Expertise

Research and Creative Interests:

  • race and media
  • film history
  • journalism history
  • visual culture
  • print culture
  • African American cinema.

I am an historian of film, mass media, race, and African American history.

Research Interests:

  • African American History
  • Diaspora and Race
  • Film, Media and Popular Culture
  • Built Environment
  • Religion.

Keywords:

  • 20th century
  • U.S. History
  • African Diaspora History
  • Cultural History
  • Digital History
  • Film, Photography and Visual Culture.
Communities
Media Studies, Multimedia Communication, North American Studies, Journalism, Chicano/a Studies, Film Studies, History
Degrees
PhD, Graduate Center, The City University of New York, History, 2013
MA, Hunter College, The City University of New York, Integrated Media Arts, 2007
MA, Columbia University, African American Studies, 2005
BA, New York University, East Asian Studies, 2001