Research

Below is a list of my research work, including selected publications, presentations, and funding institutions. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss research or see a complete version of my CV

Current Publication Projects
  • “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 (forthcoming, spring 2023)
  • Review of The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man: The Last Testament of Eric Williams, edited by Brinsley Samaroo, Los Angeles Review of Books (2023)
  • “An Audacious Review: Eric Williams, Elsa Goveia, and the Politics of West Indian Studies in an Age of Independence, circa 1964.” In The Legacy of Eric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery, 75 Years Later, edited by Trevor Burnard, Andrew O'Shaughnessy, and Laura Sandy. (forthcoming, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024) ​
  • "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: Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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

​Academic Journal Articles
  • “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  • “The Jamaican Airs: An Introduction to Unpublished Pieces of Musical Notation from Enslaved People in the Eighteenth-century Caribbean,” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents Vol. 17, No. 4 (2020): 462-484 [Link]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]

Op-Eds (Non-Peer Reviewed)  
Academic Book Reviews
  • 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
  • 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, University of California, Davis (2017 - 2020)
  • Annual Conference of the African Studies Association (2019)
  • Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians (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)