Teaching, Researching, & Civic Engagement

How does my public humanities work align with my goals of being an informed teacher, researcher, and a civically engaged scholar?

This question guides my work within the larger field of African American History and inspires me to teach students to critically engage with archives and archival methods.

Feb 19
2 min

Black History in Maryland

I'm developing a list of open source resources that students can use to research African American History in Maryland. An early version...

Feb 10
2 min

I attended Storytelling for Justice: How Libraries and Archives Hold History to Account

**A virtual program with the following speakers**: Dr. Elizabeth Alexander Jarrett Martin Drake Dr. Carla Hayden Dr. Kelly Lytle...

Feb 9
1 min

Hypothesis...a Digital Humanities Classroom Tool?

I just attended a Hypothesis 101 workshop and...well, my mind is blown. Hypothesis is an open-source software tool and the company's...

Feb 3
5 min

Why my Spring 2021 students enrolled in Early AAH Class

William Sidney Mount, Eel Spearing at Setauket, 1845 --Fenimore Art Museum This semester, I am teaching an accelerated history course...

Jan 14
17 min

African American History OERs

Here is a running list of open educational resources I use to develop my courses. As my Winter Term classes end, I'm sharing this in...

Oct 2, 2020
2 min

Primary Source Lab 2: Post Reconstruction Black Life in Late Nineteenth

My African American Survey II course spends a lot of time early on defining African American historiography and introducing students to...

Sep 23, 2020
4 min

Primary Source Lab: A Lesson in Black Sources, Archives, and Methods

After students in my African American History II course read Allison Dorsey's article, "Black History Is American History: Teaching...

Sep 17, 2020
2 min

Week 2: Why My Students Enrolled in African American Survey II

What lingering questions have guided their interests in learning more about African American History from 1865 to the Present? "...I...

Sep 4, 2020
3 min

Week 1: Teaching African American History, Whilst in Two Pandemics- COVID-19 + Anti-Black Violence

Last week I shared a bit about my role on a panel entitled, "Unspoken Truths: Being Black in Education." The program was pretty...

Aug 25, 2020
2 min

Prepping for Fall 2020

I recently joined the History Department at Montgomery College as an African American and African History Professor. This blog will...

Aug 25, 2020
2 min

Unspoken Truths: Being Black in Education

I was invited by Chantée L. Christian , the CEO & Founder of Perspectro, LLC, to participate on a panel about what is like to be African...

Aug 25, 2020
1 min

Women's Equality Day 2020: The Centennial of the 19th Amendment

Here are my thoughts about the centennial of the 19th Amendment that I shared in the final days of my Mellon Postdoc with the National...