RELATED EXPERIENCE

Instructional Designer & Content Creator, College of the Humanities & Social Sciences, (2025)

Educational Consultant, Department of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton (2020)

Academic Coordinator, Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, California State University, Fullerton (2005–2006)

SCHOLARLY PROJECTS 

Digital Video Series (Commissioned Educational Resource)

Thriving in College: A Crash Course Video Series. Commissioned by the Dean’s Office, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, California State University, Fullerton, September 2025.
A 14-module Canvas-based resource with interactive videos, quizzes, and learning tools designed for adoption across H&SS courses, serving 20 departments and over 9,000 students in its first semester.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT

Cultural Preservationists: Online Genealogy Communities and the Meaning of Family History

This interdisciplinary project examines how online genealogy communities function as a site of historical knowledge production and meaning making in American life. Through ethnographic analysis of Jewish American and Cuban American digital communities, it explores how amateur historians navigate the particular obstacles of diasporic distance, archival gaps, and various commercial platforms. These spaces produce family narratives that shape broader understandings of memory, identity, and the practice of history.

HONORS & AWARDS

Sabbatical Leave, Funded semester leave for spring 2027

Lecturer of the Year, College of the Humanities & Social Sciences, California State University, Fullerton (2025)

PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA

Digital Participatory Culture and the TV Audience: Everyone’s a Critic

Ethnographic Monograph, Palgrave-Macmillan, July 4, 2016.

“Fanzines,” Material Culture in America: Understanding Everyday Life, Helen Sheumaker and Shirley Teresa Wajda, Editors. ABC-CLIO, Publishers. Published November 2007. 

“Popular Culture,” Material Culture in America: Understanding Everyday Life, Helen Sheumaker and Shirley Teresa Wajda, Editors. ABC-CLIO, Publishers. Published November 2007. 

“Television & Radio Commercials,”Material Culture in America: Understanding Everyday Life,

Helen Sheumaker and Shirley Teresa Wajda, Editors. ABC-CLIO, Publishers. Published November 2007. 

CONFERENCES

Session Chair and Comment, “The Year of the Woman: A Shifting Tide of Women’s Activism in the 1990s” Western Association of Women Historians 50th Annual Conference, Davis, CA, April 2018

 “Permanent Hiatus: The Life and Death of Television Without Pity”

Popular Culture Association Annual Conference

Seattle, Washington, March 2016

“Who Is In Charge Here? Television Without Pity and Notions of Authorship in the Digital Age”

Popular Culture Association Annual Conference

Washington D.C., March 2013

Session Chair, “Remembering Ghostly Histories:  Franklin Students Explore the Re- Presentation of the Houghton Mansion Tragedies” Ghostly Matters in American Studies, American Studies Graduate Student Conference, Fullerton, CA March 2006

“Televisionwithoutpity.com and Online Agency”

Claremont Graduate University Cultural Studies Conference, Claremont, CA, December 2002.

“Mything in Action: Re-envisioning Male Myth/History in the Xenaverse”

California American Studies Association (CASA) Conference, Riverside, CA, May 2002.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Prospectus Review for the manuscript Popular Culture: Key Questions by Stacy

Takacs, Media and Cultural Studies Editor, Routledge, New York, NY March 2012.

Thesis Supervision, CSUF American Studies Master’s Thesis, 2026

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• American Historical Association

• American Studies Association

• Popular Culture Association

• Society for Cinema and Media Studies

• Western Association of Women Historians

TRAINING CERTIFICATES:

“HSS Online Accessibility Workshop” April 2026

"AI Tools for Teaching & Learning", August 2024

"NeuroPREP (Professors Relationship and Education Program in Educating

Neurodivergent College Students)", June 2024

“Grading & Rubrics in Canvas", March 2024“

Teaching Online Using QLT” - October 2022

“Teaching Remotely in Canvas - Intermediate Level”-  May 2021

“Powerpoint Design” - August 2017

“Supporting Disabled Students” Workshop - May 2017

SKILLS

Bilingual: English/Spanish (intermediate)

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Mac Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Prezi, Photoshop, Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, Camtasia, and various social media platforms.