Education

• BA, Mount Mary University, 2004
• MLIS, Indiana University-Purdue University, 2022

Research Interests

• Uncovering the experiences and history of enslaved men, women, and children in Alabama.
• History as a tool to nurture healing in communities.
• The links between history and education, community, and social justice.
• Genealogy and local history.
• Public history.
• Oral history.
• Community participatory networking.

Conference Presentations

• “The Storied Life of Dr. George Washington Coffey, an Early African-American Physician in Gadsden, Alabama,” Gulf South History & Humanities Conference, Gulfport, MS, October 13-15, 2022.

Service

• Copy editor, Southern Historian (2023).
• Judge, Alabama History Day (2023).

Awards & Honors

• Student Research Fellow, Friends of the Alabama Archives, Alabama Department of Archives and History, 2023
• Cauthen Fellowship Award from the Alabama Folklife Association, 2023
• Departmental Fellowship, Department of History, The University of Alabama, 2022-3