Education

Full vita (updated January 2023)

Ph. D., August 2010, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel, Hill, NC

• Dissertation: Educational Reconstruction: African-American Education in the Urban South, 1865-1890. Advisor: Heather A. Williams
• Major Field: United States History with concentration in African American, 19th Century United States, Civil War and Reconstruction
• Second Field: Global History with an emphasis on Africa, African Diaspora and Atlantic World

M.A., May 2003, History, Tufts University, Medford, MA

• Thesis: “I feel so anxious to learn”: The Role of African Americans in Virginia’s Educational Reconstruction, 1865-1877. Advisor: Gerald R. Gill

B.A., May 1999, History with Departmental Honors, Africana Studies Minor, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

• Senior Thesis: Free Black Resistance in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1804-1851.

Teaching Experience

• James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, July 2022-present.
• ​2020-2021 Vann Professor of Ethics in Society, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
• Associate Professor of History, Department of Gender and Race Studies, The University of Alabama, August 2018-June 2022.
• Assistant Professor of History, Department of Gender and Race Studies, The University of Alabama, August 2014-August 2018.
• Assistant Professor of History, Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC, August 2010 to July 2014.

Book and Other Select Publications

Book

• Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890, New York. Fordham University Press, 2016.
• The Civil War and the Summer of 2020: Race, Violence, Resistance and Memory in the United States, edited with Andrew L. Slap. New York: Fordham University Press, 2024.

Articles, Book Chapters and Essays

• “Teaching Black Educational Philanthropy Through Photography, 1863-1920s,”The Public Historian ​46, no. 2 (May 2024): 62-78.
• “Remaking Old Blue College: Emerson Normal and Addressing the Need for Black Schoolteachers,” in Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom During the Civil War and Reconstruction, ed. Karen Cook Bell, 160-176. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2023. 
• Contributor to Adam Domby and Karen Cox, "Monuments and Memory: Civil War Statuary, Public-Facing Scholarship, and the Future of Memory Studies" a JCWE roundtable, Journal of Civil War Era 13, no. 3 (September 2023): 342-386.
• “The Slave Cemetery and Apology Marker at the University of Alabama,” in Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves, ed. Brian Jordan and Jonathan White (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2023), 248-256..
• Co-authored and edited with Adam Domby, “Studying Slavery on Campus: Research, Reconciliation, and Public Engagement,” a JCWE roundtable, Journal of Civil War Era 13, no. 2 (June 2023): 155-177.
• Co-authored with Nishani Frazier and Christy Hyman, "Black is Not the Absence of Light: Restoring Visibility and Liberation to Digital Humanities,” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, ed. Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023), 140-165. 
• “The Hallowed Grounds Tour: Revising and Reimagining Landscapes of Race and Slavery at the University of Alabama,” in Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas, eds. Thaisa Way and Eric Avila (Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Press, Trustees for Harvard University, 2023), 297-323.
• “Implementing Public Schools: Competing Visions and Crises in Postemancipation Mobile, Alabama,” in Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meaning 150 Years Later, ed. Adam Domby and Simon Lewis (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021), 39-56.
• “2. Shifting Landscapes and the Monument Removal Craze, 2015-2020,” in Remembering Wrongs in Public Space: Forum in Reaction to the Toppling of Edward Colston in Bristol, June 2020, Patterns of Prejudice 54, no. 5 (August 2021): 485-491.
• “Emancipation and Origins of Reconstruction: A Sesquicentennial Reassessment,” review essay, Ohio Valley History 21 (Spring 2021): 89-95.
• “Art and Disrupting the Confederate Monumental Landscape.” In American Geography: Photographs of Land Use From 1840 to the Present, edited by Sandra Phillips and Sally Martin Katz, 255-257. Santa Fe: Radius Books/SFMOMA, 2021. ​​
• Julian Chambliss and Hilary Green, “Hilary Green and Transformative Digital History,” Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanities, ed. Julian Chambliss. East Lansing: Michigan State University OER Office, 2021..
• "Reassessing Black Urban Politics and Activism, 1865-1930s," review essay, Journal of Urban History (Online First December 27, 2020): 1-6.
• "The Burden of the University of Alabama's Hallowed Grounds," The Public Historian 42, no. 4 (November 2020): 28-40
• “Women in the Civil War Era,” In Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd edition, ed. Nancy Hewitt and Anne Valk (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 157-173.
• “Enshrining Proud Shoes in Brick and Mortar: An Alumna Contemplates Pauli Murray Hall," The Women’s Issue, Southern Cultures 26, no. 3 (Fall 2020): 172-175. 

