His work has appeared or is forthcoming in African American Review, Legacy, American Periodicals, and Comparative American Studies. His first book, The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation, examines how the institutional and material forms of black newspapers helped shape ideas of black chosenness in the decades before the Civil War. He is also a member of the Black Press Research Collective, a group of scholars dedicated to making primary and secondary materials related to black newspapers more widely accessible. Towards that end, he is currently collaborating with members of the collective on a born-digital book that explores the place of transnational literature in the early black press. (Photo by Martha Stewart)