projects

• I recently translated into English many parts of the University of Zurich’s Ad fontes project, an online introduction to working with sources in archives. The translated sections include the interface for the digital Cappelli (a widely used dictionary of abbreviations found in medieval manuscripts).

• Since 2015, I’ve been working with a friend and Americanist colleague on the history of medieval European architecture transported to the U.S. in the 20th century. We’ve visted about a dozen archives and traveled around the country to figure out how and why a few Americans undertook these massive feats of transportation. We wrote about some of our research for Atlas Obscura. We’ve also given several conference papers on the topic.

• As a contributing editor at the Blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas, editorial fellow at the Council for European Studies’ journal EuropeNow, project associate for the American Historical Association-affiliated History in Action program, and editorial fellow (again) at Columbia University Press, I have generated a lot of content. At each, I conducted interviews (e.g. this interview on the rise of populism with Sheri Berman & this interview on food history for the AHA blog), commissioned essays (e.g. this essay on medieval violence), and wrote my own pieces (e.g. this post about nuns labeling their relics for the JHIBlog). At Columbia University Press, I coordinated daily blog coverage for Women in Translation Month (August) and National Translation Month (September) in 2019.

• I am particularly proud of having put together “High Stakes History: The Many Conversations of the Historian,” a two-day conference about what history and historical training contributes to public life. My co-organizer and I invited 23 presenters to be on seven panels. The conference also featured roundtables, a career fair with representatives from many New York-area institutions, and a keynote by Jill Lepore.