Category: Academic

In January 2018, I traveled to Washington D.C. with my father to the annual conference of the American Historical Association, the largest and oldest gathering of historians in the United States. As an aspiring historian, I wanted to meet leading scholars in the field and see professional historians in action. I browsed the book fair, […]

In 2017, I attended the Cornerstone Summer Institute, a residential program designed by the President’s Commission on Slavery at the University of Virginia for select high school students. The course promotes critical thinking about the the historical interpretations of slavery and enduring struggles for freedom. We visited an exhibit on slavery at James Madison’s Montpelier, […]