Thanks for visiting my website. Here you'll discover the sorts of projects and activities I undertake as a professional historian. I've over twenty years' experience in historical research and editing, university teaching, and museum exhibition creation. My specialties include: American material culture, consumption, and everyday life American photography, especially 19th-century commercial photography American 19th- and 20th-century social and cultural history Public history, cultural heritage, and museum studies American women's history Connecticut Western Reserve studies and the New Local History Please feel free to review my curriculum vitae and other pages on this website to see my work. Check the Blog page (the most recent posts appearing below) to read about the various projects I'm researching, writing, fuming over, and thoroughly enjoying. I also post there news of books and articles, events and exhibitions, collections and historic sites. I blog, occasionally, on American material culture. You may read entries (mainly postings on calls for papers and conferences at the moment) here: Object Lessons: A Blog About (Mostly) American Material Culture. I helped to establish and currently serve, voluntarily, as the historian for the Vienna Historical Society, Vienna, Trumbull County, Ohio. Please check out the Society's website to discover what a group of dedicated community members can do to preserve the past in a small town. What research I've undertaken for and with the Society is reported there. You may also be interested in Viennapedia, a wiki-form encyclopedia on Vienna's history, initiated in March 2012. The banner image is based on a postcard taken of Vienna Center, Trumbull County, Ohio, in the early decades of the twentieth century. Vienna is my hometown. |
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