EDUCATION
Stanford University
PhD US History
Conferred January 2016
University of Washington
MA History
Graduated June 2009
California State University, Long Beach
BA History
Graduated May 2007
RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS
African American History, Mexican American History, Urban History, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, policy, civil rights, public history, California and the US West, 20th Century US
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Project Development Grant, The Policy Academies.
Emerging Poverty Scholar Fellowship, Institute for Research on Poverty-University of Wisconsin.
E. Peter Mauk, Jr./Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Fellowship, Huntington Library.
Moody Research Grant, Lyndon Johnson Foundation.
College of Liberal Arts REP Grant, Texas State University.
History Research Fund, Texas State University.
Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University.
PRESENTATIONS
Select Conference Presentations
Panelist, “Urban Resistance, Intersectionality, and the US City,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association Annual Meeting (Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2024).
Panelist, “Black Resistance in Multiracial Contexts,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting (Jacksonville, FL, September 2023).
Panelist, “Resistance and Race in Urban American,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association Annual Meeting (Northridge, CA, August 2023).
Panelist, “The Protocols and Poetics of Making Home in Hostile Places,” Western History Association Annual Meeting (San Antonio, TX, October 2022).
Panelist and Panel Organizer, “Finding Black Voices in Archives and Shaping the Intellectual Legacy of African American Studies,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting (Montgomery, Alabama, September 2022).
Panelist and Panel Organizer, “Forging Community and Fighting for Justice in the Multiracial West,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association Annual Meeting (Online, October 2021).
Panelist, “Black Migration, Protest, and the Long Struggle for Freedom,” African American Intellectual History Society Annual Meeting (Online, March 2021).
Panelist and Panel Organizer, “California Youth Fight the War on Poverty,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, (Philadelphia, PA, April 2019).
Panelist, “The Magna Carta to Liberate Our Cities”: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Model Cities Program in Los Angeles,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association Annual Conference (Santa Clara, CA, August 2018).
Panelist, “The Equal Opportunity Generation,” Association of African American Life and History Annual Conference (Cincinnati, OH, September 2017).
Panelist, “The 1965 Watts Rebellion and the Model Cities Program in Los Angeles,” Urban History Association Biennial Conference (Chicago, IL, October 2016).
Panelist, “Racial Politics After White Flight: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Los Angeles’ Model Cities Program, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association Annual Conference (Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii, August 2016).
Panelist, “Race and Inequality in a Multiethnic City: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and the War on Poverty in Los Angeles,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference (St. Louis, MO, April 2015).
Panelist, “Black Noise, Brown Invisibility: How the Watts Rebellion Sparked a Political Awakening in Multiethnic California,” Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference (Pomona, CA, May 2014).
Panelist, “War on Poverty, Incorporated: Mexican Americans and Anti-Poverty Activism During the Age of African American Civil Rights,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association Annual Conference (Seattle, WA, August 2011).