Her first book, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence and the Archive (2016), explores the spatial, historical, and symbolic confinement enslaved women experienced in 18th-century Bridgetown, Barbados. Her research interests include gender and early modern slavery, critical historical methodologies, Black Atlantic history, and the links between the slave trade and capitalism. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright program, the Ford Foundation, Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture—with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.