My research interests focus on U.S. Civil War memory and Union veterans as well as U.S. women's history during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Ph.D., M.A., Purdue University
Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
Purdue University Promoting Research Opportunities to Maximize Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (PROMISE) Award
National Council for Black Studies, Second Place, Graduate Student Essay Contest
Purdue University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Graduate Minor Certificate
Wisconsin Veterans Museum Travel Grant, Madison, Wisconsin
State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grant, Iowa City & Des Moines, Iowa
Purdue University, Department of History Woodman Graduate Research Travel Grant
Fellowships
Filson Historical Society Fellowship, Louisville, Kentucky