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 – 05/2014

  • Associate Instructor (Instructor – Taylor Branch), Citizenship & Freedom: The Civil Rights Era
    University of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
    01/2014 – 05/2014

  • Senior Academic Editor
    Words Beats & Life: Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture (Washington, DC)
    10/2013 – 12/2016

  • Assistant 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
    08/2006

  • The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
    MA, African American Studies
    06/1999

  • North 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