Research Interests

US women’s history, US political history, African American history, history of US colonialism

Current Projects: 1) a biography of Ruth Reynolds, a leading North American advocate of Puerto Rico's independence 2) a history of women and anti-imperialist activism in Cold War America

Selected Publications

For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 

"African American Women's Global Journeys and the Construction of Cross-Ethnic Racial Identity,” Women’s Studies International Forum 32, no. 1 (2009): 35-42. 

“African American Women, Prohibition, and the 1928 Presidential Election,” Journal of Women's History 21, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 63-86. 

"Electoral Politics," in Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration of the Twentieth Century, ed. Steven Reich (Westport, Ct: Greenwood, 2006): 275-79. 

"Sisterhood, Ideology, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: Formulating Policy on the Arab-Israeli Conflict During the 1960s and 1970s," UCLA Historical Journal 14 (1994): 172-203.

Course History

Undergraduate lecture courses on US women’s history, the history of sexuality in the US, and the US in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Undergraduate seminars on US feminism and race in America; Graduate seminars on women’s history, twentieth-century US history, and the histories of gender, colonialism, and nationalism