Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Doctorate of Philosophy in History, Florida International University
Dissertation: “Beyond the Surface: Columbia, Material Culture, and the Consumption of Early American Nationalism, 1790-1865.”
Advisor: Kirsten Wood
Committee: Jessica Adler, Jenna Gibbs, and Martha Schoolman
Masters in Arts in History, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Thesis: “Invoking America: Representation, Revolution, and Republican Motherhood in Eighteenth-Century American Iconography.”
Advisor: Christine Sears
Committee: John Kvach and Stephen Waring
Graduate Certificate in Museum Collections Management & Preservation Care, George Washington University
Bachelors in Arts in History and Art History, University of North Florida
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Relationship Bank, First Horizon Bank, Islamorada, FL 2024 to Present
Historic Preservation Specialist, Historic Preservation Commission, Islamorada, FL 2023 to Present
Historian & Museum Consultant, Megan Scallan Consulting, Islamorada, FL 2021 to Present
Archivist & Digital Collections Manager, Key Largo Anglers Club, North Key Largo FL 2022 to 2023
Curator & Program Manager, Florida Keys History & Discovery Center, Islamorada FL 2022
Graduate Assistant, Florida International University, Miami, FL 2015 to 2020
Teaching Assistant
Research Assistant
Writing Tutor
Curatorial Research Assistant, Miami-Dade Military Museum, Miami, FL 2020
Community Data Curator, The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, Florida International University, Miami, FL 2020
Curator & Museum Educator, Historic Hampton House, Miami, FL 2017 to 2018
Collections Manager & Archivist, Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum, Miami, FL 2016
Curator & Collections Manager, Duxbury Rural & Historical Society, Duxbury, MA 2014 to 2015
Collections Specialist, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2014
Executive Director & Curator, Maria Howard Weeden House Museum and Garden, Huntsville, AL 2013
Assistant Curator & Registrar, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL 2011 to 2013
Exhibitions Assistant, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC 2010
Museum Educator, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL 2008 to 2009
Museum Educator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL 2008
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES & LICENSES
Branch Manager Certificate, American Banking Association, December 2024
Supervisor/Team Leader Certificate, American Banking Association, December 2024
Business & Commercial Lending Certificate, American Banking Association, November 2024
Communication Skills, American Banking Association, September 2024
Customer Service Skills, American Banking Association, September 2024
Universal Banker Certificate, American Banking Association, September 2024
Customer Service Representative Certificate, American Banking Association, August 2024
Small Business Banker Certificate, American Banking Association, July 2024
Notary Public Commission, State of Florida, June 2024
Women’s Guide to Financial Wellness, TransAmerica, January 2024
NMLS Licensing, March 2024
Women’s Entrepreneurship Certificate, Cornell University, July 2023
AWARDS & HONORS
2024
Above & Beyond: Most Professional Development Hours, First Horizon Bank
Nominated for Woman of the Year, Upper Keys Business and Professional Women (BPW)
2023
Tuition Scholarship, Bank of America Institute for Women Entrepreneurship, Cornell University
2020
Research Assistantship, Florida International University and Miami-Dade Military Museum
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab Assistantship, Florida International University
2019
Doctoral Evidence Acquisition (DEA) Fellowship, Florida International University
Darden Pyron American Cultural History Fellowship, Florida International University
Melon Grant for Underrepresented Groups: Conference Registration, OAH Annual Meeting
Mellon Grant for Underrepresented Groups: Conference Travel Grant, OAH Annual Meeting
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
2018
Graduate & Professional Student Committee Travel Grant, Florida International University
Summer Institute Tuition Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
2017
Summer Institute Travel Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy
Summer Institute Tuition Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
