Peer-Reviewed Books

This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023).

Co-editor, Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations: An Atlantic World Anthology (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018).

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Essays

Co-author, “Digital Public History at Three Presidential Home Sites,” in American Revolutions in the Digital Age, eds. Nora Slonimsky, Mark Boonshoft, and Ben Wright (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024).

“White/white and/or the Absence of the Modifier,” Journal of the Early Republic 43, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 101–108.

“A Protected Place: The Material Culture of Home-Making for Stagville’s Enslaved Residents,” Winterthur Portfolio 54, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 245–70.

“Fashioning Frenchness: Gens de Couleur Libres and the Cultural Struggle for Power in Antebellum New Orleans,” Journal of Social History 51, no. 3 (Spring 2018): 526–56.

Public-Facing Essays & Interviews

“History Suggests Michelle Obama and Simone Biles Were Right to Clap Back at Trump on ‘Black Jobs’,” Time, August 28, 2024.

“Why Descendants Are Returning to the Plantations Where Their Ancestors Were Enslaved,” Smithsonian Magazine, July 11, 2024.

“Seeking Alternative Archives to Better Understand the Past,” University of North Carolina Press Blog, December 7, 2023.

“Author Interview--Whitney Nell Stewart (This Is Our Home)” Part 1 & Part 2, H-CivWar, December 13 & 18, 2023.

“The Author’s Corner with Whitney Nell Stewart,” Current, November 29, 2023.

“Slavery and the Family Tree,” Black Perspectives, May 15, 2019.