Graduate Student Directory
- Title
- PhD Candidate
- Graduate Student Instructor
- Writing Center Tutor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Office Location
- Merrill College Faculty Office Annex, Room 101B
- Office Hours Mondays, 12:00-1:00pm
- Mail Stop History Department
- Courses HIS 139J Britain Made Digital: A History of the Nation and Its Empire; HIS 167A First World War; Merrill 1: Reading Ourselves, Reading the World
Research Interests
- Modern British History
- History of the First World War
- Gender History
- History of the Emotions
- History of Nursing
Biography, Education and Training
Degrees:
- B.A., History Magna Cum Laude, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2018
- M.A., History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2020
- P.h.D., History, University of California, Santa Cruz, in progress (advanced to candidacy September 2021)
Professional Development:
- Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, Winter 2021 to Spring 2021
- Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) Course Design and Delivery Certificate Program, Spring 2023 to Summer 2023
Honors, Awards and Grants
Grants:
- Regents' Fellowship, Fall 2018
- Grad Humanities Fellowship, Spring 2019
- Irvine Memorial Fellowship, Spring 2019
- History Department Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2020
- Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, Winter 2021 to Spring 2021
- The Humanities Institute (THI) Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2021
- History Department Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2021
- CITL Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, Winter 2021-Fall 2021
- History Department Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship, Summer 2022
- The Humanities Institute (THI) Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2023
- History Department Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship, Summer 2023, Summer 2024
- Coordinating Council for Women Historians (CCWH) Berkshire Conference Graduate Student Award, 2023
Selected Presentations
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS) Annual Meeting, Spring 2023
- Presented excerpt from dissertation chapter titled "'My poor little boy, Kerr': Nursing Long-Term Patients at the Front" on panel titled "Disease and Authority"
UCSC Division of Graduate Studies' Graduate Research Symposium, Spring 2022
- Awarded "Best of the Humanities Division" for presentation on Master's essay research titled, "'Indeed, it isn't fighting': Poison Gas in the Eyes of a First World War Nurse"
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Winter 2021
- Poster presentation on Master's essay
North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, Fall 2020
- Presented Master's essay research as part of a panel titled, "Technology and Discontent in the British World"
Teaching Interests
Interested Topics:
- Modern European History
- Modern British History
- First World War
- Gender History
- History of the Emotions
- Nursing History
Teaching experience:
- HIS 167A: The First World War
- Merrill 1: Reading Ourselves, Reading the World
- HIS 139J: Britain Made Digital: A History of the Nation and Its Empire
- History Graduate Proseminar: Teaching Pedagogy
TA experience:
- Modern European History, 1500-1815
- The Holocaust
- Modern European History, 1815- Present
- Pyramids and Papyrus: The History of Ancient Egypt
- Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present
- Medical and Scientific Terminology
- Modern Britain and the British Empire
- The First World War
- The World Since 1500
- Historical Skills and Methods