Curriculum Vitae
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Conference Papers
American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Nashville, TN; November 2016Getting Lost in the Digital Woods: Filling the Gaps in the Indigenous History of the Kanawha Valley
American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, New Orleans, LA; September 2013
From Monyton Onqyayun to Hunting Ground: Indigenous land-use in the Kanawha-New River Valley 1650-1750
West Virginia Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, Charleston, WV; November 2012
A Snowball’s Chance: GIS Climate Modeling in Ethnohistorical Research
Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Johnstown, PA; October 2011
Attacking the Hunting Ground Myth: Pennsylvanian Indians and the Kanawha-New River Valley During the Seven Years’ War
American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Ottawa, ON, Canada; October 2010
“We have found Mohetan Indians”: Placing Ohio Siouans in a Seventeenth Century Context
West Virginia Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, Moundsville, WV; October 2010
“We have found Mohetan Indians”: Placing Ohio Siouans in a Seventeenth Century Context
Senator Rush Holt History Conference, Morgantown, WV; April 2009
Cultural Theater: Indigenous experiences at Jamestown (1607-1622) and Sydney (1788-1800)
American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Eugene, OR; November2008
At a Crossroads: Place and Dispersal in the Middle Ohio Valley, 1640-1700
Ohio Valley History Conference, Clarksville, TN; October 2008
The Monyton Diaspora: Native Americans in the Middle Ohio Valley, 1640-1695
Senator Rush Holt History Conference, Morgantown, W; April 2007
Fighting to Hang On: Monyton Warfare in the Ohio Valley, 1640-1695
Invited Presentations
Featured Speaker, Native American Heritage Program, WVU Native American Studies Program, Morgantown, WV; November 2015“To Abandon so Beautiful a Dwelling” 7 Myths of Native Americans in West Virginia.
Lecture and Film series, Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex, Moundsville, WV; February 2013
A Snowball’s Chance: Climatic Effects on Native Americans during the Protohistoric, 1530-1760.
Allegheny Chapter, Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology Monthly Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA; May 2010
“To abandon so beautiful a Dwelling”: Indian Connections to the Middle Ohio River Valley, 1640-1754
WVU Native American Studies Colloquium, Morgantown, WV; March 2010
“To abandon so beautiful a Dwelling”: Indian Connections to the Middle Ohio River Valley, 1640-1754
Surveyors Historical Society Rendezvous 2009, Cowen, WV; September 2009
Moundbuilders to Monytons: Native Peoples of the Middle Ohio River Valley, 1500-1700
Who Speaks for the Dead: Kin, Science, the Law?, Morgantown, WV; February 2009
Indigenous Issues in West Virginia
Preservation Alliance of West Virginia Conference, Oak Hill, WV; November 2008
Co-Presenter: The Road Ahead: Incorporating GIS into the Preservation Toolbox
Posters
WVU Research Horizons Day Poster Session, Morgantown, WV; March 2013Getting Lost in the Digital Woods: GIS Exploration of the Native American Role in the Batts and Fallam Expedition, 1671
WVU Research Horizons Day Poster Session, Morgantown, WV; April 2010
“To abandon so beautiful a Dwelling”: Indian Connections to the Middle Ohio River Valley, 1640-1754
WVU Research Horizons Day Poster Session, Morgantown, WV; March 2009
Cultural Theater: Indigenous experiences at Jamestown (1607-1622) and Sydney (1788-1800)
WVU Research Horizons Day Poster Session, Morgantown, WV; March 2008
West Virginia Native American Geographic Information System, Historical Analysis of Census Figures, 1790-2000
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
Fellowships
Chester and Jane Higby Fellowship; August 2010-May 2011WVU Eberly College Doctoral Student Research Program Award; May-August 2010
WVU Department of History Dissertation Research Fellowship; May-August 2010
Chitwood Fellowship; August 2007-May 2010
Travel Grants
Travel to ASE Conference New Orleans; September 2013WVU, Office of Academic Affairs Doctoral Student Travel Grant, $300
WVU, Eberly College Of Arts And Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant, $150
WVU, History Department Travel Grant, $250
Travel to ASE Conference Ottawa; October 2010
WVU, Office of Academic Affairs Doctoral Student Travel Grant, $200
WVU, Eberly College Of Arts And Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant, $300
WVU, History Department Travel Grant, $250
Travel to ASE Conference Eugene; November 2008
WVU, Office of Academic Affairs Doctoral Student Travel Grant, $300
WVU, Eberly College Of Arts And Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant, $500
Travel to Ohio Valley History Conference TN; October 2008
WVU, History Department Travel Grant, $200
SERVICE
Co-Organizer, EdCamp CWV, Charleston, WV, (http://edcampcwv.weebly.com), 2016 World Music Instructor, Charleston Montessori Art Colony Pre-K and Elementary camps, 2016 Artist of Public Mural, "Appalachian Cathedral," Charleston, WV, 2016 Involved in Promoting WV Native Tribal Recognition Legislation, WV HB2121 with Native Americans in WV, 2014-2015Co-Artist of Public Historical Mural, “150,” Charleston, WV; 2013
Keynotes Presenter at Bethany College/West Liberty University/Wheeling Jesuit University Phi Alpha Theta Induction, Wheeling, WV; 2010
Eighteenth Century Indian Trader Living History Exhibition at Surveyors Historical Society Rendezvous 2009; Cowen, WV; 2009
E-Campus Training at GTA Training Seminar, Morgantown, WV; 2009
Assisted Public History Job Search, Morgantown, WV; 2009
Assisted Latin American History Job Search, Morgantown, WV; 2008
WVU Organization for Native American Interests (ONAI), Morgantown, WV; 2000-2002