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I am a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I ​am a cultural geographer, and my primary research areas are geographies of ​memory and Black geographies, specifically public memory, historic ​preservation, heritage tourism, and critical place naming. My dissertation ​research focuses on under-preserved spaces of the US Civil Rights Movement, ​focusing on historic homes and exhibits that represent homespaces.

I am the Graduate Research Assistant for the Beauford Delaney Papers, ​recently acquired by the University of Tennessee special collections. Beauford ​Delaney was a Black American artist from Knoxville, Tennessee who is becoming ​recognized as one of the preeminent abstract expressionist artists from the ​United States.

I hold a MS in Historic Preservation from Eastern Michigan University, with a ​concentration in heritage interpretation and museum practice. I earned a BA in ​History from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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