Graduate Alumni I am an alumna of the University of Georgia's History and Classics Departments interested primarily in classical reception, material culture, and the history of tourism. My research centers around the California Missions and their transformation from instruments of imperialism into sites of public history during the waning decades of the nineteenth century. Research Research Areas: Cultural & Intellectual U.S. 19th & 20th Century U.S. West Public History Research Interests: Classical Reception California Mission Tourism Orientalism Material Culture Tourism and Settler Colonialism Dissertation/Thesis Title: Idyllic Imperialism: The California Mission Replica at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904 Degree Completion Date: Fri, 05/14/2021 - 12:00pm Education Education: B.A., University of Georgia, History and Classics (Emphasis in Classical Cultures) 2020 M.A. University of Georgia, History 2021 Other Information Of note: -Junior Fellow-Library of Congress Center for Learning, Literacy, and Engagement, 2020 -First Honor Graduate-University of Georgia, 2020 -Presidential Award of Excellence-University of Georgia, 2020 -Outstanding Student in the Humanities-University of Georgia Honors Program, 2020 -Joe Brown Connally Award-University of Georgia Department of History, 2019
