Editing

As an editor, I champion accessible and engaging scholarship. My editorial roles include serving as an Editor at U.S. Studies Online and the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, where I’ve curated essays on topics ranging from Black women’s cinema to mid-century intellectual magazines.

Journal of the History of Ideas Blog

Commissioned, edited, and published pieces for the world’s largest graduate-run intellectual history blog.

"The Black Women": Black Women's Activism within Documentary Films in the 1960s

From Pulips to Parapets: Revolutionary Sermons in Revolutionary Boston

Fog from Harlem: Recovering a New Negro Renaissaince in the American Midwest

New World Writing, Prestigious Pulp, and the "Literary Hospitality" in the Mid-Twentieth-Century U.S.

Advertising Etiquette: On Shaping the New York City Subway

United States Studies Online

  • · Commissioned, edited, and published over 20 current affairs pieces and reviews of events and conferences in American Studies.

  • · Commissioned, recorded, edited, produced, and published over 20 podcasts on a vast array of American Studies-related topics, launching new series ‘Eyes on Exhibits’ (covering arts and heritage), ‘American Politics and Policy’, and ‘European Initiatives in American Studies’.

  • · Helped to conceive the CFP and edit submissions for USSO’s Special Series ‘Resilience and Renewal: Shifting Landscapes in American Studies’ and ‘Pedagogies of Hope, Pedagogies of Resistance.’

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Peer Reviewing

I have extensive experience as a peer reviewer for academic journals and presses.

Please don't hesitate to reach out if my expertise in education, ideas, memory, and race in the twentieth-century U.S. aligns with your peer-reviewing needs

Moveable Type

Peer Reviewer for the Autumn 22 issue "Unfeeling."

Past Tense

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Essays & Opinions Co-Editor for the Sixth Issue, "Tangle."

Stillpoint London
Past Tense

Peer Reviewer for the Graduate Review of History based at the University of Toronto.

*all lOGOS COURTESY OF THE JHI BLOG, U.S. STUDIES ONLINE, moveable type, stillpoint ldn, and past tense.

Thomas Cryer

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