Research

Below is a list of my scholarship, including selected publications, presentations, and funding institutions. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss research
Upcoming Presentations
  • Invited Talk, ORIAS Summer Institute for Teachers, UC Berkeley. Presentation Title: "The Most Secret Weapons: Sex and Gender as Tools of Resistance to Settler Colonialism in Africa" (May 2025)​
  • Panel Presentation, 118th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA), Santa Clara University, Santa Clara. Presentation Title: "The Most Secret Weapons: Sex and Gender as Tools of Resistance to Settler Colonialism in Africa" (August 2025)

Current Publication Projects (not yet accepted)
  • Book Proposal: "Infamous Experts: Enslavers as Africanists in an Age of Abolition"
  • Research Article: "A Coromantee from Dahomey? On the Meaning of 'Dorme' in Jamaica and the West African Origins of an Enslaved Rebel Leader" 

Current Publication Projects (accepted)
  • "A Social Pursuit: Music in the Life of Ignatius Sancho." In The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho, edited by Nicole Aljoe and Kristina Huang (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, Spring 2025)
  • "Gender and Resistance to Settler Colonialism in Africa," teaching module for History for the 21st Century, a collaborative project of the World History Association, directed by Jesse Spohnholz and Brenna Miller (forthcoming, Spring 2025)​​​
  • With Michael Becker, "Answering Equiano: An Enslaver's Sketch of Igboland in an Age of Abolition," The William and Mary Quarterly (forthcoming, October 2025)
  • Review of Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity by Charles Price. In Caribbean Quarterly (forthcoming 2025)
  • Review of Walter Rodney by Rupert Lewis. In the Jamaica Journal (forthcoming 2025)

Dissertation
Digital Media Projects
  •  “The Jamaican Airs Exhibit.” Early Caribbean Digital Archive. Northeastern University, 2019.  [Link]

​Academic Journal Articles
  • "An Audacious Review: Unpacking Elsa Goveia's Critique of Eric Williams," The CLR James Journal 30, Nos. 1/2 (2024): 191-220 [Link]
  • “In the Footsteps of Bosman: Archibald Dalzel’s Letter from Anomabo, West Africa, and the Cumulative Tradition of Eighteenth-Century Imperial Ethnography,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 56, 4 (2023): 549-565 [Link]
  • “The Empirical and the Speculative,” Roundtable Contribution to Forum on the 50th Anniversary of Richard S. Dunn's Sugar and Slaves, Eighteenth-Century Studies 56, no. 1 (2022): 13-19 [Link]
  • With Clifton E. Sorrell III, “How to Control the History of a Slave Rebellion: A Case Study from the Sources of Blackwall’s Revolt in St. Mary’s Parish, Jamaica, 1765,” The Journal of Caribbean History Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021): 19-56 [Link]
  • “The View from ‘White Man’s Bay:’ The Captain John Matthews Papers on Sierra Leone at the Firestone Memorial Library, Princeton University,” History in Africa Vol. 48 (2021): 383-396 [Link]
  • “A Disagreeable Text: The Uncovered First Draft of Bryan Edwards’s Preface to The History of the British West Indies, c. 1792,” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Vol. 94, Nos. 1-2 (2020): 39-74 [Link]
  • “The Jamaican Airs: An Introduction to Unpublished Pieces of Musical Notation from Enslaved People in the Eighteenth-century Caribbean,” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents Vol. 17, No. 4 (2020): 462-484 [Link]
  • “The Origins of a Source: Edward Long, Coromantee Slave Revolts, and The History of Jamaica,” Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Vol. 40, No. 2 (2019): 295-320 [Link]
  • “Black Caesar’s Klan: Albert Payson Terhune, the Birth of Miami, and the Cultural Battle for an Old Bahamian Legend,” Tequesta: The Journal of History Miami Museum Vol. 75, No. 1 (2015): 49-87 [Link]
  • “Between Swamp and Sea: Bahamian Visitors in Southeast Florida before Miami,” The Florida Historical Quarterly Vol. 93, No. 4 (2015): 511-537 [Link]
  • “Ghost of the Gallows: The Historical Record of Black Caesar,” Creating Knowledge: The LAS Research Journal of DePaul University Vol. 5 (2012): 28-38. [Link]

Encyclopedia Entries
  • "Reddie, Andrew (1771 - 1820)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 14 November 2024 [Link]

Op-Eds and Non-Academic Book Reviews  
Academic Book Reviews
  • Review of Introduction to Reparation for Secondary Schools by Verene A. Shepherd and Gabrielle D.L. Hemmings. In Caribbean Quarterly Vol. 70, No. 2 (2024): 266-268 [Link] ​
  • Review of Songs of Slavery and Emancipation by Mat Callahan. In Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Vol. 43, No. 4 (2022): 834-835 [Link]
  • Review of The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Elena A. Schneider. In Caribbean Quarterly Vol. 67, No. 4 (2021): 510-512 [Link]
  • Review of Island on Fire: The Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner. In the Journal of Military History Vol. 85, No. 1 (2021): 209-210 [Link]
  • Review of Indian River Lagoon: An Environmental History by Nathaniel Osborn. In The Florida Historical Quarterly Vol. 95, No. 2 (2016): 248-250 [Link]
  • Review of Louisiana and the Gulf South Frontier, 1500 – 1821 by F. Todd Smith. In Journal of Florida Studies Vol. 1, No. 5 (2016): 1-12 [Link]​
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Past Research Presentations
  • Annual Conference of the World History Association, San Francisco (2024)
  • ORIAS Summer Institute, University of California, Berkeley (2022) [Website]
  • Brown Bag Seminar at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia  (2022)
  • African History Working Group, University of California, Berkeley (2021)
  • Fireside Chat at the Library Company of Philadelphia , Philadelphia (2021) [Video] [Flyer]
  • Atlantic History Colloquium at the University of California, Los Angeles (2021) [Flyer]
  • Brown Bag Seminar at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (2021)   
  • Early American History Lab at the University of California, Davis (2017 - 2020)
  • Annual Conference of the African Studies Association, Boston (2019)
  • Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Curacao (2019)                   

Past Research Funders
  • The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (2021) [Link]
  • The Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library (2019) [Link]
  • The Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Davis (2019) [Link]
  • The Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California, Davis (2018)
  • The Graduate Studies program at the University of California, Davis (2017, 2018)
  • The College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis (2015, 2016)
  • The History Department at the University of California, Davis (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

Service
  • Anonymous Peer Reviewer for Academic Journals (2022 - Present)
​​​Eighteenth-Century Studies, Historical Research, The Eighteenth Century, and Modern Intellectual History​​​​