Taber, Robert D
Robert D. Taber, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History
Office: Taylor Science 209E
Email: rtaber@uncfsu.edu
Phone: 910-672-2527
Academia.edu profile <https://uncfsu.academia.edu/RobTaber>
Education
Ph.D., University of Florida, Latin American History, August 2015
- Dissertation: “The Issue of Their Union: Family, Law, and Politics in Western Saint-Domingue, 1777-1789”
- Exam Fields: Early Latin America, Postcolonial Latin America, The Caribbean, Slavery in Early America and the Atlantic World, Haitian Culture and Society
- Committee: David Geggus (advisor), Ida Altman, Laurent Dubois, Jon Sensbach, Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies, University of Florida, August 2015
M.A., University of Florida, Latin American History, April 2009
B.A., Brigham Young University, History, August 2007 (Honors)
Publications
In Progress
"Manumission by Marriage: Women of Color, the Code Noir, and the Colonial State in Haiti,"
article in preparation for submission to The American Historical Review.
Family, Slavery, and the Haitian Revolution, manuscript in progress.
The Haitian Revolution and the Making of the Modern World, manuscript in progress, under contract with Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press (manuscript due 31 December 2024).
“The Haitian Revolution,” The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, Willem
Klooster, ed., Cambridge University Press (invited) (in press).
Published
Books
Co-editor with Charlton Yingling, Free Communities of Color and the Revolutionary Caribbean:
Overturning, or Turning Back? (Routledge, March 2018).
Articles (double-blind peer-reviewed)
“‘Le Sens Commun’: Atlantic Pathways and Imagination in Saint-Domingue’s Affiches
Américaines,” The Latin Americanist 61/4 (December 2017).
“Navigating Haiti's History: Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution,” History Compass, Volume 13, Issue 5, May 2015, 235-250.
Articles (peer-reviewed)
“Ending World History Part One…in 1763?” Age of Revolutions, December 2022. (https://ageofrevolutions.com/2022/12/12/ending-world-history-part-one-in1763/)
(with Anne Eller) “The Caribbean in the US Survey: Sustaining a Dialogue” Teaching United States History, October 2019. (http://www.teachingushistory.co/2019/10/guest-post-the-caribbean-in-the-us-survey-sustaining-a-dialogue.html)
“You Can’t Teach the Age of Revolutions Without the Black Intellectual Tradition” Age of Revolutions, January 2019 (https://ageofrevolutions.com/2019/01/14/you-cant-teach-the-age-of-revolutions-without-the-black-intellectual-tradition/).
“Rumor and Report in Affiches Américaines: Saint-Domingue’s American Revolution” Age of Revolutions, September 2017 (https://ageofrevolutions.com/2017/09/13/rumor-and-report-in-affiches-americaines-saint-domingues-american-revolution/).
“The Mystery of Marie Rose: Family, Politics, and the Origins of the Haitian Revolution” Age of
Revolutions, January 2016 (https://ageofrevolutions.com/2016/01/06/the-mystery-of-marie-rose-family-politics-and-the-origins-of-the-haitian-revolution/).
Book Chapters
“Family Formation, Race, and Honor in Colonial Haiti’s Communities, 1670-1789” chapter in French Connections: Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, Robert Englebert and Andrew Wegmann, eds., (Louisiana State University Press, November 2020) (invited).
*Winner of the Wilson Book Prize*
(with Charlton Yingling) "Networks, Tastes, and Labor in Free Communities of Color:
Transforming the Revolutionary Caribbean" in Taber and Yingling, Free Communities of Color and the Revolutionary Caribbean: Overturning, or Turning Back? (Routledge, March 2018), 1-12.
Review Articles and Long Essays
"Archives of the Revolution: Toward New Narratives of Haiti and the Revolution," The William
& Mary Quarterly, July 2018.
(with Charlton Yingling) "Networks, Tastes, and Labor in Free Communities of Color:
Transforming the Revolutionary Caribbean" Atlantic Studies 14/3 (July 2017), 263-274.
