Expertise

Specializes in Antebellum U.S. History, with an emphasis on correspondences between that era and other eras as well as transnational topics involving race, space, and gender.

Subejct areas:

 

  • Gender
  • Urban History
  • United States History
  • Transnationalism

Current Projects

  • Exploring black-white intimacies in antebellum America.
  • Race and Space in Miami, FL.

My next research project focuses on racial and spatial politics in South Florida. I am, among other things, exploring Zora Neale Hurston’s understudied experiences in South Florida during the winter and spring of 1950.

One running thread throughout all of my work is my deep interest how human beings encounter one another. My other professional interests include film and art.

Past Affiliations

Predoctoral Fellow, History, University of Alabama (past)

Communities
History
Degrees
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, History, 2013
MA, University of Chicago, History, 2008
MA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Dance and Related Studies, 2005
BS, University of Miami, Broadcast Journalism and Political Science, 1989
Keywords
caribbean islands honduras urban history american history english language or literature african americans geography cultural geography
Honors

Barbara "Penny" Kanner Award, Western Association of Women Historians, 2016

Associations
Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)
National Council on Public Historians (NCPH)
Southeastern Women Studies Association (SEWSA)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
The Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association