Welcome. I am: a history prof doing archival justice work using digital methods; rewriting historical narrative through recovery of marginalized voices
This site is: a repository for my research on Black self-emancipation + digital scholarship
a portal to resources for antiracist work
a snapshot of students past and present and what they are doing now
a profile of my courses and public engagement through events & media
... an ongoing experiment.
COURSES
Selected Course Materials
These are some of the sites I use in my teaching and research.
I have collected some links to racial justice organizations of interest.
My current work examines the world of ritual and revival and its meaning for political awakening in refugee camps during wartime Black rebellions that catalyzed Emancipation. These camps were known as "contraband camps" because Black Americans were considered to be between slavery and freedom as "confiscated contraband property" in U.S.-controlled territory across the South. This project elucidates the possibilities of Black creativity for kinship formation and postwar political participation. It reckons with "religion" as a dynamic and precarious mediating force between the enslaved and the state at the end of slavery. And it penetrates the question "Who belongs and how?" for those negotiating statelessness and peoplehood in the midst of self-emancipation. For more on my students, research, courses, media, and racial repair, peruse my webpage.
Areas of Expertise: Race in America, Slavery and Abolition, Digital Scholarship Innovations, Reparative Justice and Higher Ed, Civil War and Reconstruction, Race and Religion, 1619 Project-based American History, African Diasporic History
