Research Interests
youth social movements, civil rights/Black Power, Movement for Black Lives, oral history, reproductive care in the Americas, 1100 CE to present, movements for reproductive justice
Selected Grants
Our Story. Our Terms: Documenting Movement Building from the Inside Out
Public ServiceCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation · 2021 - 2026SNCC and Grassroots Organizing: Building a More Perfect Union
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2023 - 2025The Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Perspectives (1940-1980)
Public ServiceCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2019 - 2021Documentary Diversity Project
Public ServiceCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust · 2017 - 2020Voting Rights and the Expansion of Democracy in America: Who Made Possible One Person, One Vote
ResearchCo-Director · 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 - 2019Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research
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
https://facultyadvancement.duke.edu/new-faculty-research-explore-race-south-diverse-angles
Toolkit for Equity: Curricula and Climate in the Documentary Arts ·
April 2020
- April 2021
Awarded by: Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
· $20,000.00