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I am a recent graduate of the public history graduate program at Rutgers University. I currently serve as the digital media coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, where I wrangle bloggers and tackle our social media platforms.

In the last two years I've created an oral history database using StoriesMatter for the Salem County Historical Society, collected data on school group attendance for the education department at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I've digitized the Balch Institute Ethnic Images in Advertising Collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. I volunteer at the Alice Paul Institute in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey and the Digital Center at HSP.

In my spare time I am often silly and irreverent.

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fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast: A true doctor of history and philosophy, that Tolkien fellow. Yea verily. 

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

A true doctor of history and philosophy, that Tolkien fellow.

Yea verily. 

fuckyeahsociologystudentsheep: [Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style colour split with beige and woodland green alternating. Foreground: a head-on photo of a disgruntled looking white sheep. Top text: “Complete essay on Weber a week before it’s due” Bottom text: “That will be because of my protestant work ethic”] *flail*  

fuckyeahsociologystudentsheep:

[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style colour split with beige and woodland green alternating. Foreground: a head-on photo of a disgruntled looking white sheep. Top text: “Complete essay on Weber a week before it’s due” Bottom text: “That will be because of my protestant work ethic”]

*flail*  

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast: No thumb’s up from recognizable historian in field? Goes back, too. Endnotes not linked to page numbers but partial quotes?  Drop that book like a hot potato. 

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

No thumb’s up from recognizable historian in field? Goes back, too.

Endnotes not linked to page numbers but partial quotes?  Drop that book like a hot potato. 

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast: My personal library will never be big enough. If I could climb out from under a mountain of school, work, and cycles of illness, I might actually post something original.  Alas, it is not meant to be.  Have a reblog.

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

My personal library will never be big enough.

If I could climb out from under a mountain of school, work, and cycles of illness, I might actually post something original.  Alas, it is not meant to be.  Have a reblog.

Polite.  Sure.  

Polite.  Sure.  

This explains the glazed look in the Spousal Unit’s eyes when I start talking, and keep talking, and continue talking.  What, you don’t want to hear me make connections between Death in The Dining Room and This Republic of Suffering??  fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast: Not a history major, just love one, and like history.  I never remember what causes them, but the lectures themselves are fascinating.

This explains the glazed look in the Spousal Unit’s eyes when I start talking, and keep talking, and continue talking.  What, you don’t want to hear me make connections between Death in The Dining Room and This Republic of Suffering?? 

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

Not a history major, just love one, and like history.  I never remember what causes them, but the lectures themselves are fascinating.

museummuse: ilovecharts: Grad school explained -SomewhereinMiddleAmerica  YES! THIS EXACTLY!! Where is the “Flip anxiously through the index for the reference you KNOW is there” arm?  Followed closely by “Oh wait, that was the book for the other class,” and its resulting shame spiral. 

museummuse:

ilovecharts:

Grad school explained

-SomewhereinMiddleAmerica 

YES! THIS EXACTLY!!

Where is the “Flip anxiously through the index for the reference you KNOW is there” arm?  Followed closely by “Oh wait, that was the book for the other class,” and its resulting shame spiral.