She is a founder of the National Women’s Studies section on performance studies, the Southern Graduate Music Research Symposium, and the peer-reviewed publication SEM Student News. She is a former Frederick Douglass Teaching Fellow, and an instructor for the National Institute for American History and Democracy at the College of William & Mary. Her publications can be found in The Music Educators Journal, Civil War History, The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music and Musicians, and the forthcoming Musical Repatriation: Open Dialogues about Sonic Heritage from Oxford University Press.