Selected Publications
Works in Progress
“Tell the Whole White World”: Crime, Violence and Black Men in New York City, 1890-1930 (under contract with University of North Carolina press in the “Justice, Power and Politics” series)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Drug-Mad Negroes”: Cocaine and Black Migration in the Making of Drug Prohibition in Progressive Era New York City, 1880-1920, Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, under review
“‘Fighting and cutting and shooting, and carrying on:’ Saloons, Dives and the Black ‘Tough’ in Manhattan’s Tenderloin,” Journal of Urban History, June 2018
“Folklore, Urban Insurrection, and the Killing of the Black Hero in the Turn of the Century South,” The Mississippi Quarterly Journal, 67 (2016): 581-604 (awarded Louis D. Rubin Article Prize)
Essays & Digital Media
“Tupac Shakur,” for the Encyclopedia of African American Culture: From Dashikis to Yoruba, ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press (Forthcoming)
“‘A Time to Lift One’s Voice’: The East St. Louis Riot in a Migration Perspective,” Human Ties: Stories in
the Humanities Blog, Center for Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, 2017
“[T]hey’re knocking down negroes ‘round here,” Public Racial Violence and Black Self-Defense in Early 20th Century New York City, The Gotham Center Blog, 2016
“The Lyceum Theatre,” Retrofitting Rochester Digital History Series, Democrat & Chronicle, 2014
Book Reviews
Review of Lane Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide, for Enterprise and Society Journal (forthcoming 2019)
Review of Michael Flamm, In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime, for The Journal of African American History (forthcoming 2019)
Review of Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, for The Common Reader, 46, (Spring 2018)
Review of Keith Michael Green, Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816-1861, for Callaloo, 39, no. 4., (Fall 2016): 949-951
Review essay Talitha LeFlouria, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, Dennis Childs, Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary, and Dan Berger, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, for Reviews in American History, 44 (2016): 327-334
Review of Cara Caddoo, Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life, for The Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era 14 (2015): 266-267
Review of Catherine M. Paden, Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor, for The Journal of African American History 98 (Winter 2013): 166-168
Interviews
“Omitted History” for the Center for Humanities (WashU)
Honors
Excellence in Teaching Award, 2018
Council of Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
Trailblazer Faculty Award, 2018
Center for Diversity & Inclusion, Washington University in St. Louis
Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Fall 2018
Washington University in St. Louis
Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Article Prize (for best article on Southern Literature), 2017
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Inequality and Identity, 2014
Washington University in St. Louis
Frederick Douglass Institute Research Award, 2012
Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies
Donald Marks "Dexter Perkins Prize" in History, 2012
University of Rochester - History Department
Recent Service to the Profession
Board of Directors for the Urban History Association, 2018-2021
Phi Alpha Theta Academic Essay Judge, 2016
Editorial Board Member and Manuscript reviewer for the Annuals of the Next Generation Journal, 2014-present
Courses at Washington University in St. Louis
HIST 487: Race and Drugs in American History
AMCS 330C: The Politics of Black Criminality and Popular Protest
HIST 301U: Historical Methods – American Masculinity
HIST 2561: Urban America
AMCS 206: Reading Culture: Engaging the City
AMCS 230: Exploring Urban Change
