CV

Abridged C.V.

Education

Ph.D. History, Cornell University

M.A. History, Cornell University

B.A. History cum laude, Stanford University

Employment

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History, Rutger University

Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2021-2022

Associate Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, 2020-2022

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon

Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University, Fall 2019

Associate Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University

Associate Professor, Department of History, The Ohio State University

Assistant Professor, Department of History, The Ohio State University

Administrative Experience

Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora

Immediate Past President, 2019-Present
President, 2015-2019
Vice President, 2013-2015
Executive Board Member, 2009-Present

National Council for Black Studies

Executive Board Member, 2010-Present

University Senate, The Ohio State University

University Senate Steering Committee, The Ohio State University

Faculty Council, The Ohio State University

Chair, 2013-2014
Chair-Elect, 2012-2013

Chair, Faculty Committee on the Second-year Transformational Experience Program (STEP), The Ohio State University

Council on Academic Affairs (CAA), The Ohio State University

Awards and Honors

Research Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University

Ford Foundation Senior Fellowship

Audre Lorde Humanities Activism Fellowship, Institute for Humanities Research

University Award for Distinguished Teaching

University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award

Grant Recipient, $50,000 award, University of Oregon

Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship, Oregon Humanities Center

Award for Faculty Excellence, Black Student Association

Presidential Award for Service, National Council for Black Studies

Distinguished Faculty Award, Ohio State University Panhellenic Association

Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award, given by OSU Outstanding Senior

Fire and Focus Award for Distinguished Teaching

National Council for Black Studies Award for Distinguished Scholarship

National Council for Black Studies Award for Outstanding Service

Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Conference and Public Presentations in 2019

““A La Mode De Hayti:” Black Responses to Haitian Independence in 1804 ,” Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora, New York, New York, May 2-3, 2019.
“The Past, Present, and Future of Africana Studies,” Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, April 12 2019.
“‘To Maintain Our Independence With Our Last Breath’: The Influence of Haitian Independence on the Birth of Black Internationalism,” African American Intellectual History Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 22-23, 2019.
“‘An Injured Man of Color:’ Anonymity and Black Vindicationist Thought in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution,” Society for Early American Studies, Eugene, Oregon, February 28-March 2, 2019.
“‘The Cradle of Hope:’ African Americans, Haitian Sovereignty, and the Birth of Black Internationalism,” Oregon Humanities Center, February 15, 2019.
“Speaking Truth To Power: Challenging Power and Privilege in the Field of Early African American History,” Keynote Address, Conference of Ford Foundation Fellows, October 18-20, 2018.
“From Slavery to Mass Incarceration,” Columbus Alternative High School, February 23, 2017.

Organizational Service

Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)

Immediate Past President, 2019-present
President, 2015-2019
Executive Board Member, 2009-present
Vice-President, 2014-2015
Program Committee Member, 2012-2013
Program Committee Chair, 2010-2011

African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)

Book Prize Committee 2018-2021

Journal of African American History

Editorial Board, 2018 present

Journal of International Africana Studies

Editorial Board, 2015-present