I have a student preparing for her master’s exam, and I was reminded of Richard Norris Brooke’s "A Pastoral Visit" from her image list. In the 19th century, clergy often shared meals with families when churches couldn’t provide housing. Brooke’s painting portrays an elderly

Do a PhD and free yourself of such concerns

In 2025 I will have lived in Arlington VA longer than in any other city in my life, even the city where I was born and the cities where I went for college, MA, and PhD. I am historian of slavery and I worked on how slavery is memorialized in Virginia. But only today I learned

BREAKING: On Tuesday, North Carolina joined a lawsuit filed by 18 state attorneys general in Massachusetts federal court to prevent President Donald Trump's executive order that intends to overturn birthright citizenship.  bit.ly/4h1P6Fr

In "Imagining Otherwise, an Ongoing Proposal," I discuss art historical approaches, Black political strategies, Black cultural studies, and anti-colonial and decolonial theories I've applied to disrupt status quo violence in hegemonic museums. link.growkudos.com/1f3m526ig3k

not really, too many people for it to be caravaggio, and the colors are too cold. more so géricault i'd say but i like your energy

This is why teaching Black history is important. Some ppl think Black histories start and stop at borders we did not create. Yes, there are African and Caribbean influences in New Orleans and throughout the South that became part of African American culture.

Just saw someone saying using the em-dash is a sign of something being written by AI, because real people rarely use it. This is terrible news for everyone like me who has an unhealthy emotional attachment to the em-dash.

This is how it feels to be a PhD student at the bar during trivia night when your discipline shows up in the categories

HISTORY FOR THE TRIBE‼️ William & Mary gets its first-ever March Madness win on its first-ever bid to the tourney 🔥

Always supportive of my work, Nona Faustine contributed this artwork to my first exhibition, which explored Harvard University's ties to slavery through contemporary art. She was deeply moved by the Zealy daguerreotypes, commissioned by Harvard professor Louis Agassiz to support

Nona Faustine’s 2021 artwork "Dorothy Angola, Stay Free, In Land Of The Blacks" was taken on Minetta Lane in Greenwich Village, New York City. The work reimagines Dorothy Creole—one of the first African women to arrive in New Amsterdam in 1627. Alongside two others, she was

No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems, culturally and politically, are downstream of the decline in learning, the decline in critical thinking and the loss of interest in the humanities.

The official submission website for the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association's new peer-review journal *Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research* is now online. We welcome submissions of all kinds. Get in touch if you have an idea for a special issue! Link below.

Original career goal: successful professor; rich and famous through book sales Current career goal: hit by bus on campus; massive payout

Today's the big day! Happy Pub Day to my first book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION! It explores how Booker T. Washington's & George Washington Carver's visions of sustainable agriculture shaped the broader Black diaspora. So thrilled it's officially in the world! Read more below.

My exhibition "Almost Unknown: The Afric-American Picture Gallery" draws inspiration from an essay by William J. Wilson, in which he catalogs imagined pictures representing black life and culture. In “Picture III,” Wilson depicts Crispus Attucks, the first casualty of the

Planning this panel for next year's C19 conference in Cincinnati. Email/DM me with any questions and/or paper proposals!

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind