My work exists at the intersection of digital humanities and medieval studies where I use multispectral imaging techniques to recover otherwise illegible texts.  Within medieval studies, I specialize in medieval cartography. My personal focus in MSI and in the UCCS DH Center is on figuring out low-cost and accessible technology solutions. I firmly believe that to be able to work with the digital object created through multispectral imaging, one must first understand the physial object. To that end, I teach classes on Digital humanities, book history, medieval manuscripts and literature.  My recent publications include  "Heavenward Gaze, Earthly Ambitions: The Political Commentary of the Vercelli Map's Ostrich" in Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture (2023), "Fragments under the Lens: A Case Study of Multispectral versus Hyperspectral  Imaging for Manuscript Recovery" in Digital Philology (2023),  “The New ‘Dark Archive’: Multispectral imaging, digital surrogates, and the new ‘big data’ problem” in  Dark Archive (2023), and “All that we See is Vision”: William Blake’s Four Zoas Manuscript and Multispectral Imaging” in Manuscript Studies in William Blake (2024). I also recently published with Dr. Heather Wacha, a digital critical edition of the Vercelli Mappa Mundi on the Digital Mappa platform. My research has been funded by the UCCS LAS Dean's Scholar award, the Timmerhaus Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities among others. 

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