About

EDUCATION

Ph.D., American Studies, Pennsylvania State University, Anticipated 2022

M.A., History/Public History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2011

Graduate Certificate, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2011

B.A., History/English, Washington and Jefferson College, 2008

PUBLIC HISTORY EXPERIENCE

Director of Education, Golden Ball Tavern Museum, Weston, MA, 2021-Present

Social Media Coordinator, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, PA, 2020-Present

Member, Heritage Committee, Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 2012-Present

Board Member, Bradford House Historical Association, Washington, PA, 2020-2021

Seasonal Park Ranger, National Park Service

  • Fort Necessity National Battlefield/Friendship Hill National Historic Site, 2008-2012, 2016-2019
  • Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 2020

School History Assistant, Department of School History, Milton Hershey School, Hershey, PA, 2014-2015

Museum Experience Associate, The Hershey Story, The Museum on Chocolate Avenue, 2013

 

TEACHING/EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Instructor (History), Academic Division of Liberal Arts, Quincy College, Quincy, MA, 2021-Present

  • HIS 101: US History I (Fall 2021 [online])

History Grader, OnRamps, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2019-Present

Instructor, Department of History, Washington and Jefferson College

  • HIS 204: 19th-Century America (Spring 2020, Spring 2021 [online])
  • HIS 206: 20th-Century America (Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
  • HIS 270: Introduction to Public History (Spring 2016)
  • HIS 270: Women in the Early American Republic (Spring 2021)
  • HIS 270: Women in 19th-Century America (Spring 2021 [online])
  • HIS 332: The Civil War and Its Aftermath (Spring 2021 [online])
  • HIS 336: Women and Gender in 20th-Century America (Fall 2013, Fall 2015)
  • HIS 336: The Civil Rights Movement (Spring 2016)

Instructor, School of Humanities, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

  • AM ST 100: Transportation and American Culture (Fall 2012)
  • ENGL 015: Composition and Rhetoric (Spring 2013)
  • HIST 012: Pennsylvania History (Spring 2014, Summer 2014 (online), Fall 2014, Summer 2015 [online])

Instructor, Continuing Education, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto

  • HIST 012: Pennsylvania History (Summer 2015 [online], Summer 2017 [online], Summer 2018 [online])

Adjunct Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  • HIST 2150: US Women’s History to 1877 (Fall 2010, Spring 2011)
  • HIST 2151: US Women’s History since 1877  (Fall 2010, Spring 2011)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  • LBST 2102: Global Connections with Peter Thorsheim (Fall 2008)
  • LBST 2101: Western History and Culture with Daniel Dupre (Spring 2009)

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Editorial Assistant, First World War Studies, Journal of the International Society for First World War Studies, 2009-2010

PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA

Articles
Battaglia, Mario, Casey Campetti, Maija Glasier-Lawson, Matthew Kalos, Hilary Miller, Megan Springate, Stephanie Sullivan, and Katie Turner. “Interpretive Actions for Archaeological Resources: Keweenaw National Historical Park and Isle Royale National Park,” Park Break Perspectives 12 (2014).

Encyclopedia Entries
Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. Simon J. Bronner (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), s.v. “National Road ” (by Hilary Miller), http://eas-ref.press.jhu.edu/view?aid=890 (accessed July 25, 2016).

Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. Simon J. Bronner (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), s.v. “Canals” (by Hilary Miller), http://eas-ref.press.jhu.edu/view?aid=870 (accessed July 25, 2016).

Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. Simon J. Bronner (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UniversityPress, 2016), s.v. “Cultural Resource Management” (by Hilary Miller), http://eas-ref.press.jhu.edu/view?aid=883 (accessed July 25, 2016).

Youth Cultures in America, ed. Simon J. Bronner and Cindy Dell Clark (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016), s.v. “Cheerleaders” (by Hilary Miller).

Interviews
“The National Road,” American History TV, C-SPAN 3, 2017

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

  • Irwin Richman Scholarship in American Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 2019
  • Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grant, Organization of American Historians, New Orleans, LA, April 2017
  • AHA Council Annual Meeting Travel Grant, American Historical Association, Denver, CO, January 2017
  • American Studies Graduate Research Travel Fund, Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA, 2014-2015 and 2017-2018
  • Graduate Student Travel Award, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Raleigh, NC, July 2015
  • Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, May 2015
  • George Melendez Wright Student Travel Scholarships, George Wright Society, Oakland, CA, March 2015
  • Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD, 2014-2015
  • Park Break Fellowship, George Wright Society, April 2014
  • University Graduate Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 2011-2013

CONFERENCES 

Papers Presented
“Navigating Identity and Gender along the National Road.” Organization of American
Historians, New Orleans, LA, April 2017.

