I am a PhD candidate in the Geography Department at Florida State University. My interests are in interdisciplinary approaches. I combine methods from across the sciences and humanities to extract scientific data from historical documents. My current project is “The Historical Climatology of the Southeastern United States.” I lead a ten person research team that is extracting environmental data from handwritten documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Materials Grant 2019 ($1000)
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Materials Grant 2019 ($250)
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program 2018-19 (Nine research assistants for one year)
Alternative Textbook Grant ($1,000)
FSU Graduate School 2017-2018 Dissertation Research Grant ($1,000)
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Materials Grant 2018 ($250)
Robert B. Bradley Library Research Grant ($7,866)
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program 2017-18 (Three research assistants for one year)
Plantation Book to Database: Reconstructing the Environment and Climate of the Civil War from the Shirley Plantation Papers, Society for Military History Conference, 2018
Extracting quantitative data from historical records, South East Division of the Association of American Geographers Regional Conference, 2018
Historical Temperature Reconstruction Using Phenological Observations, American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting, 2017
Historical Data Wrangling: Southern Farms Study, 1860, American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting, 2016
Land Use and Slave Labor in the U.S. South, 1859, South East Division of the Association of American Geographers Regional Conference, 2016
Morality, Slavery, and Efficiency: Divorcing Abolitionist thought from Classical Liberal Economic Assumptions, Antislavery Usable Past Postgraduate Research Network International Confrence, October 2015
Components of Slavery, Graduate Student Conference, UGA 2015
The Firebombing of Dresden, Southern British Historical Association 2013
Minister Takes Rook, Northern Great Plains conference 2012
Human Geography
Physical Geography
Environmental Science
Map Analysis
Biogeography