Graduate Student Directory

Research Interests

• Modern British History
• History of the First World War
• Gender History
• History of the Emotions
• History of Nursing
• History of Medicine

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
• Peer Support Team Mentor for Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) Course Design and Delivery Certificate Program, Spring 2025 to Summer 2025

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
• History Department Disseration Quarter Sabbatical Fellowship, Winter 2024
• History Department Summer Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2024
• Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) Summer Graduate Student Instructor Peer Support Team Fellowship, Spring 2025 and Summer 2025
• The Humanities Institute (THI) Summer Public Fellowship, Summer 2025
• California Community College Internship Program Fellowship, Summer 2025 and 2025-2026 Academic Year
• Dissertation Quarter Fellowship 

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