Research Interests

• Southern History
• American History
• Women and Gender
• Politics
• Society and Class

Recent Publications

• Review of Kelly D. Mezurek’s For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops. Kent, OH: Kent State University, 2016. Published on H-War (September 2018).
• Review of Steven M. Stowe’s Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Published in The Journal of Slavery and Abolition (April 2020).

Awards and Honors

• The White House Historical Association Research Fellowship (2023)
• The Georgia Historical Society’s Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Research Fellow (2022)
• Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Graduate Level: “From Plow to Podium: Political Activity of Poor and Yeoman Women in Civil War Georgia” (2016)