Selected Fellowships and Awards
- University Facilitating Fund summer salary, George Washington University, 2017
- Short-term Summer Fellowship, Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Chicago, 2016
- Enhanced Travel Award, CCAS, George Washington University, 2015 – 2016
- Summer Research Travel Fellowship, Duke University, 2010, 2012 – 2013
- Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Media and Civil Rights Award, 2011
- Thompson Writing Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, Duke University, 2009-present
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2007-2008
- Bass Advanced Instructional Fellowship, Duke University, 2007-2008 (declined)
- Duke Special Collections Library Internship, Duke University, 2007-2008 (declined)
- Conference Travel Fellowship, Duke University, 2007, 2012
- Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University, 2006
- Moody Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, 2006
- History Departmental Fellowship, Duke University, 2002-2007
- Rosemary O’Hara Award, outstanding USF graduate student in history, 2001
Service
- Director, Writing in the Disciplines, UWP, GW, 2017 – present
- Member, Capstone Committee, UWP, GW, 2017 – present
- Chair, Capstone Committee, UWP, GW, 2014 – 2016
- Grant panelist, “Community Conversations: Immigration, Race, Ethnicity,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., 2016
- University Facilitating Fund proposal reviewer, GW, 2015 – 2016
- Referee, Pacific Historical Review, University of California Press, American Journalism, Journal of Civil and Human Rights, 2013-present
- Panelist, America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations Grant Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2013
- Member, Course Curriculum Committee, 2013
- Organizer, Deliberations Colloquium, 2012
- Contributor, Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Gallery, Duke, 2012, access here
- Member, Steering Committee, Thompson Writing Program, Duke, 2010-12
- Member, coordinating team for “Critical Ink” end-of-year conference for student writing, Thompson Writing Program, 2011-12
- Mentor, new fellow and graduate student instructor, Thompson Writing Program, 2010-12
- Member, Search Committee, Thompson Writing Program, 2010-11, 2012-13
- Member, interview team for Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship for outstanding Duke undergraduates of African heritage, 2010
- Member, Sub-Saharan African History Search Committee, Department of History, Duke, 2007-08
- Coordinator, African & African American Studies Dissertation Writing Group, Duke, 2006-07.
- Chair, History Graduate Student Association, Spring 2006
- Member, Graduate-Faculty Committee, 2002-04, 2005-06
- Member, Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, Southern Historical Association, Oral History Association, Labor and Working-Class History Association, Western History Association