Executive Director & Curator, Maria Howard Weeden House Museum and Garden, Huntsville, AL, 2013
Assistant Curator & Registrar, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, 2011 to 2013
Exhibitions Assistant, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC, 2010
Education Intern, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, 2008 to 2009
Education Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, 2008
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Dissertation Workshop: Carved into Flesh: Sailors, Scrimshaw, and Tattoos, 1820-1860,” Department of History Graduate Student Association Conference, Florida International University, Miami, FL, April 3, 2020.
"Archiving in the Moment of Black Lives Matter: Creating Archival Collections at the City of Miami Black Police Precinct and the Historic Hampton House." Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Miami Beach, FL, June 6, 2018.
“‘You’re FIRED!’: The Dismissal of Abolitionist Minister Samuel Joseph May.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 6, 2018.
“Beyond the Surface: Early 19th Century Liverpool and Staffordshire Ceramics as Archives.” Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Nuremberg, Germany, May 28, 2017.
“The ‘Gentle’ Rabble-Rouser: Samuel Joseph May, The Radical Abolitionist Minister Who Threatened the Union.”Early American Republic Graduate Student Conference, City University of New York, New York, NY, May 12, 2017.
“The Sons and Daughters of Columbia in Early Republican Material Culture.” International Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History, University of Texas in Arlington, Arlington, TX, October 20, 2016.
“Going to War, Going to be a Son of Columbia: The Quest for Manhood and the Pursuit of an Honorable and Noble Citizenry in Early American Print Culture.” Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Miami Beach, FL, June 9, 2016.
“Invoking Columbia: Representation, Revolution, and Republican Motherhood in Late Eighteenth-Century American Iconography.” Department of History Graduate Student Association Conference, Florida International University, Miami, FL, April 1, 2016.
“Reimagining Bradford: Adding the Feminist Perspective into Museum Tours.” Women, Sexuality, & Gender Student Association Conference, Florida International University, Miami, FL, October 23, 2015.
DEPARTMENT PANELS
"Surviving Comprehensive Exams," Department of History, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2019.
"Public History Career Paths," Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2019.
"Museum Careers," Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2017.
"Career Paths for History Majors," Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2016.
AWARDS
2024
Nominated for Woman of the Year, Upper Keys Business and Professional Women
2020
Research Assistantship, Florida International University and Miami-Dade Military Museum
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab Assistantship, Florida International University
2019
Doctoral Evidence Acquisition (DEA) Fellowship, Florida International University
Darden Pyron American Cultural History Fellowship, Florida International University
Melon Grant for Underrepresented Groups: Conference Registration, OAH Annual Meeting
Mellon Grant for Underrepresented Groups: Conference Travel Grant, OAH Annual Meeting
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
2018
Graduate & Professional Student Committee Travel Grant, Florida International University
Summer Institute Tuition Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
2017
Summer Institute Travel Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy
Summer Institute Tuition Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
2016
Summer Institute Tuition Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
2015
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
Best Thesis Award, Department of History, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Outstanding Graduate Achievement: Best Thesis, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2014
History Academic Scholarship, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2013
History Academic Scholarship, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Military Spouse Scholarship, MyCAA and the Department of Defense
Museum Studies Tuition Scholarship, George Washington University
2012
Military Spouse Scholarship, MyCAA and the Department of Defense
Museum Studies Tuition Scholarship, George Washington University
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2022
Florida Keys History & Discovery Center, Islamorada, FL
“Carlos Guzman: Where the Sea Retreats"
"History Harvest: Indian Key, A Community Scrapbook"
"The Study of Water"
2020
Miami-Dade Military Museum, Miami, FL
"Women in Service"
2018
Historic Hampton House, Miami, FL
"Social Center of the South: The Past and Present of the Historic Hampton House"
2015
King Caesar House Museum, Duxbury, MA
"Re-imagining Bradford: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Bradford House Museum"
2014
Drew Archives, Duxbury, MA
"Asian Export Art: Maps from the Achieves"
"Artifacts: The 1634 Brewster Homestead Archaeology Dig"
King Caesar House Museum, Duxbury, MA
"Christmas at King Caesar House"
"Oriental Ornamental: Asian Export Art"
"Shawls, Robes, & Kimonos: Export Silks"
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
"6:30 am, Robert Weingarten"
"A Legacy of Change: Native American Art"
"California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way"
"Figuring the Abstract in Indian Art"
"FreePort [No. 007]: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot"
"Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion"
"Impressionists on the Water"
"Yin Yu Tang: Lunar New Year"
2013
Weeden House, Huntsville, AL
Interior and Exterior Restorations
"Maria Howard Weeden Gallery"
"Slaves Quarters"
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
"Collection Highlights: African American Artists"
"Connections: Gary Chapman and Carolyn Sherer"
“Gala Art Exhibit, 2013”
“Huntsville Photographic Society Showcase”
"Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color"
"Look at the Collection: People, Places, and Things"
"Psychedelic Mania: Stephen Rolfe Powell’s Dance with Glass"
"Rebels Without a Cause: American Impressionist Women"
"Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock and Roll Photography"
“YAM: Youth Art Month, 2013”
2012
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
"Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware"
"Collection Highlights: African American Artists"
"Collection Highlights: New Acquisitions"
"Encounters: John Donovan"
"Encounters: Sloane Bibb"
“Gala Art Exhibit, 2012”
“Huntsville Photographic Society Showcase”
"In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows"
"Objects of Devotion and Divine Masterpieces: Medieval Sculpture and Renaissance Paintings"
"Red Clay Survey: Contemporary Southeast Art"
“YAM: Youth Art Month, 2012”
2011
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
"Blood, Thread & Tears: World War II Quilts"
"Connections: Marilyn Murphy & Bob Trotman"
"Edward Weston: Leaves of Green"
"Fast, Loose, and Out of Control: Bobby Allison and the Alabama Gang"
"Future Retro: Drawings from the Great Age of American Automobiles"
"Herb Ritts: Celebrity and Fashion"
"Sense of Place: Plein Air of the Southeast"
2010
Fayetteville Art Museum, Fayetteville, NC
"Salvador Dali: 500 Years Dante's Divine Comedy,"
"Salvador Dali: Alice in Wonderland"
2008
Cummer Museum & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
"Scalpel to Sketch: The Science and Beauty of Medical Illustrations at Mayo Clinic"
"Women of Vision: Ten Years of Art Beyond Sight"
DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
Collection Digitization, Key Largo Anglers Club, North Key Largo, FL 2022 - Present
Collection Digitization, Florida Keys History & Discovery Center, Islamorada, FL 2022
“Vanishing Languages: The Intersections of Art and Public History,” Florida International University and the Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, Spring 2017
“Cycling the Gables: Online Bike Tour of Coral Gables,” Florida International University and the Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL, Summer 2016
Collection Digitization, Weeden House Museum & Garden, Huntsville, AL 2013
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Operating Systems: Mac OSX and Windows
Museum Software: CatalogIt; PastPerfect; The Museum System (TMS), Museum Plus, Argus, FileMaker Pro, and Microsoft Excel
Photo Editing: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Additional Skills: Acquisitions and deacquisitions, authenticating items, cataloging, collection development, conducting tours, conservation preventative maintenance, creating educational materials associated with collections, cultivating donor relationships, developing and designing exhibitions, developing budgets and funding proposals, developing interpretive materials, educational programming, fundraising and grant writing, preparing press releases and marketing materials, public speaking, and soliciting acquisitions
