Director of Public Projects, and Research Assistant Professor, Center for History and New Media, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, October 2007 to present.

Associate Director of Education Projects, and Research Assistant Professor, Center for History and New Media, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, August 2004 to October 2007.

Major Projects:
•    Co-Director, National History Education Clearinghouse, <teachinghistory.org>. NHEC is a central place for information on history education.  The site includes access to history content on the web, best practices in teaching history, a discussion of relevant policy and research matters, information about work going on in Department of Education Teaching American History grants, and a gateway to professional development opportunities for teachers.
•    Co-Director, Omeka, <omeka.org>. Omeka is a the free and open-source software that provides museums, historical societies, libraries and individuals with an easy to use platform for publishing collections and creating attractive, standards-based, interoperable online exhibits.  Omeka is designed to satisfy the needs of cultural institutions that lack technical staffs and large budgets.   Bringing Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to small museum, historical society, and library websites, Omeka fosters the kind of user interaction and participation that is central the mission of those cultural institutions.
•    Director, Historical Thinking Matters, <historicalthinkingmatters.org>. HTM provides high school students with a framework that teaches them to read documents like historians. Using these "habits of mind," they will be able to interrogate historical sources and use them to form reasoned conclusions about the past. Equally important, they will become critical users of the vast historical archives on the web. Historical Thinking Matters equips students to navigate the uncharted waters of the World Wide Web.
•    Director, Object of History: Behind the Scenes with the Curators of the National Museum of American History, <objectofhistory.org>. Object of History is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media. The project was conceived of in an effort to find a low cost way for students and teacher of U.S. History to have access to the museum’s collections and the expertise of the curators. As a result the materials on the site are designed to improve students’ content knowledge of standard topics in U.S. History and to improve their ability to understand material culture objects as types of historical evidence.
•    Director, Bracero History Archive, <braceroarchive.org>.  The Bracero History Archive is an effort to collect, aggregate and make publicly available the documents and oral histories of the Bracero guest worker program between the United States and Mexico (1942-1964).  The major content partners on the project are the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Brown University.
•    Director, Martha Washington: A Life, <marthawashington.us>.  This public history project brings together archival research and material culture from the Mt. Vernon Estates and Gardens to present a biographical narrative of the nation’s first First Lady.  The site will also include an extensive archive, and a number of teaching modules that focus on key objects and themes from the narrative. (To launch in Spring 2009.)
•    Associate Director, World History Matters, <chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorymatters/>.  WHM is a portal to world history on the web that offers direct access to two projects—World History Sources and Women in World History—that provide resources to help world history teachers and students locate, analyze, and learn from primary sources and further their understanding of the complex nature of world history, especially issues of cultural contact and globalization.

Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies Program, Georgetown University, January 2006 to Present.

•    University of Minnesota, Ph.D., American Studies Department, August 2004.
•    Georgetown University, A.B., Program in American Studies, May 1997, Magna Cum Laude.  Minor in Theology.

•    “Bodies in Politics: U.S. Catholics and Eugenics, 1910-1945,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, November 4, 2005.
•     “’The Folly of Human Sterilization’: Catholic Action Regarding Eugenics in the 1930s,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA, November 22, 2003.
•    Roundtable participant, “Religion and the American Studies Classroom,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, November 15, 2002.
•    “Tension Not Unlike that Produced by a Mixed Marriage: Catholic Reflections on Interracial Marriage and Anti-Miscegenation Statutes, 1920-1950,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 10, 2001.
•    “Before Casti connubii: Early Catholic Responses to the Eugenics Movement in the United States,” guest lecture, American Catholic Studies Seminar, The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, April 6, 2000.
•    “Before Casti connubii: Early Catholic Responses to the Eugenics Movement in the United States,” American Society of Church History/American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 9, 2000.
•    “’Promoting Wise Marriages’: Paul Popenoe, Eugenics and Marriage Guides for Men in the 1920s,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, CA, October 29, 1999.
•    “Marriage, Race, and Nation: Popular Eugenics in the 1920s,” Thirty-Fourth Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, MN, October 8, 1999.
•    “Electronic American Studies: The Jesuit Plantation Project at Georgetown University,” panelist, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, October 31, 1996.

