WRITER
I’m curious about the world, so everything I do, everything I know begins with research. From the nosy little Black girl checking out too many adult books at the local public library to a writer of Black lives, research is my foundation. It anchors me to the world.
RECENT Publications
“The Perpetual Disservice of Passive “Action” of College Campuses: Why Cluster Hires, Talks, Reading Groups, and Pedagogy Workshops Don’t Work.”
Race & Pedagogy Journal (2021)
“Black on Black: The Vilification of ‘Me-search’, Tenure, and the Economic Position of Black Sociologists.”
Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. (2020)
“Structured Risk: Black Women, Perceived Integration into Campus Hook-Up Culture, and the Potential for Sexually-Transmitted Infection Diagnoses at a Predominately White College.”
Sociology Between the Gaps 5(1):1-7. (2020)
UNDER REVIEW (2022)
“Time Out: DI Football and Men’s Basketball Players, Time, Race, and the Student-Athlete Myth.”
“Mapping Place and Constructing Space: How Black Students Find (or not) Belonging at a PWI.”
(R&R) in Who Belongs: Institutional Betrayal in Higher Education, eds. Rebecca Martinez and Monica J. Casper. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Writing is hard. The craft of arranging words together to convey complex experiences and emotions, to explain different worldviews in ways that spoken language cannot requires practice and repetition to master. I welcome opportunities to continue honing my craft.
Bylines
A new bill in Congress would end ‘legacy’ college preferences. Here’s why that matters.
The Washington Post, February 2022
In the name of ‘amateurism,’ college athletes make money for everyone except themselves
The Conversation, April 2019
It’s naive to think college athletes have time for school
The Conversation, October 2018
Surviving Institutional Racism in Academe
Inside HigherEd, November 2017
Forthcoming bOOK: Black Women, Ivory Tower
Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education is an auto-ethnographic account of the life lessons I’ve learned in and about school as a Black woman with a Ph.D. Equal parts cultural critique, memoir, and appraisal of institutional racism in the U.S. education system; this book uses a series of anecdotes, historical analysis, and sociological data to explore the impacts of the American education system. Sold to Broadleaf Books in 2022, Black Women, Ivory Tower is scheduled for publication in spring 2024!