Research Interests
- Ethical community engagement and research
- Public scholarship
- Object-centered research
Selected Grants
Well-being and the Moral Worlds of Refugees
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2011 - 2012Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research
Activism, Music, and the Rosetta Reitz Archive ·
August 2025
- July 2026
Awarded by: Bass Connections
Archives and Creative Process: Blues Women and Rosetta Records ·
August 2024
- July 2025
Co-lead ·
Awarded by: Bass Connections
Promises and Challenges of Multivocal Research Practices into Segregated Asylums ·
June 2024
- December 2025
Co-PI ·
Awarded by: Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund
Story+: Collecting Oral Histories of Environmental Racism and Injustice in the American South ·
2022
Co-Lead ·
Awarded by: Duke Story+
Reckoning with Race, Racism, and the History of the American South Initiative: Collecting Oral Histories of Environmental Racism and Injustice in the American South ·
2021
Co-Lead ·
Awarded by: Duke Office of the Provost
Reckoning with Race, Racism, and the History of the American South Initiative: AAA Lab: Art, Archive, Asylum; or Race and Mental Health in the Southern United States ·
2021
Co-Lead ·
Awarded by: Duke Office of the Provost
Dix Hill and the Public Humanities: A Creative Site-Making Symposium ·
2018
- 2019
Awarded by: Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Grant
· $5,000.00
Empathy and Trauma: Exploring the Moral and Physical Injuries of War Among US Military Veterans ·
2017
- 2018
Awarded by: Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Grant
· $2,000.00
Rights and Resources in Madagascar: a conference and concert ·
2012
Co-Lead ·
Awarded by: Duke Africa Initiative