Department of History

Personal Statement:

Academic fields of Interest: 20th Century US history, space history. History of Science and science education. Cold War history. Currently researching NASA’s role in science education in the Spacemobile program and its influence on domestic and international policy, 1960s to 2010s. 

Writing Department TA Instructor, 2022/2023

Center for Cold War Studies, 2022 Fellow.  

Summer 2019, and Winter, Spring and Summer 2020 RA for What Every1 Says, We1s, A 4Humanities Project.  Website Here.

Selected Publications:

“Petite Engineer Likes Math, Music” in NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement. Edited by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring. University of Florida Press. (2019) 

Courses Taught:

Reader for History 166C: United States in the Twentieth Century (The Sixties)

Discussion Labs for History 2A World History

Discussion Labs for History 2C World History

Discussion Labs for History 4B Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Discussion Labs for History 4C Modern Europe

Discussion Labs for History 5 History of the Present

Discussion Labs for History 7 Great Issues in the History of Public Policy

Discussion Labs for History 17A The American People, 1492 – 1837

Discussion Labs for History 17C The American People – WWI to Present

Discussion Labs for History W2A

TA Instructor for Writing 2

 

Awards & Professional Activities:

Awards: 

American Institute of Physics, Grant-in-Aid, 2022. Spacemobile research.

Conference Presentations:

Spacemobile: NASA’s Entrance into American Science Education.  History of Education Society’s Annual Meeting, Nov. 4-7, 2021. San Diego, CA

Spacemobile: NASA as a Science Educator and Popularizer. Science History Institute, https://www.sciencehistory.org/conferences/pedagogy-popularization-and-the-public-understanding-of-science. Oct. 23, 2020. My talk starts at 5:31:03 here.

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement. Edited by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring. University of Florida Press (2019) received the 2019 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award from the American Astronautical Society. Announcement found here.

American Historical Association – Member

History of Education Society – Member

History of Science Society – Member

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