Degree:
Ph.D., University of Toledo

Major Fields:
U.S. History, African-American History

Publications:

"Lessons in Hearing Human and Divine Discontent: The Black Manifesto and Episcopal Leaders and Congregations in the Detroit Area," Journal of African American History 97 (2012): 72-91.

"The Black Manifesto for Reparations in Detroit: Challenge and Response," Michigan Historical Review 35:2 (Fall 2009): 53-84.

Review of Jim Harper, Western Educated Elites in Kenya, 1900-1963: The African American Factor (New York: Routledge, 2006) in the Journal of African American History 92:4 (Fall 2007).

Presentations and Research:

"The African American Dilemma in the Nigerian-Biafran Civil War, 1967-1970," Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, October 2010.

"The Black Manifesto for Reparations in Detroit: What Happened in June 1969?" Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, October 2007.

The Detroit Beginnings of the Black Manifesto for Reparations Controversy, 1968-1969 (Ph.D. Diss., University of Toledo, 2007).

"Constructing a History of African-American Reparations Efforts," Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, October 2006.

"The African American Factor in Senate Hearings on the Genocide Treaty, 1949-1954," Conference on Lynching and Racial Violence in America: Histories and Legacies, Emory University, Atlanta, October 2002.