She has a master’s degree in heritage preservation and a PhD in public history from Georgia State University. She is the author of A Tough Little Patch of History: “Gone with the Wind” and the Politics of Memory (2014) and co-editor of Museums in a Global Context: National Identity, International Understanding (2013). Before coming to KSU, she served as the campus preservation specialist and the director and curator of Historic Berry at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. She has worked as a historian for the National Park Service and for the Historic Preservation Division of the State of Georgia.