POSITIONS
Northeastern University, 2016 –
Assistant Professor, History Department
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, 2016-2017
Visiting Scholar
Rutgers University, 2015-2016
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, History Department
EDUCATION
Stanford University, 2009-2015
Ph.D. in American History
The Postal West: Spatial Integration and the American West, 1865-1902
Committee: Richard White, Zephyr Frank, Caroline Winterer
Pomona College, 2004-2008
B.A. in History, minor in Religious Studies
Advisors: Helena Wall, Samuel Yamashita
PUBLICATIONS
Gossamer Network: The U.S. Post and State Power in the American West (book manuscript in progress)
“Digital History’s Perpetual Future Tense,” in Debates in Digital Humanities 2016, Matthew K. Gold and Lauren Klein, eds. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016). [online]
Cameron Blevins and Lincoln Mullen, “Jane, John . . . Leslie? A Historical Method for Algorithmic Gender Prediction,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9.3 (2015). [online]
“Space, Nation, and the Triumph of Region: A View of the World from Houston,” Journal of American History, 101, no. 1 (June 2014), 122-147. [online][color pdf]
“‘Owned by Negro Venture’: Land and Liberty in the Life of Venture Smith,” in James Stewart, ed., Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010), 129-159. [WorldCat] [GoogleBooks]
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
“Space and State Power,” on panel, “Reinterpreting the Nineteenth-Century State: Digital History’s Intervention” Organization of American Historians, April 2018
“What Gets Lost: Spatial History’s Disciplinary Shores,” Creating Spatial Historical Knowledge, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., October 2016
“Data Literacy for Historians,” invited workshop for AHA Career Diversity for Historians, University of New Mexico, February 2016
“Trickles and Torrents: Mapping the Female Consumer Revolution of the 1890s,” on panel, “Gendered Spaces of Western Commerce,” Western History Association, October 2015
“Fracture or Continuum?,” on panel, “Authoring Digital Scholarship for History: Challenges and Opportunities” American Historical Association, January 2015
“Mapping the American West through the U.S. Post,” on panel, “The Place and Space of the Post,” Social Science History Association, November 2014
“Opening up the Dissertation,” on panel, “The Future of Graduate Education: The Digitally Informed Dissertation,” American Historical Association, January 2014
“Bodies in Motion: Women, Mobility, and the Overland Trail,” on panel, “Merchants, Emigrants, and Vacationers: Transplanting Gender from East to West,” Western History Association Conference, October 2013
“Digital Diaries, Digital Tools: A Comparative Approach to Eighteenth-Century Women’s History,” Women’s History in the Digital World, March 2013
“A Geography of Nineteenth-Century English and American Fiction,” on panel “A Place for Text and Narrative in Humanities GIS I,” Social Science History Association, November 2012
“Slave Narratives in Space: Mapping the World of Venture Smith,” on panel “Networks, Maps, and Words: Digital Humanities Approaches to the Archive of American Slavery,” Modern Language Association Convention, January 2012
“Topic Modeling Historical Sources,” Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, June 2011
“Mining the Diary of Martha Ballard,” Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians (Poster Session), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, June 2011
“A Midwife’s Tale in the Digital Age: Text Mining the Diary of Martha Ballard,” Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria, June 2010
“Combating Modern Slavery in the Digital Age,” Abolishing Slavery Then And Now, New York City, June 2008
Keynote Address, “Land And Liberty in the Life of Venture Smith,” Documenting Venture Smith Conference, Haddam, CT, October 2007
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Invited Participant, Arguing With Digital History, George Mason University, September 2017
Thomas D. Dee II Graduate Fellowship, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University, 2014-2015
Centennial Award for Graduate Teaching, Stanford University, 2014
Selected Participant, Western History Dissertation Workshop, University of Washington, May 2014
Invited Participant, Sorting the Digital Humanities Out, Umeå University, December 2013
Research Grant, Graduate Research Opportunity Fund, Stanford University, 2013
Fellowship, NEH Advanced Institute for Spatial Narratives and Deep Mapping, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, June 2012
Prize for Excellence in First-Time Teaching, Stanford History Department, 2010-2011
Research Grant, Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities (Stanford University), Summer 2010
Selected Participant, Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, University of Virginia, May 2010
Phi Beta Kappa, Pomona College, May 2008
History Scholar Finalist, Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, June 2007
Undergraduate Research Grant, Hart Institute for American History, Pomona College, Summer 2006
REVIEWS
Project Review, The Programming Historian, in The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, December 2015. [online]
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reviewer, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2015-present
Reviewer, Environmental History, 2017
Reviewer, History Compass, 2015
Reviewer, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2011-2012
Workshop Coordinator, Visualizing Complexity and Uncertainty, Stanford Humanities Center, 2011-2012
Coordinator, U.S. History Workshop, Stanford History Department, 2011-2012
Graduate Representative, Stanford History Department, 2010-2011
Co-organizer, Tooling Up for Digital Humanities, Stanford University, 2010-2011
Organizing Committee, THATCamp Bay Area, 2010
TEACHING
Instructor, Digital Space and Place (graduate), Northeastern University, Spring 2018 [course site]
Instructor, History of the Western U.S., Northeastern University, Spring 2018 [course site]
Instructor, History and Trump, Northeastern University, Fall 2017 [course site]
Instructor, Mapping the Past: A Spatial History of the United States, Rutgers University, Spring 2016 [course site]
Graduate Peer Teaching Mentor, Stanford History Department, 2013-2014
Instructor, The Digital Historian’s Toolkit: Studying the West in an Age of Big Data, Stanford University, Autumn Quarter 2012 [course site]
Teaching Assistant, Global Human Geography (Martin Lewis), Stanford University, Winter Quarter 2012
Co-Instructor, Tooling Up for Digital Humanities, Stanford University, Spring Quarter 2011 [course site]
Teaching Assistant, Nineteenth-Century America (James Campbell), Stanford University, Winter Quarter 2011
Teaching Assistant, Colonial and Revolutionary North America (Caroline Winterer), Stanford University, Autumn Quarter 2010
Updated: 12/3/2017