Projects
Scribes of the Cairo Geniza •
Project Manager. 2019-2022.
Scribes of the Cairo Geniza aims to sort and transcribe Cairo Geniza fragments using new technological approaches in partnership with a community of citizen humanists using the Zooniverse platform.
Contingent Magazine •
Site Designer. 2018-Present.
At Contingent Magazine, we believe that history is for everyone, that every kind of history is worthwhile, and that historians should be paid for their work
Mapping Violence •
Researcher & Collaborator. 2017-2018.
Mapping Violence recovers lost and obscured cases of racial violence in Texas from 1900 to 1930, a period of now largely forgotten bloodshed. Making these histories public is a crucial step towards reckoning with the long legacies of violence
Visualizing the Crystal Palace •
PI with Steven Lubar, Steffani Gomez, Brian Croxall, Patrick Rashleigh. 2017–18.
Geographic visualizations in Tableau, Google Maps, and D3 to discuss historical significance of museum catalogs, supplemented by two co-authored Medium posts with Steven Lubar. Data hosted on GitHub.
Skills
Languages • Spanish (conversational)
Computer-Adjacent Languages • HTML, CSS, Jekyll + Liquid templating, Python (reading & writing), JavaScript (training), R (training)
Social Media • Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
Content Management • WordPress, Omeka, Drupal
Jack of All Trades • Tableau Public, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, OpenRefine
Employment
University Employment
2022–Present
Project Lead, DocMaps
Knowledge Futures.
I led the DocMaps project in developing a software development kit and documentation, and driving adoption to integrating Docmaps into platform technology and workflows.
2021–2022
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities
Penn Libraries.
As the inaugural Kaplan Curator, I spearhead projects that facilitate access to and use of Penn's Judaica collections, promoting them and making connections between them and dispersed Judaica content around the globe. I am also responsible for curating, building, and researching the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica.
2019–2021
Judaica Digital Humanities Coordinator
Penn Libraries.
Managed the research and development of various projects associated with Judaica Digital Humanities at Penn Libraries.
2018–2019
Researcher and Collaborator, Mapping Violence
Brown University, Department of American Studies.
Coordinated with student developers and system administrators to maintain and operate the existing database, and provided strategic direction on the layout, interface, and content for project website
2017
Teaching Assistant
Brown University, School of Professional Studies.
Introduced students to critical reading & literary theory in online English course Fantastic Places and Unhuman Humans
2016-2017
Digital Projects Assistant
Brown University, Department of American Studies.
Explored museum history and catalog history by designing two digital projects using Tiki-Toki, Google Sheets, and Tableau Public visualizations
Public Humanities Employment
2022
Web Developer
Mark Twain House and Museum.
Worked with high school student fellows at the Mark Twain House to launch creative writing magazine.
2019–Present
Web Manager
Contingent Magazine.
Developed Contingent Magazine Theme for Wordpress and coordinated social media roll-out for launch of Contingent Magazine.
2018
Digital Humanities Fellow
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.
I considered how technology could amplify narratives about the Kennedy family, the Senator’s work in the Senate, and current issues in the US government. In addition to planning out future experiences in VR, AR, and digital exhibit content, I developed two iPad applications and one digital projection/web display regarding the 2018 U.S. Senate elections.
2016
Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
Evaluation Assistant.
Led evaluation case studies of institutional use of Smithsonian Learning Lab, a digital collections platform that allows users to discover Smithsonian Institution digital resources, and use them to create and share collections tailored to their needs and that of their target audiences.
Publications
Journals
Datasets
Workshops Led
Build a Digital Exhibit with Wax
University of Pennsylvania. November 2022.
Publish a Digital Collection with CollectionBuilder
University of Pennsylvania. October 2022.
Build a Digital Exhibit with Omeka
University of Pennsylvania. September 2022.
Conferences
Conference Talks
“#Resistance: Rogue Government Twitter and Digital Political Activism”
Oct. 2017 • Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts • Baltimore, Maryland,
Roundtables & Panels
“Platforms for People-Powered Research”
April 2021 • Princeton University • Virtual, Panel, A Roundtable at Crowdsourcing and the Humanities: Roundtable Discussions Celebrating Scribes of the Cairo Geniza
“Interpreting Jewish History in Museums and Public History Settings”
March 2020 • National Council for Public History • Atlanta, Georgia//Virtual, Twitter Chat, NCPH 2020
“Mapping Segregated Histories: Digital Research and Visualizations for the Public”
Nov. 2018 • American Studies Association • Atlanta, Georgia, Roundtable, ASA2018
“Public Humanities: Mapping Violence”
May 2018 • Brown University, Department of American Studies • Providence, Rhode Island, Poster, Brown University American Studies Graduate Student Conference
“Mapping Violence”
January 2018 • Northeastern University School of Law • Boston, Massachusetts, Workshop Presentation, The Digital Red Record: The Promises and Perils of Digitally Documenting Historic Racial Violence
Membership & Service
Service
Director of Communications • National Emerging Museum Professionals Network. 2020-2022.
Organizing Committee Member, KeystoneDH 2020/2021 • Keystone DH. 2019–present.
Programming and Scholarship Committee Member, ACH 2019 • Association for Computers and the Humanities. 2018–19.
Board Member • Somerset Cultural Council. 2016-2018.
Membership