Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

African American Studies
Northwestern University
2013

Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.)

Africana Studies and Research Center
Cornell University
2007

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

African American and African Studies
University of Virginia
2000

Intro to Africana (African American) Studies

Black Women in America

Internship / Practicum

Black Student Union Faculty/Staff Award for Outstanding Black Achievement and Excellence in Teaching, University of Washington-Seattle; 2024

Black Opportunity Fund, University of Washington, ($10,000 to organize wellness retreat for Black faculty); 2023

Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington, ($31,000 plus one quarter release for scholar award); 2021-2022

Book Chapters

Black Conservative Dissent in The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century

From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals; performers and protest activists; institutions and organizations; and educators and religious leaders.

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Teaching the 1964 Freedom Summer Project in Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

Speaking to the critical pedagogical need to teach civil rights history accurately and effectively, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on iconic leaders of the 1950s and 1960s to examine the broadly configured origins, evolution, and outcomes of African Americans' struggle for freedom. Essays provide strategies for teaching famous and forgotten civil rights people and places, suggestions for using music and movies, frameworks for teaching self-defense and activism outside the South, a curriculum guide for examining the Black Panther Party, and more.

Pan-Africanism in Theory and Praxis in Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge

Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge is both a reader and an introspective tribute, comprised of writings by James Turner and commentary from several of his former students. The book strives to underscore critical connections between multiple dimensions of Turner's legacy (as scholar, activist, institution-builder, teacher, and mentor), while also aiming to contribute to the growing historicized literature on the Black Studies movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Beyond the ‘Great Men’ Canon of Black Intellectual History

Beyond the ‘Great Men’ Canon of Black Intellectual History

Article in Black Perspectives at aaihs.org

Freedom Summer and Its Legacies in the Classroom

Freedom Summer and Its Legacies in the Classroom

In planning the companion courses that we describe below—“Freedom Summer” and “Mapping Virginia in the Civil Rights Era”—we endeavored to bear the findings of the Southern Policy Law Center study in mind, as well as to confront critiques of the familiar narratives of the civil rights movement by introducing our students to its complexities in general, but particularly to the history and legacies of the dramatic moment that was the summer of 1964.