I am an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in the Religion Department at Barnard College. I have also taught in the History Departments at Rice University, where I went to graduate school in history, and at Sam Houston State University.
I am interested in nineteenth-century American and Atlantic history with a particular focus on the ways gender, race, and religion shaped the antislavery and abolitionist movements. My first book examined American abolitionist missionaries in Jamaica. My current research focuses on how interracial marriage fit into (and didn’t fit into) the religious and racial imaginations of Protestant missionaries and abolitionists.
Some of my recent publications:
Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica (UGA Press, 2010)
“Manliness and Manifest Racial Destiny: Jamaica and African American Emigration in the 1850s,” Journal of the Civil War Era (forthcoming – July 2012).
I’ve taught the following courses:
- Utopias (a first-year seminar)
- Defining Marriage: Marriage in United States History
- Religion and Humanitarianism in the 1800s
- American Women’s History and U.S. History surveys
