EDUCATION 

Harvard University – Cambridge, Massachusetts – Ph.D. African and African American Studies (Expected)

University of Virginia – Charlottesville, Virginia – M.A History (May 2023)

Fisk University – Nashville, Tennessee – B.A History and African American Studies (May 2021)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• African American History
• Black Studies
• History of Education
• Race, Space & Place
• 19th & 20th Century America
• Intellectual History
• Public Humanities
• Urban History
• Cultural Studies
• Capitalism & Philanthropy
• Legacies of Slavery 
• Black Digital Humanities

PUBLICATIONS

Washington Post. “The Air Pollution Disaster That Echoes in the Ohio Train Derailment.” February 22, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/02/22/air-pollution-disaster-that-echoes-ohio-train-derailment/

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Black Teacher Archive (2023) · Harvard University Graduate School of Education Libraries & the Mellon Foundation

The Memory Project Archival Research Team (2022-Present) · The University of Virginia Karsh Institute of Democracy 

“Remembering the First Black College: The Extended Life of Avery College” (2021-2023) · University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences & Department of History https://doi.org/10.18130/H6R1-GK21  

Historical Thinking Skills Social Studies Project (2022) · Fairfax County Public Schools & the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence

Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site Ethnographic Study (2021) · The University of Virginia Center for Race and Public Education in the South & The United States National Park Service

“Educating The Racist Republic: The Progress and Development of Race, Schooling and Educational Philosophy in Urban America, 1834-1933” (2019-2021) · United Negro College Fund, Mellon Foundation and Fisk University W.E.B Honors Program

Women of Rosenwald: Curating Social Justice Through the Arts, 1924-1948 (2019) · Fisk University & Vanderbilt University Center for Digital Humanities

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Court Square and the Central Virginia Slave Trade, 1831-1865” – Memory Works: A Symposium on Remembering and Reckoning with Slavery’s Legacies, Sewanee, Tennessee, October 2022 

“Developing Philosophies of Black Education, 1865-1933” – Tennessee Collegiate Honors Council Virtual Conference, February 2021

“How Black Educative Systems Shaped Along American Educative Ideals” – Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Virtual Southeastern Regional Conference, November 2020

“The New Negro’s New Campus: Transformations of the Black College Campus in the Early 20^th Century” – Fisk University Research Symposium, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2019 

“Tapping into Tradition: The Emergence, Endurance and Evolution of Black College Queens”- Tennessee Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Hendersonville, Tennessee, February 2019

“The Path of the Least Resistance: A Case Study of Urban Renewal in Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill” – University of Virginia Summer Research Symposium, Charlottesville, Virginia, July 2018; Leadership Alliance National Symposium, Hartford, Connecticut, July 2018

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship – University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Corcoran Department of History, 2021-2023

Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers Scholar – Phillips Academy at Andover, 2020-2023

Currier Scholar Award – Fisk University Department of History, 2021

Presidential Scholarship Award – Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Educational Testing Services, 2020-2021

Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship Award – United States of America Department of State, 2019

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship – United Negro College Fund, Mellon Foundation and Fisk University, 2019-2021

Leadership Alliance Mellon Initiative Digital Humanities Fellowship – The Leadership Alliance, Mellon Foundation and The University of Virginia, 2018

CERTIFICATIONS

Advanced Library and Research Skills Certification, Emory University Libraries, June 30, 2019