Book Reviews
Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, The Cry of Vertières: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti (Montreal: McGill-Queens’s University Press, 2020) Journal of Early American History, August 2022.
Laura R. Prieto & Stephen R. Berry, eds., Crossings and Encounters: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Atlantic World (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2020) New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, March 2022.
Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus, The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) H-France, April 2020.
Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) BlackPerspectives, February 2020.
Erica Johnson, Philanthropy & Race in the Haitian Revolution (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) H-Haiti, July 2019.
Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) Slavery &
Abolition, April 2019.
Jennifer Palmer, Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic (Philadelphia: Univ.
of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) Journal of Social History, March 2017.
David Head, Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States
in the Early Republic (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2015) Studies in American Culture, October 2016.
Kit Candlin and Cassandra Pybus, Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the
Revolutionary Atlantic (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015) Journal of Social History, May 2016.
Philip Boucher, France in the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent? (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) Itinerario, Volume 33, Issue 2, July 2009, 123-125.
Short Essays, Conference Recapitulations, and Op-Eds
“Change to Fayetteville’s City Council Would Lose Personal Connection” Fayetteville Observer, November 2022.
“Sharing Fayetteville State’s Story…at the White House” Fayetteville Observer, October 2022.
“The Latter-day Saint Legacy of Supporting Voting Rights” Deseret News, January 2022.
“Stereotypes about Haiti erase the long history of US-Haiti Ties” The Washington Post, July 2021.
“Trump Harms Religion; Biden Unites Faith Communities” Fayetteville Observer, October 2020.
“Engaged Reading Brings Wisdom but Needs Community” Fayetteville Observer, April 2020.
“Civil War History Center Will Replace Historical Lies with Truth” Fayetteville Observer, September 2019.
“Surviving the Revolution: We. The Revolution and RTTP” Age of Revolutions, July 2019 (https://ageofrevolutions.com/2019/07/31/surviving-the-revolution-we-the-revolution-and-rttp/).
(with Claire Antone Payton) “All Together Now: Haitian Studies at the 2019 AHA and MLA Annual Conventions” H-Haiti, January 2019 (https://networks.h-net.org/node/116796/blog/test-blog/3563836/all-together-now-haitian-studies-2019-aha-and-mla-annual).
(with Charlton Yingling) “Free Communities of Color in the Revolutionary Caribbean” Age of Revolutions, October 2018 (https://ageofrevolutions.com/2018/10/22/free-communities-of-color-in-the-revolutionary-caribbean/).
(with Bryan A. Banks and Katlyn Carter) “Consortium on the Revolutionary Era: 3 Reflections” Age of Revolutions, February 2018 (https://ageofrevolutions.com/2018/03/08/consortium-on-the-revolutionary-era-3-reflections/).
“Emerging Histories of the French Atlantic” The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, October 2015 (https://earlyamericanists.com/2015/10/23/guest-post-emerging-histories-of-the-french-atlantic/).
“Why the Confederate Flag Must Go” MormonPress, June 2015 (http://www.mormonpress.com/why_symbols_matter).
“Five Books (and One Article) to Read Before Next Black History Month” MormonPress, March 2015 (http://www.mormonpress.com/five_books_on_race)
“The Filibusters,” An Island Luminous, Digital Library of the Caribbean, 2014 (http://islandluminous.fiu.edu/learn.html).
Grants, Awards, Fellowships, and Development Work
Development
The Lafayette Fund for the Study of the Age of Revolutions, Emancipation, and Civil Rights
(Fayetteville State University) - $45,000 (as of March 2022).
The Lafayette Black History Research Collection (Charles Chesnutt Library, Fayetteville State University) - $1,200 (donation received December 2018).
Awards
“Faith Leader to Watch” – The Center for American Progress (2021).
Outstanding Mentor – Fayetteville State University McNair Program (2019).
Fayetteville Observer 40 Under 40 (2019).
External Grants
Phi Alpha Theta Doctoral Scholarship, Phi Alpha Theta (2010).
Richard H. Popkin Fellowship, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2010).
