broadcast Pioneers Library, College Park, Maryland, 1995 - 1996.

Co-chair, American Studies Student Association at California State University at Fullerton, 1993 - 1994.

Co-Editor of the Bone Pilgrim, the quarterly newsletter of the American Studies Student Association at California State University at Fullerton, 1993 - 1994.

Elected American Studies Representative, Departmental Associations Council, California State University at Fullerton, 1992 - 1994.

Finance Committee Member, Departmental Associations Council, California State University at Fullerton, 1992 - 1994.

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PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS (selected)

"Technology Learning Circle: Lessons on Going Virtual," with Kim Hsieh of the Packard Foundation, Creating Space III, the annual conference of the Leadership Learning Community, Leesburg, VA, April 10-12, 2002.

"Leadership Learning Community Web Site," breakfast keynote at Creating Space III, the annual conference of the Leadership Learning Community, Leesburg, VA, April 10-12, 2002

"Leadership Learning Online: The Leadership Learning Community Web Site," International Leadership Association Conference, Miami, Florida, November 1-4, 2001

"The ILA Web Site as an Associative Portal," International Leadership Association Conference, Miami, Florida, November 1-4, 2001

"Starting A Virtual Community", Presentation to the board of the Leadership Learning Community. Miami, Florida, November 1, 2001.

Editor, "Entertainment Web Site Reviews," with Jennifer Evans and Emma Wilmer.  Public History Resource Center, July-September, 2001.

"Leadership: Emerging Directions" with a foreword by James MacGregor Burns. Leadership Learning Community, August, 2001.

"An NCPH Travelogue," National Council for Public History Newsletter, Summer 2001.

"The Public History Resource Center: Promoting Public History Online," National Council for Public History, Ottawa, Canada, April 20, 2001, poster session with Jennifer Evans.

Chair, "Representing Cybercultures," Constructing Cyberculture(s): Performance, Pedagogy, and Politics in Online Spaces, Cyberculture Working Group/Chesapeake American Studies Association Conference, College Park, Maryland, April 7, 2001. 

"Clio's Conundrums: A Critical Evaluation of the Current State of Online History," American Association for History and Computing, Indianapolis Indiana, February 2, 2001.

"Teaching in Action: Chatroom Discussions," Virtual Resource Site for Teaching With Technology,  Module 2, University of Maryland University College, November 2000.

"Teaching Cultural Diversity In/And Cyberspace," Cultural Diversity In/And Cyberspace, Cyberculture Working Group Conference, College Park, Maryland, May 5, 2000.

"Opening Remarks," Cultural Diversity In/And Cyberspace, Cyberculture Working Group Conference, College Park, Maryland, May 5, 2000.

"Online Sampler," Washington Post Magazine April 9, 2000: 46.

Chair, "Crossing Academic Borders: Marketing American Studies Degrees," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Oct. 29, 1999.

"Going Digital, or a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Yahoo," American Association for History and Computing, Philadelphia, PA, April 24, 1999.

"Picturesque Tours: The Movement of Museums onto the World Wide Web," Mid-Atlantic American Studies Association Conference, "American Studies for the New Millennium," Harrisburg, PA, April 17, 1999.

"Sublime Socratic Spaces: The Promise and Fears of the Virtual Classroom," Graduate Student Summit on Teaching With Technology, Cyberculture Working Group, University of Maryland, April 12, 1999.

Review of Journal of Women and Performance special issue, "Sex and Cyberspace," co-authored with Bryan Alexander, March 1999, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies.

Chair, "Organizing in the Trenches: Graduate Students and the Unionization Movement," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, Nov. 21, 1998.

Review of Nan McCarthy's Chat and Connect, co-authored with David Silver, Dec. 1997, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies.

"Georgia O'Keefee: A Fugue of Newness," American Papers 14 (1994): 27-30.

"Babes in Toyland?: Social Construction of the Realistic Toy, 1906-1931," Kansas State University's 3rd annual Cultural Studies Symposium, "Generating Culture: Childhood, Market, State." Manhattan, Mar. 11, 1994.

"The Mandelbrot Set and Popular Consciousness," 6th Annual Far West Popular Culture Association Conference, Las Vegas, Feb. 5, 1994.

"So Kiddies, Did I Ever Tell You About the First Thanksgiving?" San Diego State University Department of Sociology and Graduate Student Sociology Club Conference, "The Postmodern Turn: The Social Deconstruction of 'Realities,'" San Diego, Mar. 6, 1993.

"Meaningful Relationships: Attachment and Loss in the American Family, 18th to 19th Century," American Papers 13 (1993): 45-53.

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GRANTS AND AWARDS (selected)

Award for Best Student Project of the Year in the Field of Public History for publichistory.org, National Council for Public History (with Jennifer Evans, James Melzer, and Emma Wilmer), $500, Spring 2001. 

Research Interest Group Grant, "Cyberculture: Politics, Pedagogy, and Performance," Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, University of Maryland (with Gisèle Mills, Donald Snyder, Ed Martini, Sandor Vegh, Isa Cserno, Vincent Stephens, and Katie King) $2500, 2000-2001.

Research Interest Group Grant, "Race In/And Cyberspace," Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, University of Maryland (with David Silver, Gisèle Mills, Donald Snyder, Ed Martini, Sandor Vegh, Katie King, and John Caughey) $1500, 1999-2000.

Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Education, University of Maryland (with David Silver, Virginia Jenkins, Jo Paoletti, Psyche Williams, and Mary Corbin Sies), $5000, 1998.

Center for Teaching Excellence, Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Maryland, 1998.

Susan Flinkingshelt Award for Outstanding Student Service, California State University Fullerton, 1995.

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CITATIONS, FEATURES & QUOTES (selected)

Criteria for Evaluating Public History Web Sites

Cited in, "Introductory Note: What Are Web Pages?" by William Chase, January 5, 2000.  Accessed February 10, 2001.

Cited in, "Evaluating Online Resources," by Grazyna Cooper. Accessed February 10, 2001.

Cited in, "Making the Most of the WWW," by Sharon Howard.  Accessed February 10, 2001.

American Studies 418P: Electronic Publications and Virtual Exhibitions

Featured in, "Data Gathering and Synthesis: Cultural Studies, Web Site Evaluations & Virtual Exhibition review," Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology, Module 1, University of Maryland University College, Spring 2000. Accessed February 10, 2001.

Featured in, "Faculty Resources VCCS: Whole Courses." Accessed February 10, 2001.

Quoted in, "Blackface Minstrelsy," by Martin Umanetz in Dalhousie Peer: Port Dalhousie's Community News Magazine, Fall 2000

Quoted in, "Online Research: How I Find Pearls of Knowledge in a Vast Sea of Uselessness," by Mac Slocum, in Grad Catalyst, Spring 2000.  Accessed February 10, 2001.

Featured in "Undergraduate American Studies Survey Course: A Case Study," by David Silver in American Studies Crossroads Project. Accessed February 10, 2001.

Review of "Journal of Women and Performance: Sex and Cyberspace," cited in "Gender Issues," Center for Computing and Social Responsibility. Accessed February 10, 2001.

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