"The Aesthetics of Unionization: Sudie Crusenberry's Scrapbooks as Folk Art" is a paper that I wrote for my Folk Art class in the fall of 2018. This paper draws on archival research and explores scrapbooks as assemblage and as the material culture of a unionization movement. I presented a shortened version of this paper at the IU/OSU Student Folklore Conference in Bloomington, Indiana in February 2019.

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In the summer of 2018, I co-curated an exhibit at the Kentucky Museum called "The Essential Tree." I researched and suggested collections items to be displayed, and wrote panels and labels for the exhibit.

Here is an example of some of the social media content I produced at the Kentucky Museum. In addition to posting items on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, I create a lot of the digital signage, an example of which is seen here.

In Spring 2019, I submitted a Transcription and Indexing Grant proposal to the Kentucky Oral History Commission (KOHC) at the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) to index the Lou Tate and the Little Loomhouse Oral History Project collection. This proposal was accepted and I was awarded a grant in May 2019.

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This is a transcription I completed of an interview I conducted in the fall of 2017 with Drew Rogers, owner of Bluegrass Vineyard in Smiths Grove, Ky. This interview traces Rogers' interest in making wine, the wine making process, and the steps he had to take to open a winery in a formerly dry county.

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In Fall 2017, I wrote a rhetorical analysis of the media's narrative portrayals of the Bears Ears National Monument controversy titled "The Bears Ears National Monument Controversy: Native Claims, Land Use, and the Potential Role of Folklorists in Shaping the Debate." I presented a shortened version of this paper at the American Folklore Society (AFS) Annual Meeting in Buffalo, New York in October 2018.

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In my time at the Kentucky Museum, I designed several signs, including this sign announcing the HAD Artist Collective murals, which directs visitors to go outside to see the murals in the museum's courtyard.

In addition to creating flyers and social media graphics for the Kentucky Museum, I planned, wrote scripts for, filmed, and edited promotional and informational videos. This particular video was used leading up to the Spring 2019 semester to encourage Western Kentucky University faculty to utilize the museum as a resource in their classes.

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I indexed this interview for the Kentucky Historical Society using the Oral History Metadata Synchronzer (OHMS) system. I created this index as an example for my KOHC Indexing Grant proposal.

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This link directs you to a Digital Walking Tour of Bardstown, Kentucky called "A Walk Through Time." During my time as an intern to the Historic Preservation Coordinator at the City of Bardstown in the summer of 2018, I assisted in researching, writing, troubleshooting, and editing this walking tour.

In Fall 2018, as part of my Vernacular Architecture course, I worked with Delainey Bowers and Kate McElroy to conduct fieldwork, documentation, and research in order to complete a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination for Boyce General Store in Alvaton, Kentucky.

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In my role as graduate assistant at the Kentucky Museum, I created a lot of content for the museum's online presence. I wrote this blog post after leading my first school tour through the exhibit "A Culture Carried: Bosnians in Bowling Green."

In Fall 2018, my Vernacular Architecture class documented the building of Stickwork, an art installation on Western Kentucky University's campus designed by Patrick Dougherty. In addition to conducting interviews with volunteers and taking photos, the class also designed a website. I edited all aspects of the final site with classmate Delainey Bowers.

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As a mini-internship for my Appalachian Culture and Folklife class in the spring of 2018, I worked with Pine Mountain Settlement School and Theresa Osborne of the Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College (SKCTC) to update the Storytelling curriculum within the settlement school's Environmental Education program. I created new objectives, summarized stories, and connected learning outcomes to the Kentucky Academic Standards.

These are fieldnotes I wrote in the fall of 2017 after attending the Horse Cave Heritage Festival. These fieldnotes focus primarily on one of the festival's narrative stages presented by the Kentucky Folklife Program and the WKU Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology.

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