Louis. With research, teaching, and service commitments to race, culture, and equity in education, her specialties include the history of U.S. education, the history of African American education, the history of school desegregation, critical race theory, and oral history. She is a past recipient of a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and she has received other awards and recognition including the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the Graduate Student Senate at Washington University in St. Louis.