My services include historic research, programs and tours, exhibit curation, archiving, digitization, oral histories, and other types of writing projects.
Services Offered
Historic Research
Building, site, and neighborhood histories, land use studies, and other built environment research for scholarship, redevelopment projects, real estate inquiries, and other related industries.
Archiving
Acquisition, arrangement, and archiving of collections, including collection guide or finding aid development. Available to archive organizational, business, family, and individual collections.
Programs & Tours
Public talks, facilitated discussions, community conversations, and moderated panels on numerous topics. Research and facilitate building, site/campus, and neighborhood walking tours.
Digitization
Scanning, metadata standards and creation, file naming conventions, transcriptions, content management systems, and mapping APIs for locational data.
Exhibit Curation
Research and curate content for in-house and virtual exhibits incorporating archival collections, artifacts, audio, and moving image files from numerous local institutions. Write narratives and copyedit.
Oral Histories
Conduct oral histories and interviews for research projects, collecting initiatives, and exhibit components using accessible and affordable technology.
Historic Preservation
Technical documentation related to historic preservation work including Historic Structure Reports, National Register of Historic Places nominations, and other structure histories for master planning projects, tax credit projects, etc.
Writing Projects
Written articles for books, academic journals, community projects, popular blogs, and promotional and membership magazines. Wide range of audience and style.
Fact Checking
Fact-checking, research, and general consulting for tv, film, and podcast projects related to architectural history, city and neighborhood development, general U.S. history, modern history, LGBTQ history, and music history.