Resume

• 2013

  French

  Bokmål

  Norwegian

  Spanish

  German

  Award for Best Dissertation on Migration and/or Citizenship accepted in 2012

  Award will be conferred August 30

  American Political Science Association

• 2007

  Office of the Historian

  U.S. Department of State

  •\tSummer 2007 and 2008\n•\tComposed and edited articles for Milestones of U.S. Diplomatic History

  focusing on international relations during the Early Republic and colonial periods.\n•\tWrote and edited chronologies of bilateral diplomatic relations

  including: Algeria

  Libya (incl. Qaramanli Tripoli)

  Morocco

  and Tunisia

  and unrecognized nations and former nations.\n•\tWrote brief

  one-page biographies of the Secretaries of State.

  Office of the Historian

  U.S. Department of State

• 2004

  Ph.D.

  My dissertation studies the influence of foreign migrants from Europe

  the Caribbean

  and elsewhere upon the development of citizenship rights in the United States. My dissertation emphasizes the role of foreign migrants in the undermining of the legal institution of coverture

  whereby women’s legal identities were subsumed under that of their husbands

  either by an assertion of legal identities under foreign legal systems

  or by making cultural claims for differing treatment of binational couples. My dissertation also argues that these migrants were able to influence the development of citizenship rights and naturalization policy in the United States during the period after its independence from Britain

  and differs from earlier scholarship that has argued

  in contrast

  that naturalization and citizenship were formed exclusively by nativist political leaders

  American Studies

  The George Washington University

• 2001

  Alexander Street Press

  University of Nevada Reno

  Ohio University

  •\tPrepared lesson plans and led student discussions.\n•\tGraded student assignments.\n•\tProvided academic advice for students.\n•\tTeaching responsibilities:\n--Introduction to American Studies (Fall 2004 and Fall 2006)\n--U.S. Social History (Fall 2005 and Fall 2007)\n--Sexuality in U.S. History (Spring 2004)\n--Twentieth-Century U.S. Immigration (Spring 2007)\n--Research and Grading for Food in Washington (Spring 2008)\n--Research Assistantship: Research for Textbook

  Women and the Making of America (Prentice Hall

  2008). (Spring 2006 and 2008).\n--Program Assistant for GWU Creative Writing Program (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

  George Washington University

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  •\tHave taught courses on Immigration History

  History of New Media

  U.S. Constitutional History

  Twentieth-­Century U.S. History

  American Revolution and Early American Republic

  U.S. Civil War in American Culture

  as well as co-­‐teachingof Core Humanities class

  The Modern World\n•\tAdvise undergraduate theses\n•\tService work on assisting with initiative to boost undergraduate enrollment

  University of Nevada Reno

  Ohio University

  Currently teaching classes on U.S. History

  World History (Summer and Fall 2014)\nResearch on indenture and citizenship among German immigrants to the U.S.

  1776-1830.

  Assistant Professor of History

  Chillicothe Campus

  Columbus

  Ohio Area

  •\tConducted background research

  planning and obtained artifacts for exhibit on thirtieth anniversary of the discovery of HIV and AIDS.\n•\tWrote exhibit script with recommended objects for public health response to HIV and AIDS.\n•\tGraduate Teaching Assistant responsibilities for Material Culture.\n•\tInterviewed social workers

  activists

  and other public health workers about their work during the early years of the AIDS epidemic for NMAH Smithsonian blog.

  Smithsonian National Museum of American History

  •\tIndexed and categorized letters and diaries pertaining to events from the American Civil War as well as everyday mid-nineteenth-century life.\n•\tConducted biographical research on authors and their participation in events of the Civil War period.\n•\tAdditional work on North American Women's Letters and Diaries

  British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

  Black Drama

  American Film Scripts Online

  and Early Encounters in North America.\n•\tEdited help section of web site for Civil War Letters and Diaries.

  Alexander Street Press

• 2000

  AnswerLogic

  George Washington University

  •\tEngaged in ongoing reorganization of WordNet-based Lexicon (dictionary).\n•\tAdded new terms to Lexicon.\n•\tInterviewed potential new linguists.

  AnswerLogic

• 1996

  B.A.

  General Honors

  Linguistics

• History

  Grant Writing

  Teaching

  Archival Research

  Research

  American History

  University Teaching

  Digital Humanities

  International Relations

  Museums

  Higher Education

  Academic Writing

  Blogging

  Qualitative Research

  Editing

  Manuscript: Strangers to the Privileges of Citizens: Migrant Influence

  Naturalization

  and the Growth of National Power over Foreign Migrants in the Early American Republic

  Based on my dissertation

  this manuscript similarly argues for a greater role for foreign migrants in the development of citizenship rights in the early American republic.

  O'Keefe

  O'Keefe

  Smithsonian National Museum of American History