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Curriculum 
Vitae
Skills

Effective written and oral communication

Historical Methodology

Leadership Qualities

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Research experience

Strong organizational skills

Education

Middle Tennessee State University - Murfreesboro, Tennessee             August 8, 2020

Ph.D. - Public History; Concentration - Oral History

Liberty University - Lynchburg, Virginia                                                        May 14, 201​6

​M.A. - American History

Liberty University - Lynchburg, Virginia                                                        May 10, 201​4

B.S. - History; Minor - English

Work​
Experience​

MTSU, Public History Program, Graduate Student Assistant

January 2020 - August

My responsibilities included researching the impact of COVID-19 in Rutherford County, Tennessee, for a digital history project, creating a database to help expand the program's outreach among potential graduate students, serving as a liaison between the Public History's Program Director and program applicants, assisting the professor with grading undergraduate students' assignments and History exams, and helping revise the Public History program newsletter.

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum

August 2019 - December 2019

I completed my second semester professional residency with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. My responsibilities included ensuring proper care and maintenance of all documents handled, creating and preparing descriptive information on textual and/or audiovisual material, as well as preparing textual and/or audiovisual material for preservation work, including re–foldering, sleeving and re–boxing.

Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center

​January 2019 - May 2019

I completed my first semester professional residency at Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center, a local African American museum, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. My responsibilities included inventorying and photographing artifacts from the various exhibits. I also conducted oral history interviews with Bradley Academy alumni to create the context for a visual timeline that would accentuate African American history and culture in Rutherford County, Tennessee. 

MTSU, Oral History Association, Graduate Student Assistant

​January 2018 - December 2018

 

​My duties included creating a regional database to help expand OHA partnerships in the Southeast, updating the program template for the 2018 Annual OHA Conference, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, and scheduling meetings for various committees at the 2018 Annual OHA conference. During the conference, I worked in registration, provided assistance and directions to conference attendees as well as escorting committees to meeting rooms.

 

 

MTSU, Africana Studies Program, Graduate Student Assistant

August 2017 - December 2017​

My responsibilities involved advising the director on new courses to implement in the program, helping revise the undergraduate program, and interacting with juniors and seniors to increase understanding of the graduate school process.

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Professional Experience

I have professional experience in both museum and academic environments. For example, I interned with the Atlanta History Center in 2013, where I, along with two other interns, inventoried artifacts in the Swan House in preparation for shooting the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

 

I was also a student employee at the National Civil War Chaplains Museum, located on the campus of Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Virginia.

 

As a graduate student assistant, in the History Department, at Liberty University, I taught online and residential classes, as well as assisted professors, while completing my master's degree in American History.

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