Writing
Curatorial
Follow the North Star: Freedom in the Age of Mobility Exhibition Wall Text (2024).
“The Living Legacy of Moving Star Hall.”Online Exhibition (2023).
The Living Legacy the International Longshoremen’s Association, Local 1422 (2023).
The Living Legacy the Parks-Wilder Family of Sol Legare Island, South Carolina. Online Exhibition (2023).
All with the International African American Museum, Charleston, South Carolina.
“Loss in/of the Business of Black Funerals” in The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the 21st Century. Edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese, 149-160. Santa Fe: University of New Mexico Press, 2022.
“What the Bones at the Proposed Top Golf Site Ask of Us” Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), July 5, 2017.
Teaching
My approach to teaching is informed by my education experience outside the classroom. In my previous career as a museum educator, I honed skills in facilitation by tending to a range of learning styles, abilities, and even different levels of interest in the subject matter. When I teach now, I still use objects and other media alongside texts to bolster student engagement.
Courses
African American Anthropology. Spring 2025. Columbia University.
This course is a survey of anthropology’s history, methods, debates, big questions, and recurring themes, primarily (though not exclusively) as they relate to Black people in the U.S. It takes into account the specificities of U.S. racial formations and American-style cultural anthropology.
Black Death. Spring 2023 & Spring 2024. University of Chicago & Columbia University respectively.
Black Death is an advanced undergraduate seminar that asks: is “black death” unique? It surveys death as an object of inquiry, metaphor, political occasion, and inspiration for cultural production.
I’ve also taught social theory, African art history, ethnographic methods, and proposal writing.