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
Work History
Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum | Skillman, NJ
  • 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
  • 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)
Humanities Council | Princeton Public Library
  • Council Member (2022 - 2023)
Revolution NJ | New Jersey Historical Commission
  • Co-Chair, Scholarly and Public Programs Working Group (April 2021 - present)​​
Voices of Princeton | Princeton Public Library
  • 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
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)​​