• PhD, Auburn University, 2012
• MA, Auburn University
• BA, Judson College, 1999

Since the fall of 2008, I have had the privilege of serving as the Director of the Center for the Study of the Black Belt, as well as Assistant Professor of History.  As Director of the Center, I work with multiple projects at UWA including the Black Belt Garden, the Black Belt Conservation Research Institute, the VISTA program, the Black Belt Archives, the Black Belt Symposium, the Black Belt Hall of Fame, the Campbell Environmental Education Center, as well as the covered bridge, Cedarwood, and the Chapel complex.

HY 101 and 102 – History of Western Civilization
HY 212- US History II
HY 409 – Internship in Historic PreservationHY 420 – Alabama History

Director of the Center for the Study of the Black Belt in the Division of Educational Outreach, Director of the Black Belt Hall of Fame, Supervisor for the Black Belt Symposium on History and Literature, Director of the UWA VISTA program, Director of the Black Belt Archives

Civil Rights History, Women’s History, Archival Studies, Historic Preservation

Currently writing an article for the spring 2013 publication of Alabama Heritage magazine on Cedarwood, an 1818 house relocated to the UWA campus; article entitled “Life, Death and Barbecue:  Food and Community in Sumter County” in Tributaries 13, 2011.

Grant to rehabilitate/restore the Covered Bridge; Grant to move and restore two churches to campus

Secretary of Phi Kappa Phi; Member of the Sumter County Fine Arts Council; Attended a quilting workshop with the quilters of the Gee’s Bend Quilter’s Cooperative; Member of the Board of the Alabama Historical Association; Living History demonstrator for chair caning including rush and reed seats; Member of the Cahawba Advisory Commission; Member of the Maritime Advisory Council