Education
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986
B.A. State University of Liège, Belgium, 1983
Specialization
- African-American studies
- African diaspora studies
Hobbies
I have published two books: "Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770-1850" (UP of New England, 2008), and "Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution" (U of Virginia P)