Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Books

• The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898– 1963. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020.
  

Articles

• “Enslaved Persons Health in Montgomery County, Alabama: The 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules and Local Legal Records,” Alabama Review 76, no. 2 (April 2023): 175-194.
• “Documenting Slavery at the Local Level: Montgomery County, Alabama; A Case Study,” Alabama Review 73, no. 3 (July 2020): 223-245.
• “‘It is Simply Out of the Question to Eliminate the Colorline’: The Development of Black Library Service in Atlanta and the Integration of the Atlanta Public Library,” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 2, no. 1 (2018): 24-47.
• “Who are We, What are We?: Archival Identity, Digital Records, and the Quest for Professionalization,” Journal of the Society of North Carolina Archivists 13, (2016): 43-64.
• “Build it and Will They Come?: Participatory Digital Archives, Hesitant Users, and the Emerging Archival Commons,”  Provenance: Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists 32, no. 1 (2014): 49-62.

Other Publications

• “‘Seekers of Knowledge’: The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963.” PhD Dissertation, Middle Tennessee State University, 2016.

• Entry in “Updates From McNair Graduates,” in McNair Challenger 7, no. 1 (Summer 2016): 10-11 (University of Montevallo Ronald E. McNair program newsletter).

• “Collecting Historic Preservation: The Albert Gore Research Center and Documenting Regional Historic Preservation History,” Albert Gore Research Center Blog, November 11, 2015, accessed November 19, 2015, https://gorecentermtsu.wordpress.com/

• “The Effects of Urban Renewal and Modern Urban Planning On Working Class Neighborhoods: Murfreesboro, Tennessee and the Transformation of Its First Industrial Suburb, Westvue.” Master’s thesis,  Middle Tennessee State University, 2012.