Fields:
African American History
History of Capitalism
Women and Gender
Labor
Slavery
US South
Teaching:
African American History I
Gender and Sexuality to 1865
History of the South to the 1880s
Introductory Writing Seminar
Worker in American History
- PhD, College of William & Mary, 2017
- MA, College of William & Mary, 2012
- BA, The Ohio State University
Education & Training
“’Gentle Lady, Beware of Frowns’: The Culture of Domesticity as a Paean to Emotional Labor,” Labor 22 no. 4 (December 2025).
An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, August 2020.
“’Cash to Corinna’: Domestic Labor and Sexual Economy in the ‘Fancy Trade,’” Journal of American History 104 no. 2 (September 2017), 410-430.
"A Gentleman and a Scoundrel? Alexander McDonald, Financial Reputation, and Slavery's Capitalism" in Jeff Forret and Bruce Baker, eds. Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021.
"Women's household labor is essential. Why isn't it valued? Covid-10 has exposed enduring inequality in domestic divisions of labor." Made By History for the Washington Post (May 29, 2020)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/29/womens-household-labor-is-essential-why-isnt-it-valued/
