Professor, Course: “Experiencing Public History: The Senses and Public History in a Digital World” – an undergraduate and MA-level course taught online at the University of Utah’s Salt Lake Campus 2019 and 2020
Course Description: This online course approached public history through the bodily senses as part of an exploration of how experiential modes of learning can make history more accessible—even emotionally impactful—for diverse audiences in a digital world. We examined various public history venues, including museums, memorials, collaborative educational workshops, digital archives, online publications, and living history sites, encouraging students to center themselves and their own communities within our online classroom. My goal was to compare how the senses—smell, sight, taste, smell, touch, and feel (empathically)—offer different ways to teach the public about history. Our driving question: As historians, how can we inform diverse publics while creating empathic connections to different historical subjects relevant to our digital world?
Summer 2020 version of the Syllabus
Organizer, TeachingWithPodcasts.com Ongoing since 2018
Creator and editor of a website dedicated to providing faculty with pedagogical tools for assigning podcasts; manager of a rotating team of research assistants who work on this ongoing project
Organizer, Gender and Sexuality in Asia Ongoing since 2021
Creator of an oral history interview project recording conversations with queer-identified people in Korea, with particular focus on the construction of gender and sexuality identity within transnational spaces; manager of a rotating team of research assistants who work on this oral history project
Co-Editor, UAC Recipes: Interviews about the Foods we Love Fall 2021
Organizer of the first edition of this student oral history zine on food histories
Participant, Screenwriting Workshop Fall 2021
Taken to develop my work on public history in film, culminated in the production of the short screenplay “Celia,” on rape and murder that led up to the State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave court case in 1855
Organizer, Student Soldiers: Conversations at UAC Ongoing since 2019
Creator of an oral history interview project recording conversations with students, faculty, and staff at the University of Utah Asia Campus in Korea on the impacts of mandatory military service; manager of a rotating team of research assistants who work on this oral history project
Organizer, Department of History Evening Film Series at UAC 2018-2020
Film screenings and discussions on historical films, open to the campus
Local Organizer, Public History Exhibition, Seoul, Korea Ongoing since 2019
Organizer for the University of Utah, Asia Campus as a host for an 8-panel exhibition on Asian American history titled “I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story,” created by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), supported by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Digital Archival Intern, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA 2008
Assisting the Lead Digital Archivist in scanning photographs of local history as part of their larger digitization process; required knowledge in properly handling archival materials and scanning software
Curatorial Intern, Marietta Museum of History, Marietta, GA 2008
Assisting the Curator in cataloging backlog of donated items; required knowledge of properly handling archival materials and data entry via archival software
Kera Lovell, Ph.D. 