RESEARCH INTERESTS: Material culture; Progressive era; history of education. OTHER INTERESTS/PUBLIC SERVICE: National Trust for Historic Preservation; Rosenwald School Task Force; American Association of University Women; Delta Kappa Gamma. PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER CREATIVE WORKS: "'Bringing New Hope and Confidence to the People': Children and the Rosenwald Schools of the American South, 1912-1932," in Designing Modern Childhoods: Landscapes, Buildings, and Material Culture, ed. Marta Gutman and Ning deConinck-Smith (Rutgers University Press, 2008). "Rosenwald Schools in the Rural Southern Landscape," in We Will Independent Be: African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S., ed. Leslie M. Alexander and Angel David Nieves (University Press of Colorado, 2008). The Rosenwald Schools of the American South, New Perspectives on the History of the South (University Press of Florida, 2006). Award of Excellence, Southeast Society of Architectural Historians; Honorable Mention, History of Education Society Outstanding Book Award.
