Current Positions
Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum | Skillman, NJ
Radcliffe '75 Oral History Project | Radcliffe Harvard Class of 1975
The Princeton & Slavery Project | Princeton University
- Marketing and Digital Projects Manager (Oct 2021 - present)
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)
Past Positions
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
The Princeton & Slavery Project | 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)
The Princeton & Slavery Project | Princeton University
- Research Coordinator (Jan 2013 - Dec 2016)
Professional Service
Humanities Council | Princeton Public Library
- Council Member (2022 - 2023)
- Co-Chair, Scholarly and Public Programs Working Group (April 2021 - Present)
- Interview Facilitator (Jan 2018 - Aug 2018)
Education
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Princeton, NJ
Ph.D., History (2019)
Dissertation: "Willing Freedom: An American Family and the 19th-century Landscape of Race"
M.A., History (2014)
Exam fields: United States from 1789-1920, African American History from 1619-present, Slavery and Emancipation in the Atlantic World
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
Tuscaloosa, AL
B.A., History and American Studies (2012)
Summa cum laude with honors, Phi Beta Kappa
Princeton, NJ
Ph.D., History (2019)
Dissertation: "Willing Freedom: An American Family and the 19th-century Landscape of Race"
M.A., History (2014)
Exam fields: United States from 1789-1920, African American History from 1619-present, Slavery and Emancipation in the Atlantic World
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
Tuscaloosa, AL
B.A., History and American Studies (2012)
Summa cum laude with honors, Phi Beta Kappa
Select Conferences & Invited Talks
Community Events
- "Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom," Somerset County 2nd Annual Juneteenth Celebration (June 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)