I am a doctoral candidate at Rice University and the Barra Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Early American Art and Material Culture at The McNeil Center for Early American Studies. While I’m not teaching this year, I am thinking a lot about it as I apply for teaching positions throughout the country. Myself and three other McNeil Fellows are blogging this semester about how we incorporate our research into the classroom.
I will defend my dissertation, entitled “The Racialized Politics of Home in Slavery and Freedom,” in April 2017. This project connects the ideas and materialities of black homes to the fight against slavery and white supremacy. My research has been supported by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture and National Museum of American History, Huntington Library, American Antiquarian Society, Winterthur Museum, Duke University Libraries, Virginia Historical Society, and Maryland Historical Society. I am co-editor of Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations: An Atlantic World Anthology, which is under contract with University of Georgia Press, and have a forthcoming article (now available online) in the Journal of Social History. Additionally, I am passionate about public history, having served as a curatorial fellow at a number of institutions, including the Bayou Bend Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and The Henry Ford. I also co-manage the Free Project (http://www.thefreeproject.org/), a national network of student-run anti-human traffickings clubs.
I am a doctoral candidate at Rice University and the Barra Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Early American Art and Material Culture at The McNeil Center for Early American Studies. While I’m not teaching this year, I am thinking a lot about it as I apply for teaching positions throughout the country. Myself and three other McNeil Fellows are blogging this semester about how we incorporate our research into the classroom.
I will defend my dissertation, entitled “The Racialized Politics of Home in Slavery and Freedom,” in April 2017. This project connects the ideas and materialities of black homes to the fight against slavery and white supremacy. My research has been supported by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture and National Museum of American History, Huntington Library, American Antiquarian Society, Winterthur Museum, Duke University Libraries, Virginia Historical Society, and Maryland Historical Society. I am co-editor of Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations: An Atlantic World Anthology, which is under contract with University of Georgia Press, and have a forthcoming article (now available online) in the Journal of Social History. Additionally, I am passionate about public history, having served as a curatorial fellow at a number of institutions, including the Bayou Bend Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and The Henry Ford. I also co-manage the Free Project (http://www.thefreeproject.org/), a national network of student-run anti-human traffickings clubs.