Why Make an Appointment?
Feel free to make an appointment to meet with me! There are lots of reasons you might want to do so.
We can...
- plan a strategy for researching your topic
- refine your research topic
- find and evaluate source material
- identify people/experts on your topic
- save time through efficient information search techniques
About Me
I am the Research Services specialist for History, International Relations, and Political Science. I'm also involved in Archives and Special Collections instruction and educational initiatives in collaboration with the staff in SCUA.
I'm a native of the Binghamton, NY area, just north of the Pennsylvania border. My family has deep roots in the Coal and Amish areas of Pennsylvania on my maternal side, where many of my grandparents' relatives were located before WWII. I attended Binghamton University as an undergraduate, where my studies were focused on the history and anthropology of the colonial slave trade in the Americas. It was at Binghamton that I discovered the museum studies field-which combined my love of history and the study of material culture-and in a few years I moved to Boston, MA to attend Tufts University where I earned a MA in Museum Studies and History. My master's thesis and accompanying exhibit, "Dual Identities" specifically looked at African American Sailors in Newburyport, Massachusetts and was an overall study of African Americans at sea in the colonial and antebellum period throughout the United States. I also have an MLIS from Simmons University where I studied cataloging, user instruction, and specialized in archival access and use and digital archives. I'm specifically interested in uncovering underrepresented voices in the archival record and finding ways to apply reparative archival methods to fill in gaps in our collective memory from the past.
I enjoy science fiction and horror movies, live music, pub trivia, photography, creating mixed media art from found objects, and hanging out with my long-time partner and our fur children, Ray (an 80-lb black lab/golden retriever mix who loves a good stick) and our orange cat, The Fonz (who loves his best pal, Ray, and a window to watch the birds).
