Lectures & Classes

I have delivered a series of public lectures and conference presentations, including papers at the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, panels at the National Council on Public History, lectures at Yale University, as well as community talks from Toronto to Washington, D.C. Each lecture has revolved around American-Canadian transnational relations during the pre-1900 era and challenge constructed borders, whether national, racial, or sexual. Furthermore, I have participated in Summer Institutes in America, Canada, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean. They have enhanced my African Diaspora intellectual abilities and allowed me to learn from principal scholars in the field.  

Each of my classes contains group work, including presentations and debates, and I frequently incorporate museum visits as an accent to the core curriculum. In addition, I interject music, including labor songs, Negro Spirituals, and the Blues to ensure that the common voice is not lost in the historical narrative. Primary documents and speeches are also a key component of my syllabus construction as well as employing technology such as discussion boards and books available on e-reader devices to accommodate the modern student.

I have taught a diversity of classes such as African-American History To and Since 1900, the Abolitionist Movement in America and Canada, Black Atlantic World History, The Underground Railroad, Race and Gender in Sports, Museum Studies, and Material Culture.