Website: http://history.appstate.edu
Connection to Sustainability: Examining the history of environmentalism and sustainable practices world wide; Focus on cultural sustainability, the history of the built environment, and cultural heritage; Understanding how to share histories and preserve the spaces where history happened.
Teaching: Introduction to Public History, Material Culture, Digital History, American Urban History, America's National Parks, Poverty: Theory and Practice, Nature Wilderness and American Life, African Environmental History, History and Climate Change, Introduction to Historic Preservation, Historical Documentation, Philosophies of Historic Preservation, American Environmental History, Records and Society.
Research: Studying the American Civil War as a Biotic Event (Grant funded in part by American Council of Learned Societies); Research on the adaptive reuse of America's religious buildings.
Student Engagement and Outreach Activities: Volunteer work with local non-profit organizations; Internships doing historic preservation work; Internships conserving historic materials at archives, libraries, and museums; Working with local community groups to share their histories through exhibit and preservation projects.