Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
History
Major: History of Atlantic Cultures and the African Diaspora
Minor: African American History
M.A., York University
History
B.A., Specialized Hons., York University
History
AA, Hons., Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Present
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Department of History
Assistant Professor
African Diaspora in the Americas
2021 - 2022; 2025 - 2026
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs - Canada Program
William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow
Washington State University, Pullman
Department of History
History 111 - American History after 1877
History 300 - Writing for History Majors
History 333 - History of the Caribbean
History 384 - World of Sport History
History 571 - Topics in World History - Black Atlantic (graduate)
History 509 - American History before 1877 (graduate)
Washington State University, Global
Department of History
Drugs in World History US Popular Culture after 1930
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Department of History
History of the Caribbean
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Department of History
Popular Music in United States History
Department of English
Expository Writing I
Manuscript:
Jamaicans in Urban Canada and the United States. (in progress).
Articles:
“A Riot Is The Language Of The Unheard: Centering Black Caribbean Voices in Crown Heights,” Journal of American Ethnic History (2025) 44 (2): 35–66. https://doi.org/10.5406/19364695.44.2.02
"A Short History of Jamaican Track Athletes at the Annual Penn Relays Carnival in the 20th Century.” (Under Preparation)
“Where’s the Beef? The True Story of Jamaican Beef Patties and the Jamaican Community versus the Canadian Government in 1985" (Under Preparation)
Articles (Non-Refereed Electronic):
“She Wiggled Her Body In The Most Suggestive And Obscene Manner Sexuality And Respectability In The West Indian Labor Day Parade.” Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, April 27, 2021.
“Learning While Black: I Was Streamed to Fail.” Huffington Post Canada, May 23, 2017.
“Black Women Were Vital to the UK’s Black Power Movement Even Though Guerrilla Doesn’t Show It.” EBONY Magazine, April 12, 2017.
Book Reviews:
David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, and Mark Dyreson, Black Mercuries: African American Athlete, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Journal of Sport History (2024) 51 (1): 138–139. https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.51.1.18
Carly Goodman, Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Journal of Social History, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shae061
The Porter. Created by Arnold Pinnock and Bruce Ramsay, Season 1, CBC Television/ BET+, 21 February 2022. Canadian Historical Review, 104, no. 2 (June 2023). https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/chr-104-2-rev18.
Marcia Chatelain. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corp., 2020. 336 pp. ISBN 978-1-63149-394-2 $28.95 (cloth). Enterprise & Society, Summer 2022.
Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands. “Stuart Hall: ‘Familiar Stranger’ of the Black Atlantic.” Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society, July 6, 2018.
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