Campus Directory

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit History Department

Title Assistant Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies
Women's Studies
Activism
US History
Race
Digital Humanities

Primary Office Location Stevenson College Academic Building
280

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours Fall Quarter: By appointment only

Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D, University of Washington, 2018

M.A., Universitiy of Georgia, 2012

B.A., Fisk University, 2010

Summary of Expertise

African American History

African American History in the American West

Black Women’s History

Research Interests

Black women’s history

Activism and resistance

Social movements

Digital humanities

Public history and memory

Awards, Honors and Grants

Washington State Historical Society John McLendon, Jr. Award for best article 

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Adjunct Fellowship

University of Washington Distinguished Dissertation Award                                                                          

Selected Publications

Blackpast.org encyclopedic entries (abbreviated list): "E. June Smith," "Constance W. Rice," "Dorothy Hollingsworth," "Emmett L. Till," "Freddie Mae Gautier," "Crispus Attucks," "Patricia E. Bath," "Daisy Tibbs Dawson," "Herbert Lee," "Addie Fletcher Booth" (2013-2023)

"Alice Presto" and "Christia V. Adair," Women and Social Movements Digital History Project (2017)

"Transformation of a Community," in Seattle on the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith, Seattle: Museum of History & Industry (2017)

"Finding Peace Across the Ocean: Daisy Tibbs Dawson and the Rebuilding of Hiroshima," Columbia: The Magazine of the Pacific Northwest (2019)

"Let Us...Take Our Place in Public Affairs:" Black Women, Suffrage, and Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1870-1920," Western Historical Quarterly (Fall 2024)