Résumé | G.E. Beasley

Professional Summary

Historian, digital media, and marketing specialist with 15+ years’ experience in non-profits and academia. Specializes in project management and innovative digital media and pedagogy. Extensive technological skills that are used professionally, as well in the classroom as a history professor.

Management expertise in budget creation, grant and publication writing. Team management experience – whether a staff of 5 to a semester’s worth of students. Success in collaboration with other scholars or peers; an example is the PressForward Project. Analytical, SEO, and research aptitude.

Skills

Professional Experience – General

NMAAHC, Smithsonian Institution |Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc.; Project Manager; March 2019 – present

Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Digital History
Working at the intersections of media, technology, and community
Supports museum operations and innovation

George Mason University, the Center of History and New Media; Research Fellow; August 2012- January 2014; Summer 2015 – January 2016

Editor-in-Chief for the development of an Art History PressForward Publication (website forthcoming)
Served as mentor for Getty Institute funded program for Art Historians which explored how to use digital media in research under the direction of Sharon Leon and Sheila Brennan | http://arthistory2015.doingdh.org
Worked as part of the PressForward Initiative: creating new modes and new platforms for scholarship beyond traditional forms (http://pressforward.org) under the direction of Sean Takats
Compiled/conducted research as needed, which included data analytics (social and web data), emerging opportunities, and scholarly insights
Conceptualized, implemented, and completed total redesign of Toynbee Prize Foundation website (toynbeeprize.org)
Served as editor the “Toynbee Prize Foundation” (a website collecting information on the state of the field for global history and served as co-editor for “Global Perspectives in Digital History” (a website devoted to analyzing the implementation of digital media in history from a global viewpoint | gpdh.org

Beasley & Associates; Owner; Alexandria, Virginia; October 2005-August 2009

A public relations/marketing consulting firm where scope of work included, but was not limited to:
- Coordinated PR and marketing campaigns, which included: writing and distributing press releases, creating media lists, contact with media outlets, following up on review of copy requests and review statuses, crafting and managing social media
- Marketing analysis and research, which included development, budgeting, marketing, communications, and branding efforts
- Crafted innovative data and analytics representations that allowed insights to be easily understood and extracted from large amounts of data and analytical output
- Contracts included: Director of Marketing and Communications for the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C. (2007-2009); Director of Government Travel for Topaz International (2005-2007)
- Volunteer positions: Civilian Art Projects and The Textile Museum

Professional Experience – Academic

George Mason University; Adjunct Professor, Department of History & Art History; Fairfax, Virginia; Summer 2009 – Fall 2009, Summer 2014 – present

World History and New Media “Fairy Tale, Folklore, Mythology & World History,” Digital History, Western Civilization, World History, Intro to Visual Art, American Studies, Introduction to Graduate Studies for International Scholars, University Life (Taught a tailored seminar course for first-year international students)

University of Mary Washington; Adjunct Professor, Department of History & American Studies; Fredericksburg, Virginia; Fall 2016 – present

Western Civilization, History of Fairy Tales, Saints and Demons, History of the Supernatural, Culinary History

Northern Virginia Community College; Adjunct Professor, Division of Languages, Arts, and Social Sciences; Manassas/Loudon/Reston, Virginia; Fall 2016 – present

Western Civilization, World History, History of the Middle East

Job responsibilities:

Independent teaching responsibility for all aspects of curriculum planning, classroom instruction, and grading
Work with students to conduct research and to critically evaluate the quality of sources to include both written and visual
Encourage students to develop academic goals and the work to tailor assignment to these goals
Use a course website on the WordPress platform to organize content and communicate with students outside of class to encourage clarity and conversation
Participate in individual meetings with students to maintain contact outside of the classroom
Evaluate student work with an emphasis on skills that are transferable to other classes and contexts; such as traditional and digital research, citation and annotation using the Zotero platform, public speaking, and group assignments
Integrate students’ own experiences into class discussion to encourage students to think of their role in achieving academic success
Work with the students to develop strategies for responding effectively to a wide-range of academic abilities while reaching course objectives, and historical and digital fluencies.
Modeled course around the theme of “Power and Privilege” to incorporate personal investigation of their role as a university student at an American university
Worked with students developing proposals for Community Service Projects to implement during the academic year 2015-16

Language proficiencies

Italian Reading Comprehension, Writing, & Speaking | French & Russian Reading Comprehension | Beginner Polish, Arabic, & Turkish | HTML | CSS

Software proficiencies (sampling)

HTML | CSS | XML | JavaScript | WordPress |Zotero | Omeka | Adobe Premiere Elements | GitHub | Macromedia Tools | Smartsheet | Google Analytics |Collectrium |Lexis-Nexis | Westlaw | ProQuest | Jstor | Project Muse | PressForward | Access | CRM |Blackboard | Raiser’s Edge | Basecamp |Salesforce |Microsoft Office Suite

Education

Ph.D., History, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; 2018

Major Field: Comparative World History
Minor Field: “Visual Culture, The Museum, And National Identity”; Passed, December 2010
Minor Field: “Using Digital Media: The 21st Century Historian”; Passed, May 2011
Dissertation: “Defining Culture, Creating Identity, Building Nations: An Examination of the Sarmatian Myth”
- Committee: Drs. T. Mills Kelly (Chair), Peter Stearns, Rob DeCaroli
  - Worked in terms of broad topics and themes, such as nationalism, and hone them into a highly specialized knowledge of multilateral relationships, identity creation, and foreign policy.
  - Planned and carried out historical studies including, but not limited to: analysis of visual culture as an essential component of national identity creation.
  - Incorporated a digital archive of primary sources (written and visual) and translate texts using a combination of digital resources: Omeka and Scalar.

M.A., Art History, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; May 2008

Phi Beta Delta

Graduate Certificate, Museum Exhibition, Planning, And Design, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; August 2006

Created exhibition prototype and marketing proposal on the History of Jazz for the Smithsonian Museum of American History

Selected awards, honors, and publications

Center for Teaching and Faculty Excellence, Thank a Teacher Award, Fall 2016 | Excellence in Teaching Award, George Mason University’s Women’s Volleyball Team, Fall 2015 | The Provost’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship, George Mason University, Spring/Summer 2014 | The Provost’s Dissertation Travel Grant, George Mason University, 2013-2014 | McKinnon-Morton Fellowship, 2013-2014 |Nominated as a “Person On Campus Who Has Helped Them The Most In Their College Success” on the 2012 Beacon Map-Works Survey | University Fellowship, George Mason University’s History Department, 2012-2013 | Departmental Fellowship, George Mason University’s History Department, 2010-2011, 2009-2010| Phi Beta Delta, Honors Society For International Students| “Pompeii And The Roman Villa,” Citation, National Gallery Of Art Exhibition Catalog| “The Byzantine Legacy And Ottoman Tradition In Imperial Textiles,” Honorable Mention, The Order Of St. Constantine| Presented paper on “The Cultural Appropriation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks” at the Louvre, Paris

Associations

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