Research/Creative Interests

I am interested in the US Civil War, Reconstruction, and emancipation, as well as modern memory of these events. I’m embarking on a digital project about the history of African American soldiers during the Civil War in the Border States–or slave states that remained in the Union. I hope to build this project into an online database with the help of Elon students and collaborations with faculty and staff.

What types of “data” do you commonly use?

I work mainly with archival material. I am currently developing a project to transcribe lists of African American soldiers and their former enslavers to perform statistical analysis and sampling.

What types of collaborations are you open to?

Students, staff, and faculty.

What agencies, organizations, or foundations do you have experience with to apply for grants?

  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • American Historical Association
  • American Society for Legal History
  • Dirksen Congressional Center
  • Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery
  • Resistance & Abolition (Yale University)

Student Qualifications

  • This project can support students at all stages of their college careers.
  • Students interested in African American history, Civil War and Southern history, the law and legal history, or students who want to apply their interests in history to computational research methods.
  • Students interested in Museum Studies and Public History.

A little bit more info:

This project has the potential to generate academic publications as well as public-facing, online publications for genealogists and more.

Interested? Please email me to set up a meeting.