Georgia State University

Graduate Student, History

Ph.D. Candidate/Instructor

College of Arts and Sciences

Thesis Title: "'A Whirling and Distorted Landscape': The Atlantic Lives of Zephaniah Kingsley" (in progress)

About

I am an instructor and Ph.D. Candidate in World/Atlantic world history at Georgia State University in Atlanta. The focus of my dissertation in progress is Zephaniah Kingsley of East Florida. A chapter of it will appear in article form for publication.

For my previous graduate work on Kingsley I was awarded the Andre Michaux Travel and Research Grant for Spring/Summer 2009 and the John M. Matthews Distinguished Thesis or Dissertation Award (2008-2009).

In May 2010 I was the recipient of GSU's Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year Award for 2009-2010. 

I most recently received the Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize for "To See How Happy the Human Race Can Be': A Colonization Experiment on Haiti's Northern Coast, 1835-1845." The prize is awarded for best graduate student paper on Latin American and Caribbean, Borderlands or Atlantic World history presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association.  A revised and expanded version of the paper will appear in the Journal of the Civil War Era in 2012 as "'My laborers in Haiti are not slaves': Proslavery Fictions and a Black Colonization Experiment on the Northern Coast, 1835-1846".