I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Nebraska and have worked for several years as a research assistant at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and have been project manager for digital history sites, including Railroads and the Making of Modern America and The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Popular Discourse. In my own work, I have committed to freeware tools whenever possible and my dissertation on women and activism in the American West is informed by mapping and network analysis facilitated by digital tools.