I am a history PhD student at Northeastern University studying cultural history in the Atlantic World, the urban history of the Northeastern United States (particularly in New England), the history of the American education system, and public history (particularly in museums).  After teaching for nearly a decade in Boston schools, I am especially interested in the history of teaching history – the curricula, the textbooks, and the pedagogy.  My goal is to produce public-facing work that can inform educators who work both in K-12 systems and in higher ed. institutions.  My experience working in a program for Boston Public School teachers called Thinking Through Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has made me curious about the uses of imagery – from museums, from textbooks, and from digital media collections – in K-12 United States History curricula.

I earned my BA in Anthropology and European History at a small liberal arts college called Franklin Pierce, and attended Northeastern for MA degrees in World History and in Teaching, before becoming an educator.  Now, I am keen to study the systems I worked in as a teacher from the point of view of a historian.  I love learning, and I love learning about  learning.  Oh, you do too?  We’ll be great friends!