As the 2023 manager of interpretation at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation (PPH), I developed new interpretive strategies to tell the twentieth-century labor history stories present at the site which culminated in a public walking tour to celebrate the museum’s re-entry into the National Register of Historic Places.

Funded as a co-investigator through a National Park Service Underrepresented Communities Grant, this project updated National Register of Historic Places documentation for the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation in Hadley, Massachusetts. The new and revised nomination explored the role of domestic, enslaved, and Indigenous labor, women’s history, and the role of historic placemaking at the site from the mid-eighteenth century to 1978.

The winning entry in The Metropole’s fifth annual graduate student blogging contest, this piece examines preservationists’ turn to renting and leasing residential property in the 1970s and how policymakers rewarded this transformation with the federal historic tax credit program.

As part of the Humanities Action Lab’s Climates of Inequality exhibit, this panel explores climate justice activism in Springfield, Massachusetts.

This invited lecture explored the history of the historic preservation movement in the Connecticut River Valley to underscore the centrality of settler colonialism to the preservation movement’s agenda in the mid-late twentieth century.