Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in the early twentieth century Black Press. She is completing a manuscript on the politics of class, gender and sexuality in the Black Press between 1925 and 1940. Gallon is also the founder and director of the Black Press Research Collective and an ongoing visiting scholar at the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her work on digitizing scholarship on the Black Press and black spatial humanities. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania. She also earned a M.S. in Library and information Science from Drexel University and a BA in English from Rutgers-Camden University.