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

ARTICLES
In Review

“Black Studies and Art History for the Nineteenth Century”
“View from the Edge: The Panoramic Landscape and Antislavery Aesthetics in Robert Duncanson’s A View of Asheville, North Carolina”
“Life in the Shadows: Time, Control, and Slavery in a 1709 Sundial”

Published

“You Cannot Impact the Earth: Land Art and Racial Terror in Cauleen Smith’s Remote Viewing,” Edge Effects, University of Madison-Wisconsin (April 2025), https://edgeeffects.net/cauleen-smith-remote-viewing/
“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), https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/black-abolitionists-and-ladies-antislavery-societies-in-edinburgh.

REVIEWS

“Susan J. Curtis, Sokari Douglas Camp: Sensational Steel.” African Arts vol. 58, no.1 (Spring 2025), https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00796.
“Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition.” SEQUITUR 9.1 (Winter 2022), https://www.bu.edu/sequitur/2023/01/25/meret-oppenheim-my-exhibition/ .
“Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis: From Slavery to Jim Crow.” caa.reviews, February 22, 2019, http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3388#.X8owQ9NKjVo .

SELECTED WORKS IN PROGRESS

Forthcoming chapter for Routledge Companion to African American Art Practices (ed. Eddie Chambers)
Forthcoming book: Sweet and White: Sugar, Art, and Transatlantic Slavery in the Nineteenth Century