ohio field school program, Ohio state university (2016-2021)
I co-created the Ohio Field School, an integrated service-learning course, archival collection, and collaborative ethnographic initiative, with Dr. Katherine Borland at the Ohio State University.
Major contributions:
Co-created a community-focused and responsive organizational structure, which included the creation of an OSU Advisory Committee (comprised primarily of Ohio Field School alumni) and Community Partner Advisory Committee (comprised of diverse partners).
Co-authored donor proposals and grant proposals, raising over $300,000 to jumpstart and sustain the project from 2016-2021.
Co-created and co-taught the Ohio Field School course (5189-S) at Ohio State University (2017, 2018, 2018, 2021) and served as Archival Liaison (2020, 2021).
Created and managed the Ohio Field School Collection, an archival database and finding aid that reflects five years of collaborative and team-based fieldwork. Managed the distribution and access of materials and coordinated local access points for the collection in Scioto County.
Oversaw the creation of several digital galleries, student-produced public-facing multimedia projects.
Oversaw the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit and worked with community partners at Shawnee State University to make the Ohio Field School Collection available online through Digital Commons@Shawnee and co-led Placemaking 2.0: Place-Based Curriculum with Susan Eleuterio (Independent Folklorist and Educational Specialist), a repurposing of the Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit for K-12 curriculum during the pandemic.
Co-authored The Ohio Field School: A Collaborative Model for University-Community Research with Dr. Katherine Borland and Dr. Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth (open access).
Co-authored the ASCENT Magazine feature story on the Ohio Field School.
Appalachian Water Research exchange, ohio state university (2020-2021)
As a co-PI for the Appalachian Water Research Exchange (AWaRE), an interdisciplinary team of scholars and community partners engaged in community-based participatory water quality research and action, I provide input on equitable strategies for university-community collaborations. This project is funded by a seed grant from the Sustainability Institute at Ohio State University.
humanities advisory positions
From 2020 - 2021, I served as a member of the Living Traditions Network and co-coordinated a working group focused on Innovation and Sustainability, a working group led by the National Council on the Traditional Arts, with Lisa Rathje.
From 2019-2020, I served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Central Appalachian Folk & Traditional Arts Survey conducted by Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN) and Mid Atlantic Arts.
In summer of 2019, I served as the Humanities Advisor for A Secret History of American River People, an oral history project supported by the Ohio Humanities Council. My primary tasks were to provide input on the project grant drafts, serve as fiscal sponsor, and supply local contacts.
In 2018, I served as a member of the Succession Committee for the American Folklore Society as they searched for their new Executive Director.