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EDUCATION

MA in Public History, concentration in Digital Humanities & Media Studies
Temple University   |   2017 – 2019
Full Merit Scholar

BA in History & Sociology, minor in LGBT Studies, summa cum laude
Temple University   |   2014 – 2017
Phi Beta Kappa

Certificate in History & Medieval Studies
University of Cambridge   |   2016


EXPERIENCE

Program Manager
COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
   |   August 2014 – Present
   
Lead programming, outreach, and communications for a nationally-recognized public art and humanities nonprofit. Manage project budgets, assessment data, grant applications, and final reports. Cultivate and maintain long-term community partnerships. Create and distribute accessible digital media.

Research Fellow to Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations
University of Pennsylvania
  |   April 2018 – August 2019
Led research and production for a documentary film series. Established institutional partnerships, and secured contracts with artists, animators, composers, and sound engineers. Collaborated on content development. Coordinated project calendars, expense reports, prospect research, grant proposals, and databases.
Graduate Extern for Gender & Sexuality Inclusion,
Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership
Temple University
   |   August 2017 – May 2019
Directed all LGBTQIA+ programming for students, faculty, staff, and community members. Developed and implemented marketing, budgets, and assessments. Liaised with local and national constituents while serving on task forces advocating for marginalized students. Facilitated university-wide cultural competency, implicit bias, bystander intervention, and Safe Zone trainings.

Curatorial Intern, National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution   |   May 2018 – August 2018
Reviewed and implemented public programming for Black, Asian, disabled, and queer histories, including the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Collaborated with curatorial, editorial, exhibitions, and marketing staff on the creation of new outreach initiatives. Researched and processed material culture collections. Copyedited didactics.

Public Programs Intern
National Endowment for the Humanities
   |   June 2018 – July 2018
Assessed the reach and effectiveness of funded projects using qualitative and quantitative research, statistical analysis, data visualization, and digital mapping. Prepared and presented reports to program officers and government officials. Contributed to social media campaigns, and initiated a report on engagement analytics.

John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archival Intern
William Way LGBT Community Center   |   May 2017 – December 2017
Researched and processed approximately five thousand pamphlets, posters, and other graphic material from the international AIDS Library Graphics Collection. Led outreach and advocacy efforts while supporting students, scholars, and activists' exploration of the archives. Co-curated the "Still Fighting For Our Lives: A History of HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia" multimedia exhibition in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Philadelphia AIDS Library.
Intellectual Heritage Department Tutor
Temple University
   |   September 2015 – May 2017
Worked with students taking the required two-semester Intellectual Heritage sequence. Discussed major texts from various cultural and intellectual traditions, through which core humanities concepts were introduced. Provided feedback on assignments.

Research Assistant to Dr. Hilary Lowe, Director of The Center for Public History
Temple University
   |   August 2015 – May 2017
Reviewed and digitized microfilm of over one thousand personal papers from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, dating from 1914 to 1950. Researched and wrote about the significance of politics and sexuality in his life, in relation to his preservation efforts at the historic Longfellow House.

Digital Collections Intern
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
   |   May 2016 – December 2016
Researched and digitized over five hundred historic manuscripts and graphics. Assigned metadata to uploaded materials and managed online databases. Worked with imaging and rights staff, while liaising with independent and institutional researchers. Curated the "'One Manly Soul': White Masculinities in Late Colonial America" archival exhibition based on the Society's collaboration with the Digital Paxton Project.

Research Assistant to Jonathan Ned Katz, Founder/Co-Director
OutHistory.org
   |   March 2016 – August 2016
Collaborated on historical research and content development for a grassroots LGBT history initiative. Created transnational timeline of queer activism, organizing, and resistance for the 2016 Gay American History @ 40 conference. Developed exhibition features that included oral histories and archival materials.


PUBLICATIONS

Articles
“Pleasure by Proxy: A Multimedia Essay.” FLAT, Issue 0.2: Touch. Edited by Chandler McWilliams, Dalena Tran, Leslie Foster, and Don Elder. Published by the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts & Carnegie Mellon School of Art, 2021.

