I acquire books in history and politics, with a special focus on colonial, revolutionary, and nineteenth-century American history and series centered on the American presidency and on the history and future of democracy. I also oversee a series on Early Modern German history, and my portfolio includes academic and trade books on the history and culture of Virginia. As a transnational historian by training, I am excited about manuscripts that put historical developments in broad temporal and geographic contexts.

I graduated with a B.A. in History from Shepherd College in 2004 and earned my Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. In 2005, I got my start in academic publishing by working on the George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas at the University of Wisconsin Press. For a decade, I worked in the books program of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary (whose titles are published by the University of North Carolina Press) before joining UVA Press in 2019.

I acquire books on Africa and the African Diaspora. My list seeks texts that explore African and Afro-diasporic cultural practices and quotidian life in the contemporary period by connecting them to historical, economic, and political causes. Books on racialization in Africa and its Diaspora, Black colonial and postcolonial life, Black/Afro-feminisms and womanisms, Black transnationalism and international connections, Black queer life and theory, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin American politics and identities, Black disability studies, and contemporary Black arts and cultures in the U.S. South are of particular interest.

I hold a B.A. in Political Science and Latina/o Studies from Northwestern University and an M.A./Ph.D. in African and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.