Digital History Projects and Digital Storytelling
The Fire Next Door: Mapping Violent Confrontations at the Edge of Campus and Community
This StoryMap, developed from my research, explores and maps collective violence on U.S. college campuses from the 1930s to the 1970s. It uncovers overlooked incidents of campus unrest that escalated into violence, revealing their connections to local community concerns and struggles.
Mapping an Urban Protest Movement: The “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” Job Campaign and Boycott
This is an interactive digital map detailing the protest movement and job campaign that occurred in 30 U.S. cities between 1929 and 1941, known as the “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” movement. The map allows viewers to focus specifically on the communities and areas where these protests took place.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
Harlem’s Soapbox Revolution
This digital history project reveals that soapbox orators, also known as stepladder speakers, were central to Harlem’s political culture between World War I and the Civil Rights Era (1910s to 1960s).
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH/ PROJECTS
- Collaborative Digital History,
Link: Putting Women in Their Place, Female Placemaking in 20th Century Leesburg, Virginia, - Research in Progress,
Through the lens of a NYC wartime housing community, this research examines how the convergence of World War II federal housing policy, defense labor demands, and recruitment efforts contested the racial boundaries of urban space. - Ethnomedicine- Project and Survey,
Stanford Medicine Geriatrics Program