Recent Accomplishments

Scholarship:

Publications:

• Proximity to Power: Rethinking Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming Spring 2025).
• “Marietta M. Andrews and the Writing of Black Brother,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, (forthcoming).“Rose Yuen Ow,” The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory & Dramatic Criticism (New York: Routledge, 2024), 313-318. 
• “Harriet Hamilton,” “Stories,” November 2024, Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade, Harvard University, https://enslaved.org/fullStory/16-23-126918/.
• Restricted VA, with Steve Hanna and Christine Henry (University of Mary Washington). http://restrictedva.org.
• Documenting Exclusion and Resilience, with Janine DeWitt and Kristin Neun (Marymount University). https://documentingexclusion.org.

Presentations:

• “Fairfax County’s Racial Covenants, the Jefferson Manor Subdivision, and the Removal Process,” workshop, Jefferson Manor Citizens Association, November 2024. 
• “A History of Fairfax County’s Racial Covenants and Implications for Today,” Fairfax County, Department of Planning and Zoning, November 2024. 
• “A History of Fairfax County’s Racial Covenants and Implications for Local Fire Departments,” Virginia Fire Equity and Diversity Conference, Fairfax County, VA, October 2024.
• “Fairfax County’s Racial Covenants and the Removal Process,” workshop with State Senator Scott A. Surovell and Fairfax County’s Clerk of the Court, October 2024.
• “A History of Fairfax County’s Racial Covenants,” sponsored by Nature Forward, Fairfax County-NAACP, South County Task Force, Mount Vernon Regional Historical Society, and the Gum Springs Museum and Historical Society, Sherwood Hall Public Library, August 2024.  
• “Representing Asian Raciality on Stage and Screen I,” chair, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, April 2024.
• “Representing Asian Raciality on Stage and Screen II,” commentator, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, April 2024.
• “The Creation of NOVA and Black Commuters from Falls Church, Virginia, 1890s-1950s,”Virginia Forum, March 2024.
• “‘Everything to Rid the City of its Black Population’: A History of Race-Based Housing Policies in Alexandria, Virginia, 1900s-1970s,” UMW Social Sciences Colloquium, March 2024.

Honors, Awards, and Grants:

• UMW Waple Endowed Professorship, 2024-2026.

Current Positions:

• Southern Regional Chapter of the American Studies Association, Executive Board Member, 2009-2024.
• Co-Chair, African American Maritime Heritage Trail, Office of Historic Alexandria, 2018-2024.