Education

DISSERTATION TITLE

Crimes of Discontent: The Contours of Black Women's Lawbreaking in Civil War Era Washington, D.C. 1830-1865

EDUCATION

PhD in History, University of Virginia (in progress)

M.A. in History, University of Virginia (2012)

M.A. in African American Studies, Columbia University (2008)

B.A. in African American Studies and History, Miami University, Ohio (2007)

Biography

COURSES TAUGHT

History of the Civil Rights Movement

Introduction to African American Studies 101

Introduction to African American Studies 102

PUBLICATIONS

Book Review, The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, by Emily Clark, The Historian (forthcoming)

Book Review, Word, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, The Bible & The Rights of African Americans. by Valerie C. Cooper, Journal of African American History (forthcoming)

"From Ona Judge to Michelle Obama: The Historic Thread of Black Women in the White House," Essays in History, 2011

Book Review, Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, ed. Deborah Gray White, SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, 2009

AWARDS

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies

Raven Society Scholarship

University of Virginia, Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowship Award

PRESENTATIONS

Moderator, "Black Studies and the Digital Humanities," The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, University of Virginia (Fall 2013)

Panelist, "A New Dawn of Freedom: Interrogating the Politics of Emancipation in A Sesquicentennial Moment" Annual Meeting of the National Council of Black Studies (Spring 2013)

Co-Chair, "Historicizing the Present," Corcoran Graduate History Conference (Spring 2013)

Presenter, "Behind the Seams: Elizabeth Keckly's Interwoven Stitches Across Race, Class, and Gender " Annual Meeting for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (Fall 2012)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 Member, President's Commission on Slavery and the University, University of Virginia (2013-present)

Member, Board of Directors, Prince William County Historic Preservation Foundation (2013-present)

Member, Young Alumni Board, Miami University of Ohio (2011-present)

Member, Organization of American Historians (2011-present)

Association of Black Women Historians (2010-present)

National Council of Black Studies (2012-present)

Member, Coordinating Council for Women in History (2013-present)

Member, National Council on Public History (2013-present)