Education

Ph.D. candidacy                                                                                  Fall, 2016

Morgan State University

Baltimore, MD

M.A. in History                                                                                  2014-2016

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA 

B. A. History, French minor                                                               1996-1999

Mississippi University for Women

Columbus, MS

Research Interests and Major Papers Written

 “History of the Recorder of Deeds, District of Columbia, 1869 – 1952”

“Biography of Simon Wolf, 1836-1923”

“Blanche Kelso Bruce, Register of the  U. S. Treasury”

“Give Them a Jubilee: Jewish Merchants during the Civil War”

“The First National Powerball: Cohen v Virginia, 1821"

“William Yates Gholson, 1807-1870. Slave owner and Republican”

Invited Papers and Conferences

“The Crime of Marriage, a Story in Black and White: Kinney v Commonwealth of Virginia, 1         879”, presenter to the Leomon Project, College of William and Mary, March, 2016.

“Ordinary Domestic Discipline:The Trial of the Real Simon Legree”, presenter to the                       Crminology, Law and Society Student Research Showcase, 2016.

“Blanche Kelso Bruce, Register of U. S. Treasury”, invited speaker to US Capital Historical                       Society, February 2016.

“Ordinary Domestic Discipline:The Trial of the Real Simon Legree”, accepted                                  William and Mary Graduate Student Conference, 2015.

Book submission invitation: “Plots of Resistance: Enslaved Gardeners of the Atlantic Basin”,                     University of Georgia Press.

Awards and Fellowships

2016.              Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Maryland Historical Society

1996                McNair Scholars Program at Brandeis University Research Internship,                                                         Economics.

1995-96           All-USA Academic Team.

1996                Harvard National Model United Nations Delegate.

1995                Phi Theta Kappa.

Relevant Historical Experience

Papers of Abraham Lincoln, NARA, Washington, DC. 2014.

Library of Congress, Docent. 2014.

Teacher/Educator (1998 - 2011) Social Sciences, Algebra and Geometry, Writing, and English        Language Learning.

Public and University Libraries (1995 - 2012)

Licenses and Certificates

1999-2005       State of Mississippi, No. 166826, Class A 192, Endorsement Social Studies (7-12)

2001                Civil Rights and Oral History. University of Southern Mississippi.

2001                Teaching Algebra and Geometry with Innovations and Technology, MUW.

2002                The Math Connection. MUW, Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science.

2003                Abraham Lincoln’s Journey. University of Southern Mississippi.

2003                Certificate of Achievement, 1st place, Senior Division, Mississippi Stock Market                                         Simulation, Mississippi Council of Economic Education.

2004                Gilder Lehman Summer Institute for High School Teachers: North American                                               Slavery in Comparative Perspective with Ira Berlin.

2005                Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy. at Jackson S                           State University with  Leslie B. McLemore

Associations

The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington

Massachusetts Historical Society

Society for History in the Federal Government

U. S. Capitol Historical Society

Virginia Historical Society

American Association of University of Women

Society of U. S. Treasury History