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Scholarly foci: African American Midwestern History, U.S. Legal History, U.S. HistorySelected publications:“Antwan ‘Big Boi’ Patton,” African American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).“George Grover Wright,” Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (Yale University Press, 2009).“Bo Jackson,” “Ralph Montgomery,” and “Nathaniel Morgan,” African American National Biography (Harvard University Press, 2008).“Will They Fight? Ask the Enemy”: The Story of the 60th U.S. Colored Infantry, Iowa’s African American Civil War Regiment (Annals of Iowa, Summer/Fall 2007).Selected presentations:The Legacy of Clark in Black Education and Black Respectability. Clark 150 Conference: Past, Present and Future of Equality in Iowa, Drake University, Des Moines, IA (September 2018).Clark v. Board of Directors and 19th-Century School Desegregation. 2018 Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference, Des Moines, IA (August 2018).“The Equality of Right”: The History and Legal Significance of Clark v. Board of Directors, Introduction to Legal Reasoning course, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, IA (August 2014-19).Co-organizer, African Americans in the Nineteenth Century West Symposium, Saint Louis University (May 2016).Courses taught: African American History; African American Religion; African History; America & Western Civilization; Black Cinema; Blacks in Latin America; Black Resistance in the United States; Cities in America; Civil Rights Movement; Europe & Western Civilization; History of American Religion; History of Chicago; History of Sport; History of Terrorism Involving the United States; Introduction to Historical Inquiry; Latin American History; Senior History Seminar; Slavery in the Western Hemisphere; U.S. History, 1865-1920; U.S. History, 1800-1900

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