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SHORT BIO...I'm a UK-based writer and historian. I'm primarily a historian of the modern United States, with much of my work focusing on the history of the Black Press and the history of Black Chicago.
More broadly, I'm interested in the relationship between race, space, media representation and social justice across the Black diaspora. Please click here to read my full academic C. V., or scroll down for a more substantive bio. |
FULL BIO...
I'm a UK-based writer and historian. I'm primarily a historian of the modern United States, with much of my work focusing on the history of the Black Press and the history of Black Chicago. More broadly, I'm interested in the relationship between race, space, media representation and social justice across the Black diaspora.
In addition to my book-length work, I've published more than twenty academic articles and chapters in edited collections, ranging from the sexual politics of Black consumer magazines in the 1970s to the transatlantic activism of the Reverend Al Sharpton. I have received research and conference funding from, among other organizations, the British Association of American Studies, Historians of the Twentieth Century United States, the Royal Historical Society, Duke University, the Hagley Library, the Terra Foundation, and the US Embassy in London.
I was a awarded a 2017-18 Fulbright Scholarship to teach and research at Elon University in North Carolina, and from 2018-21 I weld a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the department of History at Northumbria University Newcastle. In 2013 I was a Black Metropolis Research Consortium Summer Fellow, based at the University of Chicago. I was also a BMRC fellow in 2015 and 2017. In 2014 I was a doctoral fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and a postgraduate fellow at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library. In 2015 I was a Carter G. Woodson fellow at Emory University. In 2016 I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Eccles Centre, and in 2020 I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kluge Center.
I received my PhD from the University of Manchester in Dec. 2015, where I was funded by an AHRC doctoral scholarship and the President's Doctoral Scholar Award. Sections of my doctoral thesis received the 2014 Ambassador's Award from the British Association of American Studies (for the best essay by a UK postgraduate student) and was a runner-up the organisations 2015 postgraduate essay prize. In 2016 my thesis was a runner-up in the Blanchard Dissertation Prize from the American Journalism Historians Association.
Prior to this I was an undergraduate and postgraduate student at the University of Liverpool, where I received SSHRC Masters funding and a Christopher Bushell Undergraduate Scholarship, and was awarded the Sheila Marriner Prize (for the best undergraduate history dissertation), the Blanche Meyrick Prize (for best performance in English Literature), and the Combined Honors Arts Prize (for the highest graduation mark of any Combined Honours student).
In addition to my book-length work, I've published more than twenty academic articles and chapters in edited collections, ranging from the sexual politics of Black consumer magazines in the 1970s to the transatlantic activism of the Reverend Al Sharpton. I have received research and conference funding from, among other organizations, the British Association of American Studies, Historians of the Twentieth Century United States, the Royal Historical Society, Duke University, the Hagley Library, the Terra Foundation, and the US Embassy in London.
I was a awarded a 2017-18 Fulbright Scholarship to teach and research at Elon University in North Carolina, and from 2018-21 I weld a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the department of History at Northumbria University Newcastle. In 2013 I was a Black Metropolis Research Consortium Summer Fellow, based at the University of Chicago. I was also a BMRC fellow in 2015 and 2017. In 2014 I was a doctoral fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and a postgraduate fellow at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library. In 2015 I was a Carter G. Woodson fellow at Emory University. In 2016 I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Eccles Centre, and in 2020 I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kluge Center.
I received my PhD from the University of Manchester in Dec. 2015, where I was funded by an AHRC doctoral scholarship and the President's Doctoral Scholar Award. Sections of my doctoral thesis received the 2014 Ambassador's Award from the British Association of American Studies (for the best essay by a UK postgraduate student) and was a runner-up the organisations 2015 postgraduate essay prize. In 2016 my thesis was a runner-up in the Blanchard Dissertation Prize from the American Journalism Historians Association.
Prior to this I was an undergraduate and postgraduate student at the University of Liverpool, where I received SSHRC Masters funding and a Christopher Bushell Undergraduate Scholarship, and was awarded the Sheila Marriner Prize (for the best undergraduate history dissertation), the Blanche Meyrick Prize (for best performance in English Literature), and the Combined Honors Arts Prize (for the highest graduation mark of any Combined Honours student).