Curriculum Vitae
Employment History
Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor of History, Department of History and Political Science
Director, Center of Excellence for Social Justice
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, NC) 08/2021 – Present
Associate Professor of History, Department of Humanities
Clayton State University (Morrow, GA)
08/2014 – 07/2021
Visiting Scholar in Residence, African American Studies Department
Duke University (Durham, NC)
09/2013 – 05/2014Associate Instructor (Instructor – Taylor Branch), Citizenship & Freedom: The Civil Rights Era
University of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
01/2014 – 05/2014Senior Academic Editor
Words Beats & Life: Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture (Washington, DC)
10/2013 – 12/2016Assistant Professor of History, Department of History
Morgan State University (Baltimore, MD)
08/2006 – 07/2013
Education
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Ph.D., History
08/2006The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
MA, African American Studies
06/1999North Carolina A&T State University (Greensboro, NC)
BA, History, cum laude
05/1997
Books
Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Encyclopedia, eds. Marla Fredericks, Crystal DeGregory, Crystal Sanders, Nikki Taylor, Tony Frazier, Jelani M. Favors (NYU Press, forthcoming).
Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism (UNC Press, April 2019; paperback edition, August 2020).
Awards:
Stone Book Award, 2020
Museum of African American History
Lillian Smith Book Award, 2020
Southern Regional Council and University of Georgia Libraries
Finalist for Pauli Murray Book Prize, 2020
African American Intellectual History Society
Distinctions:
Freshman Studies Common Read Program, 2021-2022, 2022-2023
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University
Common Read Program, 2022-2023
Tougaloo College