• "'What, then is the Church?': A Path Forward for Columbia Seminary and Its Slave Past," Repair roundtable forum, @This Point: Theological Investigations in Church and Culture 14, no 1 (Spring 2020). 
• “Persistence of Memory: African Americans and Transitional Justice Efforts in Franklin County, Pennsylvania,” in Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives, ed. Paul Quigley and Jim Hawdon (New York: Routledge, 2019), 131-149 (UK release in July 2018).
• “Destination Navy Hill: Tourism and African American Education in Post-Emancipation Richmond, Virginia,” Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians 26 (September 2018): 67-96.
• “At Freedom’s Margins: Race, Disability, Violence and the Brewer Orphan Asylum in Southeastern North Carolina, 1865-1872,” Journal of North Carolina Association of Historians 24 (October 2016): 1-22.

​Select Recent Published Book Reviews

• Review of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. By Tiya Miles. The Public Historian 43, no. 4 (November 2021): 134-136.
• Review of Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory. By Robert E. May. Louisiana History: The Quarterly Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 62, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 109-112.
• Review of Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870–1920. By Le’Trice Donaldson. Journal of Military History 85 (January 2021): 219-220.
• Review of The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson. By Lolita Buckner Inniss. Journal of Southern History 86 (August 2020): 705-707. 
• "The Georgetown Slavery Archive, http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu." Digital History Reviews, American Historical Review 125, no 2 (April 2020): 587-589.
• Review of Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory. By Marc Howard Ross. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50, no 4 (Spring 2020):  611-613.
• Review of Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonialization in the Philippines, H-Empire (February 2020).
• Review of Women and the American Civil War: North-South Counterpoints. Edited by Judith Giesburg and Randall M. Miller, Reviews in History, January 2020, (review no. 2364), 
• Review of Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugees Camps. By Amy Murrell Taylor. Journal of Civil War Era 9 (December 2019): 660-663.
• Review of Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights. By Melissa Milewski. Nineteenth Century History 20, vol. 2 (September 2019): 221-222.
• Review of Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow. By Jeffrey Aaron Snyder. History of Education Quarterly 59 (February 2019): 154-156.

Public History and Other Publications

• Co-authored with Keith S. Hebert, Historic Resource Study of African American Schools in the South, 1865-1900. Prepared for the National Park Service in Cooperation with the Organization of American Historians (Washington: National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior, 2022).
• “University of Alabama Civil War Monument - UDC Boulder,” entry with interpretative essay, Commemorative Cultures: A University of St. Andrews Project, The American Civil War Monuments Database, edited by Jill Caddell, Kristin Treen and Alan Miller, (2022), https://www.civilwarmonuments.org/.
• Foreword to My Work among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss, edited by Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021).
• “On Confederate Monuments at the University of Alabama,” in A Deeper Sickness: Museum of America in the Pandemic Year, 2020, ed. Margaret Peacock and Erik Peterson, 2021, https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/pandemicbook/08-09/.
• “Art and Disrupting the Confederate Monumental Landscape.” In American Geography: Photographs of Land Use From 1840 to the Present, edited by Sandra Phillips and Sally Martin Katz (Santa Fe: Radius Books/SFMOMA, 2021), 255-257. 
• Contributor, Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History Taskforce, Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Trail, brochure, ed. John Giggie (Tuscaloosa: Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History Trail, 2019). 
• “’Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue #17’: Reflections,” in Freedom? Selections from the Paul R. Jones Collection, exhibition catalog, eds. Dalila Scruggs, and Stephanie Kirkland (Tuscaloosa: Paul R. Jones Gallery, 2017), 40-41. 
• “An Icon Transformed,” North Carolina Humanities Council Newsletter, July 12, 2011, http://www.nchumanities.org/galleries/icon-transformed.
• “Full Circle,” An Icon Transformed: The Metamorphosis of an Old Cary School into a New Arts Center (Cary, NC: Town of Cary Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources, 2011).

