The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons (La SAPE), Black Dandyism, Afrofuturism, Transatlantic Slavery and Slave Trade, Apartheid in South Africa, Museum Studies, British Victorianism
New Media Review of To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes, ed. Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers and Deborah Willis.Visual Studies (2022).
“Writing with Others.” African Arts 55, no. 2 (2022).
“In Conversation with Erick Msumanje and Alexis Hithe.” Authored with Erick Msumanje and Alexis Hithe. Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (2018).
“You Eat Money from La SAPE: Conversations with Women Sapeurs in Kinshasa Democratic Republic of Congo.” Presentation.” Presentation the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 6, 2020.
“Pragmatic Work: Women Sapeurs in Kinshasa Democratic Republic of Congo.” Presentation at the Getty Graduate Symposium, Los Angeles, February 1, 2020.
“Chronicle of a Death Retold: Yinka Shonibare’s Alternative Narrative of the Legacy of Horatio Nelson.” African Studies Association, Chicago, November 16-18, 2017.
"From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle." Early Modern Center, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), April 21-22, 2017.
2023
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Smarthistory
2022
UCSC Graduate Dean’s Research and Travel Grant
UCSC Visual Studies Research and Travel Grant
2021
UCSC Visual Studies Research and Travel Grant
UCSC Dissertation Quarter Fellowship (2 quarters)
UCSC Graduate Student Association Cultivation Grant
UCSC COVID Research Fellowship
2020
National Humanities Center Virtual Graduate Student Summer Residency Program
UCSC Visual Studies Research and Travel Grant
UCSC Graduate Dean’s Research and Travel Grant
2019
UCSC Visual Studies Research and Travel Grant
2018
UCSC Graduate Student Association Research and Travel Grant
UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship
2017
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program Fellowship
UCSC Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence Award
2015
UCSC Regents Fellowship