Bio
I am a Ph.D. candidate, and a native of Woodville, Mississippi. My geographic focus is the United States with a specific interest in early 19th century. Broadly, my dissertation examines medical diagnosis and prognostication in the United States with regards to neo-Hippocrates tradition.
Education
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi
2022 (Anticipated) Ph.D., Program in History
Fields: United States History, History of Medicine, African American History
Committee:
Major Professor: Alan I Marcus, Ph.D.
2nd Reader: Anne Marshall, Ph.D.
Leigh Soares, Ph.D.
Mark Hersey, Ph.D.
Dissertation:
Tentatively Titled: “’Look To Your Map’: Medical Distinctiveness and the United States, 1800-1860”
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi
2016 M.A. History, Program in History
Major Professor: Alan I Marcus, Ph.D.
Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana
2012 B.A., History, minor field in Biology
Academic Career
Graduate Service Assistantship, January 2021- Present
The Office of the Graduate School, Admissions Department, Mississippi State University
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Mississippi State University
Teaching Assistant, History of Technology in Six Objects, Fall 2019
Instructor-of-Record, Summer 2019
5-week Summer Session, Mississippi History, online
Instructor-of-Record, Spring 2019
Mississippi History
Instructor-of-Record, Fall 2018
African American History to 1865 (appointment in African American Studies)
Instructor-of-Record, Summer 2018
5-week Summer Session, Modern United States History, 1877-Present
Teaching Assistant, World Civilization from 1500, Mississippi State University, Spring 2018
Teaching Assistant, Early U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Fall 2017
Teaching Assistant, Modern U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Spring 2017
Teaching Assistant, Modern U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Fall 2016
Teaching Assistant, Early U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Spring 2016
Teaching Assistant, Modern U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Fall 2015
INTERNSHIP
2020 Editorial Assistant for Environmental History
2018-2019 Graduate Student Intern at the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and the Congressional and Political Research Center, Mississippi State University
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
2020- Documenting Grassroots Activism and Community Memory: The Black Lives Matter Protest March in Starkville (Co-PI with Dhanashree Thorat, Ph.D.)
SERVICE
2019 Assisted with Sensory History Workshop at Mississippi State University
2018 Assisted with the Second War World Research Group- North America
Conference at Mississippi State University
2017 Processed parts of the Frank and Virginia Lincolniana Collection
2017 Processing in the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and the Political and
Congressional Research Center
Research Interests
Publications
2021 “Disease Difference: Locality and Medical Education, 1800-1860” presented at American Association for the History Medicine, virtual (Madison, WI).
2019 “From Hot Summers to the Cool Intellect of Ph.D. Students” presented at Graduate Association for African-American History, Memphis, Tennessee.
2019 “Chemical Lands: A Roundtable” presented at Agricultural History Society, Washington, D.C., along with Dr. David Vail, Dr. Amy Hay Dr. Frederick Davis, Dr. Mark Hersey, and Dr. Pete Daniel.
2018 “Pesticides Now: Science, Mississippi, and Economics, 1930-1985” presented at the Agricultural History Society, St. Petersburg, Florida.
2018 “Pesticides versus Environment: Mississippi’s Quest to Eradicate the Fire Ant, 1950- 1985,” presented at Southern History of Science and Technology Conference, Starkville, Mississippi.
2018 “The Imported Fire Ant: Mississippi, Economics, and its People,” presented at Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, Augusta, Georgia.
Honors & Awards
GRANTS, TRAVEL AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Travel Award from Mississippi State University to present at the Agricultural History Society in Washington, D.C. $1200.00 [$400 from the Department of History, $400 from the College of Arts and Sciences, $400 from The Graduate School]
2018 Travel Award from the Agricultural History Society to present my paper in St. Petersburg, Florida. $250.00
2018 Travel Award from Mississippi State University to present at the annual Southern Association for the History of Medicine in Augusta, Georgia. $250.00
Research Experience
SKILLS:
File Maker Pro
Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)
ScholarOne Manuscripts
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LANGUAGE:
German (Reading and Writing Proficiency)
Professional Associations
Phi Alpha Theta
Southern Association for the History of Science