Education
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | Princeton, NJ
Ph.D., History (2019)
M.A., History (2014)
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | Tuscaloosa, AL
B.A., History and American Studies (2012)
Summa cum laude with honors, McNair Scholars Program, Phi Beta Kappa
Ph.D., History (2019)
M.A., History (2014)
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | Tuscaloosa, AL
B.A., History and American Studies (2012)
Summa cum laude with honors, McNair Scholars Program, Phi Beta Kappa
Work History
Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum | Skillman, NJ
Radcliffe '75 Oral History Project | Radcliffe Harvard Class of 1975
The Princeton & Slavery Project | Princeton University
- Education and Exhibit Manager (March 2023 - present)
- Marketing and Digital Projects Manager (Oct 2021 - Feb 2023)
Radcliffe '75 Oral History Project | Radcliffe Harvard Class of 1975
- Project Manager (Aug 2021 - present)
The Princeton & Slavery Project | Princeton University
- Editor and Project Manager (Jan 2017 - present)
- Research Coordinator (Jan 2013 - Dec 2016)
National September 11 Memorial & Museum | New York, NY
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton | Princeton University
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs | Princeton University
- Manager of Exhibition Development (June 2019 - July 2021)
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton | Princeton University
- Technical Lead - UNOW & Then Oral History Project (April 2018 - April 2019)
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs | Princeton University
- Researcher - Woodrow Wilson Marker Committee (Jan 2018 - June 2018)
Professional Service & Memberships
National Coalition of Independent Scholars
- Full Member (2023 - present)
- Council Member (2022 - 2023)
- Co-Chair, Scholarly and Public Programs Working Group (April 2021 - present)
- Interview Facilitator (Jan 2018 - Aug 2018)
Honors & Awards
The Huntington Library's 2023 Shapiro Book Prize for Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Select Exhibitions
Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
- "From Fiddlers to Jazz Bands: African American Music in the Sourlands" | Curator | SSAAM (April 2023)
- "African American Women of the Sourlands" | Curator | SSAAM (March 2023)
- "Love Letters" | Curator | Montgomery Public Library in Montgomery, NJ (February 2023)
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
- "September 11, 2001: The Day that Changed the World" | Content Lead | Downloadable poster exhibition (September 2021)
- "World Trade Center History Online" | Contributor | Online exhibition
Select Conferences & Invited Talks
Public Talks
- "2023 Shapiro Book Prize Lecture," The Huntington Library (March 2023)
- "Who Gets to Live the American Dream?," Fridays with Friends, Morven Museum & Garden (February 2023)
- "Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom," Somerset County 2nd Annual Juneteenth Celebration (June 2022)
- "Historical Research as Anti-Racism," Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton Racial Justice Ministry (January 2022)
- Keynote, Historical Research Conference for Teens, Scarsdale Public Library (August 2021)
- "African American Heritage in New Jersey," Embracing Cross-Cultural Diversity, Lead New Jersey, Morven Museum & Garden (July 2021, April 2019)
- "Slavery and Freedom in Elizabeth, New Jersey," Siloam Hope First Presbyterian Church (February 2020)
- "Sharing Untold Stories," Crossroads of the American Revolution and the New Jersey Historical Commission, Morven Museum & Garden (January 2020)
- "Stories from the Princeton & Slavery Project," Nassau Club of Princeton (January 2019)
- "Race and Slavery in Our Community," Princeton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (October 2018)
- "Princeton and Slavery: A Paradox of American History," Princeton Club of Northern California (April 2018)
- "Race and Slavery in a Northern Town," Princeton Evergreen Forum, Princeton Senior Resource Center (February 2018)
Academic Events
- "Writing Family History: Subjects, Sources, and Significance," 2022 SHEAR Annual Meeting, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (July 2022)
- "Building a Place for History: Rediscovery & Renewal," 2022 New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference (June 2022).
- "What I Found in the Archive," Department of History, Smith College (March 2021)
- "Negotiating Racial Boundaries in the 19th-century American West," 2020 WHA Annual Meeting, Western History Association (October 2020)
- “Monuments, Memory, and Memorialization in the Many Wests,” 2020 WHA Annual Meeting, Western History Association (October 2020)
- "Writing Family History with Legal Documents," Writing History Seminar, Columbia University (March 2020)
- "A 'Not So Entirely Northern' School: Princeton University and the Antebellum South," 2019 SHEAR Annual Meeting, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (July 2019)
- "The Civil War at Princeton," A Campus Divided: War at Princeton, Princeton University (June 2018)
- "Fathers and Slaves: Social Experiences, Constitutional Conflicts, and Religious Legacies of Slavery in American Life," 2018 OAH Annual Meeting, Organization of American Historians (April 2018)
- "Landscapes of Race," Modern America Workshop, Princeton University (February 2018)
- "Town and Gown: Race and Violence in Princeton, New Jersey," Princeton & Slavery Project Symposium, Princeton University (November 2017)