About Me

I am a museum professional, having worked in various capacities at the Yager Museum of Art & Culture since 2016. I received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2013, and since then, have worked at the public library and Museum in Hartlepool, as an archaeologist for Parks Canada, and for the Department of Consultation and Accommodation at the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.

At the Yager Museum, my role as Curator is to facilitate access and engagement between the Museum and the various and diverse publics that the Museum serves, including Hartwick College students, faculty and staff, the people of Oneonta and central New York, and the North American Indigenous communities whose material culture currently resides here. I also lecture in Hartwick’s Museum Studies program, in collections management and material culture.

More generally, I am interested in horror and speculative fiction, material culture, politics, and 20th century popular music. My blog occasionally discusses these issues, but mostly I use it as a form of weeknotes, which allows me to keep a log of what I’m working on and what I’m interested in.

I currently reside in Oneonta, New York, on the ancestral land of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.