Je suis une historienne spécialisée dans l'histoire des États-Unis, et je m'intéresse à l'histoire de l'esclavage, de l'abolition et des sciences. Je travaille actuellement sur un projet de livre, sous contrat avec l’University of Chicago Press, qui explore la manière dont les Afro-Américains, libres et asservis, ont évalué, créé et utilisé des données numériques dans le but de contester les régimes de savoir et de pouvoir suprémacistes blancs aux États-Unis entre la fin du 18 siècle et la guerre de Sécession.

Vous pouvez retrouver ma publication la plus récente, “Statistics ‘in Relation to Themselves’ : African American Activists, the Census of 1840, and the Radical Potential of Quantification” (2025), dans le Journal of the Early Republic. Cet article a reçu le prix Ralph D. Gray de la revue, ainsi que le prix Dorothy Ross de la Society for U.S. Intellectual History et un prix décerné par la Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

J’ai également publié un article intitulé “Population Projections: Demographic Fearmongering and ‘Uterine Colonization’ during the Age of Gradual Emancipation” (2025) dans le Journal for the History of Knowledge.

Les articles de blog correspondants à ces articles, “To Be Counted Is to Be Considered” et “Echoes of Anti-Black Projects Across Time,” constituent de bonnes introductions à ma recherche.

I am an historian of the antebellum United States with broad interests in the histories of slavery, abolition, and science. I am currently working on a book project, under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press, that explores the ways in which African Americans along a vast spectrum of unfreedom evaluated, created, and deployed numerical data in an effort to contest white supremacist regimes of knowledge and power in the United States between the late-eighteenth century and the Civil War.

You can find my most recent published work, "Statistics 'in Relation to Themselves': African American Activists, the Census of 1840, and the Radical Potential of Quantification" (2025), in the Journal of the Early Republic. This article was awarded the journal’s Ralph D. Gray Prize as well as the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s Dorothy Ross Prize and an article prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

I have also published an article, "Population Projections: Demographic Fearmongering and 'Uterine Colonization' during the Age of Gradual Emancipation" (2025), in the Journal for the History of Knowledge.

The corresponding blog posts for these articles, “To Be Counted Is to Be Considered” and “Echoes of Anti-Black Projects Across Time,” are good entry points into my work.