Directory

Research Interests

• Gender
• Urban History
• U.S. History
• Transnationalism

Current Projects

• Exploring black-white intimacies in antebellum America
• Race and Space in Miami, FL

Recent Projects

• Tuscaloosa, The Nineteenth Century City
• Druid City: A Music Video

Courses Taught

• American Civilization to 1865 (HY 103)
• American Civilization since 1865 (HY 104)
• The Nineteenth Century City (HY 300)
• Bebop to Hip Hop: Young America and Music (HY 430)
• Antebellum America (HY 400)
• Gender, Race and the Urban Space (HY-WS-GRS 500)

Awards and Honors

• 2016 Barbara “Penny” Kanner Prize, Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) for Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America (Northern Illinois University Press, 2015)
• Alternate, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014)
• Co-honoree, Educator of the Year, Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society (2014)
• Bankhead/Summersell Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, University of Alabama (2012-13)
• Alternate, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2012)
• Outstanding Research Writing Award, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Summer Pre-Doctoral Institute (SPI) (2010)
• “The River is Low: Fancy Girls and the Issue of Desire Around One Domestic Slave Trader,” Honorable Mention, Graduate Category, Ruth Murray Essay Competition, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago (2007)

Other Professional Interests

• The Grant Green Story

• “Tracing Black Racial and Spatial Politics in South Florida via Memory,” Journal of Urban History (First published date: January-30-2017 ): 1-21. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144216688467.
• Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black – White Intimacies in Antebellum America (Northern Illinois University Press, June 2015).
• “Mr Ballard, I am compelled to write again”: Beyond Bedrooms and Brothels, a Fancy Girl Speaks,” Black Women, Gender and Families, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2011): 17-40.