Internal Grants (Fayetteville State University)
Freshman Fellow, World History to 1600 (2019-2021).
Chesnutt Library Fellow, Information Literacy (2016-2017).
Internal Grants (University of Florida)
Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Award (2015).
Supplemental Retention Grant - Office of Graduate Minority Programs (2015) (declined).
Course development grant – Bob Graham Center for Public Service (2013).
Pozzetta Dissertation Research Prize (2010).
Alumni Fellowship (2007-2011).
Workshops
“Teaching Effective Online Courses,” University of North Carolina System, October-November 2021.
“Assessment and Measurement 101 Resources,” Fayetteville State University Office of Faculty Development, 24 June 2021.
“Getting it Published,” French Colonial Historical Society, 28 May 2021.
“IBM Skills Academy – Artificial Intelligence,” IBM, Armonk, New York, January 2020 (train the trainer).
“Manumission Through Marriage: Subversion, Opportunity, and Politics in Late Colonial Haiti,”
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Colloquium, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 2018 (pre-circulated paper).
“Manumission Through Marriage: Subversion, Opportunity, and Politics in Late Colonial Haiti (partie française de Saint-Domingue),” French Culture Workshop, Stanford University, Stanford, California, October 2018 (pre-circulated paper).
“Manumission through Marriage: Law, Authority, and Practice in Pre-Revolutionary Saint-Domingue,” Tepaske Seminar: Religion, Law, and Moral Authority in the Early Americas, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2018 (pre-circulated paper).
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
International
“Les femmes de couleur et la construction de communauté à Saint-Marc et Léogane, partie française de Saint-Domingue à la fin du XVIII siècle,” Colloque international: Esclavages et couleurs dans les villes et les sociétés urbaines d’Afrique, des Amériques et d’Europe XV-XIX siècle, Université des Antilles, Martinique, November 2017 (invited talk).
National
“Land, Networks, and Opportunity? Free Women of Color in Saint-Marc on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution,” French Colonial Historical Society, Charleston, South Carolina, May 2022.
Discussant, Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Prize Session, French Colonial Historical Society, Charleston, South Carolina, May 2022.
Discussant, “Reverberations of Revolution: Haiti’s Independence in the Caribbean and Beyond,” French Colonial Historical Society, Charleston, South Carolina, May 2022.
Discussant, “Haiti Beyond Saint Domingue,” Society for French Historical Studies, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 2022 (presidential session).
“Regifting Survival: Women, Community Ties, and Revolution in Colonial Haiti,” Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World: 2020 Port Cities in the Atlantic, Charleston, South Carolina, May 2020 [Canceled Due to Covid-19].
“‘Because of the Friendship He Feels for the Bride’: Patrimony, Fatherhood, and Marriage in French Saint-Domingue,” American Historical Association, New York, New York, January 2020.
“Togetherness and Family Life in Slavery in Western Haiti, 1681-1789,” Latin American and Caribbean Section, Southern Historical Association, Louisville, Kentucky, November 2019.
“Istwa Kote A: Women and the History of Colonial and Revolutionary Haiti,” Haitian Studies Association, Gainesville, Florida, October 2019.
“Narrative and the Battle over the NC Civil War & Reconstruction History Center,” Diversity and Materiality in the Public Sphere Undergraduate Research Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia, October 2019.
“‘I Never Knew the Effect of Color Prejudice’: Joseph Balthazar Inginac and the Formation of
the Haitian State, 1783-1843,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2019.
“The Postal Service and Building the Colonial State in French Saint-Domingue,” Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2019.
“Saint-Domingue or Colonial Haiti? Naming Conventions and Perspective in Historical Analysis,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2019.
“Women of Color and the Construction of Community in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti,” American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2019.
Discussant, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Community Engagement (But Were Afraid To Ask),” American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2019 (roundtable organizer).
“The Caribbean and the U.S. Survey,” The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 2018.
Moderator, “French Colonial Law in a Comparative Perspective: The Case of Île Bourbon / Réunion Island, 1663-1848,” French Colonial Historical Society, Seattle, Washington, May-June 2018.