Recent Conference Presentations 

• “Challenging ‘the unrelenting enemy of our race’: Politics, Civil War Memory and the Colored Grant and Wilson Club of Franklin County, PA,” presented at Annual Conference of BrANCH, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, October 8, 2022.
• “Omeka S: Showcase and Spotlight On Hallowed Grounds: Race, Slavery and Memory at the University of Alabama,” presented at the 107th Annual Meeting and Conference of Association of African American Life and History, Montgomery, AL, October 1, 2022.
• “Southern State Legislation 2022: The Panic Over Critical Race Theory and the Future of Academic Freedom,” a roundtable, presented at the 107th Annual Meeting and Conference of Association of African American Life and History, Montgomery, AL, October 1, 2022.
• “Roundtable of Holly Pinheiro’s The Families’ Civil War,” presented at the 107th Annual Meeting and Conference of Association of African American Life and History, Montgomery, AL, September 30, 2022.
• Howard/Mellon Social Justice Consortium Workshop Plenary: A Roundtable Discussion of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court,” presented at the 107th Annual Meeting and Conference of Association of African American Life and History, Montgomery, AL, September 27, 2022.
• Roundtable Participant,” “Truth (or Fiction?: Graphic History, Historic Fiction, and the Speculative Turn in the History of Racial Violence,” a roundtable, 107th Annual Meeting and Conference of Association of African American Life and History, Montgomery, AL, September 27, 2022.
• “University of Alabama Slaves’ General Strike of 1865 and 2020,” presented at “The Great Strike: Slavery During the American Civil War,” Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, April 22, 2022.
• “Morrill Act of 1862 and African American Education,” The Big 1862: A Two-Part OAH Roundtable (Part 2), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Boston, MA, April 2, 2022.
• “Beyond April 4, 1865: Slavery’s Survivors, Educational Pioneers, and the University of Alabama,” presented at c.19th Reconstructions Conference, Coral Gables, FL, March 31, 2022.
• Participant, 237. Material Culture as a Methodology for the History of Philanthropy (Roundtable), presented at AHA22 Online, Washington, DC, February 23, 2022.
• Participant, Universities and Slavery/Universities and Segregation (Roundtable), presented at 87th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, virtual due to COVID-19, November 4, 2021.
• Participant, “Teaching with Film: Using The Neutral Ground to Inform Lessons about Confederate Monuments, Slavery, and Pop Culture Myths about the South (Roundtable with filmmaker), presented at the 87th AnnualMeeting of the Southern Historical Association, virtual due to COVID-19, November 5, 2021.
• “(Un)Common Bonds: Reconciling UA’s Hallowed Grounds,” Presented at the Theme: Uncommon Connections, TedX University of Alabama Conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, October 17, 2021.
• “The University of Alabama Slaves’ General Strike of 1865,” presented at the 27th Annual BrANCH Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, October 8-10, 2021.
• Participant, “Book Roundtable: Andre E. Johnson, No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner,” presented at the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference of the Association for theStudy of African American Life and History, September 14, 2021.
• “Hallowed Grounds Project: A Virtual Tour and Discussion,” presented at the 16th International Conference onMedieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature and Language, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, virtual due to COVID-19, July 26, 2021.
• “A Woman’s Work: Black Women, the Press and Civil War Memory During the 1950s,” Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), virtual due to COVID-19, April 18, 2021. 
• Panelist, “Roundtable Discussion on Southern Universities Studying Slavery,” sponsored by Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), to be Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), virtual due to COVID-19, April 17, 2021. 
