Research Interests
My current interest is in Black freedom struggles and state power in the 1980s, with a special focus on Reagan-era California.
Selected Grants
The Slow Death of Sagon Penn: State Violence and the Twilight of Civil Rights
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Humanities Center · 2020 - 2021Voting Rights and the Expansion of Democracy in America: Who Made Possible One Person, One Vote
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2017 - 2020Challenging the Master Narrative of the Civil Rights Movement
Public ServiceScholar · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2017 - 2019External Relationships
- BBC History Extra
- Federation MEAC
- Harvard University Press
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Princeton University Press
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