​Hi there!

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American History at Northumbria University. 

I did my graduate work at the University of Manchester. Before joining Northumbria in 2018 I was a Teaching Fellow in US History at the University of Birmingham and a Fulbright Scholar at Elon University in North Carolina.

My teaching and research focuses on black history and print culture in Britain and the United States. More broadly, I'm interested in the relationship between media representation, racial and cultural politics, and social justice.

 My first book, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr: Popular Black History in Postwar America (Illinois, 2020), focuses on popular African American periodical Ebony as a vehicle for black history education and the role of its influential editor Lerone Bennett Jr. in this process.

I am also working a number of other book-length projects, including an intellectual biography of Bennett, and a cultural history of black media architecture in Chicago.

Feel free to explore this site to find out more about my work.