University of Nevada Reno - History
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Award for Best Dissertation on Migration and/or Citizenship accepted in 2012
Award will be conferred August 30
American Political Science Association
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
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
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
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
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
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