Welcome

Welcome to my personal Web site. This site reflects my research and teaching interests and serves as a repository for some of my work.

Grounded in humanistic studies, my scholarship is primarily concerned with how ideas originate, develop, and evolve over time and within various contexts. As an educational and intellectual historian, I have been informed by the axiom that “ideas have consequences.” In other words, I subscribe to the philosophy that ideas are not static entities disconnected from human life, agency, or action. Instead, ideas may be dynamic, flexible, consistent, or contradictory, but they are always influential. Guided by this understanding, a major goal of my scholarship has been to show how ideas of the African American past influence the African American present and future.