Education

• MA, University of Mississippi, 2020
• BA, University of North Alabama, 2017

Research Interests

• Political, Intellectual, and Cultural History

Current Projects

• Dissertation: “Blacklisted Women: Tallulah Bankhead, Lillian Hellman, and Twentieth-Century Politics.”

Recent Publications

• “Mt. Nebo Cemetery and Isaac Nettles’s Death Mask Gravestones,” Alabama Heritage (Spring 2023).
• “The Politics of Tallulah Bankhead,” Women’s History Network Blog, January 18, 2023.
• “Plastic Paradise: A short history about an unusual home,” Atomic Ranch (Design Issue 2022).
• “Can rappers be jailed for lyrics and image? History shows they can,” The Washington Post, July 18, 2022.
• “The Delta Mansion That Inspired Tennessee Williams,” Deep South Magazine, March 24, 2022.
• “Joe Manchin might be principled. Or he might scorn his own constituents.” Washington Post (January 27, 2022).
• “Out on Good Behaviour Mississippi’s governors have had a unique approach to prison labour and prisoner rehabilitation.” History Today 71, no. 11 (November 2021).
• “Viral sorority TikTok videos share only one side of Southern university life.” Washington Post (August 27, 2021).