I am a first-year student in the University of Pittsburgh's history PhD program. I am originally from Virginia and earned my BA in English and Journalism from the University of Richmond. While an undergrad, I worked for the university's Race & Racism Project, which strove to document the school's history of racism, slavery, and its relationship with the city--the erstwhile capital of the Confederate States. After a stint as a full-time reporter for Newsweek, I went back to school and completed a master's degree in Public History at Northeastern University in Boston. Following my graduation from Northeastern, I spent just over three years working at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, where I was Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's research assistant. In this capacity, I assisted Dr. Kendi in research and fact-checking his book projects and educational social media content.
At Pitt, I intend for my research to focus on the experience of Black Appalachian people, free and enslaved, during the Early Republic period of United States history. In particular, I am interested in the experienced of enslaved miners in the 1820s through the 1850s.
- MA, History (Northeastern University)
- BA, English Literature and Journalism (University of Richmond)
Education & Training
- K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2025)
- Excellence Award, Northeastern University Department of History (2020)
- Joseph E. Nettles Scholarship, University of Richmond Department of Journalism (2018)
- Race & Racism Project Summer Research Fellowship, University of Richmond (2017)
- Boatwright Scholarship, University of Richmond (2015)
Review of Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662 by Evan Haefeli, New England Journal of History, Vol. 81, No. 1, Fall 2024
Review of Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America by Felicity M. Turner, Journal of African American History, Vol. 109, No. 2, July 2024
“Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Northern Encounters with Self-Emancipated Black Southerners in Fuelling the U.S. Civil War and Slavery’s Collapse,” review essay of The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky and Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich, Slavery & Abolition, Vol. 45, No. 2, January 2024
Review of Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States by Leslie M. Alexander, Journal of Global Slavery, Vol. 8, No. 2-3, October 2023
Review of Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race by John Frederick Bell, North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. C, No. 2, April 2023
"Televangelist Sells $125 ‘Silver Solution’ as Cure for Coronavirus," Newsweek, February 12, 2020
"Virginia Could Become the 20th State to Ban Gay Conversion Therapy After Bill Passes in State Senate," Newsweek, January 22, 2020
"Republican Legal Scholar Says Trump Call ‘Wasn’t Perfect’ and President ‘Committed Impeachable Offenses Including Bribery,’" Newsweek, December 3, 2019
"AARP Executive Claps Back at Viral ‘OK, Boomer’ Joke With Shot at Millennials: We ‘Actually Have the Money,’" Newsweek, November 12, 2019
- Labor History
- 19th-Century African American History
- History of Slavery
- Appalachian History
- Civil War Memory