•    “Omeka: Cost Effective Web Publishing for Museums in a Web 2.0 World,” Museum Computing Network – Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, February 25, 2009.
•    “Omeka and Object of History: National Leadership Projects,” Museum Computing Network Conference, Washington DC, November 14, 2008.
•    “Slowing Down, Talking Back, and Moving Forward: Some Reflections on Digital Storytelling in the Humanities,” Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, 7:2 (2008) 220-223.
•    Daisy Martin, Sam Wineburg, Roy Rosenzweig, and Sharon Leon, “Historicalthinkingmatters.org: Using the Web to Teach Historical Thinking,” Social Education 72:3 (May 2008) 140-144,
•    “National History Education Clearinghouse: A Central Place of Information on History Education,” Poster Session, National Council for History Education Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, April 4, 2008.
•    Panelist, “Learning to Teach: History Education for the Twenty-First Century,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 5, 2008.
•    “Omeka: Exhibiting Collections Online in the Age of Web 2.0” Webwise Conference, Miami, FL, March 6, 2008.
•    “National History Education Clearinghouse: An Introduction for the Directors’ Plenary Session,” Teaching American History Grant Project Directors’ Meeting, New Orleans, LA, October 19, 2008.
•     “Omeka and Object of History: National Leadership Projects,” Museum Computing Network Conference, Chicago, IL, November 7, 2006.
•    Chair and commentator, “Learning Technologies and Cultural Critique: Digital Storytelling in American Studies,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 13, 2007.
•    “Locating and Evaluating Online Primary Sources,” and “Analyzing Online Primary Sources,” seminar presentations for the Loudoun County Public Schools Teaching American History Grant, 2007-2008 Summer Instititutes.
•    “Omeka: Exhibiting Collections Online in the Era of Web 2.0,” at the Smithsonian Affiliations National Conference, Washington DC, June 5, 2007.
•    “Object of History: Teaching with Material Culture,” at the Smithsonian Material Culture Forum, Washington DC, January 8, 2007.
•    “Object of History: Teaching High School American History with Artifacts” Poster Session, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 6, 2007.
•    “The Object of History,” Museum Computing Nework Conference, Pasadena, CA, November 11, 2006.
•    “Historical Thinking Matters,” Gifted Education Communicator, 37:3 (Fall 2006): 20-25.
•    Chair, “Putting it all Together: Developing Curriculum Modules for the Internet,” a Center for History and New Media Panel at the American Historical Association, January 7, 2006.
•    “Interviews with Exemplary History Teachers: Nancy A. Hewitt,” The History Teacher 38:4 (May 2005): 1-14.
•    “Locating and Evaluating Online Primary Sources,” seminar presentations for Alexandria City Public Schools Teaching American History Grant, Fairfax County Teaching American History Grant, and Fauquier County Consortium Teaching American History Grant (2004-2005).
•    “Analyzing Online Primary Sources,” seminar presentations for Alexandria City Public Schools Teaching American History Grant, Fairfax County Teaching American History Grant, and Fauquier County Consortium Teaching American History Grant (2004-2005).

•    Research Assistant Professor, History Department, George Mason University, August 2004 to Present.  History of American Religion after 1865, Graduate Seminar (H615); Directed Readings in 20th Century American Women’s Religious History.
•    Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies Department, Georgetown University, January 2006 to Present.  American Civilization III and IV (Amst 205 and 207). Senior Thesis Advisor, 2008 to Present.
•    Instructor, American Studies Department, University of Minnesota, September 2000 to June 2001, and September 2003 to December 2003. American Popular Arts and Public Life (Amst 1001-2). 
•    Instructor, English Department, University of Minnesota, September 1999 to June 2000.  University Reading and Writing with an Emphasis on Citizenship and Public Ethics (EngC 1014).
•    Teaching Assistant, American Studies Department, University of Minnesota, September 1998-June 2004. Courses including Introduction to American Studies (Amst 1001-3), Senior Seminar (Amst 3301-2), Politics and American Popular Art, 1945 to the Present (Amst 3253), and Gender, Sexuality and Politics in American Culture (Amst 4014).