SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- ‘’Vagrant Negroes:’ The Policing of Labor and Mobility in the Old South,” in Reviving Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power, eds Keri Leigh Merritt and Matthew Hild (University Press of Florida, forthcoming 2017)
- “Vagabonds and Paupers:” Race and Illicit Mobility in the Early Republic,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Fall 2016
- “The Antebellum Era (1820-1860)," and "The Colored Female Free Produce Society," in Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, forthcoming 2016
- “Vagrancy,” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH), Rutgers University-Camden, 2016
- Review of Jen Manion, Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America in Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, Fall 2016
- Review of Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger, Robert Love’s Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston, Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History, review no. 1726, 2015
PUBLIC HISTORY ENGAGEMENT
- Research Analyst and Archivist, Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives
- Exhibitions Research Consultant, Department of Human History, National Museums of Northern Ireland
- Public Programs Coordinator, Ephrata Public Library
- Project Archivist, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
- Project Archivist, Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley
- Project Archivist, Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection, Ursinus College
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
- Ethics and Epistemology in the Archives Fellowship, Prindle Institute for Ethics, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN, 2016
- Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Maryland Historical Society, 2015-2016
- Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Graduate Student Award, 2015
- College of Arts, Humanities, and Law Research Grant, University of Leicester, 2015
- Peter Parish Memorial Award, Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians, 2014
- Dissertation Distinction, School of History & Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast, 2012
- Skills Engagement Award, Public History, Queen’s University Belfast, 2012
- International Postgraduate Scholarship, Queen’s University Belfast, 2011-12
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- National Council on Public History
- International Federation for Public History
- Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
- Pennsylvania Historical Association
- Labor and Working Class History Association
- Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians
- Society of American Archivists