Ph.D. Students

- Title
- Ph.D. Candidate
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Education Department
- Office Location
- McHenry Library, 0258
- Mail Stop Education Department
Summary of Expertise
Graduate Student Researcher, The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz, 2018- Present
Research Interests
History/Social Studies Education; Teacher Preparation; Whiteness Studies; Critical Race Theory; Qualitative Research Methods; Critical Discourse Analysis; Curriculum Studies; Narratives
Biography, Education and Training
M.A. Teaching: Urban Education and Social Justice
Credentials: Social Studies, English, BCLAD
University of San Francisco, 2012
B.A. Politics, Africana Studies
Oberlin College, 2009
Honors, Awards and Grants
Campus Fellow Award, 2020-2021
California Teacher Education Research and Improvement Network (CTERIN) Educating Teacher Educators (ETE) Fellow, 2018-Present
Chancellor's Summer Graduate Internship Program, 2018
National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) CUFA Graduate Forum Travel Award, 2018
Chancellor's Graduate Student Fellowship, 2016-2017
Selected Presentations
Presentation, California History-Social Science Framework Conference, Visalia, CA: "From Legislation to the Classroom: Teaching the Election of Barack Obama." October 19, 2019.
Paper Presentation, American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Toronto. “Unmasking Neutrality: Surfacing White Logics in the Teaching of the Civil Rights Movement.” April 8, 2019.
Roundtable Session, National Council of Social Studies (NCSS) College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) Graduate Forum, Chicago. "Racialized Figured Worlds and the Teaching of U.S. History." November 28, 2018.
Paper Presentation, American Anthropological Association Conference, San Jose, CA. "Exploring Educational Enclosure and Contestation in Youth Spaces." November 17, 2018.