Public History & Archival Projects

Public Programs

Poetry Walk Script // Emily Dickinson Museum (Jan 2024 - May 2024)

Wrote an hour-long thematic script for the Emily Dickinson Poetry Walk, an annual signature museum program attracting over 300 registrants, and contributed to the organization, facilitation, and planning of the community event.

Exhibits

All Dolled Up: Playing With the Dolls of Special Collections // Special Studies Exhibit at Smith College (Jan 2024 - May 2024)

Following archival research in Smith College Special Collections, designed and installed an exhibit in Neilson Library that explored the meaning, emotional connection, and historical legacy of dolls, and how this history both reflects and impacts our ideas about gender, race, and class.Following archival research in Smith College Special Collections, designed and installed an exhibit in Neilson Library that explored the meaning, emotional connection, and historical legacy of dolls, and how this history both reflects and impacts our ideas about gender, race, and class.

Abortion in the Public Eye: Coverage of Abortion in Magazines, 1969-1972 // Exhibit At Monmouth University

(Aug 2023)

Designed a physical exhibit featuring archival periodicals from 1969 to 1972 with Professor Katherine Parkin (History and Anthropology Department, Monmouth University) exploring how magazines of all different genres put abortion on the front cover, simultaneously normalizing the procedure and sharing crucial information for abortion access before the national legalization of abortion with Roe vs. Wade; furthermore, in a time post Roe vs. Wade, the exhibit prompts us to ask how information (and misinformation) about abortion is shared today.

Our World(s): The Queer Intersecting Lives of Lorraine Hansberry, Mary Oliver, and Molly Malone Cook // Archival Capstone Project at Smith College (Jan 2023 - May 2023)

Welcome to the worlds of playwright Lorraine Hansberry, poet Mary Oliver, and the woman who loved and photographed them both — Molly Malone Cook. For my archival capstone project at Smith College, I worked with the Molly Malone Cook papers at Smith College's Special Collections and the Lorraine Hansberry papers at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in order to design a physical and digital public history project. In addition to two display cases and a website, this project included a public PechaKucha presentation and participatory elements designed to encourage audience engagement.

Oral History

Documenting Lesbian Lives // Oral History and Lesbian Subjects course at Smith College (January 2022-May 2022)

After extensive research and writing an interview guide with over 100 questions, I conducted, recorded, and transcribed a three hour oral history with a lesbian elder for the Documenting Lesbian Lives project housed in Smith College’s Special Collections. [Interview closed to the public until 2050.]

Archival Processing & Finding Aids

Alison Bechdel papers // student processing assistant & finding aid co-author, Smith College Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History (January 2022- April 2022)

Aileen C. Hernandez papers // student processing assistant & finding aid co-author, Smith College Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History (April 2022-August 2022)

International Women’s Tribune Centre records // student processing assistant & finding aid co-author, Smith College Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History (August 2022-May 2023)

Moorland Hotel and Motor Inn Collection // processing archivist and finding aid author, Cape Ann Museum (January 2023)