I teach at Hinds Community College, Utica where my research interests include archives-based identity construction, African American education, and game theory/gamification of composition courses. I am currently directing a IMLS project focused on oral history in the Hinds-Utica community and have recently co-directed a NEH project exploring the life and legacy of William Holtzclaw, the founder of Utica Normal Institute (now HCC-Utica), examining the rhetorical strategies he used to engage multiple audiences in the racially charged Jim Crow era.

I am also the sponsor of our campus annual, The Uticanite, continuously published since 1954 with issues dating back to the early 1900s. Digitized scans are available at The Internet Archive.

If you would like to support the Utica Institute Museum, please consider making a tax-deductible gift to our account at the Hinds Foundation. Just specify the Utica Institute Museum as the designated fund.