Curriculum Vitae
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
College of Charleston-Assistant Professor of African American History, 2018-present
University of North Florida-Assistant Professor of History, 2015-2018
Rutgers University-Race and Gender Postdoctoral Fellow of History, 2017-2018
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in U.S. History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
M.A. in U.S. History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010
M.A. in Teaching, University of South Carolina, 2005
B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Slavery in America Undergraduate and Graduate Research Seminar
Slavery in the Americas
African American History to 1865
African American History since 1865
African American History Graduate Research Seminar
Civil War and Reconstruction
United States History to 1865
United States History since 1865
Making of Modern America: 1877-1920
History of the New South: 1865-present
Readings in Early American History Graduate Seminar
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 2021-2022
Distinguished Service Award nomination, College of Charleston, 2020-2021, 2021-2022
Race and Gender History Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, 2017-2018
Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American History, Africana Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, 2017-2018, declined
Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American History, Richards Civil War Era Center, Pennsylvania State University, 2017-2018, finalist
Excellence in Teaching Award, UNF chapter of National Society of Leadership and Success
Faculty Development Grant, University of North Florida, 2017
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Dept. of History, N.C. State University, 2015-2016, declined
UNC Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2014-2015
P.A.A.H. Dissertation Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia, Fall 2014, declined
UNC Department of History Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Teaching Assistant, 2012
Virginia Historical Society Research Fellowship, Summer 2012
Center for the Study of the American South Summer Research Grant, Summer 2012
George B. Tindall Fellowship for Summer Research, Summer 2011
Center for the Study of the American South Summer Research Grant, Summer 2011
Mowry Dissertation Research Fellowship, UNC History Department, Summer 2011
PUBLICATIONS
Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South (under contract, UNC Press)
“‘It’s Possible That He is the Author of the Poor Thing’s Being’: White Southern Men, Interracial Sex, and the Fight for Honor,” The Gendered Republic: Women and Men in the United States, 1776-1861 (forthcoming)
“‘The Greater Part of Slaveholders Are Licentious Men’: Articulating of a Sexual Exploitation Consciousness in the Antebellum South,” Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History (Northwestern University Press, 2022)
Review, Anna Mae Duane, ed. Child Slavery Before and After Emancipation: An Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies(2017), Journal of Southern History, May 2019
Review, Sergio A. Lussana, My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South (2016), Journal of American Nineteenth Century History, September 2019
CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND INVITED TALKS
“Power and Powerlessness in the Plantation System,” Drayton Hall Preservation Trust, Charleston, SC, February 10, 2022.
Charleston Bound: Encountering Ties Between the City’s Past and Present, International Conference on Romanticism, Charleston, SC, October 14, 2021
“One Enslaved Woman’s Quest to Define Family and Achieve Financial Stability in the Wake of Sexualized Violence,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference, Virtual, September 2021
“Negotiating Sexual Servitude in the Antebellum South,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Triennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD, May 2020 (cancelled due to Covid 19 pandemic)
Panel chair and commenter, Slaveholders and the Enslaved in the Antebellum South: Stealing and Sex, Marriage and Motherhood, Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, November 2019
Panel chair, An Enduring Dialectic: Labor, Class, and Racial Identity Across Time and Space in the Post-Civil War United States, Labor and Working Class History Association Annual Conference, Durham, NC, June 2019
“Enslaved Women and Agency within the Confines of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South,” Women and Slavery: Agency and Constraint in the Slave South symposium, Manchester, England, January 2019
“In Need of Defense: Slaveholding Women and the Legal Battle Against White Men’s Illicit Intercourse with the Female Slave,” Southern Association of Women’s Historians Annual Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, June 2018“Concubines, Fancy Girls, and Kept Women: Exploration of Enslaved Women’s Agency Within the Confines of Concubinage in the Antebellum South,” Southern Labor Studies Association Annual Conference, Athens, GA, May 2018
“‘Regarded as Fair-looking for One of My Race’: Implications of Beauty in Enslaved Communities in the Sexually Exploitive South,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Session, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October 2017
“‘A Sad Epoch’: Articulations of a Culture of Rape and Sexual Exploitation in the Antebellum South,” RCHA Black Bodies Seminar Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, November 2017
“Constructions of a Culture of Rape and Sexual Exploitation within Enslaved Communities in the Antebellum South,” African American Intellectual History Society Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, March 2017
“On Unstable Ground: Sexual Exploitation and the Challenges for Enslaved Men and Women’s Intimate Relationships,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference, Richmond, VA, October 2016
“Sexual Exploitation Consciousness and Its Impact on Enslaved Women’s Most Intimate Decisions,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Conference, New Haven, CT, July 2016
“‘The Men Had No Comfort With Their Wives’: Enslaved Men and Masculinity in the Midst of Sexual Exploitation,” Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, Little Rock, AR, November 2015
“‘The Men Had No Comfort With Their Wives’: Enslaved Men and Masculinity in the Midst of Sexual Exploitation,” Past to Present Lecture Series, University of North Florida, October 2015
“‘The Men Had No Comfort With Their Wives’: Enslaved Men and Masculinity in the Midst of Sexual Exploitation,” The Southern Labor Studies Association Annual Conference, College Park, MD, March 2015
“Terms of Engagement: Considering Enslaved Women’s Perceptions of Consent and Agency in the Midst of Sexually Coercive Relationships,” The Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference, September 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.
Presentation of research at Virginia Historical Society Summer Research Colloquium, July 2012
“History’s Shadow: Slavery and Status,” presentation at The Center for the Study of the American South’s “Loving Then and Now: The Context and Impact of a Landmark Civil Rights Opinion” Conference, Spring 2012
“Black Women’s Activism,” presentation at joint meeting of the Working Group in Feminism and History and the Triangle African American History Colloquium, March 2011
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Member, Southern Historical Association Executive Council Sub-committee on Membership, March 2020-present
Member, Southern Historical Association Membership Committee, Fall 2019-present
Member, Association of Black Women Historians Luncheon Planning Committee, 2019 ASALH Annual Conference, Spring 2019-present
Chair, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Prize Committee, 2018 Southern Association for Women Historians Annual Conference, June 2018, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Outside Reviewer, Journal of Women’s History
Program Committee, New Perspectives Annual Conference, Triangle African American History Colloquium, 2011-2014
Member, Triangle African American History Colloquium, 2011-2015
SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC
Presentation, “Articulating a Sexual Exploitation Consciousness in the Antebellum South,” Second Calvary Baptist Church, Columbia, SC, February 13, 2022.
Presentation, Phyllis Wheatley Literary Society and Social Club, Charleston, SC, February 17, 2021
Education and Museum Programs Committee, Drayton Hall Preservation Trust, September 2020-present
Trustee, Drayton Hall Preservation Trust Board of Trustees, January 2020-present
Keynote Speaker, “We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams: A Black History Month Reflection on How our Past is the Key to our Future,” Youth Readiness Program, Second Calvary Baptist Church, Columbia, SC, February 2019
Keynote Speaker, African American History Month Assembly, River City Science Academy, Jacksonville, FL, February 2016
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association of Black Women Historians
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Southern Historical Association
African American Intellectual History Society
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Southern Labor Studies Association
Southern Association for Women Historians
American Association of University Professors