Bio

I am passionate about developing innovative and inclusive learning experiences. I have extensive experience designing and leading face-to-face, hybrid, and online learning experiences as well as in faculty development. 

I would love the opportunity to discuss learning design, instructional design, and faculty development roles for your company or university. You can contact me using the email icon above.

Please scroll down to explore my resume and portfolio examples (grouped in the three categories below). You can also browse all of my resource collection using the Resources section. 

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor of History with tenure, University of Central Missouri (began working at UCM in 2010)

• Historical Consultant, Intercultural Training Associates, 2008-10

• Intern and Independent Researcher, History Office, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 2007-08

• Editorial Assistant, Journal of Southern History, 2004-05

Selected Leadership Experience

• Lead Faculty for Inquiry and Analysis SLO Rubric, UCM General Education Program, 2022-present

• Developing calls for proposals and scheduling participants and events for multiple conferences, ranging from 100 on-site in-person attendees up to 900 virtual global participants: SIDLIT, Accessibility Summer Camp, and UCM Faculty Senate Teaching and Research Conference, 2016-present

• Chair, General Education Program Inquiry and Analysis Rubric Workgroup, Faculty Senate Assessment Committee, 2021-22

• Instructional Design Liaison (faculty development and instructional design support position) for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 2018-2021

• History Program Coordinator, 2016-18

Education & Certifications

• Ph.D. in History (2010), M.A. in History (2006), Rice University

• B.A. History, Wake Forest University

• A.A. Frederick Community College (Maryland)

• Assistive Technology Certificate (Assistive Technology Specialist), California State University, Northridge (2021)

• Accessibility Continuing Education (3 courses), Wichita State University (2018-2021)

• Project Management for Instructional Designers, Online Learning Consortium (2019)

• Instructional Designer Certificate, Online Learning Consortium (2018)

• EDUC 6406 Instructional Design, Educational Leadership and Technology Program, George Washington University (2016)

• Quality Matters Peer Reviewer (since 2014) and Master Reviewer (since 2016)

Selected Awards and Honors

• 2022 Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UCM

• Summer Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath, 2021

• CARES Act Grant for Accessibility Professional Development at CSUN, 2021

• UCM University Assessment Award, 2019

• Nominee for the Innovation in Teaching Award, Colleague-2-Colleague (Midwest instructional design association), 2016

• UCM Honors College Faculty Fellow, 2011-12

Selected Presentations & Publications

• Invited presentation: "How to Learn: A Student Support Module for Any Classroom," UCM Digital Learning and Instructional Innovation, March 2023.

• Conference presentation: "Immersive Empathy: Exploring the Lives of Civil War Americans" as part of the panel "The Experiential Civil War: A Pedagogy Roundtable," Missouri Conference on History, March 2023.

• Peer-reviewed chapter: "Revisioning Accessibility in Higher Education Post COVID-19," in Shalin Hai-Jew, ed., Handbook of Research on Revisioning and Reconstructing Higher Education After Global Crises (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023).

• Textbook: Robynn Kuhlmann and Jessica Cannon, Show Me Missouri Politics: A Guidebook to the Missouri Constitution. 2nd ed. (Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2022).

• Invited workshops: "Aligning Your Course Assignments with the Gen Ed Rubrics" (March 2022), and "General Education Assessment Rubric Development" (Oct. 2021), for the UCM Office of Assessment.

• Article: "Averting Enrollment Disaster: Recruiting and Retaining Majors in a Digital Environment," C2C Digital Magazine (fall 2020/winter 2021).

• Websites (faculty development): CAHSS Instructional Resources and its various sub-pages for UCM College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 2020-21.

• Article: "Increasing Student-to-Student Engagement: Applying Conrad and Donaldson's 'Phases of Engagement' in the Online Classroom," C2C Digital Magazine, (fall 2019/winter, 2020).

• Organized and led over a dozen faculty development workshops for the College of Education and College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UCM (example), 2019-2021.

• Invited presentation: "Beyond the Battlefield: Antietam's Impact on America," Civil War Roundtable of the Ozarks, Springfield, MO, Nov. 2019.

• Organized and facilitated Pedagogy Chat Series, 2018.

• Filmed, edited, and produced the video "On the Trail of History: The Battle of Antietam," 2017.

• Article: "Augmented Reality Course Projects Make History Come Alive," C2C Digital Magazine, (spring/summer 2016).

• Conference presentation: "Capitalizing on the War: Baltimore's Economic Boom, Maryland's Wartime Bust," Society for Civil War Historians, June 2014.

• Invited keynote address: "Antietam at 150: Memory and Meanings through Time," 30th Anniversary Honors Student Association Celebration, Frederick Community College, Sept. 2012.

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