OUTREACH

“Formats of the Performing Arts,” a living reference resource that provides a historical overview of the most common formats for documenting performing arts history and collates significant collections of each format; created as a final project for LIS 488: Technology for Information Professionals (December 2025)

“An Introduction to Archives,” guest presentation for Integrative Seminar 1, Parsons School of Design (October 28, 2025)

“Teaching with Realia,” for “Keeping It: Realia in Research Collections” panel, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Conference: “A Multitude of Stories,” New Haven, Connecticut (June 2025)

INTERPRETIVE WORK

“Archiving Programs,” Theatre Things: Material Theories and Histories, edited by Eero Laine and Andrew Friedman, University of Michigan Press (forthcoming; manuscript available by request)

“LGBTQ+ Experiences and Nineteenth Century Theatre” and “Cross-Dressing on the Nineteenth Century Stage” (video interviews), Nineteenth Century Stage: Industry, Performance and Celebrity, Adam Matthew Digital (February 2025)

“The Hollywood Musical” Omeka exhibit. The final project for Eng 392a/FLME 321a at DePauw University, this digital exhibition brings together materials from over 125 years of theatre & film history to illustrate how the evolving form of the musical created utopian worlds through which characters and spectators could channel their social aspirations. Students wrote the item labels and section labels, while I wrote the introductory label and created the website. A collaboration with the Harry Ransom Center's Instructional Services department. (Fall 2023)

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

“Queering the Archives,” an ongoing collaboration between DePauw University Archives and Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies to acquire documentation of LGBT life at DePauw; first oral history panel with alumni conducted May 2025 [LibGuide available here]

ARCHIVAL PROCESSING

Howard Stoner Course Materials Collection, 1994-2017, University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University (Summer 2018)

Columbia LGBT Records, 1961-1990 [1967-1989], University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University (Summer 2017)

Theater Scrapbooks Collection, 1891-1949, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University (Summer 2016)