BOOK CHAPTERS
"Black Student Mothers: A Culturally Relevant Exploratory Study" (co-authored with Serie McDougal III) in Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood: Media, Literature and Theory, edited by Marquita M. Gammage and Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers. New York, NY: Anthem Press, 2019.
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
"The Western Indian Ocean African Diaspora and #BlackLivesMatter: Situating Siddi, Sheedi, and Ceylon African Struggles and Politics" in the Journal of Black Studies, 2022.
"StoryMap(ping) Black Urban Experiences: Toward an Africana DH Subfield Through Research and Pedagogy," Journal of African American Studies, 2020
"Ceylon African Manja Performance: Enactments of Black Ways of Being and Knowing in Sri Lanka," African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, 2019
“Francis Cress Welsing’s Contributions to Africana Studies Epistemology” (co-authored with Serie McDougal III), Journal of Black Studies, 2017
“Racialized Casteism: Exposing the Relationship Between Race, Caste, and Colorism Through the Experiences of Africana People in India and Sri Lanka,” Journal of African American Studies, 2016
“Pushing the Paradigm: Locating Scholarship on the Siddis and Kaffirs,” Journal of Black Studies, 2013
BOOK REVIEWS
“Review of Representations of Black Women in the Media: The Damnation of Black Womanhood, by Marquita M. Gammage,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 2017
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Kawaida,” in The Encyclopedia of African American Culture: From Dashikis to Yoruba, 2020
“African Americans in the Afrocentric Tradition,” in The Encyclopedia of African American Culture: From Dashikis to Yoruba, 2020
"Kuchu" in The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History (3 vol), edited by Howard Chiang, Macmillan Reference USA, 2019
"Language in Africa" in The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History (3 vol), edited by Howard Chiang, Macmillan Reference USA, 2019
“Black Studies,” in Black Power Encyclopedia: From “Black is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings (2 vol.), edited by Akinyele Umoja, Karin L. Standford, and Jasmin Young, ABC-CLIO, Greenwood, 2018
“Black Psychology,” in Black Power Encyclopedia: From “Black is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings (2 vol.), edited by Akinyele Umoja, Karin L. Standford, and Jasmin Young, ABC-CLIO, Greenwood, 2018
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Africana Life and Politics in Sri Lanka: Theorizing Kaffir Conceptions of Being and Belonging,” Northwestern University Department of African American Studies Annual Graduate Symposium, Evanston, IL, June 2016
“Racialized Casteism: Exposing the Relationship between Race, Caste, and Colorism through the Experiences of Africana People in India and Sri Lanka,” 40th Annual National Council of Black Studies Conference, Charlotte, NC, March 2016
“Racialized Casteism: Exposing the Relationship between Race, Caste, and Colorism through the Experiences of Africana People in India and Sri Lanka,” 27th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October 2015
“Racialized Casteism: Exposing the Relationship between Race, Caste, and Colorism through the Experiences of Africana People in India and Sri Lanka,” Northwestern University Department of African American Studies Annual Graduate Symposium, Evanston, IL, June 2015
“The Rise of Dalit Women’s Activism,” 39th Annual National Council of Black Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2015
“Race, Caste, and Colorism in South Asia: What this Means for Africana People,” 26th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October 2014
“Race, Caste, and Colorism in South Asia: Implications for Africana People,” Northwestern University Comparative Race and Diaspora Cluster Symposium, May 2014
“Pushing the Paradigm: Locating Scholarship on the Siddis and Kaffirs,” Northwestern University Annual Black Graduate Student Association Conference, April 2014
“Pushing the Paradigm: Locating Scholarship on the Siddis and Kaffirs,” University of Texas, Austin Annual Africa Conference, April 2014
“Performance and Africana Communities in India and Sri Lanka,” 38th Annual National Council of Black Studies Conference, Miami, FL, March 2014
“Pushing the Paradigm: Locating Scholarship on the Siddis and Kaffirs,” 37th Annual National Council of Black Studies Conference, Indianapolis, IN, March 2013
“Beyond the Atlantic: African Identity in India and Sri Lanka,” 24th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference, Philadelphia PA, October 2012
“Beyond the Atlantic: African Identity in India and Sri Lanka,” 36th Annual National Council of Black Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2012
“Sri Lankan Women in Armed Conflict and the Implications for Post-Conflict Reconstruction,” Concordia College Senior Student Lecture Series, Moorhead, MN, March 2008
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
“Graduate Education in Africana Studies: The Beautiful Struggle Continues,” 40th Annual National Council of Black Studies Conference, Charlotte, NC, March 2016
Discussant in a roundtable discussion between Dr. Ellington Graves, Dr. Amilcar Shabazz, and Dr. John Bracey regarding the development and future direction of the discipline.
“Graduate Students in Africana Studies,” 39th Annual National Council of Black Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2015