She is the author of “Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama,1865-1900” (University Press of Virginia, 2000) and continues to research the history of African American prisoners. She is currently writing a biography of former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas. Her article “Barbara Jordan and the Paradox of Black Female Ambition” will appear in “Texas Women/American Women: Their Lives and Times”, Rebecca Sharpless, Stephanie Cole and Liz Turner, eds. (University of Georgia Press, 2015).