Courses

QUALITATIVE METHODS
  • Research Design: Qualitative research design and grant proposal writing
  • Qualitative Methods: Qualitative methods, specifically interviewing, focus groups, coding, and document review 
  • Applied Project Management: Addressed project management in a variety of settings, with emphasis on the skills and vocabulary to design and manage large projects
  • "Making Research Matter:" Course centered on oral science communication and translating research for non-researcher publics
  • Public Writing: Course centered on written science communication and translating research for non-researcher publics
  • Public History: Course on the study and practice of public history and public education
  • Oral History: Methodological course on conducting, analyzing, and studying oral histories
SUBJECT-MATTER EXPERTISE & GEOGRAPHY
  • Political Ecology: Intersections between ecological, social, and economic processes
  • Geographic Thought: History of geography as a discipline
  • Communicating Geography: Geographic sub-fields
  • Geographic Materialisms: Authenticity studies, material culture, and infrastructure
  • Bodies, Territory, and the Future: Feminist geography, land, and youth
  • Agrarian Studies: Land, labor, and agrarian studies
  • Ontological Politics: Design and construction of political and experiential worlds; resource management
COMMUNICATION STUDIES: 
  • Performance & History: Performance studies, memory, and history
  • Rhetoric of Public Memory: Memory studies
  • Culture & Identity: Relationships between culture, identity, and place

Selected Course Products

​​Introduction to Public History, Spring 2020 - Final project
I created a dynamic web presentation to share my MA research findings with an audience of public history practitioners. Using photographs and examples from Historic Stagville near Durham, NC, I highlight the possibilities for public engagement and inclusive interpretation through incorporating landscape change over time into public tours and materials. View my work at ​https://spark.adobe.com/page/4tWHdNVALgMYZ/

Geographic Materialisms, Fall 2018 - Class project
A souvenir Civil War battlefields map enables me to think through aesthetic constructions of authenticity in landscape and geographies of heritage. I argue that material engagement with history is fundamental to performing specific American identities, with consequences for American futures.
View my work and explore the full class project at http://therealtracesofspaces.web.unc.edu/civil-war-battlefield-map-1861-1865/