Academic Articles & Chapters

“Packed Sacks and Pieced Quilts: Sampling Slavery’s Vast Materials,” Winterthur Portfolio 54:4 (forthcoming, 2021).

“One Black Boy,” Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, eds., Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blain (New York: Random House, 2021).

“Beyond a Boundary: Black Lives and the Settler-Native Divide,” The William and Mary Quarterly (July 2019).

“Haunted Waters: Stories of Slavery, Coastal Ghosts, and Environmental Consciousness,” Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture, eds. Paul S. Sutter, Paul M. Pressly (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017).

“Critical Place-Based Storytelling: A Mode of Creative Interaction at Historic Sites,” co-authored with Rachel Miller, in Bending the Future: 50 Ideas for the Next 50 Years of Historic Preservation in the United States, ed., Max Page and Marla R. Miller (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016).

“Goat Bones in the Basement: A Case of Race, Gender and Haunting in Old Savannah,” The South Carolina Review, Special Issue: The Spectral South, 47:2 (spring 2015). Translated and reprinted in the Italian journal, Iperstoria, October 2016.

“At the Crossroads of Red/Black Literature,” co-authored with Kiara M. Vigil, Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature, eds., James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

“Afro-Native Realities,” co-authored with Sharon P. Holland, World of Indigenous North America, ed., Robert Warrior (New York: Routledge, 2014).

Notes from the Field. “The Lost Letter of Mary Ann Battis: A Troubling Case of Gender and Race in Creek Country,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Journal (spring 2014).

“’Shall Woman’s Voice Be Hushed?’: Laura Smith Haviland in Abolitionist Women’s History.” Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Fall 2013), pp. 1-20. View full PDF.

“The Long Arm of the South?” The Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2012).

“‘Showplace of the Cherokee Nation’: Race and the Making of a Southern House Museum,” The Public Historian (Fall 2011).

“Of Waterways and Runaways: Reflections on the Great Lakes in Underground Railroad History,” Michigan Quarterly Review (Summer 2011).

“Taking Leave, Making Lives: Creative Quests for Freedom in Early Black and Native America,” IndiVisible, African-Native American Lives in the Americas, ed., Gabrielle Tayac (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2009): 139-149. View full PDF.

“Circular Reasoning: Recentering Cherokee Women in the Antiremoval Campaigns,” American Quarterly (June 2009). [This article was awarded the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for the best article in southern women’s history for 2009.]

“The Narrative of Nancy, A Cherokee Woman,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Special Issue: Intermarriage and North American Indians 29: 2 & 3 (spring 2008).

“Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South,” Co-authored with Claudio Saunt, Barbara Krauthamer, Celia E. Naylor, Circe Sturm, Ethnohistory 53:2 (spring 2006).

“His Kingdom for a Kiss: Indians and Intimacy in the Narrative of John Marrant,” Haunted by Empire: Race and Colonial Intimacies in North American History, ed., Ann Laura Stoler (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006). View full PDF.

“All in the Family? A Meditation on White Centrality, Black Exclusion, and the Intervention of Afro-Native Studies,” Foreword to Race, Roots, and Relations: Native and African Americans, ed., Terry Straus (Chicago: Albatross Press 2005). View full PDF.

“Africans and Native Americans,” co-authored with Barbara Krauthamer, A Companion to African-American History, volume ed., Alton Hornsby Jr., (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005).

“African-Americans in Indian Societies,” co-authored with Celia E. Naylor, Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 14 Southeast, ed., Raymond Fogelson (Washington DC: Smithsonian, 2004).

“Uncle Tom Was an Indian: Tracing the Red in Black Slavery,” Confounding the Color Line: Indian-Black Relations in Multidisciplinary Perspective, ed., James Brooks, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002). View full PDF.