“Racialization and Community Networks in Saint-Marc and Léogane: Honor, Race, and ‘Passing’ in Saint-Domingue’s Late Colonial Legal Regime,” The Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2018 (panel organizer).
Discussant, “Roundtable on Generations Across the Age of Revolutions,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 2018.
"Participation and Performance in the Colonial Archives of Saint-Domingue," Theaters of Race in the Americas, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 7 April 2017 (invited talk).
"'Le Sens Commun': Atlantic Pathways and Imagination in Saint-Domingue’s Les Affiches Américaines," Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 2017.
"Separatism and Revolution in the Saint-Marc Assembly," Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Charleston, South Carolina, February 2017.
"Neither Masters nor Slaves? Free Urban Labor in Saint-Domingue before and during the Haitian Revolution," American Historical Association, Denver, Colorado, January 2017.
"'Le Sens Commun': The U.S. War of Independence in Saint-Domingue's Les Affiches Américaines," Kimberly S. Hanger Memorial Panel, Latin American and Caribbean Section, Southern Historical Association, St. Pete Beach, Florida, November 2016 (panel organizer).
"Family, Politics, and the Origins of the Haitian Revolution," American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2016 (panel organizer).
"Family Formation and Polemics in Saint-Domingue, 1670-1789," "Emerging Histories of the Early Modern French Atlantic," The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 2015.
"Salters, Smugglers, Revolutionaries: The Buccaneers' Successors and the Future of the French Empire in Saint-Domingue," World History Association, Savannah, Georgia, June 2015.
"Leasing the Slave Body: Law, Responsibility, and Runaways in Saint-Domingue," The Omohundro Institute of Early American Society and Culture and the Society of Early Americanists, Chicago, Illinois, June 2015.
“‘Through My Own Labor’: Free People of Color and Manumission in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti, 1777-88,” American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 2014 (panel co-organizer).
“Creating the Plantation State: Security, Labor, Metropolitan Support, and the Rise of Colonial Haiti,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, 59th Annual Meeting, Gainesville, Florida, March 2012.
“Spoils of War, Planning for Peace: The Nine Years’ War, Slavery, and the Future of Saint-
Domingue,” “The ‘Political Arithmetick’ of Empires in the Early Modern Atlantic, 1500-1807,” The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of Maryland, College Park, March 2012.
“‘That They Incorrectly Call Prayers’: Slavery, Catholicism, and Social Control in Saint-Domingue, 1700-1763,” European History Section, Southern Historical Association, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2011.
“Social Mobility among Plantation Employees in West Province, Saint-Domingue, 1710-1763,” Conference on Latin American History, Boston, Massachusetts, January 2011 (panel organizer).
“Haiti and the Americas to 1789,” Haiti and the Americas, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, October 2010.
“Studying Subaltern Whiteness in the Slave Society of Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue,”
Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium, Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry, Iowa City, Iowa, September 2010.
“Mustering the Foot Soldiers of Empire: Poor Europeans in Saint-Domingue, 1698-1755,”
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2009 (panel organizer).
(with Brett Rushforth) “To Strengthen the Colonies: French Labor Policy and Indentured Servants in Seventeenth Century Martinique,” French Colonial Historical Society, La Rochelle, France, June 2007.
PUBLIC TALKS
“Liberation, Reconstruction, and the Fight for Multiracial Democracy,” Cumberland County Senior Democrats Juneteenth Celebration, June 2023.
“Lafayette and the Promise of Enlightenment,” National Sojourners Encampment, February 2023.
Moderator, “Fayetteville’s Charles Chesnutt: African American Author in the Jim Crow Era,” Fayetteville State University, February 2021.
“The Haitian Revolution,” St. Francis Episcopal School (Houston, Texas), November 2020 (invited talk).
“Leaving Slavery: The Story of the Haitian Revolution & Its Influence on the US Civil War,” Southern Missouri State University, October 2020 (invited talk).
“Foreign Aid: Who Is It Good For?” Southern Missouri State University, October 2020 (invited talk).
