• B.A., Methodist College, 1993
• M.A., North Carolina Central University, 1996
• Ph.D., Washington State University, 2002

• Summer 2005 - Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Program, Berea College
• Spring 2005 - Served as African American specialist for a NEH Grant, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
• Summer 2004 - Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Program, Berea College
• Fall and Spring 2003/04 - Professional Growth Grant, Berea College

• HIS 356 Seminar: Civil Rights Movement
• HIS 406 Advanced topics in history: Examining the Civil Rights Movement
• HIS 165 Introduction to African-American History
• HIS 365 Seminar in African-American History
• HIS 386 Special Topics: Slavery’s Impact on American Society
• GSTR 203 US Traditions
• GSTR 100 Stories

Raising our four children: Charity, Liberty, Jelani, and Kosey

• Association for the Study of African American Life and History /Phi Alpha Theta/Southern
• Southern Conference on African American Studies

• “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Berea College’s Participation in the Selma to Montgomery March” Berea College Chapel Service, Berea, KY. Spring 2005
• “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Berea College’s Participation in the Selma to Montgomery March” Black History Month Presentation, Kentucky Army Depot, Richmond, KY. Spring 2005
• “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Berea College’s Participation in the Selma to Montgomery March” Kentucky Blacks in Higher Education, Conference Presentation, Berea College, Berea, KY. Spring 2005
• “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Berea College’s Participation in the Selma to Montgomery March,” Ohio Valley History, forthcoming, fall 2005
• “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Berea College’s Participation in the Selma to Montgomery March” Presentation, Tukule Tusome (To Eat to Learn) Lecture Series, Berea College Berea, KY. Fall 2004
• “Blacks in the West,” under contract to write a chapter in Benjamin Johnson, ed., The West (ABC Clio Publishing Company, forthcoming)
• “Crusade for Equality: The Civil Rights Struggle in Spokane during the Early 1960s,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, volume 95 # 1, winter 2003/2004
• “Hazel Scott: A Career Curtailed,” Journal of African American History, forthcoming, spring 2004
• “How Long Not Long: Berea College’s Response to the Voter Rights Campaign,” Griot, forthcoming, fall 2005
• “May the Work I’ve Done Speak for Me”: African American Civilian Conservation Corps Enrollees in Libby and Troy,Montana, 1933-34,” The Western Journal of Black Studies,volume 27 #4, winter 2003
• "Reflections on the Participation of Berea College in theSelma to Montgomery March,” Race, Repression , & Reconciliation, Conference Panel Presentation, Berea College, Berea, KY. Fall 2005
• “Triumphing Through Adversity: African Americans in Spokane, Washington” Presentation, Columbia River Basin College, Pasco, WA. Spring 2005
• “The Vietnam Years,” under contract to write a chapter in Orlan Svingen, ed., Montana National Guard History, (Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, forthcoming)