• “Confederate Monument Removals: Contextualizing the Post-George Floyd Moment,” presented at Monuments and Meaning: Making Sense of the Civil War Memorial Landscape virtual symposium, Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center, Gettysburg, PA, March 27, 2021. 
• “Built By William: Slavery and the University of Alabama,” Virtual Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Association of Historians, Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC, March 26, 2021.
• “(Un)forgettable: The Diversity of African American Civil War Memory,” presented at “Intangible Resources” for the Virginia Tech’s Virtual Civil War Weekend, March 18, 2021.
• “Built By William: Slavery and the University of Alabama,” session 102, 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, canceled due to COVID-19, January 7-10, 2021. 
• Co-presenter, “CARI at the University of Alabama: Experiments in Interdisciplinary Research,” roundtable, 8th Annual Conference of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), virtual due to COVID, October 27, 2020.
• "African Americans' Long Resistance to CSA Monuments," Presented at a Presidential Session: "Must they ALL fall down?" Perspectives on the Removal of Monuments and Narratives of Historical Figures," 2020 Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, September 24, 2020.
• “African American Educators, Civil War Memory, & Long History of Resistance to CSA Monuments,” Presented at the Innovative Historical Research During the Dual Pandemic of COVID-19 pre-conference session of the History of Education Society, September 10, 2020. 
• "Joseph Winters: The Franchise, Citizenship and the Limits of the Republican Party," Presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, September 3, 2020.
• "The Hallowed Grounds Project and Power of Alternate Campus Tours," COVID 19 affected presentation, NCPH, Atlanta, GA, March 18-21, 2020.
• "The Hallowed Grounds Project: Recovering the Enslaved Experiences at the University of Alabama," Presented at the Interpreting Landscapes of Enslavement Symposium held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, October 25, 2019.
• "The Hallowed Grounds Project: Revising Narratives of Slavery at the University of Alabama," Presented at History and Reconciliation: Conversation on Slavery, Historic Preservation, and Community in the South, a White House Historical Association and UA Blackburn Institute Symposium, held at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, October 17, 2019.
• "Cherry Bounce: A Historian's Journey to Understanding Enslaved Distillers' Expertise," Presented at the 104th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History - Black Migrations, North Charleston, SC, October 5, 2019.
• "From Alabama to Africa: Missionaries and Cultivating Their Alma Mater's Educational Vision Abroad," Presented at the 104th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History - Black Migrations, North Charleston, SC, October 4, 2019.
• "Why Public History of Slavery and Memory at the University of Alabama Matters?", roundtable presentation for "Black Public History at American Universities," Presented at the 104th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History - Black Migrations, North Charleston, SC, October 3, 2019.
• "Recovery and Recuperative Histories: The Hallowed Grounds Project at the University of Alabama," Presented at Fourth Annual Civic Institute: Closer to Home, David Mathews Center for Civil Life, Montevallo, AL, August 16, 2019.
• "The Past is Never Past: The Hallowed Grounds Project at the University of Alabama," Presented at the First Joint University of Cape Coast University of Alabama and Central University Symposium - Social Determinants of Health," University of Cape Coast, Ghana, August 5-6, 2019.
• "The Hallowed Grounds Project: Reconciling the University of Alabama's Slave Past," Presented at "Monuments, Memorials, Memory: A Symposium on Remembering the Past in Alabama," Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities at Pebble Hill, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, June 14, 2019.
• “Colored Teachers for Colored Schools: Grassroots Organizing in Richmond, Virginia,” Presented at the “The Greater Reconstruction: American Democracy after the Civil War,” 2019 Draper Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 20, 2019.

