
As an American Studies scholar, my work engages the fields of African-American History and Culture, Oral History, and Urban History. This page offers a sampling of my scholarship, both academic and public.
“More Involvement from Black Churches Could Increase the Success of Liberal Activism” The Washington Post “Made by History,” Feb. 22, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/21/more-involvement-black-churches-could-increase-success-liberal-activism/
Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark (under contract with Rutgers University Press)
“Responsible Relationships in Historical Commemoration”
National Council on History, 2019 // Available here
“Narrative of the Krueger-Scott Mansion Project: Constructing African-American History”
New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017 // Available here
“Over My Dead Body: Louise Epperson and the Battle Against the Medical School”
Newest Americans: Stories from the Global City, 2016 // Available here
“Dear, dear jackass! Don’t you understand that the past is the present; that without what was, nothing is?’” – W.E.B. Du Bois