Awards, Grants & Fellowships

2024 MacArthur Fellow

2024-2025 Andrew R. Mellon Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library.

2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize

2022 Mary Nickliss Prize in Women’s and/or Gender History

Education

1995 Ph.D. in History, Duke University

1986 B.A. in Third World Studies, Oberlin College

Affiliations

Organization of American Historians

American Historical Association

Association of Black Women Historians

Society of American Historians

American Antiquarian Society

Areas of Research

History of the Black Atlantic

Gender and Slavery

Reproductive Racial Capitalism