“The Haitian Revolution and the Making of the Modern World,” Southern Missouri State University, September 2020 (invited talk).
“Leaving Slavery: The Story of the Haitian Revolution & Its Influence on the US Civil War,” Fayetteville State University, February 2019 (invited talk).
Panelist, “1968 We Shall Overcome: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Era, 2018 — From Dream to Promised Land, Where Are We Now?” Cumberland County Library and Information Center, June 2018 (invited talk).
"Family, Slavery, and the Haitian Revolution," University of North Carolina-Charlotte Department of History, March 2016 (invited talk).
“Poorer Whites in Petit-Trou de Nippes, Saint-Domingue, 1720-1755,” Pozzetta Lecture Series, University of Florida Department of History, December 2010 (invited talk).
Teaching Experience
Fayetteville State University (Assistant Professor, 2016-2022; Associate Professor, 2022-present)
America to 1865
African American History
World to 1600
History of Latin America
The French Revolution and Napoleon
Problems in World History: Piracy
Problems in European History: Slavery and Abolition
Problems in World History: Atlantic Revolutions
Senior Capstone: Modern Latin America
Senior Capstone: Postcolonialism
Senior Capstone: Age of Revolutions
Senior Capstone: Slavery and Abolition
McNair thesis advised:
Queonnah Coleman, “Gender Analysis of Women in Higher Education in North Africa and the Middle East from 1920 to 2018” (Summer 2019).
Senior theses advised:
Tai Davis, “What Significant Impact did the Stono Rebellion Have on Enslaved People?” (Spring 2022).
Alissia Gonzalez, “The Significance of the Haitian Revolution and its Success” (Spring 2022).
Dominique Howard, “Repairing the Gap” (Spring 2022).
Cathleen M. Lancaster, “The Conveyance of Nobility Across Time & Country” (Spring 2021).
Heather Strickland, “Social Class and Race in the French and Haitian Revolutions” (Spring 2021).
Charles G. Tubbs, Jr., “Great Britain and Transatlantic Trade” (Spring 2021).
Queonnah Coleman, “Orientalism and the Rhetoric of Black Power” (Fall 2019).
Caitlin Crenshaw, “Native Rituals of Death in Early America” (Fall 2019).
Maya Glaspie, “The Influence of Communism on the Work of Frida Kahlo” (Spring 2018).
University of Florida (Instructor of Record) 2010-2016:
Age of Atlantic Revolutions: France, Haiti, Spanish America
Pirates of the Caribbean
The French Revolution
Argument & Persuasion: Viva la revolución! (University Writing Program)
Professional Communication in the Disciplines (University Writing Program)
**University Athletic Association (Tutor) 2015-2016:** History Practicum: The French Revolution
America to 1865
What is the Good Life? (General Humanities)
Beginning Haitian Creole
Teaching Fields
Latin America and the Caribbean, The Black Atlantic (1400-1900), Slavery, Revolutions, African-American History
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Fayetteville State University
UNC Faculty Assembly (elected delegate), September 2021-present. Education Policy Committee (co-chair, September 2022-present); Minority Serving Institutions Committee.
Faculty Assembly Liaison, Fayetteville State Faculty Senate Executive Committee, July 2022-present.
Search Committee Member, Head of Access Services, Charles Chesnutt Library (Fall 2022).
UNC Faculty Assembly (elected alternate), April 2017-September 2021.
Communications Chair, Fayetteville State AAUP, January 2020-August 2021.
Coalition Team Member, Assessing and Improving Political Learning and Engagement, March
2018-present.
Faculty Senate (elected delegate), September 2017-present.
QEP Committee for SACSCOC review (adaptive learning), 2019-2022 cycle.
Faculty Senate Technology Committee, November 2016-present.
New Models of Teaching and Learning Committee, August 2018-April 2019.
Chair, Global Literacy Lecture Series (Department of Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Sciences, Political Science, and History), August 2020-present.
Chair, Women’s History Month Committee (Department of Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Sciences, Political Science, and History), May 2023-present.
