She received her PhD from the University of South Carolina in Modern European History and her MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in European Women’s and Gender History. She is the Co-Chair of the Black Diaspora Studies Network at the German Studies Association; the Network Editor for H-Emotions; and an Advisory Board Member and a Network Editor for H-Black Europe. She has co-edited a volume, entitled Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions, and Histories, that will be published this fall and published her work in other venues. Her manuscript, Both Black and German: Women and the Making of a Movement, is currently under review.