Current Research:
Finding Sarah Ann
This project is iterative. An Omeka exhibit is live (linked above) and I have also written about it in my paper: “Motherhood on the Run: Enslaved and Enslaving Women in Antebellum Virginia.” I am marking it here under current research as I continue to pursue this story in conjunction with my work on Harriet Bell (listed below).
Papers, Projects, and Publications:
Children on The Move: Gender and Parenting in the Liberation of Children From Slavery
Spring 2025. Observable Notebook paper and data visualizations.
A Road for Harriet Bell: Placemaking and Installing Legacies as a Free Black Woman in Vienna, Virginia
Paper. Fall 2024.
Spatializing Black Stories: Geographies of Community in Loudoun County, Virginia
StoryMap with my colleague Shemika Curvey for the Center for Mason Legacies. Summer 2024.
Caring for Community in Digital Public Humanities
This was a session facilitation on site page construction and Black Digital Humanities that I ran for the Smithsonian HBCU History, Culture, and Access Consortium summer 2024 convening. I was an intern on the project through the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
Motherhood On the Run: Enslaved and Enslaving Women in Antebellum Virginia
Paper. Fall 2023.
King Iron: Re-centering Freedom Seekers in the History of the Southern Ironworks Industry
Birth of A Nation: An Ethno-Botanical Exploration of Cotton and Reproductive Autonomy
The Suffragist Split: Mary Church Terrell and Kate M. Gordon
Presentations & Talks:
Motherhood on the Run: Enslaved and Enslaving Women in Antebellum Virginia
Panel, Southern Association of Women Historians 2025
Spatializing Black Stories: Geographies of Community in Loudoun County, Virginia
Geographies of Inequity Symposium 2025
Spatializing Harriet Bell: Placemaking and Installing Legacies in Vienna, Virginia
Panel, CNU Conference on Women and Gender 2025
“The Masons’ Loudoun County: Discoveries in an Early Republic Account Book”
Virginia Forum 2025
Spatializing Black Stories: Geographies of Community in Loudoun County
Thomas Balch Library, Fall 2024
“Inheritance: Slavery and the Cost of Motherhood”
Panel, Virginia Forum 2024
Finding Sarah Ann
Geographies of Inequity Symposium 2023
Historic Vienna Inc. Spring Program 2024
Brentsville District High School 2024
Lewinsville Presbyterian Church 2024
