I'm a Ph.D. student from Boiling Springs, North Carolina. I study U.S. history with a specific interest in the agricultural, rural, and environmental history of the American South. My dissertation project focuses on the history of feral hogs in the South, from their introduction by Europeans in the colonial period until the modern era. I chart how major shifts in agricultural practice coincided with the burgeoning of big-game conservation and how these phenomena affected how humanity viewed feral hogs. 

M.A. History Western Carolina University 2017
B.S. History Western Carolina University 2012
B.S. Communication-Broadcasting Western Carolina University 2012

Teaching Assistant, Mississippi State University, Fall 2023.

Instructor, Mississippi History, Mississippi State University, Summer 2023.

Editorial Assistant, Environmental History, January 2022-June 2023.

Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Mississippi State University, Fall 2021.

7^th and 8^th Grade Social Studies Teacher, Cullowhee Valley School, 2017-2021.

7^th Grade ELA Teacher, Writing and Grammar, Cullowhee Valley School, 2017-2019.

Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Western Carolina University, Spring 2017.

Graduate Assistant, Department of History, Western Carolina University, Fall 2016.

Graduate Intern, Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University, Summer 2016.

Research Assistant, Department of History, Western Carolina University, 2015-2016.

Presentations:

“Exotic Bounty: The European Wild Boar in the American South,” delivered at the S-FARE,                    Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, April 2023.

“Sus Scrofa: Feral Hogs as Prizes and Pests in Mississippi, 1970-2010,” delivered at the                           Mississippi Historical Society Annual Meeting, Jackson, MS, March 2023.

“Life and Limb in Southern Appalachia: The Story of William Bryant Carden,” delivered at the               Southeastern Museums Conference, Charlotte, NC, October 2016.

Publications:

Review of Gregory Smithers, The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration,                    Resettlement, and Identity, in Tuckasegee Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXIII (2017).

“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A History of Feral Hogs in Western North Carolina,” Tuckasegee Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXII(2016).

History Department Representative, Dean’s Graduate Student Advisory Board, College of Arts & Sciences, Mississippi State University, 2023-2024.

Scholars of the Earth Research Award, $700 Award, Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental Node of Excellence, Department of History, Mississippi State University, June 2023.

George Robson Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, $200 Award, Department of History, Mississippi State University, Spring 2023.

Phi Alpha Theta President, Mississippi State University Chapter, 2022-2023.

Maroon and White Scholar, Department of History, Mississippi State University, 2021-Present.

Tuition Remission, Department of History, Western Carolina University, 2016-2017.

Patrick Lee Carmody Scholarship Recipient, Department of Communication, Western Carolina   University, 2011-2012.

Dean’s List, Western Carolina University, Spring 2011-Spring 2012.

Pi Gamma Mu International Honors Society, Western Carolina University, 2012.