Assistant Professor, Department of History

Director, History Education Program

Northern Arizona University

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PhD, History of Education, New York University (2020)

2021-2022 Mellon/ACLS Leading Edge Postdoctoral Fellow, CDF Freedom Schools Program, Development of a Culturally Relevant Teacher Training Institute

2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow in History Education, Museum of the City of New York

2016-2017 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow

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Current Book Project

Seize the Schools:
Empire, Education, and Resistance in Cold War 
New York and Puerto Rico

Published Books and Articles

Teaching the World’s Teachers (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)

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Teaching Teachers: Changing Paths and Enduring Debates (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)

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— “Puerto Rico Can Teach So Much: The Hemispheric and Imperial Origins of the Educational War on Poverty,” History of Education Quarterly 61:4 (2021), 423-448. doi:10.1017/heq.2021.44.

— “Bilingual in the Big Apple: Bilingual Education Politics and the Making of New York’s Neoliberal Multiculturalism,” in New York City Since the 1960s (working title), eds. Kim Phillips-Fein, Johanna Fernandez, and Mason Williams (in progress)

— “The Question of Independence is Hot Among the Youth Right Now: Puerto Rican Youth Organizing in Postwar New York” in Youth in the Movement: High School Student Activism in Postwar America Since 1945, Dara Walker, Jon Hale, and Alex Hyres, eds. (forthcoming)

— “Mind Stayed on Freedom: The Legacy of the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools Program,” in Education and Liberation: Perspectives on Black Educational Thought, Ronald Chennault and Derrick Alridge, eds. Co-written with Dr. Kristal Moore Clemons. (forthcoming)

Public Humanities

“Centering Youth Agency in the Civil Rights Movement,” NEH K-12 Teacher Summer Institute, Summer 2023