Portfolio

This is my home page for the class History and New Media, also know as History 697. According to the syllabus, this class is an "an applied course in digital history that explores the adaptation of history to a digital environment. Although the central goal of the course is development of an original, digital history project of professional quality,beach the course will also examine 'best practices' in digital history, the problems and possibilities inherent in digital history, and issues in information, and aesthetic design. In end, the course will take a look at what interactivity and games might bring to digital history. In other words, we will begin by thinking (and writing) about good history and then proceed to learning the tools and techniques to bring history into digital form." So far, I have leard much about web design and, as you follow the progression of assignments on the side-bar, hopefully my progress will be evident. The page you are reading now is my first attempt at a home page and is officially my "CSS assignment," or first assignment for the class. My "Final Project" should be far superior in design and lay out. So consider this page a bench-mark. Enjoy the visit, and don't forget to write!

About me: I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in American history at George Mason University. My academic interests include early colonial sailingAmerica and also American memory (the study of how and why America remembers its past as well as what it remembers and forgets. And, yes, postcards are one way America and Americans remember). My research focuses on the epidemiology of colonial America, specifically the history and spread of diseases and how diseases challenged, stressed and ultimately influenced the social and political fabric of the time.

I am a senior research administrator at the Biostatistics Center of The George Washington University and am also an adjunct professor of American History at Northern Virginia Community College, teaching American History 121. Before moving to the Washington D.C. area, I was assistant director of the Reading Public Museum in Reading, PA. I hold a BS in Business Administration from Albright College and an MA in American History from George Mason University.