Women on Trial: Exploring the History of American Women through Criminal Trials
I created a course using leading theories from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to teach undergraduates how to think historically about women and sensational trials. Read more…
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Executions of Women in the United States
I applied data visualization and querying techniques (including Google APIs and PHP/MySql) to data from “The Executions in the United States” database to identify patterns in state-sanctioned executions of women between 1608 and 2002. Read more…
Death in Diorama: The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
In the 1940s, a Chicago heiress, built the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, composite crime scene models recreated on a one-inch-to-one-foot scale. This project illuminates the Nutshells and their place in the history of forensic science. Read More…