2024                “Utica Institute Archives Digitization,” National Historical Publications and Records Commission, $226,263.  This project is providing funding to digitize and catalog five major collections at the Utica Institute Archives.

2021                “Securing the Future: Utica’s Contribution to Southern Black Education,” National Endowment for the Humanities, $234,372.  Funds from this project were used to create a new traveling exhibit on the Utica Farmers’ Conference, establish an Introduction to Bioethics course as a partnership between the Humanities and Biology departments, hosting a national Symposium on the Little Tuskegees, and funding an archivist to begin digitization work on the collection.

2020                “Humanities Recovery Grant,” Mississippi Humanities Council, $14,885.  This grant funded the development of a public programming series at the Museum called Back Porch Thursdays.

2020                “Utica Roots: Building Community Through Shared Oral Histories,” Institute for Museum and Library Services, $98,648.  This grant created the Utica Oral History Center.

2018                “The Utica Jubilee Experience Planning Grant,” Mississippi Humanities Council, $7,500.  This grant provided matching funds for a new traveling exhibit on the Utica Jubilee Singers.

2017                “Replacing Traditional Textbooks with Open Educational Resources,” University of Mississippi/William and Flora Hewett Foundation Z-Degree Initiative, $4,000. This project allowed me to develop a series of OER materials for students in my composition and literature classes.

2016-2017       “Black Man’s Burden: William Holtzclaw and the Mississippi HBCU Connection,” NEH Humanities Initiatives at HBCUs, National Endowment for the Humanities,  Hinds CC-Utica, $99,842. Through this project, we conducted a series of graduate seminars for our humanities faculty, designed and implemented a team-taught Introduction to Humanities class centered around our institutional history, mentored undergraduates in semester-long archival research projects, and offered a Summer Institute for 10 faculty from other institutions to extend the work beyond our college.