Megan Brett

Digital History Associate

Megan R. Brett is a Digital History Associate. She has worked on a number of projects, including creating content for the award-winning Histories of the National Mall website, and acting as coordinating editor for the Papers of the War Department community transcription project. She acts as the End-User Outreach Lead for the Omeka family of projects, conducting workshops, writing documentation, and coordinating user support. Her specialties at RRCHNM include user experience, accessibility, workshop design and execution, project management, and outreach. She is a doctoral candidate in the department of History and Art History at George Mason University; her work examines family strategies and the formation of national identity for Americans abroad in the post revolutionary period.

Projects

Death By Numbers

DataScribe

Consolation Prize 

Creating Local Linkages

Tropy

ReBuilding the Portfolio

Histories of the National Mall

Papers of the War Department 1784-1800

Omeka