Popular media

“Atomic Twang,” Nostalgia Trap podcast, August 30, 2024.

“The Sound of Patriotism,” On the Media, WNYC broadcast and podcast, July 5, 2024.

Cold War Country quoted in Angie Jaime, “Country Music and Música Mexicana Share a Deep History Worth Remembering,” Teen Vogue, June 27, 2024.

“The History—and Money—Behind Country Music’s Embrace of the U.S. Military,” Time, June 6, 2024.

Interview with Book Passage Bookstore’s “Conversations with Authors,” online event, May 16, 2024.

Cold War Country referenced in Cynthia Vacca Davis, “‘Cowboy Carter’ Is A Lot to Process, But So Is Being Black in America,” Baptist News Global, April 18, 2024.

Interview with MSU A&S Vision TV, April 2024.

Interview with Lawfare’s Chatter Podcast, April 11, 2024.

Interview with New Books Network Podcast, April 6, 2024.

Interview with Friendly City Books Podcast, April 1, 2024.

Quoted in Ben Finley, “Toby Keith wrote all kinds of country songs. His legacy might be post-9/11 American anger,” Associated Press, February 9, 2024.

Interview for “Looking Back At Toby Keith’s Impact On Music & Affiliation With America’s Culture War,” AirTalk with Larry Mantle, LAist, 89.3 FM, Los Angeles NPR, February 13, 2024.

“The Scripto Strikes,” The New Georgia Encyclopedia.

“The longtime connection between race, country music and military recruitment,” The Washington Post, June 9, 2020.

“GI Bill opened doors to college for many vets, but politicians created a separate one for blacks” The Conversation, November 9, 2019.

“Behind the Scenes at BackStory,” C-SPAN 3, original airdate July 4, 2019.

“The Scripto Strikes: James V. Carmichael and Black Women’s Labor Organizing in Downtown Atlanta,” Atlanta Studies (September 4, 2018).

“Whitey on the Moon,” Enviro-History (March 16, 2018).

“Stars, Stripes, and Country Music,” interview with PBS’s American Experience (November 8, 2017).

“Crowning Glory: A History of Hair in America,” interview with BackStory (originally aired June 2017).

“Woody Guthrie and the Making of the Folk,” We’re History (July 14, 2016).

“Progressivism in the South,” We’re History (January 26, 2016).

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2016-2018       Researcher and Writer, BackStory a podcast produced by Virginia Humanities for Slate, Charlottesville, Virginia.

2015-2018       Managing Editor, Essays in History, an open-access journal published by the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia.

2017-2018    Development of Jukebox, an Omeka plug-in that embeds sound wave files within the Neatline mapping function.

2016-2017    “DASH-Amerikan: Keeping Up with the Social Media Ecologies of the Kardashians,” co-authored with the Praxis Digital Humanities cohort.

2016-2017    Website Development and Writer, Praxis Program in the Digital Humanities Fellowship, The Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia.

2014-2015    Website Management and Omeka archival software instruction, AMST 2001 “Introduction to American Studies," University of Virginia. 

2014                Website Development and Curator, Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation, Library of  Virginia. Richmond, Virginia.

2012-2013       Docent, L.Q.C. Lamar House, National Historic Landmark. Oxford, Mississippi.

2002-2011 Archaeologist, University of Texas - San Antonio and Jacksonville State University.

1998-2001 Student Assistant, Alabama Museum of Natural History, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.