PhD Candidate
North America
Research Interests
Nineteenth century U.S. History
African American History
History of American Slavery
Women's and Gender History
Black Geographies
Legal and Cultural History
Atlantic History
Environmental History
Art History
Presentations and Exhibitions
" 'A new kind of money': Flora, Fauna, and the Economic Networks of Enslaved and Free Women in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana and Mississippi," Digital Poster Presentation, Eighteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities, Johns Hopkins University, May 28 - 31, 2020
" 'A new kind of money': Flora, Fauna, and Enslaved Women's Claims to Space in the Antebellum South," American Society for Environmental History Conference, Ottawa, Canada, March 25 - 29, 2020
" 'A new kind of money': Enslaved and Free Women's Economies of Flora and Fauna in the Antebellum South," Wilson Library Research Forum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 26, 2019
“Currencies of Clothing: Property Claims of Enslaved Individuals in the Antebellum South,” Triennial Southern Association for Women Historians Conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, June 7-10, 2018
“Whiteness as a Form of Unstable Property in the American Antebellum South,” Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 6-8, 2017
“ ‘It was the best of times’: American Prints of the Great Depression,” Smith College Museum of Art, January – May 2016
“Rural Nostalgia: Women Etchers of the Late Nineteenth Century,” Smith College Museum of Art, September – December 2015
Awards
Special Collections Research Grant, Louisiana State University Libraries, 2019
William and Madeline Welder Smith Research Travel Award, Briscoe Center, UT Austin, 2019
Leo Lowenthal Memorial Prize, UC Berkeley, 2019
Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2019
Wilson Library Dissertation Research Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill, 2019
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2019
Monroe Fellowship, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University, 2019
Gail Fullerton Endowment, San Jose State University, 2015
Mildred Gentry Winters Tower Scholarship, San Jose State University, 2015
Bruce Gelsinger Scholarship, San Jose State University, 2015
McLaughlin Fellowship, San Jose State University, 2014 – 2015
Trenary-Beddeson Scholarship, San Jose State University, 2014
General Endowment Scholarship, San Jose State University, 2014
