Scholarship

Books

Their Example Will Inspire Us: Five Black Communist Women (New York: International Publishers, 2024).

A Brick and a Bible: Black Women’s Radical Activism in the Midwest during the Great Depression
(Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2022)

Book Chapter

“The Double Burden: Grace Hutchins and Working Mothers During the Depression” in Books to Change the World: International Publishers at One Hundred, eds. Tony Pecinovksy and Shannon O’Neill. New York City: International Publishers, 2024.

Article
“Suppose They Are Communists! The Unemployed Councils and the 1933 Chicago Sopkin Dressmakers’ Strike.” American Communist History 16:1-2 (Winter 2018): 46-64. (PDF)

Professional Presentations

“The Negro Woman Question:” Black Women Re-Imagine the Communist Party in the Midwest, “Organization for American Historians” (2024) (PDF)

“The Double Burden: Grace Hutchins and Working Mothers during the Depression,” International Publishers 100 Year Anniversary Symposium (2023) (PDF)

“Black Radicalism in the Middle: The Universal Negro Improvement Association and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in St. Louis, Missouri” African American Intellectual History Society (2020) (PDF)

“One of the Most Outstanding Negro Women in the World: Uncovering Black Women’s Radicalism in Chicago”, Association for the Study of African American Life and History (2018)

“‘Fight!- Don’t Starve’: The Unemployed Councils and Interracial Organizing in Depression-Era Midwest”, Organization for American Historians (2016)

“A Mother’s Bill of Rights: Labor, Domesticity, and Communist Representations of Motherhood During the Great Depression”, American Studies Association (2016) (PDF)

Book Reviews
Review of In the Company of Radical Women Writers, Rosemary Hennessy, American Communist History (October 2023).

Review of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing, Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodie Dean, ed. American Communist History, 22, no.1-2, (Winter 2023).

Review of Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell, Alison M. Parker, American Historical Review, 2021.

Review of Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930-1950, by Mary Stanton. Journal of African American History, 2021.

Review of Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago, by Brian McCammack, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, forthcoming.

Review of Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930-1950, by Mary Stanton. Journal of African American History, forthcoming.

Review of Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae, by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor. H-Pennsylvania, H-Net Reviews. August, 2019. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53880.

Review of Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940, K. David Hanzlick, Journal of Southern History, Vol.85(4): pp.933-934.

Review of Images of Depression-Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott, Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leite, Louisiana History Review, Vol.60(3) (Summer 2019): 364-67.

Review of No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta, Alison Collis Green. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Vol.116(1) (Winter 2018): 140-142.