Publications

Co-editor with LaKisha Simmons, The Global History of Black Girlhood (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming September 2022).

“Antifeminism, Anti-Blackness, and Antioldness: The Intersectional Aesthetics of Aging in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, special issue, “Rethinking ‘Fist Wave’ Feminisms,” 47, no. 4, forthcoming, Summer 2022.

“Old-Age Justice and Black Feminist History: Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman’s Intersectional Legacies,” Radical History Review, Special Issue on Old/Age 139 (January 2021): 37-51.

Co-editor with Nicholas Syrett, “AHR Roundtable: Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” American Historical Review (April): 371-459.

“‘What does come after?’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Speculative Sociology of Aging Beyond Youth,” Studies in American Fiction 46 (Fall 2019): 289-320.

Co-editor with Lakisha Simmons, eds., “Black Girlhood and Kinship,” special issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color 7, no. 1 (Spring 2019).

“What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Age in Early America?” Common-place.org 17, no. 2 (2017).

With Tammy-Charelle Owens, Marcia Chatelain, Lakisha Simmons, Abosede George, and Rhian Keyse, “The History of Black Girlhood: Recent Innovations and Future Directions,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (Fall 2016): 383-401.

“Frances Harper and the Politics of Intellectual Maturity,” in Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women, eds. Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015).

Editor with Nicholas Syrett, Age in America: Colonial Era to the Present (New York: New York University Press, 2015).

The Struggle For Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014).

“‘Made Women of When They are Mere Children’: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Critique of Eighteenth-Century Girlhood,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (Spring 2011): 197-222.

“‘Are Women . . . All Minors?’: Woman’s Rights and the Politics of Aging in the Antebellum United States,” Journal of Women’s History (Winter 2001): 113-137.