“Mapping the ‘National Road’: Tracing the Creation and Expansion of American Culture and Identity along a Nineteenth-Century Highway.” American Historical Association, Denver, CO, January 2017.

“Naming the National Road: Examining and Interpreting the Multiple Names of America’s First Federally-Funded Highway.” Pennsylvania Historical Association, Harrisburg, PA, October 2015.

“Stagecoaches, Taverns, and Respectability: Travel and Womanhood on the National Road,1818-1850.” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Raleigh, NC, July 2015.

“The Role of Community Outreach and Interpretive Actions in Protecting Historic Park
Resources.” George Wright Society, Oakland, CA, April 2015.

“Travel and Tourism in the Nineteenth Century: Crafting American Identity on the National Road.” Eastern American Studies Association, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, March 2015.

“Ladies on Rough Roads: The National Road and the Experience of Women Travelers, 1818-1850.” Pennsylvania Historical Association, Harrisburg, PA, November 2012.

“‘No place is more suitable’: The National Road and Education in Washington, Pennsylvania.” Eastern American Studies Association, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 2012. Finalist, Simon J. Bronner Graduate Student Award.

“Creating the American Hero: Generating a National Identity through the Captivity Narratives of Colonel William Crawford,” New England American Studies Association, Plymouth, MA, November 2011.

“Old Hickory and the Swedish Nightingale: Famous Travelers on the National Road,” National Road Bicentennial Conference, Washington, PA, June 2011.

“Finding the ‘Shortest and Best Connection of Practical Grounds’: The National Road and Washington, Pennsylvania,” Graduate and Professional Student Government Graduate Research Fair, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, February 2011. First Prize, Multidisciplinary Category.

“Warring Colleges and Presidential Scandals: The National Road’s Effect on Education and Politics in Washington, Pennsylvania,” North Carolina State University History Graduate Student Conference, Raleigh, NC, February 2010.

“The Potomac Canal: Connecting East and West,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA, March 2008. Best Paper Award.

Panels Organized
“Prepping for 2020: Utilizing concepts of citizenship and voting rights to engage with the 19th Amendment centennial.” Pennsylvania Historical Association, Indiana, PA, October 2019.

“How Relevant is Relevance?: Public Engagement with History in the 21st Century,”
Pennsylvania Historical Association, Scranton, PA, October 2017.

“Teaching Tips and Tricks for Graduate Students,” American Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 2013.

Discussant
“‘Nevertheless, she persisted’: Preserving Local Women’s History in the Wake of the 19th Amendment Centennial,” National Council on Public History, Virtual Annual Meeting, March 2021.

“Mediating the Early American Past for Today’s Public(s),” National Council on Public History, Indianapolis, IN, April 2017.

Public History Roundtable, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Graduate History Forum, Charlotte, NC, March 2011.

ACADEMIC SEMINARS 

Participant, “Women and Gender in 19th-Century America,” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Online Teacher Seminar, New Haven, CT, 2020

Participant, Women and Politics in 20th-Century America,” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Online Teacher Seminar, New Haven, CT, 2020

Participant, “Everyday Life in Early America,” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History Teacher Seminar, New Haven, CT, July 2017.

Participant, “Domestic Impressions: The Visual and Material Culture of the American Family Home, 1750-1890,“ Center for Historic American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society, Worchester, MA, July 2013.

SERVICE

National Council on Public History

  • Member, Membership Committee, 2021-Present
  • Co-Chair, New Professional and Graduate Student Committee, 2020-2021 (Member 2017-2021)

Member, National Park Service Nineteenth Amendment Centennial Planning Team, 2017-Present

Member, Students’ Committee, American Studies Association, 2012-2014

Graduate Assistant, Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities, 2012-2013

Conference Co-organizer, Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Harrisburg, PA, November 2012

Member, Penn State Harrisburg American Studies Student Association, 2011-Present
Conference Co-organizer, National Road Bicentennial Conference, Co-sponsored by Washington and Jefferson College, National Park Service (Fort Necessity National Battlefield), National Road Heritage Corridor, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department of History, Washington, PA, June 2011.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte Graduate History Association, 2008-2011 (President, 2009-2010)

Conference Organizer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Graduate History Forum, Charlotte, NC, April 2009 and April 2010.

 

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