Degrees

• Ph.D., Howard University, African Diaspora/Caribbean History, 2009
• M.A., Howard University, West African & Public History, 2005
• B.A., Howard University, History/Anthropology, 2001

Research Interest

• Obeah, Maroons
• Pan-Africanism
• Reggae
• Black Power

Courses Taught

• History 405, African History I
• History 550, Oral History
• History 300, Oral History Methodology
• History 552, Problems In American History
• History 102, History Of Civilization II
• History 406, African History

Professional Memberships

• Association of Caribbean Historians
• African Heritage Studies Association

Recent Publications

1. Obeah to Rastafari: Jamaica as a Colony of Ridicule, Oppression and Violence, 1865-1939. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.10, no.1, March 2017
2. “Cutting Across Space and Time: Obeah’s Service to Jamaica’s Freedom Struggle in Slavery and Emancipation” in Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.9, no.5, August 2016
3. “Caribbean Migrants in Panama and Cuba, 1851-1927: The Struggles, Opposition and Resistance of Jamaicans of African Ancestry” in Journal of Pan-African Studies vol.5, no.9, March 2013
4. “Militancy and Spirituality: Haiti’s Revolutionary Impact on Jamaica’s Africans and Afro-Creole 1740-1824” WADABAGEI VOL 14: 1-2 Fall 2013
5. “Maritime Marronage” in The Caribbean Slave Routes: Sites of Memory January 24, 2016 http://slaveroutes.creativejunction.com/maritime-marronage/

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