Faculty Directory
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 280
- Office Hours Fall Quarter: By appointment only
- Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Women's Studies, Activism, US History, Race, Digital Humanities
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
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D, University of Washington, 2018
M.A., Universitiy of Georgia, 2012
B.A., Fisk University, 2010
Honors, Awards 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)
