After graduating with his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, he completed a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship through the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History. His book manuscript, Visualizing Equality: African American Champions of Race, Rights, and Visual Culture, argues that African American visual artists produced popular visual media to advance campaigns for black rights and racial equality during the middle of the nineteenth century. With the support of several institutions, his essays on African American life and cultural production are in print and in press.