Scholarly work

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


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