Education
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
B.A. in history, minor in theater (2007)
Thesis: “Laborers, Reformists, and Domestic Regeneration: The Ten Hours Movement and the Creation of the Ideal of the Sole Male Breadwinner.”
Current Projects
* The Ortenberg-Hill Family. Family history project. Collection of family objects, letters, and oral histories. Synthesis of research and family information into a single medium (CD and/or book).
Previous Clients and Projects
* The First State Heritage Park at Dover, 2008-2009. Research and interpretive program assistance for The First State Heritage Park at Dover’s NEH “We The People” grant. Intensive research on the Ridgely family during the revolutionary war and on a variety of revolutionary war social issues. Development of first-person storytelling programs and audio tours. Creation of character portfolios for future living history interpretive programs.
* Not Found in School, 2009. Development of a high school homeschool curriculum about the history of the British Industrial Revolution. Includes lesson plans, reading lists, and quizzes. Available for purchase. Please contact me at historein.info@gmail.com for more information.
* The First State Heritage Park at Dover, 2007-2008. Research, design, and presentation of interpretive programs on the history of Dover, Delaware. Notable projects include the “living history” program “The War of the Roses: Delaware and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage,” tours of two of Dover’s historic cemetaries, and a storytelling program about Victorian Dover based upon the diaries of James Fulton.
* The Handel House Museum, 2006. Assistance with the research and design of a temporary exhibit of historical costumed based upon Handel House portraits of significant composers, musicians, and performers of mid-eighteenth century England.
Specialties and topics of interest
* History of women and gender, most notably eighteenth and nineteenth century America, nineteenth century Britain, early twentieth century suffrage movements.
* History of labor, especially related to the Industrial Revolution.
* History of the French Revolution and nineteenth century France.
* Eighteenth and nineteenth century social history of Britain and America.
* Modern Irish history.
* History of nineteenth and twentieth century European and American theater.
