EDUCATION

University of Florida                                                                                                        
Ph.D.  in American History, 2017           
Major Fields: Florida, Cold War, Environmental, and American Urban History               

George Mason University                                       
M.A. in History, 2003

Florida Atlantic University                                     
B.A. in Humanities/Minor in Film and Video Studies, 1999  

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Instructor of History, 2006-Present                             
Polk State College—Lakeland Campus

Adjunct Instructor of History, 2014-Present                              
University of Tampa

PUBLICATIONS

“The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Phosphate Rock: The 1974 Political Controversy Over Florida          
Phosphate Shipments to the Soviet Union,” The Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94:4, 
(Spring 2016): 637-667.

“Making it Different: Teaching Early American History Honors at a Community College,”                     
Perspectives: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association,” Volume 49:3,
(March 2011): 23-24.

“The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Modern Florida Landmark: A History of Tampa’s Floridan Hotel,”     
Tampa Bay History, Volume 23, (2009): 1-29.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Patrick Riordan Memorial Research Fellowship Award in Florida Studies,                   
The University of South Florida Libraries’ Florida Studies Center, Tampa, FL, 2015

Polk State College Banking Endowed Teaching Chair Award, 2011                       

National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks Workshop Grant,          
“Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town,” 
The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, 2011

National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks Workshop Grant,                    
“History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War,”
The East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, 2010

Winner of the Leland Hawes Graduate Essay Prize in Florida History,                    
Awarded by the Tampa Bay History Center and the
University of South Florida Libraries’ Florida Studies Center, 2009

National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks Workshop Grant,                     
“Concord, Massachusetts: Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century,”
Community College Humanities Association, Concord, MA, 2009

National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks Workshop Grant,                     
“Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia’s Place in Early America,” 
The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, PA, 2008

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Interview about the article “The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Phosphate Rock: The 1974 Political           
Controversy Over Florida Phosphate Shipments to the Soviet Union,” for the
Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast Series, Episode 29: Spring 2016 https://fhqpodcast.cah.ucf.edu/Ep29Spring2016.mp3

“Tampa’s Urbanized, Suburbanized, and Romanticized Waterway: Polluting, Preserving,            
and Processing the Hillsborough River in the 1960s and 1970s,” paper presentation, 
Florida Conference of Historians, (Orlando, FL), 2016 

“Lingering Smoke, Laboring Women, and Latin Identities: Marketable ‘Latinness’ and the                      
 Making of Tampa’s Interindustrial Economy After World War II,”
 Patrick Riordan Memorial Research Award Presentation, 2016,(Tampa, FL)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAOYl-y9BCg

“Cuba: The Tolerated Nation-State as a Microtopian Reality,” paper presentation,                 
 Society for Utopian Studies Conference, (Pittsburgh, PA), 2015

“Tampa Tabaquero Labor Radicalism Revived: Cold War Tampa Cigar Production,                            
the Cuban Embargo, and the 1962 Corral-Wodiska Strike,” paper presentation, 
Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting and Symposium, (St. Augustine, FL), 2015

“The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Phosphate Rock: The 1974 Political Controversy over                          
Florida Phosphate Shipments to the Soviet Union,” paper presentation, 
Florida Conference of Historians, (Lakeland, FL), 2015

"Making a Steampunk Utopia a Material Reality: Tampa, New Orleans, and the Interindustrial Space,"     
paper presentation, Society for Utopian Studies Conference, (Charleston, SC), 2013

“Citizen Statecraft: The Organizing Principle of Postmodern History/Humanities Courses,”                    
pedagogical presentation, National Collegiate Honors Conference, 2013, (New Orleans, LA), 

COURSES TAUGHT

United States History to 1877
United States History since 1877
World History to 1500
World History since 1500
Florida History
Contemporary Humanities
United States History to 1877 Honors
United States History since 1877 Honors
World History since 1500 Honors
Honors Independent Study Course

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

Humanities Department Coordinator, 2009-2014                               
Polk State College—Lakeland Campus

Honors Program Director, 2008-2013                                       
Polk State College—Lakeland Campus

PROFESSIONAL, COLLEGE COMMITTEE, AND PUBLIC SERVICE

Co-Managing Editor of the Sunland Tribune, 2016-Present
Tampa Historical Society Board Member, 2016-Present           
Polk State Honors Program Scholarship Committee, 2008-Present
Polk State Academic Quality Control Committee, 2011-2015
United Way Campus Coordinating Committee Chair, 2012-2014
Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship Committee, 2009-2013
City of Tampa Historic Preservation Commission board member, 2006-2010
Polk State College Social Sciences General Education Committee, 2006-2007