Recent Invited Talks

• Cabinet Conversations: The Emmett Till Antilyncing Act,” virtual roundtable, Ford’s Theatre, October 20, 2022.
• “Untangling Campus Histories: Race, Memory and the Hallowed Grounds Project,” an  Un/Doing Lecture, Humanities Research Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, October 13, 2022.
• “Beyond Victimhood: Enslaved Resistance on Antebellum College Campuses,” a keynote lecture delivered at The Stone Rebellion in the Atlantic World, a Slave Dwelling Project Conference, College of Charleston, September 9, 2022.
• “Two Questions: African American Memory of the Civil War Era, NEH Summer Institute for K-12 Educators, Ford’s Theatre, July 21, 2022.
• “The Rise and Fall of Reconstruction,” Presented at The U.S. Constitution in American History, 1750-1877, a Humanities Texas Teacher Institute, held at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, June 24, 2022.
• “Untangling Campuses History of Slavery,” CLP lecture, Furman University, Greenville, SC, February 17, 2022.
• Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Sheila Pree Bright, High Museum, Atlanta, GA, January 27, 2022.
• Co-Presenter, “DocTalks: Summer Update of William Marsh Rice and Antebellum History of Slavery,” Zoom webinar, The Rice University Taskforce on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice, Rice University, Houston,TX, September 24, 2021.
• “Joseph Winters Remembers Gettysburg,” a #MoreHistory2021 lecture, in person and livestreamed, GettysburgNational Military Park and Museum (National Park Service), Gettysburg, PA, September 18, 2021.
• “MoreHistory2021: James Warfield House,” Gettysburg National Military Park and Museum (National Park Service), Gettysburg, PA, September 18, 2021.
• “African American Education, 1865-1890,” NEH Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers: Emancipation, American Civil War Museum, Richmond, VA, July 19, 2021.
• “Confederate Monuments and Contextualizing Current Removal Debates,” NEH Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers: "America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story," Beaufort, SC, July 17, 2021.
• Co-Presenter, “The Visit,” a CARI produced film and discussion, First African Baptist, Tuscaloosa, AL, June 13, 2021.
• “Untangling Campus Histories of Slavery,” Inaugural Spring Scholarly Lecture, Center for the Study of Slavery inCharleston, College of Charleston, virtual due to COVID-19, March 25, 2021.
• Discussion with Filmmaker: Monumental Crossroads (2018), Social Justice Symposium, virtual due to COVID-19, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, March 4, 2021.
• Discussant, “Barnes, Washington and the University of Alabama: Recreating a 1910 Event For Understanding the Afterlives of Slavery in the 21st Century,” a CARI-Vann Professor of Ethics in Society collaboration, virtual Zoom webinar due to COVID-19, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, April 16, 2021.  
• “Untangling Campus Histories of Slavery,” Inaugural Spring Scholarly Lecture, Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, College of Charleston, virtual due to COVID-19, March 25, 2021.
• Discussion with Filmmaker: Monumental Crossroads (2018), Social Justice Symposium, virtual due to COVID-19, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, March 4, 2021.
• “The Institution Enslaved People Made: Recovery of the Enslaved Voices of the University of Alabama,” Vann Lecture of Ethics in Society, Davidson College, February 22, 2021.
• “Book Talk with Rhondda Robinson Thomas, author of Call My Name, Clemson,” virtual event, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, November 30, 2020. 
• “Reconciling Davidson College’s Slave Past; Why Scipio Torrence and Hiram Potts Matter?,” Davidson College, October 20, 2020. 
• “More History and Not Less: Importance of Telling African American History in Public Spaces,” Union County Community Remembrance Project, Union County, SC, October 19, 2020. 
• “The Hallowed Grounds Project: Recovering the Enslaved Experiences at the University of Alabama,” Speaks-Warnock Symposium on The History of Race and Racism at the University, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, September 29, 2020. 
• "Movements, Monuments and Racism on Campuses: A Conversation with Historians," Zoom webinar, The Rice University Taskforce on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice, Rice University, Houston, TX, July 6, 2020. 
• "Cabinet Conversations: A Discussion Between Dr. Hilary Green and Kevin Levin on CSA Monuments Debate," Fords Theatre, Washington, DC, June 18, 2020.
• "Where Do We Go From Here?": A Response to "Moving to Repair"-SIHC Keynote Address, 2020 Southern Intellectual History Colloquium, Sewanee, TN, February 28, 2020.
• "The Hallowed Grounds Project: Revising Narratives of Slavery at the University of Alabama," Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC, February 14, 2020.
• "Cherry Bounce: A Historian's Journey to Understanding Enslaved Distillers' Expertise," How to Eat and Drive to Live: Black Epistemology and Relationship to Food From Slavery to the 1960s, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, February 13, 2020.
• "Curating and Teaching Hard History," SHA Graduate Student Council Luncheon, Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Louisville, KY, November 8, 2019.
• "Confederate Monument Debates-In Black and White," University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, September 19, 2019.
• "The Hallowed Grounds Project: Slavery, Memory and Engagement at the University of Alabama," University of Georgia, Athens, GA, September 9, 2019.​

