Education & Professional History
Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, BA, MA; Freie Universitat Berlin, PhD
At Carleton since 2022.
Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, BA, MA; Freie Universitat Berlin, PhD
African American history and transnational histories of the African Diaspora, the history of white supremacy, Southern history, gender history.
HIST 125: African American History I: From Precolonial Africa to the Civil War
HIST 126: African American History II: From Reconstruction to #BlackLivesMatter
HIST 209: Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIST 218: Black Women’s History
HIST 220: From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Black History and/in Film
HIST 228: Civil Rights and Black Power
HIST 230: Black Americans and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 298: Junior Colloquium
Upcoming: HIST 305: Black at Carleton: Uncovering His*Herstories
Upcoming: A&I, History: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Romantics: The Black Atlantic
Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021.
“The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Black Feminism.” Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World (blog), March 14, 2024.
“Pointing Fingers? Massive Resistance and German Reactions to the Little Rock Crisis, 1957.” The Southern Quarterly 58, No. 3 (2023): 34-54.
“The Historically Entangled Roots of #MeToo and the Black Freedom Movement.” In All Of Us: Difference, Identity, Representation, eds. Simon Dickel and Rebecca Racine Ramershoven. 189-211. Berlin: edition assemblage, 2022.
“Intersectionality.” In Fat Studies: A Glossary, eds. Anja Herrmann et al., 157-159. Bielefeld: transcript, 2022.
“Racism.” In Liberalism: A Handbook, ed. Michael G. Festl. 573-580. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2021.
“Citizens’ Councils, Conservatism, and White Supremacy in Louisiana, 1964-1972.” European Journal of American Studies 14 (Winter 2019), Special Issue “Race Matters: 1968 as a Living Legacy in the Black Freedom Movement”: 1-24.
“Precious” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” In Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film, ed. Salvador J. Murguia. 433-437 and 468-472. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
“’Work Mostly Done by Men’: Cornelia Dabney Tucker and Female Grassroots Activism in Massive Resistance in Charleston, 1950-1963.” The South Carolina Historical Magazine 117 (Spring 2017): 96-120.