Research

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS
  • Archives Research Fellowship, David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, 2025 – 2026
  • Davidson Fellowship, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2025-2026
  • Summer Institute Fellow, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 2025

ARTICLES
Accepted
  • “Black Studies and Art History for the Nineteenth Century” American Art (Fall 2026)
Under Contract
  • “Archival Dialogues: Black American Artists in the Archive,” Archives of American Art Journal (Spring 2028)
In Review
  • “View from the Edge: The Panoramic Landscape and Antislavery Aesthetics in Robert Duncanson’s A View of Asheville, North Carolina” ​
  • “Robert Duncanson’s Landscapes of Preservation,” in African Americans and the National Park Service, 1872–1965, Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and the National Park Service
Published
  • “New Archival Evidence on Robert Duncanson from the ‘Succession of Milton Taylor’ Case (1871)” Panorama 12, no. 1 (Spring 2026).
  • “You Cannot Impact the Earth: Land Art and Racial Terror in Cauleen Smith’s Remote Viewing,” Edge Effects, University of Madison-Wisconsin (April 2025).
  • “Foreword,” Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, exhibition at the Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, January 23rd – March 29th, 2025.
  • “Black Abolitionists and Ladies’ Antislavery Societies in Edinburgh,” EPOCH History Magazine, Lancaster University, vol. 19 (March 2025).

REVIEWS
  • “Susan J. Curtis, Sokari Douglas Camp: Sensational Steel.” African Arts vol. 58, no.1 (Spring 2025).
  • “Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition.” SEQUITUR 9, no. 1 (Winter 2022).
  • “Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis: From Slavery to Jim Crow,” caa.reviews, February 22, 2019.

SELECTED WORKS IN PROGRESS
  • Forthcoming book: The Wanderer's Eye: Robert Duncanson's Radical Mobility (est. 2028)
  • Forthcoming chapter for Routledge Companion to African American Art Practices (ed. Eddie Chambers)
  • Forthcoming essay, "Duncanson in Italy," in Robert S. Duncanson, exhibition catalogue co-published by Taft Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Yale University Press (2027)
  • Forthcoming book: Sweet and White: Sugar, Art, and Transatlantic Slavery in the Nineteenth Century