Employment

Educational Technology Supervisor, Department of Information Technology, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA


Certifications

Canvas Certified Technical Admin, Instructure

Canvas Certified Educator for Higher Education, Instructure

Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Project Management Institute (PMI)

CompTIA A+ Certification

Teaching with Artificial Intelligence 2025 Microcredential, EDUCAUSE

Google IT Support Certificate

Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals


Education

University of California, Riverside, Department of History

University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

University of La Verne, La Verne, California

  • B.A. in History, 2009

Research Fields and Digital Humanities Specializations

  • Primary: Twentieth-Century United States History, Public History, and Digital Humanities
  • Secondary: Colonial Latin America
  • Teaching Field: World History
  • Foreign Language: Spanish
  • Digital Humanities specializations:
    • Digital History
    • Digital Pedagogy
    • Accessible Web Design
    • HTML5
    • WordPress Development
    • Cyberinfrastructure
    • Physical Computing
    • Born Digital Artifacts & Preservation
    • HGIS & Digital Mapping

Teaching, Academic Employment, and Service

  • University of La Verne - Instructor
    • United States History and Culture
    • History of Latin America
    • History of California
  • University of California, Riverside - Teaching Assistant
    • The Historian's Workshop
    • History of Latin America, UC Online
    • World History: 20th Century
    • World History: 1500–1900
    • World History: Prehistory to 1500

Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UC Riverside Graduate Division, Department of History, 2011-2012
  • Academic Recognition in History, University of La Verne, Department of History, 2008

Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships

  • DHSI (Digital Humanities Summer Institute) Student Scholarship, University of Victoria, BC, June 2015
  • ACH (The Association for Computers and the Humanities) Travel Grant for DHSI 2015
  • Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Research Grant, UC Riverside Graduate Division, 2015
  • UCR Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, American Historical Association annual Meeting, New York, January 2015
  • Dissertation Year Program Fellowship, UC Riverside Graduate Division, 2014
  • History Department Dissertation Research Grant, UC Riverside, 2014
  • Humanities Graduate Student Dissertation Research Grant, The Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside, 2014
  • UC California Studies Consortium Dissertation Research Travel Grant, UC Humanities Research Institute, 2014
  • NEH Office of Digital Humanities Grant for Tuition and Travel, Building an Accessible Future for the Humanities, Lincoln, NE, November 2014
  • SHOT Society for the History of Technology, Graduate Student Travel Grant for annual meeting, Dearborn, MI, November 2014
  • UCR Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, SHOT Society for the History of Technology annual meeting, Dearborn, MI, November 2014
  • HILT (Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching) Student Scholarship, University of Maryland, August 2014
  • UCR Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, RMCLAS (Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies) annual meeting, Santa Fe, NM, 2011
  • UCR Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, The 2011 Joint Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA: Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Associations, San Antonio, TX, 2011

Workshops & Classes

  • DHSI (Digital Humanities Summer Institute) University of Victoria, BC, June 2014 & 2015
    • Professionalizing the Early Career Digital Humanist
    • RDF and Linked Open Data
    • Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application
    • Games for Digital Humanists
  • HILT (Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching), MITH University of Maryland, August 2014
    • Humanities Programming (Ruby Web Applications)
  • Studies.Digital Hackfest Retreat, Digital Pedagogy and Digital Literacy Workshop, UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, May 5-7, 2015
  • THATCamp AHA 2015, The New School, NY, January 2015
  • AHA Digital History Workshop, Networks and Network Visualization, American Historical Association annual meeting, NY, January 2015
  • Building an Accessible Future for the Humanities, Design and accessibility in digital environments, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, November 2014
  • THATCamp SHOT 2014, The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI, November 2014
  • Studies.Digital Hackfest Retreat, Digital Pedagogy and Digital Literacy Workshop, UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, September 7-9, 2014
  • WordCamp LAX 2014, WordPress developer conference at California State University, Los Angeles, September 2014
  • DHSI (Digital Humanities Summer Institute), Games for Digital Humanists, University of Victoria, BC, June 2014
  • DHSoCal workshop meeting, UC San Diego, April 2014, https://dhsocal.blogspot.com
  • Digital History Workshop, CESTA (Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis) at Stanford University, Palo Alto, in conjunction with the ASEH (American Society for Environmental History) annual conference in San Francisco, March 2014
  • THATCamp SoCal 2012, California State University, Fullerton, September 2012

