About Me

As of July 2022, I am Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University. 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.   English, University of Notre Dame, 2009, with distinction.
M.A.    English, University of Notre Dame, 2008.
B.A.     English, French, Loyola Marymount University, 2002, magna cum laude.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS (select)

Robert Silvers Grant for Works in Progress, Robert B. Silvers Foundation, summer 2021.

Senior Ford Fellowship, Ford Foundation, 2022-2023.

NEH Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2021-2022.

ACLS Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2019-2020.

Lapidus Center Short-Term Grant, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of 
Transatlantic Slavery, Schomburg Center, Summer 2018.

National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship, Research Triangle Park, 2016-2017

Ford Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation, The National Academies, 2012-2013. 

NEH Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, summer 2010.

Ford Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation, The National Academies, 2008-2009.