Recent Interviews 

• Interview appeared in Brian Lyman, “University of Alabama will take Klansman's name off building now named for civil rights hero,” USA Today, February 11, 2022.
• Interview appeared in Kayla Solino, “University of Alabama reverses course, will remove Klansman name andhonor Autherine Lucy on hall,” Al.com, February 11, 2022.
• Interview appeared in Sarah Brown, “U. of Alabama Reconsiders Keeping a Former Klansman’s Name on aCampus Building,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 9, 2022.
• Interview appeared in Philip Morris, “Reclaiming History,” National Geographic (February 2021): 100-123.
• Amanda Brickell Bellows, “Interview,” Southern Writ Large (Fall 2020), https://southwritlarge.com/articles/interview-2/.
• Aaron Philips, “A Conversation with Dr. Hilary Green,” Southern Historian 41 (Spring 2020): 15-21.
• Interview appeared in Jennifer Schuessler, “Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for More History,” New York Times, September 28, 2020. 
• Interview appears in Carol Metzler, “Historians respond to 100+ racist Southern memorials coming down,” Southern Vision Alliance, September 9, 2020, 
• Interview appeared in Sydney Trent, "At 88, he is a historical rarity-the living son of a slave," Washington Post, July 27, 2020.
• Interview appeared in "UA Professor Creates Map of Confederate Monument Removals," A&S College News, July 21, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Chris Joyner, "As monuments tumble, are we 'erasing' history? Historians say no," Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 11, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, "Confederate Memorials Falling Faster Than Ever on College Campuses," Bloomberg.com, July 10, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Christina Morales, "What's At the Bottom of a Confederate Monument? It Could be a Time Capsule," New York Times, July 8, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Hideyuki Ishigaki, "A growing awareness of 'symbols of discrimination,' 40+ Confederate statues removed since May," Jiji Press, July 3, 2020 (in article is in Japanese).
• Interview appeared in Lily Jackson, "Alabama's largest universities to grapple with deep wounds from slavery, Jim Crow. Can they build a better future?," Reckon by Al.com, July 2, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Mary Scott Hodgin, "Removed Birmingham Confederate Monument 'A Weight Lifted Off of This City,'" WBHM.org, Jun2 16, 2020.
• Interview appeared in John Sharp, "'Watershed moment,': Will removal of Confederate monuments lead to lasting change in Alabama?," Al.com, June 12, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Ellen Gutoskey, "Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down Across the Country-And Historians Aren't Surprised," Mental Floss, June 12, 2020.
• Interview with Chris Barr, NPS Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, "African American Education During Educational Reconstruction," April 6, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Brynna Mitchener, "Professor emphasizes need for conversations regarding Confederate monuments," Crimson White, March 9, 2020. 
• Interview appeared in Jonece Starr Dunigan, "Slavery hard to teach in 'Cotton State' of Alabama, elementary educators say," AL.com, December 11, 2019.
• Interview appeared in "Episode 88-Tuscaloosa Bicentennial," Discovering Alabama, Alabama Public Television, aired on October 11, 2019.
• Interview appeared in Ramishah Maruf, "Some worry Reckoning program doesn't measure up to peer institutions," The Daily Tar Heel, September 22, 2019.
• Interview appeared in Abbey Crain, "UA professor offers alternate campus tour highlighting enslaved people," AL.com, September 8, 2019.
• Interview appeared in Lily Jackson, "Is Auburn's response to Ivey blackface incident enough," AL.com, August 30, 2019.
• Interview, "While Some Southern Schools Examine Connections With Slavery, Tensisons Rise at UGA," On Second Thought, Georgia Public Radio, April 2019.
• Interview, “How We Memorialize the Civil War,” WFAE Charlotte Talks, March 12, 2019, https://www.wfae.org/post/charlotte-talks-how-we-memorialize-civil-war#stream/0.
• Interview appeared in Melinda Anderson, “Beyond slavery and the civil rights movement: Teachers should be integrating black history in their lessons,” NBCNews.com, February 26, 2019.
• Featured interview appeared in Rebecca Griesbach and Will Haney, “William and Hilary,” Mosaic (Winter 2019): 7-11.
• Interview appeared in Jessa Reid Bolling, “Telling the Truth: Hallowed Grounds displays history of slavery,” The Crimson White, February 21, 2019, 1, 8-9.

