Associate Professor, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, August 2013 to present.

Director of Public Projects, Roy Rosenzweig 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, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, August 2004 to October 2007.

•    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.

•    “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).

•    “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.

•    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).