About me...
Here is just a little information about the crazy girl creating these pages.
Since July 2002, the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum is where I call home for about nine hours of my day. First hired to assist on the loan program, I now work as a program manager on a few collections and exhibits projects for the department, and I recently became curator of our collection of cameras from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. In our recent publication After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age, seven artifact essays that I wrote appear (though under my maiden name, Skomer) along with well over one hundred essays written by many of my colleagues in the Division of Space History.
In the fall of 2005, I started my PhD work in American history at George Mason University. I'm now 2/3 done with my coursework, and anticipate starting my dissertation research by the end of 2007.
On a personal level, I got married in September 2006 to Ben Levasseur, who works as a civilian in the Foreign Military Sales division of the Navy. We have two great pets, Twix, our three-year old cat, and Bosco, our two-year old English Springer Spaniel.
My Links
These are a few links that show not only what I am interested in on a professional level (astronaut/NASA photography), but also where I work and how spend my time at school.
- NASA Image eXchange — search tool for any NASA image
- JSC Digital Image Collection — digital images available from the NASA Johnson Space Center
- National Air and Space Museum — home page of the Museum
- History Department at George Mason University — programmatic and other information on the History Department
- Digital History Black Hole blog — my blog for digital history issues
- Clio Meets Bosco — my blog on issues pertaining to my research and other interests