Education

Full vita (updated May 2021)

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

  • ​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-present.
  • 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.
Articles, Book Chapters and Essays
  • “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

  • 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).
  • “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 

  • “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

  • 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 

Select Professional Service

  • Member, Academic Program Committee for the 2020 Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference for the Association of African American Life and History to be held in North Charleston, SC, Fall 2019 to September 2020.
  • Member, Membership and Outreach Committee, Society for Civil War Historian, June 2018 to present.
  • Member, Committee on Minorities in the SHA, Southern Historical Association, 2017-2018 (one year replacement), 2018 to present.
  • Member, Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, May 2018 to 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

  • 2020-2021 Vann Professor of Society and Ethics, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
  • CARI Faculty Fellow, 2019-2021.
  • 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, 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.
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