Project Affiliation

• Exhibition Consultant, “Spit Spreads Death,” College of Physicians of Philadelphia (July 2017 – Oct 2019)

(2020 Award of Excellence, AASLH)

• Principal Historian, Arch Street Project, Mutter Institute and Rutgers University (June 2017 – Present)

Museum Exhibitions

• “Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918” Five-Year Exhibition, Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Opened Fall 2019)

Public Talks

• “’Afraid to be alone in the Dark’: The Hidden Fragility of Family Life in Colonial New England” Women’s Health and Hygiene in Early America, Friends of Washington Crossing Historic Park (2018)

• “The Lost of La Grange: Reconstructing 150 years of Burials for the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia” (Featured Speaker, Skippack Historical Society Annual Banquet, Collegeville, PA (2017)

• "The Many and Sudden Deaths: Epidemics and Awakenings in the First Congregational Church of Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1735-1740” (History Matters Series at the Congregational Library and Archives, Boston, October 2016)

• “Unspeakable Loss, Distempered Awakenings: North America’s Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735 – 1765” (Introductory Symposium for the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Philadelphia, September 2016)

• “Michiana’s Medical Cabinet: Objects in Our Midst” with Christopher Hamlin and Sean Philips (The History Museum, South Bend, April 2015)

• “They All Fell Down: Reassessing Throat Distemper on the New England Frontier” (New Hampshire Historical Society, October 2014)

• “Unspeakable Loss: North America’s Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735–1765” (Massachusetts Historical Society, September 2014)

• “Don’t Say a Word: Childhood Mortality on the New England Frontier, 1735,” Teaching with Primary Sources, University of Notre Dame, April (2013)

Film Consultation

• “Absolution” (Historical Consultant and Prop master) Northridge, CA (Spring 2011)

• “The Santa Monica Mountains” (Filming, Production, Direction, and Research) Global Citizenship Initiative, Santa Monica College and the National Park Service. (Spring, 2008)