Fields
- United States
- African American History
- Media History
- Gender and Sport History
- Twentieth Century
Teaching
- United States Since 1877
- United States Since 1945
- Women, Gender, and Sport
- History of American Segregation and Integration
- Research Seminar for History Majors
- PhD, Indiana University, 1998
- BA, Amherst College
Education & Training
- Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, 2023
- Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Award, 2013
- Council of Students of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, Washington University 1996
Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Pioneer with Rob Ruck, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024.
“Women and the Law,” Encyclopedia of the Nineteenth Century, New York: Charles Scribner Sons, 2000.
“Eddie Kendricks,” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, New York: Charles Scribner Sons, 2001.
I am interested in developments in the United States with regard to race, gender, culture, and politics since the Civil War. My dissertation, Uneasy Alliances: Interracial Efforts to End Lynching in the 1930s, considers how some African Americans and whites overcame traditional regional and racial divisions in efforts to eliminate the vicious practice of lynching from the American landscape. My co-authored book with Rob Ruck is a biography of Mal Goode, the first Black American to report on national network news (ABC, 1962). Goode’s story reveals a family’s journey from enslavement to the promises of freedom, the tensions of a nation challenged by movements for social change, and the rapid advancements brought by expanding media formats.