2016
Summer Institute Tuition Grant, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie Academy
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
2015
Teaching Assistantship, Florida International University
Best Thesis Award, Department of History, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Outstanding Graduate Achievement: Best Thesis, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2014
History Academic Scholarship, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2013
History Academic Scholarship, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Military Spouse Scholarship, MyCAA and the Department of Defense
Museum Studies Tuition Scholarship, George Washington University
2012
Military Spouse Scholarship, MyCAA and the Department of Defense
Museum Studies Tuition Scholarship, George Washington University
Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2008
Museum Studies Graduate Assistantship, Seton Hall University
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Board Member, Florida State Parks 2022 – 2023
Committee Member, EMPOWER YOU, Business and Professional Women (BPW) – Upper Keys 2025 – Present
Committee Member, Historic Preservation Commission for the Village of Islamorada, Islamorada, FL 2023 – Present
Committee Member, Scholarship Committee, Business and Professional Women (BPW) – Upper Keys 2025 - Present
Member, Alliance & Allies, First Horizon 2024 – Present
Member, American Alliance of Museums 2008 – Present
Member, American Banking Association 2024 – Present
Member, American Historical Association 2015 – Present
Member, Black Inclusion Guild (BIG), First Horizon 2024 – Present
Member, Chamber of Commerce – Islamorada, FL 2022 – Present
Member, Chamber of Commerce – Key Largo, FL 2022 – Present
Member, Neurological Diversity Awareness, First Horizon 2024 – Present
Member, Organization of American Historians 2015 – Present
Member, Women's Initiative South Florida, First Horizon 2024 – Present
Volunteer, Florida Keys Children’s Shelter 2026 – Present
Volunteer, Florida State Parks 2022 – Present
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Dissertation Workshop: Carved into Flesh: Sailors, Scrimshaw, and Tattoos, 1820-1860,” Department of History Graduate Student Association Conference, Florida International University, Miami, FL, April 3, 2020.
"Archiving in the Moment of Black Lives Matter: Creating Archival Collections at the City of Miami Black Police Precinct and the Historic Hampton House." Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Miami Beach, FL, June 6, 2018.
“‘You’re FIRED!’: The Dismissal of Abolitionist Minister Samuel Joseph May.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 6, 2018.
“Beyond the Surface: Early 19th Century Liverpool and Staffordshire Ceramics as Archives.” Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Nuremberg, Germany, May 28, 2017.
“The ‘Gentle’ Rabble-Rouser: Samuel Joseph May, The Radical Abolitionist Minister Who Threatened the Union.”Early American Republic Graduate Student Conference, City University of New York, New York, NY, May 12, 2017.
“The Sons and Daughters of Columbia in Early Republican Material Culture.” International Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History, University of Texas in Arlington, Arlington, TX, October 20, 2016.
“Going to War, Going to be a Son of Columbia: The Quest for Manhood and the Pursuit of an Honorable and Noble Citizenry in Early American Print Culture.” Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Miami Beach, FL, June 9, 2016.
“Invoking Columbia: Representation, Revolution, and Republican Motherhood in Late Eighteenth-Century American Iconography.” Department of History Graduate Student Association Conference, Florida International University, Miami, FL, April 1, 2016.
“Reimagining Bradford: Adding the Feminist Perspective into Museum Tours.” Women, Sexuality, & Gender Student Association Conference, Florida International University, Miami, FL, October 23, 2015.
DEPARTMENT PANELS
"Surviving Comprehensive Exams," Department of History, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2019.
"Public History Career Paths," Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2019.
"Museum Careers," Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2017.
"Career Paths for History Majors," Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2016.
