I am an Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. I specialize in the colonial history of the Northeast, with a focus on overlapping networks of slavery in the Dutch and British Atlantic worlds.
My book, Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry, published by Cornell University Press, compares the ways that slavery shaped Northeastern culture by examining the social and kinship networks that intertwined enslavers with those they enslaved. It won the 2023 Hendricks Award from the New Netherland Institute.
My article, “‘Here Lyes the Body of Cicely Negro’: Enslaved Women in Colonial Cambridge and the Making of New England History,” published in the New England Quarterly, won the 2023 Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize from the Coordinating Council for Women in History.
I have appeared on CSPAN, the podcast Ben Franklin’s World, and in an award-winning documentary film about the life and legacy of Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse, an early female trader and enslaver. I am currently a series editor for Black New England, an upcoming University of Massachusetts Press book series that highlights original and innovative research on the history of African-descended people in New England from the colonial period through the present day.
I am a native of Oak Park, Illinois, and a 1998 graduate of the University of Chicago Laboratory High School. I received my AB cum laude from Harvard College in 2002 and, after time in the private sector, began my graduate studies under the principal advisement of Mary Beth Norton at Cornell University in 2007. I received my MA in 2010 and PhD in 2013.
My current research interests include Early America, Dutch, and British Atlantic Worlds, Atlantic slavery, and African and African American Diasporas.
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