Selected Publications:

 

Dating Jane: Domesticity, Death, and Photography in a Nineteenth Century Portrait.  Self-published, Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse, Washington, DC, (2013). 

 

“Worth the WAIT: Engaging Social Studies Students with Art in a Digital Age.”  Spring 2009 edition of Social Education, National Council for the Social Studies. 

 

“A Frontier of Fear: Terrorism and Social Tension along Virginia’s Western Waters, 1742 – 1775.”  West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, Fall 2008, Volume 2, No. 2.

 

“The WAIT is Over: Launching the Web-Based Art Interactive Tool,” The 2nd International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics, and Informatics Proceedings, Volume 1 (Orlando, FL: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2008).

 

Published review of The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley, by Warren Hofstra, in The Smithfield Review historical journal. (2007).

 

Published an essay titled “Fear on the Frontier in 18th Century Virginia: Reflections of Fear along Virginia’s Western Waters” in the History Museum & Historical Society of Western Virginia Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 2 (2006).

 

Published an article titled "Ritualized Warfare" for the on-line U.S. military history encyclopedia United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society, by ABC-CLIO. (2005).

Published an essay titled "A Man, A Family, A Discussion: Using Copley's Art in the Classroom"  in the on-line early American History journal Common-Place.  (Vol. 4, No. 4, July, 2004)

Published a chapter titled "The Transformation of a Frontier Political Culture: Blacksburg's Early Political Experience, 1745-1870" in A Special Place for 200 Years: A History of Blacksburg Virginia. (1998).

 

Published an essay titled "Ties to External Markets: Imports and Exports in the New River Valley, 1745-1789" in The Smithfield Review historical journal. (1998).

Published an essay titled “The Exile Theory: an Incomplete Answer," in the Phi Alpha Theta journal, The Old Dominion University Historical Review.  (1996).

 

Published an essay titled “Life in the New River Valley, 1745-1783: The Emergence of a Social Hierarchy," in the Phi Alpha Theta journal, The Old Dominion University Historical Review.  (1995).

 

Master's Thesis titled "Economic Interdependence along a Colonial Frontier: Capitalism and the New River Valley, 1745-1789." (1996).

 

Professional Presentations:

 

“Bringing a Soul to Business,” October 2014, TEDx Charlottesville Open Mic Night, Charlottesville, Virginia. 

 

“Using a Scaffold to Assess Student Progress,” 2014 Copenhaver Institute, Roanoke College. 

 

 “Using Game Theory to Increase Sales,” CUNA Operations, Sales, and Service Council Annual Conference, Hollywood, CA, 2013.

 

“At the Crossroads of Life, Death, and Memorial: Linton Park and the National Cemetery Movement,” 47th Annual Virginia Council for the Social Studies Conference, Williamsburg, VA, 2012. 

 

“Making it all come Together: The Art of Differentiation,” 2012 Copenhaver Institute, Roanoke College. 

 

“Domesticity or Death?: Uncovering the Hidden Meaning of a 19th Century Portrait,” 2010 Virginia Council of the Social Studies Annual Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia. 

 

“Domesticity, Death, and Photography: Revisiting the Art of Lilly Martin Spencer through the Exploration of a Newly Discovered Postmortem Portrait,” 2010 Southeastern College Art Conference Annual Conference, Richmond, Virginia.

 

Served on a panel of educators at the, June, 2010 Copenhaver Institute, Roanoke College, in which I shared information about REED-LO, a scaffold I designed that assists users interpret works of art.

 

“The Art of Finance: Using the Fine Arts to Teach Economics and Personal Finance,” 2010 Virginia Credit Union League Boot Camp for Financial Educators.

 

 “Using Visual Thinking Strategies in the Gallery.”  March, 2009.  Presented at and facilitated a three hour workshop at the 2009 Virginia Association of Museum’s Annual Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia. 

 

“No Need to WAIT for Feedback: A Review of the Web-Based Art Interactive Tool after one Year.”  December, 2008.  Presented information about the first year of use of the WAIT tool I designed at the Educational Technology Leadership Conference in Roanoke, Virginia. 

 

“The WAIT is Over: Launching the Web-Based Art Tool.”  June, 2008.  Presented information about WAIT at the 6th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications, Orlando, Florida. 

 

“No Need to WAIT for Fieldtrips.”  May, 2008.  Presented information about the Web-based Art Interactive Tool at the bi-annual Docent Symposium, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia. 

 

“Web-Based Art Interactive Tool,” February, 2008.  Co-presented with professor Gary Sarkozi, Virginia Commonwealth University, information about visual literacy and an internet tool I designed to instructors and technology supervisors at the Technology in Education in Virginia 22nd Annual State Technology Conference.   

 

“No Need to WAIT for Fieldtrips: Museum Education in the 21st Century.”  December, 2007.  Presented information about an Internet tool I designed to technology instructors and general educators from across the state of Virginia at the annual Educational Technology Leadership Conference. 

 

“Using Web-based Technology to Improve Student Writing.”  October, 2007.  Presented information about using the fine arts and technology to improve student writing performance to English teachers at the annual Virginia Association of Teachers of English in Dulles, Virginia. 

 

“Technology General Session,” Southeastern Museums Conference Annual Meeting and Resource Expo, Little Rock, Arkansas, October, 2007.  Presented information about the Web-based Art Interactive Tool (WAIT) that I designed as part of the key note address for the Southeastern Museums Conference Annual Meeting and Resource Expo. 

 

“Making Your Museum’s Website Matter,” Southeastern Museums Conference Annual Meeting and Resource Expo, Little Rock, Arkansas, October, 2007.  Served as a panelist during this workshop in which I discussed with participants ways to best utilize museum websites in order to provide sound and effective instructional opportunities.

 

“The Use of the Web-based Art Interactive Tool in the Classroom,” July, 2007.  Presented an Internet tool I designed to educators attending the Margaret Sue Copenhaver Institute for Teaching and Learning at Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia. 

 

“The Greatest Sin of All: Machiavelli’s Murder of God,” March, 2007.  Presented a paper exploring Santi di Tito’s portrait of Machiavelli and possible relationships that exist between The Prince and the Book of Exodus at the 34th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium at Sewanee University, Sewanee, Tennessee. 

 

“The Age of Chivalry: Simulating the Medieval Period in the World History Classroom,” October, 2006.  Presented a simulation I designed that teachers can use to explore the medieval period with their students for the Virginia Council for the Social Studies annual conference in Richmond, Virginia. 

 

“Approaching World History Metaphorically: Moving from Regions to Webbing,” October, 2006.  Presented material examining how to approach world history as a web of human interaction as opposed to the traditional regional approach for the annual Virginia Geographic Alliance Southwest Regional Conference held at Mountain Lake, Virginia.

 

“Google Earth in the Classroom: Integrating Primary Sources with Technology in a Manner that is Practical and Academically Sound,” October, 2006.  Presented material related to using Google Earth and primary sources with students in order to examine 16th and 17th century English colonial efforts in the New World for the annual Virginia Geographic Alliance Southwest Regional conference held at Mountain Lake, Virginia.

 

“Virginia’s Western Waters and the Atlantic World Economy: Economic Interdependence Along the Virginia Backcountry and Beyond,” September, 2006.  Presented material related to the economic forces at work along Virginia’s colonial frontier in Bristol, Virginia, for the region’s Teaching American History Grant annual teacher conference. 

 

“Settling Along Western Waters: A Simulation for Virginia Studies Teachers,” July, 2006.  Presented simulation to Montgomery County elementary school teachers participating in a summer institute at Virginia Tech sponsored through a Teaching American History Grant.  The institute was administered by Virginia Tech.

 

“The French and Indian War along Virginia’s Western Waters,” January, 2006.  Presented paper for the Roanoke Historical Society’s and Blue Ridge Public Television’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Seven Years’ War and national release of The War that Made America on PBS.

 

"High Admiral of the Sea!: A Simulation for 3rd Grade Teachers," November, 2005. Presented a simulation I designed for third grade Virginia social studies teachers at the Virginia Council for the Social Studies Conference in Roanoke, Virginia.
 

"A Frontier of Fear: Tracing the Historical Roots of the Bush Doctrine," November, 2005. Presented paper at the Virginia Council for the Social Studies Conference in Roanoke, Virginia.

"The Prince and the Murder of God: Machiavelli and Italian Salvation," November, 2005. Presented paper at the Virginia Council for the Social Studies Conference in Roanoke, Virginia.

 

"A Frontier of Fear: Terrorism and the Origins of the Patriot Movement along Virginia's Western Waters," March, 2005. Presented paper at the Rush Holt History Conference, sponsored by West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.

 

"Settling Along Western Waters," October, 2004. Presented a simulation I designed for educators teaching Virginia Studies in Virginia at the Virginia Council for the Social Studies annual conference in Norfolk, Virginia.

"Civil War Gender Transgressions: The Daughters of the Confederacy as the Female Warrior Bold," September, 2004. Presented paper for the Montgomery County Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.

"The Prince as Lorenzo Medici's Burning Bush: Machiavelli's Break with the Ancients and His Call for Italian Salvation," September, 2003. Paper presented at the Central Renaissance Conference, sponsored by the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

 

"The Art at Smithfield: Reflections of Enlightenment and Romanticism," October, 2002. Paper presented at Smithfield Plantation, Blacksburg, Virginia, for the Association of the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

In August, 1999, presented material related to interdisciplinary, team-teaching strategies to a group of educators attending a week long institute at Harvard University.