My research focuses on reparative justice in higher education, specifically American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS), Black Americans who have a lineage going back to American chattel slavery. Specifically, I am interested in approaching reparative justice by examining epistemic injustice (knowledge of a person or group that is distorted or limited) derived from the use of “Black/African American” in college admissions through the Ethics of Care (ethics based on relationality and responsiveness). Broad racial categories obscure subgroup (ethnic) narratives due to race projecting uniformity. Universities engaging in the practice of disaggregation along ethnic lines can allow for specific justice claims to be pursued based on lineage rather than race.

My general research interests include: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Race, Ethics, Ethics of Care tradition Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Education, Media Literacy and Studies, Qualitative Education Studies (Ethnography), Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Phenomenology, Social Epistemology. I draw from philosophers, such as Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Ellul, Henry Giroux, Martin Buber, Frantz Fanon, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

I am a 2021 SEC Emerging Scholar, Lyman T. Johnson Diversity Fellow (University of Kentucky) and a UNITE RPA Predoctoral Fellow (University of Kentucky). I am a first-generation college graduate, one generation removed from the Arkansas Delta.