Academic Affairs Student Recruitment Committee, May 2018-April 2019.
Search Committee Member, Lecturer in Philosophy (2021).
Search Committee Member, Department Chair for Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Sciences, Political Science, and History (2021).
Search Committee Member, Lecturer in Intelligence Studies (2017-2018; 2018-2019).
Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor of Geography (2016).
Advisor, FSU Black History Club/Black History Scholars Association, October 2017-present.
(Fayetteville State University Student Organization of the Year, 2017-2018).
Service to the Profession
Peer reviewer, Atlantic Studies, French Historical Studies, French History, William and Mary Quarterly, Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation.
Editorial team, Age of Revolutions (June 2017-present).
Chair, Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize Committee, Latin American and Caribbean Section, Southern Historical Association (February 2023-present)
Committee member, French Colonial Historical Society Article Prize Committee (March 2022-present)
Committee member, American Historical Association Roelker Prize Committee (March 2021-present)
Social Media Officer, Latin American and Caribbean Section, Southern Historical Association (November 2016-present).
American Historical Association, Focus Group on History and Philosophy Education at Historically Black Colleges & Universities (June 2018) (invited).
History Dissertation Writing Workshop, University of Florida (August 2013-August 2015).
University of Florida Graduate Symposium on Latin American History (2009-2011).
Vice-president, University of Florida History Graduate Society (2009-2010).
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
North Carolina:
*Invited Participant* “Communities in Action: Building a Better North Carolina,” White House Office of Public Engagement, The White House, September 2022.
Vice President for Policy Outreach, Carolina Forward, September 2022-present.
Senior Fellow, Carolina Forward, October 2021-September 2022.
Principal, RD Taber Consulting LLC (NC clients include mayoral, state legislative, and congressional campaigns), December 2019-present.
Digital Director, North Carolina 9th Congressional District Democratic Committee, April 2019-present.
Board Member, The Lafayette Society (Fayetteville, North Carolina), November 2017-present.
Historian and Founding Board Member, Fayetteville PRIDE, April 2017-December 2019.
Publicity Chair, Cumberland County Democratic Party, May 2018-November 2018.
Vice-Chair, Young Democrats of North Carolina Rural Caucus, April 2018-April 2019.
Vice-President, Young Democrats of Cumberland County (North Carolina), March 2018-March 2019.
Campaign Manager, Committee to Elect Hanah Ehrenreich (Fayetteville City Council), August-October 2017.
President, Young Democrats of Cumberland County (North Carolina), March 2017-March 2018.
Founding Chair, Cape Fear Indivisible (Fayetteville, North Carolina), January 2017-February 2018.
National:
Panelist, “Keeping the Faith in Our Democracy,” DNC Interfaith, Democratic National Convention (virtual meeting), August 2020.
National Director, Latter-day Saints for Biden-Harris, May 2020-present.
Latter-day Saint Outreach, Faith2020, July 2020-November 2020.
National Co-Chair, Latter-day Saint Democrats of America, February 2017-present.
Editorial Team, MormonPress, January 2015-present.
National Chair, LDS Democrats of America, January 2013-February 2017.
Strategic Advisor, Mormons for Hillary, August 2016-November 2016.
National Director, Mormons for Obama, June 2012-November 2012.
Panelist, "Caring for the Poor and Needy," DNC Faith, Democratic National Convention, Charlotte, North Carolina, September 2012.
MEDIA EXPERIENCE
Interviews with The New York Times, Agence France-Presse, BBC Radio News Hour, Time, The Washington Post, Politico, The Arizona Republic, The Deseret News, The Salt Lake Tribune, Buzzfeed, Inverse, The Fayetteville Observer, WIDU, KNRS, and ViàATV (Martinique).
Experience speaking at national press conferences, preparing statements, and generating earned media in the national and local press.
Professional Memberships/Affiliations
Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Section, Southern Historical Association
French Colonial Historical Society
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
American Historical Association
Languages
Haitian Creole (reading, writing, speaking)
French (reading, writing, speaking)
Spanish (reading, basic speaking)