"Sexuality." The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook. Edited by Modupe Labode, William S. Walker, and Robert Weible. Published by the American Association for State and Local History and the National Council on Public History, 2019.

"Sex in the Archives: The Politics of Processing and Preserving Pornography in the Digital Age." The American Archivist 80, no. 2 (2017): 439-452.

"Virgin-Mother-Whore: Gender & the Rule of Queen Mary I (1516-1558)." Perceptions 3, no. 2 (2017): 25-28.
 
"Activity/Passivity in Dream of the Red Chamber: Homoerotic Sensibility & Sexual Hegemony in the Mid-Qing Dynasty." Perceptions 3, no. 1 (2017): 11-13.

Online
“We need to talk about public history's columbusing problem.” History@Work. June 25, 2020.

"Reading the Rainbow: The Origins of the Pride Symbol." O Say Can You See? Stories from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. May 31, 2019. (Reprinted in Smithsonian Magazine. June 8, 2021.)

"The Art and Politics of the Dick Pic." Notches. July 10, 2018.

"Tongzhi: ‘Queer’ Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover." Notches. May 29, 2018. (Reprinted in Pink Paper. June 15, 2019.)
 
"Project Showcase: Still Fighting For Our Lives." History@Work. January 15, 2018.

"Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome." Notches. November 14, 2017.
 
"Project Showcase: The Semiotics of Sex." History@Work. July 14, 2017.
Other
“Book Review: Exhibitions for Social Justice.” The Public Historian 43, no. 3 (2021): 120-123.

"Jackie Shane" and "Roxanne Gay." African American National Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

“Roots.” Shifting Traditions. Berlin: Transnational Queer Underground, 2020.

“Gather, Connect, Amplify: The Importance of Grassroots Community Building & Dismantling White Middle-Class Public History.” Public History News. May 27, 2020.

“Insider/Outsider: Engaging Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation.” Public History News. June 13, 2018. (Co-authored by Shakti Castro and Patrice Green.)

"What (Is) It Like…?." OUR_STORY. Berlin: Transnational Queer Underground, 2017.

"150 years ago, this queer activist invented sexual identity to stage a public protest." Medium - Editors' Pick. July 31, 2017.


PRESENTATIONS

Panels
“Women, Gender and Sexuality: Agency and Representation in Monumental Culture.” Contested Histories: Creating and Critiquing Public Monuments and Memorials in a New Age of Iconoclasm (Online). Swansea University, Wales, June 28-29 2021.
 
“Gender and Memory.” 1st International Film Studies Conference: Cinema, Aesthetics and Memory (Online). University of Coimbra, Portugal, June 2-4, 2021.

“Decolonising Intellectual History.” Decolonising Archives, Rethinking Canons: Writing Intellectual Histories of Global Entanglements (Online). University of Cambridge, England, March 26-27, 2021.

"Transnational Flows: Historicizing Race & Hybrid Space in the 21st Century." World History Association. San Juan, PR, June 27-29, 2019. (Organizer)

"Subaltern Histories." Scholars of Color Conference. Philadelphia, PA, April 12-13, 2019. (Chair)

"Queering Sexual Citizenship: Transnational Perspectives." International Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Justice. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 8-9, 2018.

"Material Subcultures: Production and Consumption on the Margins." American Studies Association. Atlanta, GA, November 8-11, 2018. (Organizer)

"Transatlantic Narratives, History & Memory." Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival Conference. Philadelphia, PA, November 14-15, 2016.

Roundtables
“Local Imaginaries, Global Resistance: Trans of Color Archives & Storytelling.” Queer History Conference (Online). San Francisco, CA, June 12-15, 2022. (Organizer & Facilitator, Sponsored by the National Council on Public History)

"Commemorating the Stonewall Uprising: Transnational and National Retrospectives on Movements and Monuments." American Historical Association. New York, NY, January 3-6, 2020. (Co-Organizer, Sponsored by the Committee on LGBT History and World History Association)

"Reclamation & Resistance: The Making of Grassroots QTPOC Histories." Queer History Conference. San Francisco, CA, June 16-18, 2019. (Organizer)

"Histories of Our Own." National Council on Public History Conference. Hartford, CT, March 27-30, 2019. (Organizer & Co-Facilitator)

"Stonewall @ 50." National Council on Public History Conference. Hartford, CT, March 27-30, 2019.

