PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
I have worked as a professor, museum curator, and historian. Below is a short overview of my recent experience and historical works.
EMPLOYMENT
NASA History Office Historian/Abacus Technology, 2024-Present
Tampa Bay History Center Saunders Foundation Curator of Public History, 2018-2024
RECENT HISTORICAL WORKS
A Technological History of Florida: From Sails to Spacecraft (University Press of Florida, 2026)
“The Fight to Fund AgRISTARS” (NASA History News and Notes, Summer 2025)
“The Space Between: Mesoscale Lightning Observations and Weather Forecasting, 1965–82” (NASA History News and Notes, Spring 2025)
“The 1998 Florida Firestorm and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center” (NASA website, June 22, 2024)
“Florida Front and Center: Objects that Define Florida,” online museum exhibition (Tampa Bay History Center, 2024)
“Cuban Pathways,” museum exhibition (Tampa Bay History Center, 2022)
“Tampa’s Multi-Purposed Waterway: An Environmental History of the Hillsborough River, 1950-1980,” Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 97: 2 (Winter 2018): 191-220.
“The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Phosphate Rock: The 1974 Political Controversy Over Florida Phosphate Shipments to the Soviet Union,” Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94:4 (Spring 2016): 637-667.
EDUCATION