Dissertation:

Awards:

• Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2018-2019
• Buckner W. Clay Fellowship for the Humanities, 2018-2019
• RBS-UVA Fellowship, 2018-2019
• University of Virginia Summer Funding Research Grant, Summer 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Raven Society, November 2017-present
• Beinecke Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship, June-August 2017
• Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2016
• Gosnell Prize for Best First-Year Essay, Fall 2014

Essays in print and forthcoming:

• "Langston Hughes: Experimental Folklorist." Hidden Folklorists series. Folklife Today - A Library of Congress Blog. Library of Congress. Forthcoming. Online.
• “Boundaries Bind Unbinding: Langston Hughes’ Musical-Archival Practice.” The Black Sound and the Archive Working Group, Yale University. 13 April 2018. Online.
• “Tools of Displacement: How Charlottesville, Virginia’s Confederate statues helped decimate the city’s historically successful black communities.” With Eva Latterner and Gillet Rosenblith. Slate. 23 June 2017. Online.

Conference Papers:

• “‘the little songs that America loves are just called songs:’ Langston Hughes’ Musical Career.” States of Emergence: American Studies Association Conference. 8-11 November 2018, Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, GA. Presenter and Panel Organizer.
• ‘Hotter Than A Polecat Spittin’ In A Bulldog’s Eye:’ Mable Hillery and Johnny Shines Live at the Miami Blues Festival, 1975.” With David Beal and Parker Fishel. 52nd Association for Recorded Sound Collections Conference, 12 May 2018, Radisson Baltimore, Baltimore, MD.
• “A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: The Ballad of the Female Song Collector.” What Difference Does it Make?: Music and Gender: 18th MOPop Music Conference, 26-29 April 2018, Museum of Popular Culture, Seattle, WA. Presenter and Panel Organizer.
• “The #CharlottesvilleSyllabus Project.” With Alyssa Collins. Yes, We Still Can: Conference on Diversity & Inclusion in Library and Information Science, 3 November 2017, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 
• “Run Him Right Out of the Country: The 1949 V.D. Radio Project.” Sign ‘O the Times: Music and Politics: 17th MOPop Music Conference, 20-23 April 2017, Museum of Popular Culture, Seattle, WA. Presenter and Panel Organizer.
• “Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Collecting Stage’.” Migrations and Circulations: Biennial Conference of the Southern American Studies Association, 2-4 March 2016, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
• “Singing “Just Because:” Elvis’ Chimeric Americana.” From A Whisper to a Scream: The Voice in Music: 16th EMP Pop Music Conference, 16 April 2016, EMP Museum, Seattle, WA. Presenter and Panel Organizer.
• “In Noble Bronze: Race, Nation, And The “Historic” Confederate Statues of Charlottesville, VA.” With Eva Latterner and Gillet Rosenblith. American Literature Association Conference, 26 February 2016, Sheraton Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, TX.
• “Talkin’ Bout Mojo: Preserving the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival.” With Parker Fishel. Barnard-Columbia Blues Symposium, 15 February 2015, Barnard College of Columbia University, New York, NY.
• “Talkin’ Bout Mojo: Preserving the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival.” With Parker Fishel. 48th Association for Recorded Sound Collections Conference, 16 May 2014, Sheraton Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
• “No Man’s Land: Exploring the Female Murder Ballad.” Songwriting and the South: Music of the South Symposium, 3 April 2014, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.

Lectures, Roundtables, Symposiums:

• “Langston Hughes’ Life in Music.” University of VA. Charlottesville, VA. 7 April 2018. Dissertation Talk.
• “Civility, Civil Resistance, and Civil Rights: The Charlottesville Syllabus and Protest at the University of Virginia.” With Maya Hislop, Eva Latterner and Marc Mazique. Humanities Week: Civil Resistance. University of VA. Charlottesville, VA. 6 April 2018. Lecture.
• “Conversation with Dr. Kanisha Bond about urban space and white supremacy in Charlottesville, VA.” Planning & Design in the Multicultural Metropolis. University of Maryland. College Park, MD. 6 September 2017. Roundtable.
• “Civil Religion After 9/11 In Popular Culture.” With Monica Blair. Introduction to American Studies. University of VA. Charlottesville, VA. 16 November 2016. Lecture.
• Guest respondent for Marlon Ross and K. Ian Grandison’s Race, Space, Culture Symposium. University of VA. Charlottesville, VA. 15 December 2015. Symposium

Courses & Institutions:

• Kelly, Michael and Kiara M. Vigil. “The History of Native American Books & Indigenous Sovereignty.” The Rare Books School. Amherst: Amherst College. 10-17 June 2018.  
• Lott, Eric. The 2016 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College, 20-26 June 2016.

Working Group:

• The Black Sound Archive Working Group at Yale University, September 2017-June 2018