EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Associate Professor, Department, African American Studies, Emory University, 2022 – present
Associate Professor, Departments of History and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 2017 – 2022
Assistant Professor, Departments of History and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 2012 – 2017
Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013-2014
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of History and the Africana Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, August 2011 – June 2012
EDUCATION
• Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2011
• M.A., Northwestern University, 2006
• B.A., cum laude, Duke University, 2005
PUBLICATIONS
Books
A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (UNC Press, 2024)
A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle (UNC Press, 2016)