She has published articles on civil rights and labor activists in Virginia, and she is currently at work on a book manuscript, Where the South Begins: Civil Rights Struggles in Virginia, 1930-1960. She has been involved as a consultant for public history projects, such as the Robert Russa Moton Museum in Farmville and other sites on the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail (CREHT). Her awards include a fellowship from the Virginia Foundation for Humanities and Longwood University’s Maria Bristow Starke Award.