Academic Background: Ph.D. in History, Yale University, 1990; B.A. in History, Duke University, 1985.
Research Interests: African American history, gender, and labor in the U.S. South.
Appointments: Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University; Chair, Department of African American Studies.
Publications: Author of Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Harvard University Press, 2017).
Awards: MacArthur Fellowship (2017).