"Teaching Queer Themes and Experiences in World History." World History Association. Milwaukee, WI, June 21-23, 2018.

"Insider/Outsider: Engaging Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation." National Council on Public History Conference. Las Vegas, NV, April 18-21, 2018. (Organizer & Co-Facilitator)
Talks
“Gather, Connect, Amplify: QTAPI Testimony & Grassroots Community Building.” National Council on Public History Conference (Online). March 18-21, 2020.

"Queer History, Core Texts and Contexts." Intellectual Heritage Workshop. Philadelphia, PA, October 17, 2018.

“We Are Everywhere? On Decolonizing the Queer Canon.” Temple Early Atlantic Seminar. Philadelphia, PA, September 12, 2018.

“AMA: Sex, Stigma, and Historiography.” r/AskHistorians (Online). March 30, 2018.

"The Third Sex?: Subverting the White Male Gaze, Queering Historiographies of Gender & Sexuality." Women in Core. Philadelphia, PA, March 16-17, 2018.


"The Semiotics of Sex: A History of Queer Identity Politics." National Council on Public History Conference. Indianapolis, IN, April 19-22, 2017.

SERVICE

Operations Manager & Community Organizer
Nicetown-Tioga Improvement Team
   |   September 2014 – Present
Maintain a website and manage digital communications for a grassroots neighborhood collective formed in 1998. Provide technical support for residents at monthly public forums for dialogue, planning, and action. Disseminate information on local histories and ongoing neighborhood advocacy issues, such as gentrification, health, and safety.

Project Manager & Nonfiction Editor
Asian Pacific Islander Transmasculine Anthology
   |   October 2019 – September 2020
Oversaw communications and development for an international collection of art and writing created by, for, and about transmasculine Asian Pacific Islanders. Set goals, maintained deadlines, and facilitated meetings. Copyedited submissions.

Community Advisory Board Member
Connecting Latinos en Pareja
   |   April 2018 – December 2019
Collaborated on strategic planning for a community-based research study on HIV prevention, promoting safer sex practices between men who have sex with men. Assisted with outreach initiatives and establishing partnerships.

Civics Coordinator
The School District of Philadelphia
   |   January 2016 – June 2017
Developed art projects to teach literacy and social studies using Common Core standards. Supported teacher classroom instruction for K-8 students at several public schools throughout Philadelphia.


HONORS/AWARDS

Global Youth Service Day Mentor 2022, Youth Service America

Teaching Artist Micro-Grant 2021, Bartol Foundation


Historical Research Associates, Inc. New Professional Award 2020, National Council on Public History

Adams Research Award in American History Spring 2019, Temple University
Zimring Prize for Academic Freedom 2019, Temple University

Adams Research Award in American History Spring 2018, Temple University
Adams Research Award in American History Fall 2018, Temple University
College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Travel Award 2018, Temple University
Graduate Student Travel Award 2018, World History Association
Graduate Student Travel Award 2018, National Council on Public History
Zimring Prize for Academic Freedom 2018, Temple University

Adams Scholarship in American History 2017, Temple University
Baron Memorial Award in History 2017, Temple University
Creative Arts, Research and Scholarship Grant 2017, Temple University
Feinstone Memorial Award for Educational Leadership 2017, Temple University

Public History Diversity & Inclusion Advocacy Award 2017, Temple University

Adams Scholarship in American History 2016, Temple University
Gilmour Scholarship for LGBT Advocacy 2016, Temple University
Means Study Abroad Scholarship 2016, Temple University
Vaughn Award in Sociology 2016, Temple University
Wachman History Scholarship 2016, Temple University

Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015-2016, Temple University Libraries


MEMBERSHIPS/COMMITTEES

Society for Queer Asian Studies
                   Board Co-Chair

National Council on Public History
                   Diversity & Inclusion Task Force
                   Long Range Planning Committee

Committee on LGBT History
                   Program Committee, Queer History Conference 2022

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