WRITER
I’m curious about the world, so everything I do, everything I know begins with research. From the nosy little Black girl checking out too many adult books at the local public library to a writer of Black lives, research is my foundation. It anchors me to the world.
RECENT Publications
“The Perpetual Disservice of Passive “Action” of College Campuses: Why Cluster Hires, Talks, Reading Groups, and Pedagogy Workshops Don’t Work.”
Race & Pedagogy Journal (2021)
“Black on Black: The Vilification of ‘Me-search’, Tenure, and the Economic Position of Black Sociologists.”
Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. (2020)
“Structured Risk: Black Women, Perceived Integration into Campus Hook-Up Culture, and the Potential for Sexually-Transmitted Infection Diagnoses at a Predominately White College.”
Sociology Between the Gaps 5(1):1-7. (2020)
FORTHCOMING
“Rethinking Knowledge and Becoming Podcasters: 3 Assignments as Pedagogical Tools to Decolonize College Classrooms.” Podcast Anthology eds. Lori Beckstead and Dario Llinares.
“Mapping Place and Constructing Space: How Black Students Find (or not) Belonging at a PWI,” in Who Belongs: Institutional Betrayal in Higher Education, eds. Rebecca Martinez and Monica J. Casper. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Writing is hard. The craft of arranging words together to convey complex experiences and emotions, to explain different worldviews in ways that spoken language cannot requires practice and repetition to master. I welcome opportunities to continue honing my craft.
Bylines
NCAA Settlement Can’t Erase Pain, Humiliation Of Past Punishments Of Black Athletes
First and Pen, June 13, 2024
Bad-Faith Counteroffers
Inside HigherEd, June 14, 2024
A new bill in Congress would end ‘legacy’ college preferences. Here’s why that matters
The Washington Post, February 2022
NEW bOOK: Black Women, Ivory Tower
Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education is an auto-ethnographic account of the life lessons I’ve learned in and about school as a Black woman with a Ph.D. Equal parts cultural critique, memoir, and appraisal of institutional racism in the U.S. education system; this book uses a series of anecdotes, historical analysis, and sociological data to explore the impacts of the American education system. Published by Broadleaf Books in 2024.