Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience: Historic House Museums

Education & Communications Manager (2003-2011)
Merchant's House Museum

Tour Guide (1998-2001)
Read House & Gardens, Delaware Historical Society

Volunteer Tour Guide & Camp Counsellor (1994-1999)
Rockwood Museum

Design Experience: Web & Print

Principal (2002-Present)
Dandelion Media

Webmaster (2006-Present)
Merchant's House Museum

Presentations: Fashion History

Guest Lecturer on 19th-Century Plain Sewing
New York University, Steinhart School, October 2011

Hand-Sewing Workshop (co-teacher)
Trade School, April 2011

Hand-Sewing Workshop (co-teacher)
King Manor Museum, September 2010

Hand-Sewing Workshop (co-teacher)
The Old Stone House of Brooklyn, April 2010

Exhibitions Curated

"In the Spirit: Modern Photographers Channel the 19th Century"
Merchant's House Museum, September-November 2011
Featuring works by Sally Mann, John Dugdale, Hal Hirshorn, and RA Friedman, with historic photographs from Thomas Harris and The Burns Archive.

"New York's Civil War Soldiers: Photographs of R. B. Bontecou, Words of Walt Whitman"
Merchant's House Museum, April-August 2011
In collaboration with The Burns Archive and the release of Shooting Soldiers by Dr. Stanley B. Burns.

"Memento Mori: The Birth & Resurrection of Postmortem Photography"
Merchant's House Museum, September-November 2010
In collaboration with The Burns Archive and the release of Sleeping Beauty III: The Children by Dr. Stanley B. Burns, featuring works by Sally Mann, Joel Peter Witkin, Hal Hirshorn, Marian St. Laurent, and Sarah Lohman.
As featured in The New York Times Style Blog.

Events Produced

"CINCHED: Historic Corsets & Modern Corsetiers"
Co-produced under the auspices of the Ninteenth Century Society, November 2011

"From Parlor to Grave: an 1865 Funeral Reenactment"
Merchant's House Museum & New York City Marble Cemetry, October 2006-2011
As featured by Bill Cunningham in The New York Times.

"19th-Century Pub Crawl"
Co-produced under the auspices of the Ninteenth Century Society, 2009-2010

Affiliations

Founding Member (2009-Present)
Nineteenth Century Society

Individual Member (2011-Present)
Costume Society of America

Institutional Member (2006-2011)
New York City Museum Educators Roundtable