I found my home in books, photography, and mission-driven public arts initiatives that bring the creative world to bear on social issues, and pursued a PhD in American Culture to give me nimble tools to tell more complex stories. In the years following I have turned towards scholar-advocacy, helping public humanities faculty, department chairs, and deans at colleges and universities build better public humanities training programs. Informed by Critical University Studies and an American Studies and African-
In my own public writing I am motivated to write for and with many different types of public audiences, with written work appearing in The New York Times, American Quarterly , Tiya Miles’ All That She Carried, The Public Historian, and The Black Aesthetic Vol III . As a researcher of American culture, I specialize in Black visual and material culture and photography with emphases on women and gender, interracial kinship, social and political movements, and family history. However, my favorite “choice of wea
Open to opportunities to combine my passions for storytelling, photography, museum interpretation, and consulting on the creation and funding of humanities initiatives.