Select Professional Service

• Chief Reader Designate for AP US History, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, NJ, 2022-2023.
• Chair, 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize, Association of Black Women’s Historians, Summer 2022-Fall 2022.
• At Large Executive Council Member, Society for Civil War Historian, June 2022-present.
• Digital Media Editor, Muster, online blog for the Journal of Civil War Era, June 2020-present.
• Member, Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Task Force, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 2016-2020.
• AP Exam Leader, Annual Reading and Scoring of the College Board’s Advanced Placement US History Examinations, 2020.
• AP Table Leader, Long Answer, Annual Reading and Scoring of the College Board’s Advanced Placement US History Examinations, 2015-2019.
• AP Reader, Annual Reading and Scoring of the College Board’s Advanced Placement US History Examinations, Louisville, KY, June 2011-June 2014.

Select Fellowships, Honors and Awards

• 2022 Judy Bonner Presidential Medallion Prize, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 2022.
• 2022 Eminence in Advocacy Award, Black Faculty and Staff Association, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, February 5, 2022.
• 2022 Eminent Change Agent Award, Black Faculty and Staff Association, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, February 5, 2022.
• 2020-2021 Vann Professor of Society and Ethics, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
• CARI Faculty Fellow, 2019-2021, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. 
• Finalist, 2019 Hiett Prize in the Humanities, The Dallas Institute, Dallas, TX
• Autherine Lucy Foster Award, 2019 Black Scholars Day, Black Faculty and Staff Association, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, March 24, 2019.
• 2016 Lawrence Brewster Faculty Paper Award for “At Freedom’s Margins: Race, Disability, Violence and the Brewer Orphan Asylum in Southeastern North Carolina, 1866-1872,” North Carolina Association of Historians, August 2016.

Current Professional and Civic Memberships

• Association of Black Women Historians, 2021-present.
• African American Intellectual History Society, 2021-present.
• Urban History Association, 2021-present.
• Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2021-present.
• Southern Association For Women Historians, 2021-present.
• History of Education Society, 2020-present.
• Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2020-present.
• National Council of Public History, 2019-present
• Organization of American Historians, 2017-present.
• Southern Historical Association, 2005-2010; 2016-present

• Black Faculty and Staff Association, University of Alabama, Fall 2014-present.
• Society of Civil War Historians, 2014-present.
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2014-present
• North Carolina Association of History, 2012-present.
• American Historical Association, 2005-present.