Her book manuscript, Collecting and Collectivity: Black Archival Publics, 1900-1950, examines the emergence of African American archives to show how historical recuperation shaped forms of racial imagination in the early twentieth century. In 2015, she co-edited a special issue of Social Text on “The Question of Recovery: Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive.” A recipient of the McNeil Center’s 2016 Zuckerman Prize in American Studies, she has held fellowships at the Center for Humanities & Information at Penn State University and at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Her interest in the social history of archives arose from her earlier career as an archivist.