Ph.D., History, University of
Illinois, 1997 (Dissertation: “Advancing Scholarship in Wartime: The World War I
Research Experience and its impact on American Higher Education, 1900-1925").
M.A., History, Middle Tennessee State University, 1986 (Thesis: “The Other
Bonaparte: English Reaction to the Public Career of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte”).
B.S., History, Middle Tennessee State University, 1983, Cum Laude.
Assistant Editor, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln,
2008-present.
Management/Quality Control Consultant, HarpWeek, LLC., 2008.
Managing Editor/Manager of Post-Production/Quality Control, HarpWeek, LLC.,
2004-2007.
Managing Editor/Director of Indexing/Research, HarpWeek, LLC., 1997-2004.
Indexer/Research Associate, HarpWeek, LLC., 1995-1997.
Graduate Assistant, History & Philosophy Library, University of Illinois,
1994-1995.
Instructor, University of Illinois, 1993.
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois, 1987-1988, 1991-1992.
Research Assistant, University of Illinois, 1989-1990.
Research Assistant, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University
of Illinois, 1986-1987.
Instructor/Teaching Assistant, Middle Tennessee State University, 1984-1986.
“Inventive Genius or Scientific Research?” Swords and Ploughshares: Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security 6 (Fall-Winter 1991): 11-15.
Walter A. Boyne, ed., Air Warfare: An
International Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
S.v.v. “Anti-Submarine Warfare,”“Aeronautical Research Establishments,”
“Automobile Industry, Wartime Mobilization of,” “Bureau of Naval Aeronautics,”
“Douglas MacAuthur,” Magnetic Anomaly Detection,” and “Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles.”
Anne Cipriano Venzon, ed., The United States in the First World War: An
Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1995. S.v.v. “Chemical Warfare
Service” and “National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.”
Awards
eLincoln Prize Laureate, HarpWeek Presents
Lincoln and the Civil War.com (John Adler, publisher), 2003.
MacArthur Fellow, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International
Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois, 1990-1991.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois, 1987-1988, 1991-1992.
“A Retirement Project Gone Wild: The Story of
HarpWeek,” paper presented before the City of Portsmouth Museums Staff, 2007.
“Speeding Up the Hohenzollern Crash: University of Illinois Chemists and Organic
Chemical Manufacture in Wartime, 1914-1919,” paper presented at the Thirteenth
Annual Symposium on Illinois History, 1992.
“The World War I Research Experience: Designing a Research Structure,” paper
presented at the American Intellectual and Cultural History Colloquium,
University of Illinois, 1991.
“To Teach or Research: A Problem in the History of American Higher Education,”
paper presented at the Department of History Women’s Caucus, University of
Illinois, 1989.