Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. – Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, ABD, expected Spring 2024
M.A. – Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 2019
B.A. – History Major; English Minor, Southern Nazarene University, 2017
Certificates & Portfolios
2019 – Native American And Indigenous Studies Graduate Portfolio, University of Texas at Austin
2019 – Graduate Certificate in the Engaged & Public Humanities, Georgetown Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Appointments
2018-2019 – Social Media Manager, Department of History, the University of Texas at Austin
2019-2020 – Editorial Manager, Native American, and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Journal
2019 – Handbook of Texas Women Research Fellow
2019 – Graduate Research Assistant, Harvard University
2019-2020 – Graduate Associate Editor and Communications Director, Not Even Past
Publications
2019 – “We Think We Have Been in Slavery Long Enough”: Control, Coalitions, and the Power
of the Wampanoag Petition in Southern Massachusetts (1820-1845), Master’s Report
2021 – REVIEW of Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness edited
by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Andrea Smith (Duke University Press, 2020)
"E3W Review of Books. ‘Everyday Anarchy': Communities in Action during a Pandemic
of Unrest'" (Spring 2021)
Public Writing
2018 –“Cynthia Attaquin and a Wampanoag Network of Petitioners.” Not Even Past.
2018 – “Missing Signatures: The Archives at First Glance.” Not Even Past.
2018 – “Living In Good Relation with the Environment: A Syllabus of Radical Hope”. Radical Hope Syllabus: Inspiring Sustainability Transformations Through our Past.
2018 – “Authorship and Advocacy: The Native American Petitions Dataverse”. halperta.com/criticalarchives; Not Even Past.
2019 – “Native Literatures and Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Brief Historiography.” Not Even Past.
2020 – “Violence Against Black People in America: A ClioVis Timeline” Not Even Past.
2020 – “New Books in Native American and Indigenous Studies You Need to Read on Indigenous Peoples’ Day” Not Even Past.
2021 – "Resources For Teaching Black History" Not Even Past. (February 2021)
Podcast Episodes
2021 – Host, Episode 125: Environmental Justice and Indigenous History with guest, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, 15 Minute History Podcast
2021 – Host, Episode 126: Postwar Lesbian History, with Guest Lauren Jae Gutterman, 15 Minute History Podcast
2021 – Host, Episode 127: History of the US-Mexico Border Region, with guest C.J. Alvarez, 15 Minute History Podcast
2021 – Host, Episode 129: Slavery in the West, with guest Kevin Waite, 15 Minute History Podcast (Forthcoming, April 2021)
2021 – Host, Episode 130: Black Reconstruction in Indian Territory with guest Alaina Roberts, 15 Minute History Podcast ( April 2021)
Grants & Fellowships
2017- 2018 – McNair Fellowship
2019 – Native American and Indigenous Studies Summer 2019 Graduate Grant Award
2019 – Georgetown Humanities Ambassador Fellowship
2019 – 2019 National Society of the Colonial Dames of America District VI Scholarship in American History
2020 – Native American and Indigenous Studies Summer 2020 Graduate Scholarship
2020 – Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical Society
2020-2021 – University of Texas History Department Research Fellowship
2021-2022 – Race & Caste Fellowship, Institute For Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin
2022-2023 – Winner, College of Liberal Arts Thematic Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
2022-2023 – Clyde Littlefield Fellowship, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Conference Activity / Participation
2019 “The Historian and the Digital Archive: Methodologies to Reclaiming the Indigenous Archives at the University of Texas at Austin” E3W's Sequels: Fugitive Futures: Graduate Students of Color Un-Settling the University, February 28 - March 2.
2020 “Native Women & The Petition: Contextualizing Wampanoag Land Petitions in the Native Northeast, 1811-1835” The Symposium on Gender, History, & Sexuality, November 2020.
2021 “Black in the Academy: A Conversation Among Grad Students and Early Career Historians” New England Historical Association. (April 10, 2021)
2021 “Communicating Your Science: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Different Media Platforms For Academics.” Helsinki Research Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation, University of Helsinki (Digital Panel, May 17, 2021)
2021 “Contextualizing Wampanoag Women's Petitions in the Era of Removal, 1800-1835” The Oxford Early American Republic Seminar. (Forthcoming June 2, 2021)
Campus Talks
2018 – Woven into History Digital Archive. The Public Archive: Doing History Online and In Public. The Department of History. The University of Texas at Austin.
2018 – “Woven into History: Historicizing Scattered Archives and Miscategorized Textiles” Presentation for a class called “Issues in Exhibitions and Collections: Textile Arts of the Indigenous Americas” in the Department of Art and Art History. The University of Texas at Austin.
2020 – “Living in Good Relation with the Environment: A Syllabus on Radical Hope” Discussion for “Radical Hope and Environmental History” Class in Department of History. The University of Texas at Austin.
2021 – “Living in Good Relation with the Environment: A Syllabus on Radical Hope” Discussion for “Radical Hope and Environmental History” Class in Department of History. The University of Texas at Austin.
Teaching
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2018 History of the United States, 1492-1865
Spring 2019 History of the United States, 1865- Present
Fall 2023 Native American Histories
Spring 2024 History of the United States, 1492-1865
Public History
2018 – Woven Into History Digital Archive
2018 – “Latorre Collection on the Kickapoo Indians of Mexico” Library Guide
2018-2019 – Radical Hope Syllabus, Contributor and Website Design
2019 – ClioVis.com, Website Design
2020-Present – ClioVis.com, Classroom Tutorials
2020-2021 – Host, 15 Minute History Podcast
Languages
English: native
Spanish: reading, writing
Belizean Creole/Kriol: native