“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past yet.”
Hello there! I’m a historian, forensic cartographer, and historic preservation specialist. This website documents projects I’ve worked on as an independent researcher or consultant.
My skills: I excel at developing novel, multi-disciplinary research methodologies to answer tough or seemingly unanswerable questions. I am an expert land records researcher and have extensive experience mapping, interpreting, and evaluating historic-age archeological discoveries and large-scale historic resources with complicated and often quite messy histories. I am especially adept at mapping and modeling vanished or ephemeral landscapes.
My qualifications: I meet the Secretary of Interior’s professional qualifications standards in History and am working towards meeting these standards in Archeology. I have experience evaluating and interpreting built and archeological historic resources in California, Oregon, and Washington. I hold an M.A. in Urban Studies and a B.A. in Public History.
Interested in possibly working together? I am currently accepting contract and on-call work. Please drop me a line below to let me know a little about your project.