Research Interests
Director: Lehigh Valley Railroad Digital Archive (LVRRDA), a curated multidisciplinary project that fuses archival research, structured metadata, OCR-analyzed texts, and artificial intelligence tools to reconstruct the long arc of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (1833–1976). Combining a growing archive of over 500 cataloged visual assets with historical narrative, genealogical context, and geospatial analysis, this project reimagines the railroad not simply as a transportation network, but as a living cultural organism embedded in the deep structure of American industrial and aesthetic life.
Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research
Frances L. Phillips Travel Scholarship ·
1998
Awarded by: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Travel fellowship (10 weeks in Italy, Greece, and Turkey) in support of an independent photographic research project to document Byzantine architecture and mosaic art.