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2022
Florida Keys History & Discovery Center, Islamorada, FL
“Carlos Guzman: Where the Sea Retreats"
"History Harvest: Indian Key, A Community Scrapbook"
"The Study of Water"
2020
Miami-Dade Military Museum, Miami, FL
"Women in Service"
2018
Historic Hampton House, Miami, FL
"Social Center of the South: The Past and Present of the Historic Hampton House"
2015
King Caesar House Museum, Duxbury, MA
"Re-imagining Bradford: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Bradford House Museum"
2014
Drew Archives, Duxbury, MA
"Asian Export Art: Maps from the Achieves"
"Artifacts: The 1634 Brewster Homestead Archaeology Dig"
King Caesar House Museum, Duxbury, MA
"Christmas at King Caesar House"
"Oriental Ornamental: Asian Export Art"
"Shawls, Robes, & Kimonos: Export Silks"
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
"6:30 am, Robert Weingarten"
"A Legacy of Change: Native American Art"
"California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way"
"Figuring the Abstract in Indian Art"
"FreePort [No. 007]: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot"
"Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion"
"Impressionists on the Water"
"Yin Yu Tang: Lunar New Year"
2013
Weeden House, Huntsville, AL
Interior and Exterior Restorations
"Maria Howard Weeden Gallery"
"Slaves Quarters"
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
"Collection Highlights: African American Artists"
"Connections: Gary Chapman and Carolyn Sherer"
“Gala Art Exhibit, 2013”
“Huntsville Photographic Society Showcase”
"Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color"
"Look at the Collection: People, Places, and Things"
"Psychedelic Mania: Stephen Rolfe Powell’s Dance with Glass"
"Rebels Without a Cause: American Impressionist Women"
"Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock and Roll Photography"
“YAM: Youth Art Month, 2013”
2012
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
"Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware"
"Collection Highlights: African American Artists"
"Collection Highlights: New Acquisitions"
"Encounters: John Donovan"
"Encounters: Sloane Bibb"
“Gala Art Exhibit, 2012”
“Huntsville Photographic Society Showcase”
"In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows"
"Objects of Devotion and Divine Masterpieces: Medieval Sculpture and Renaissance Paintings"
"Red Clay Survey: Contemporary Southeast Art"
“YAM: Youth Art Month, 2012”
2011
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
"Blood, Thread & Tears: World War II Quilts"
"Connections: Marilyn Murphy & Bob Trotman"
"Edward Weston: Leaves of Green"
"Fast, Loose, and Out of Control: Bobby Allison and the Alabama Gang"
"Future Retro: Drawings from the Great Age of American Automobiles"
"Herb Ritts: Celebrity and Fashion"
"Sense of Place: Plein Air of the Southeast"
2010
Fayetteville Art Museum, Fayetteville, NC
"Salvador Dali: 500 Years Dante's Divine Comedy,"
"Salvador Dali: Alice in Wonderland"
2008
Cummer Museum & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
"Scalpel to Sketch: The Science and Beauty of Medical Illustrations at Mayo Clinic"
"Women of Vision: Ten Years of Art Beyond Sight"
DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
Historical Photographs Collection, Key Largo Anglers Club, North Key Largo, FL, 2022 – 2023
History Harvest: Indian Key Memories, Florida Keys History & Discovery Center, Islamorada, FL, 2022
Permanent Collection Online, Florida Keys History & Discovery Center, Islamorada, FL, 2022
Women in Service, Miami Military Museum, Miami, FL, 2020
Alan Ket, Co-Founder of the Museum of Graffiti, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, Miami, FL, 2020
History Harvest: Brownsville Memories, Historic Hampton House, Miami, FL 2018
Vanishing Languages: The Intersections of Art and Public History, Florida International University and the Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, 2017
Cycling the Gables: Online Bike Tour of Coral Gables, Florida International University and the Coral Gables Museum, Miami, FL, 2016
Maria Howard Weeden: Poetry Brought to Life, Weeden House Museum, Huntsville, AL, 2013
Permanent Collection Online, Weeden House Museum, Huntsville, AL, 2013
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Operating Systems: Mac OSX and Windows
Museum Software: CatalogIt; PastPerfect; The Museum System (TMS), Museum Plus, Argus, FileMaker Pro, and Microsoft Excel
Photo Editing: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Additional Skills: Acquisitions and deacquisitions, authenticating items, cataloging, collection development, conducting tours, conservation preventative maintenance, creating educational materials associated with collections, cultivating donor relationships, developing and designing exhibitions, developing budgets and funding proposals, developing interpretive materials, educational programming, fundraising and grant writing, preparing press releases and marketing materials, public speaking, and soliciting acquisitions