EDUCATION

Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, joint Ph.D. in History and Black Studies, Expected Eventually, I’m working on it

Yale University, M.Phil. and M.A. in History and African American Studies, May 2020

CUNY Brooklyn College, B.A. in History, with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, June 2016

SCHOLARSHIP

Journal Articles

“After the Collaboration: The Kamau Brathwaite Bibliography,” – coauthored with Kelly Baker Josephs Caribbean Quarterly 65 no. 3 (July 2019)

“A Road Through a Home: A History of the Bush River Quaker Settlement in Colonial South Carolina,” The Proceedings of the NCUR (September 2016)

Collaborative Bibliography Project

“The Kamau Brathwaite Bibliography,” – coauthored with Kelly Baker Josephs SX Salon 27 (February 2018)

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND PROGRAMS

Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia (Declined, March 2024)

Latin American and Iberian Studies Travel Award, Council on Latin American and Iberian
Studies, Yale University (May 2023)

Michael Kraus Research Grant, American Historical Association (April 2023)

Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (March 2023)

Jacob M. Price Dissertation Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan (March 2022)

Graduate Student Summer Fellowship, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University (May 2021)

Lapidus Predoctoral Short-term Fellowship, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (February 2021)

Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)-Mellon Mays (December 2020)

Program in Early American Economy and Society Fellowship (PEAES), Library Company of Philadelphia (April 2020)

Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University (February 2020)

Dean’s Emerging Scholars Research Award, Office for Graduate Student Development & Diversity (OGSDD), Yale University (November 2019)

Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)-Mellon Mays (September 2019)

Summer Graduate Research Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University (April 2019)

Research and Conference Travel Award, Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) (April 2019)

Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)-Mellon Mays (November 2018)

Pre-Prospectus Summer Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University (June 2018)

Mellon Scholars Summer Workshop, Program in African American History, Library Company of Philadelphia (June 2016)

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, CUNY Brooklyn College (May 2013–June 2016)

MEDIA ACTIVITY

Panelist for the Yale & Slavery Project, The Tom Ficklin Radio Show, New Haven
Independent WNHH-LP 103.5 FM (August 2021)

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Guest Speaker – “Hidden Economies and Finances in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World,” GLC @Lunch Lecture Series, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University (February 2022)

Guest Speaker for the Yale & Slavery Project, Mondays at Beinecke, Beinecke Rare
Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University (October 2021)

CONSULTATION AND MUSEUM WORK

Contributor and Consultant, “Yale and the World,” History of Science and Technology,
Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University (October 2023–February 2024)

Lead 18th-Century Researcher, Yale and Slavery Project Research Team, Yale University
(November 2020–May 2022)

CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS

“Jamaican Blood Money”: Black Bodies, Spanish Currency, and the Economics of Colonial State Formation in the 18th Century,
American Historical Association 136th Annual Meeting (January 2023)

Yale, Rum, and Slavery
Annual Conference for the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University (October 2021)

‘Money’ in the Tropics: Cloth, Sugar, and Paper in the British Caribbean, 1640-1707
Workshop for the 50th Anniversary of Richard S. Dunn’s Sugar and Slaves, virtually through the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull (June 2021)

Hidden Economies and Finances in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora at The College of William & Mary (November 2019)

Following the Money: ‘Cash’ in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World
Graduate Conference on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University (April 2018)

Distant Friends: The Relationship Between the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the Charleston Monthly Meeting, 1675-1837
Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting at Shippensburg University (October 2016)