Sidney Wickham Email & Phone Number

Lincoln, Ne, Us

Lincoln, Ne, Us

Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Area

• Coordinates different professional historians to come in and talk about their experiences in their own fields.• Sets up activities for meetings including meetings about trivia focused on history as well as any conferences that are being attended.

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• Created a budget for the Kappa Delta Pi-Chapter Sorority 2024-2025 fiscal year of more than $50,000.• Meeting with members regarding their accounts and creating payment plans to help them be successful.• In charge of keeping other council members within their budgets and ensuring they follow proper steps.• Submits a monthly finance report with all recorded and detailed transactions to ensure that everything is being paid properly.• Writes checks and works with council members on events as well as buys items through a Kappa Delta credit card.• Committed 20 community service hours through Kappa Delta’s philanthropy, Girl Scouts by working with young girls in the classroom to provide them with leadership skills.

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Contacts distant relatives, libraries, and historical societies nation-wide to receive more information about lineages and specific ancestors. Preserves, updates, and creates family genealogical records and heirlooms. Researches individual ancestors dating to the 1700’s using digitalized and family records. Established four lines of ancestry going back to Prussia in the 1700s.

Piombino, Tuscany, Italy

• Set up the Total Station (GIS) and used triangulation off of local fixed points• Took the geographical coordinate points of stratigraphic units and special finds• Imported and converted raw local coordinates to global coordinates for use in Quantum GIS.• Filled out Stratigraphic Unit Sheets, Stratigraphic Masonry Sheets, and Stratigraphic Revetment Sheets.• Learned how to draw polygons of stratigraphic units to track how the Poggio Del Molino Excavation 2024 season proceeded using Quantum GIS.• Learned how to reformat data sheets for programming the GIS to input the geographic coordinates to fit into the program.• Created a portfolio of all of the experiences which can be seen here: https://sites.google.com/view/wickhamportfolio• Helped take scans of different soil layers for Poggio Del Molino’s official records.• Helped take official photos to construct a 3D model on Quantum GIS.• Helped excavate multiple artifacts and walls from an ancient Roman military settlement.• Learned proper preservation techniques used in the field to transfer items to safely relocate items to more secure sites.• Removed soil layers, troweled, and brushed different layers thoroughly to learn more about the Roman military settlement.• Researched the site and helped update information about the site and what has been excavated.• Worked with Ph.D. and Graduate students to better understand the processes.• Completed and scored in the 90 percentiles above for all subcategories for the Cultural Intelligence Test (CQ) categories in how to approach multicultural situations.

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• Helped research secondary sources in Love Library and looked into primary source census reports and other online resources to learn more information about Mexican American teachers.• Met weekly with Dr. Laura Muñoz about research, specifically on Newspapers.com and Ancestry.com.• Met and conversed with other historians specializing in the history of Mexican Americans.• Worked 8-12 hours a week.

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• Helped research different types of music in different cultures and how it influenced their society through particular songs.• Met and emailed weekly with Dr. Dawne Curry about the work that was being conducted.• Was trained and listened to specific lines in songs to see how they differed from music that was not considered protest music.

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Worked with various museum curators and experts to learn more about how museum exhibits are designed and put together. Researched how molas were made and collaborated with students from Japan to build relationships and better understand museums. Learned how to specifically to preserve and care for quilts depending on their conditions and designs. Created the Guna People Exhibit and created labels for the Everyday Objects section of the exhibit. Created a presentation for the public about the Everyday Objects section of the exhibits for the opening exhibition

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Worked with Integrated Collection Management System (ICMS) to research catalog records to identify and correct errors in the system. Provided hands-on preservation of objects to create a more stable environment for long-term storage needs and successfully maintained order of and transfer of artifacts/museum objects into temporary housing. Attended a Gaylord Archival Meeting on behalf of the museum on how to preserve museum artifacts and family heirlooms. Revised and edited the Collections Management Policy for 2023. Attended weekly meetings with direct supervisor discussing how to become the best leader possible in different environments through the book Radical Inclusion. Communicated with various anticipated donors regarding items they are interested in donating to the museum collection. Revised and updated the Scope of Collection Statement for 2023. Analyzed over 100 cannons around the Chattanooga area owned by the park for annual inventory, maintenance, and preservation purposes. Researched potential donations for the museum and provided Accession Proposal Reviews to submit for review to the CAC Committee. Participated in a National Park Service night monitoring of the tri-colored bat presence on Lookout Mountain. Conducted housekeeping for multiple visitor centers by changing out pest traps, monitoring the temperature, relative humidity, and UV exposure to objects on display.

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Conducted various research on the culture of the Nayarit people with Dr. Phil Geib through physically noting the detailing of various Nayarit Figurines. Helped conduct a Computed Tomography (CT) Scan using a Nikon Industrial X-ray to create a 3D scan of a Nayarit figurine. Analyzed and utilized the 3D scan to make new insights into the culture of the Nayarit people as to how their society functioned, a more detailed look into the burials, and what the pottery process looked like. Gave an oral presentation about Nayarit figurines at the Nebraska Academy of Sciences Conference.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Guided people and answered questions throughout the museum about Denver’s well- loved activist and philanthropist who helped hundreds during her life. Providing detailed knowledge to the public for interpretation of Molly Brown’s life. Presented in front of more than 20 people at a time throughout the house, specifically recalling architectural elements of the house and its unique design. Provided customer service to museum patrons and assisting with their needs. Managed money and was responsible for the accountability of costs within gift shop.

Education record

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Varsity Girls' Basketball, Varsity Girls' Tennis, Book Club, Spanish National Honors Society, National Honors.