She also serves as Publications Director for the Association of Black Women Historians and is a Trustee for the Business History Conference. Her research interests focus on African American women in insurance and banking. Her recent publications include “‘To Do a Work that Would Be Very Far Reaching’: Minnie Geddings Cox, the Mississippi Life Insurance Company, and the Challenges of Black Women’s Business Leadership in the Early Twentieth-Century United States,” Enterprise and Society (September 2016), and “‘The Hope of the South’: The New Century Cotton Mill of Dallas, Texas, and the Business of Race in the New South, 1902–1907,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (October 2012), which won the TSHA Carroll Award for Best Article.