Professional Profile

I am a fourth year Ph.D. candidate at Mississippi State University, expected to graduate in the spring of 2026, with a focus on environmental history. My current research examines the role of beauty in the creation of urban public parks in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century. In the past I have also studied urban gardens, invasive ornamental plants, and the urban environment.

Education

Mississippi State University, History Ph.D. Student 2021-Current

Wright State University, Master of Arts in History, 2021

Thesis: “Gardening the Gilded Age: Creating the Landscapes of the Future”

Purdue University North Central, Bachelor of Arts in History, 2016

Purdue University North Central, Bachelor of Science in Psychology, 2016

History Resource Center, August 2024-Present

Manuscript Assistant, Isis, A Journal of the History of Science Society, January 2024-June 2024

Editorial Assistant, Environmental History, June 2022-December 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant, August 2021-May 2022

Publications, Presentations, and Exhibits

Presentation, “Walled in Culture: Private Outdoor Spaces and the Chicago Elite,” 2023, Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History.

Presentation, “Industrial Digitization: Preserving the Documents of the Gilded Age,” 2020 Wright State Public History Symposium, Event Cancelled due to COVID-19

Publication, “The Tucker-Fuller Years:1972-1982,” in Purdue University North Central: The History of a Regional Campus, ed. Joseph Coates and James Pula, Academic Consulting, 2019.

Exhibit, Barker Mansion, “Footwear and Fashion in the Gilded Age,” 2019, Permanent Display

Exhibit, Barker Mansion, “Traveling Through the Gilded Age,” 2018, Permanent Display

Exhibit, Barker Mansion, “Ornaments of the Mansion,” December 2017

Exhibit, Barker Mansion, “The Barkers at Christmas,” December 2016

Phi Kappa Phi