CV (selected)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, Brown University, May 2018
Dissertation Awards
Allan Nevins Dissertation Prize, Society of American Historians, 2019
Cromwell Dissertation Prize, American Society for Legal History, 2019
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Purdue University, Department of History
- Assistant Professor (tenure track), 2020-present
Weber State University,Department of History
- Assistant Professor (tenure track), 2018-2020
New-York Historical Society and the New School, Department of Historical Studies
- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2019
Tougaloo College, Department of History
- Brown-Tougaloo Exchange Faculty Fellow, 2017-2018
PUBLICATIONS
books
Valiant Men of War: Black Soldiers’ Fight for Family, Honor, and Nation in the Civil War South (New Haven: Yale University Press, under contract)
Freedom Soldiers: The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps, Courts, and Prisons (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024)
peer-reviewed journal articles
“Manly Occupation: Black Civil War Soldiers’ Battles Over Racism and Manhood Across the Occupied South,” Journal of Southern History (February 2026) [forthcoming].
Roundtable on Robin Bernstein’s Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder that Shook America’s First Prison for Profit, with Evan Kutzler, Jen Manion, Koritha Mitchell, Heather Thompson, Crystal Webster, and Jonathan Wells, Civil War History 71, no.2, (March 2025).
“‘Prompted by the Strongest Motive’: Enslaved Americans’ Role in Abraham Lincoln’s Decision to Arm Black Men,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 46, no. 1 (Spring 2025), 52-86.
“Emancipating Masculinity: Black Union Deserters and Their Families in the Civil War South,” Journal of American History 109, no. 3 (December 2022): 548-570.
“‘Prisoners with Undaunted Patriotism’: Incarcerated Black Soldiers and Battles of Citizenship in Military Prisons during the Civil War,” Civil War History 68, no. 3 (September 2022): 229-267.
“The Black Badge of Courage: The Politics of Recording Black Union Army Service and the Militarization of Black History in the Civil War’s Aftermath,” Journal of American Ethnic History 42, no. 1 (Fall 2022): 5-42.
“‘Lighting Up the Path of Liberty and Justice’: Black Abolitionist Fourth of July Celebrations and the Promise of America from the Fugitive Slave Act to the Civil War,” Journal of African American History 105, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 364-395.
“Trials of Freedom: African American Deserters during the U.S. Civil War,” Journal of Social History 43, no. 3 (Spring 2016): 693-709.
book chapters (peer reviewed)
“Douglass’s Civil War Patriotism,” The Oxford Handbook of Frederick Douglass, eds., Philip Gould and Ivy Wilson (New York: Oxford University Press, in progress).
Introduction to For Manhood and Freedom: The Battles of Black Soldiers and Their Families during the Civil War and Reconstruction, ed. Jonathan Lande (Athens: University of Georgia Press, under contract).
“‘To Have a Time’: Black Soldiers, Workers’ Alcohol Consumption, and Self-Managed Manhood,” in The Substances of War: Drugs, Alcohol, and Medicine in the Civil War Era, eds. Joseph M. Beilein Jr., Megan L. Bever, and Jonathan S. Jones (Athens: University of Georgia Press, under contract). (accepted for inclusion; under review).
edited volume
For Manhood and Freedom: The Battles of Black Soldiers and Their Families during the Civil War and Reconstruction, ed. Jonathan Lande (Athens: University of Georgia Press, under contract).
PRIZES and AWARDS
Excellence in Discovery and Creative Endeavors, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University, 2024
Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Brown University, 2018
William F. Holmes Award, Junior Faculty/Graduate Student Paper Prize, Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, 2016
Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize, African American Intellectual History Society Annual Conference, 2016
Peter Green Scholar, Department of History, Brown University, 2016
MA Dissertation Distinction, School of History & Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast, 2012
FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, May 2025
Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship, Boston Athenæum, May 2025
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Mar. 2025
Library Fellowship, Nau Civil War Center, University of Virginia, Jun. 2025
Diane Woest Fellowship, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Apr. 2023
Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center, Yale University, Feb. 2023
Filson Fellowship, Filson Historical Society, 2021
Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2020 (declined)
Price Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, 2019
African American Intellectual History Society Travel Grant, 2019
Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellowship, New-York Historical Society & The New School, 2018
Samuel and Marion Merrill Grant, Organization of American Historians, 2018
AHA Council Annual Meeting Travel Grants, American Historical Association, 2017
John Higham Research Fellowship, Organization of American Historians, 2017
M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2017
Cromwell Foundation Fellowship, American Society for Legal History, 2016
Littleton-Griswold Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2016
Lapidus Center Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2016
Esther Ann McFarland Fellowship, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2016
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2016
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Fellowship, 2016
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