Advisor: Professor Thomas Andrews • Amy is a PhD student interested in urban environments and constructions of identity in the American West. She earned a BA in History (Magna cum Laude) in 2012, and an MA in History in 2014 from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs under advisor Paul W. Harvey. Her research interests include cultural and environmental history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, theater, cemeteries, historical memory, and public history. Amy's current research examines construction of settler western identity in the US West through town building and boosterism using Pueblo, Colorado as a case study.
Amy lectures at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs for the departments of History, Humanities, and Theatre, works as a freelance indexer for academic books, and writes and produces a podcast, History in a Few Words. Amy is a member of the Western History Association (WHA), the Western Association for Women Historians (WAWH), and the Southern Historical Association (SHA). She is Co-chair of the Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, serves on the Contingent and Adjunct Faculty Committee for the WHA, and served on the WHA Planning Committee in 2020.
When not in class, Amy loves to knit and crochet, sing, and spend time with her family and dog.