Publications, Articles, and Scholarly Posts


Public History Art Exhibition

  • "Place of Honor: Veterans and Public Space from Los Angeles to Riverside, 2010 – 2014," Photographs and digital slideshow by Steven G. Anderson with additional photography by Scott Tomaino, Riverside Art Museum, Student Curatorial Exhibit in conjunction with "Wild Blue Yonder: Douglas McCulloh | Susan Straight," April – July 2014

Memberships and Affiliations


Conferences & Presentations

  • "The Paperwork Explosion: Mainframe Computers, ConSummer Culture, and the Cold War," "Deep LA" Graduate History Conference focusing on Los Angeles and Southern California regional history, sponsored by USC and UCLA at The Huntington Library, October 2015
  • "In(sta)famous: A Conversation on Digital Leadership and Social Media," with Angie Anderson, Greek Leadership Conference, University of La Verne, September 2015
  • DHSI (Digital Humanities Summer Institute) presentations, University of Victoria, BC, June 2015 - "Sharing The Digital Imaginary: Dissertation Blogging and the Companion Website" - "Bringing DH into the library: pedagogy, games and online ed," with Professor Juliette Levy - "Who is in the Space and Why?: Building a Digital Scholars Lab at UC Riverside"
  • Cultural Studies Association annual conference presentations and roundtables, Riverside CA, May 2015 - "Critical Digital Humanities: Toward an Alternative University," Roundtable - "Teaching Online, Pedagogy, and Time," Roundtable - "A Study of a Gamified Research Experience," (Digital Zombies) - "I’ll See You Online: Teaching Assistants, Google Hangouts, and the Online Classroom"
  • "Let’s Talk About Digital History," Studies.Digital Interdisciplinary Roundtable Discussion, UC Riverside History Department, May 2015
  • "Digital Pedagogy and the Online Classroom," Digital Pedagogy Lightning Round, American Historical Association, New York, January 2015
  • CNI Executive Roundtable, "Supporting Digital Humanities at Scale," Coalition for Networked Information, Fall Meeting, Washington DC, December 2014
  • The Digital Imaginary: Mainframe Computers from the Corporate Basement to the Silver Screen, 1946 – 1968," Dissertation overview presentations, SHOT annual meeting, and SIGCIS workshop, Dearborn, MI, November 2014
  • The Digital Imaginary: Mainframe Computers from the Corporate Basement to the Silver Screen, 1946 – 1968," UCR History Department "Brown Bag" Talk, UC Riverside, October 2014
  • "Your Data is Showing: Digital Leadership in the Age of Social Media," with Angie Anderson, Greek Leadership Conference, University of La Verne, September 2014
  • Critical Digital Humanities Mellon Workshop: Pedagogies for TA Classrooms Roundtable, (dis)junctions 2013, University of California, Riverside, April 2013
  • "Lifting the Digital Curtain: Globalizing Digital Culture from the Postwar Era to the Present," The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, University of San Diego, August 2012
  • "Approaching The Digital: Sixteenth Century Prints and the Textual Paradigm," UCR Art History Graduate Conference, University of California, Riverside, May 2012
  • Invited respondent at "Things: Material Cultures of the Long Eighteenth Century," a collaborative workshop of The Material Cultures of Knowledge, 1500-1830, UC multicampus research group, The Huntington Library, April 2012
  • "Of Fractal Spaces: Books, Microfilm, and the Digital/Analog Divide," (dis)junctions 2012, University of California, Riverside, April 2012
  • "The Digital Ether: Deconstructing the Historical (Im)materiality of the Digital World," Constructing Worlds: Making and Breaking Order, Graduate Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine, April 2012
  • "A Fluid Foundation: Water and the Natural Environment in Early Colonial Mexico, 1325-1608," The Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, October 2011
  • "Processing the Suburbs: Gender, Technology, and Paperwork in Postwar America," The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Seattle, WA, August 2011
  • "A Product of the Digital Age: A History of Modern Consumer Culture in the United States," The 2011 Joint Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA: Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Associations, San Antonio, TX, April 2011
  • "Pathways to Power: Religious Resistance and the Indian Inquisition in Central Mexico, 1536-1543," RMCLAS (Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies), Santa Fe, NM, April, 2011
  • "iProtest: A Modern History of Dissent in the Digital Age," (dis)junctions 2011, University of California, Riverside, April 2011