Master of Science in Library and Information Science University of Illinois – expected graduation December 2017

Primary Concentration: Academic Librarianship and Special Collections

Master of Arts in History, May 2016 Northeastern Illinois University - Chicago, Illinois

Primary Concentration: Late 19th and early 20th Century American History with a focus on Memory and Identity

Bachelor of Arts in History, December 2011 ortheastern Illinois University – Chicago, Illinois

Primary Concentration: Late 19th and early 20th Century American History with a focus on Reconstruction, Redemption and Jim Crow

Research Interests: Historical Memory and the formation of Modern American Identities • American Historiography • Social aspects of the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars

Additional Areas of Study: East Asian History (China and Japan) •19th and 20th Century Latin American History • Modern Middle Eastern History • African-American History • Chicago History • Native American History (Great Lakes) • American Labor and Working Class History