I acquire a diverse range of books encompassing various historical subfields including, Africana and African American history and studies, US history, Southern history, history of education, cultural history, and public history. Within each of these subfields, I am interested in scholarship from the bottom that adds to and challenges current and historical debates using historical and interdisciplinary approaches and tackling topics and issues centered on cultural complexities such as race, class, gender and sexuality, labor, education, performance, activism, and material culture. My geographical interests span from local to national to transnational contexts, and I am committed to reaching readers both within and beyond academic circles. I am eager to form a collaborative partnership with my authors where mutual learning leads to a demystification of the publishing process and the publication of scholarship that encourages readers to re-envision historical figures and events through innovative and inclusive perspectives.
I am a native North Carolinian, hailing from Burlington, N.C. I received a B.A. and M.A. in history from North Carolina Central University. I joined UNC Press in 2017.
Conferences I can usually be found at include the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); American Historical Association (AHA); African American Intellectual Historical Society (AAIHS); Southern Historical Association (SHA); Organization of American Historians (OAH); and Reacting to the Past (RTTP).
Series
- Boundless South (Karen L. Cox and Françoise N. Hamlin, editors)
- The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture (Waldo E. Martin Jr., Patricia Sullivan, editors)
- Reacting to the Past
Contact
Email: [email protected]