Fisk University | Nashville, Tennessee | May 2003 Bachelor of Arts in History, magna cum laude University Honors Departmental Honors Phi Beta Kappa Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee | May 2005 Master of Arts in History Concentration: Latin American and Caribbean Thesis: The Color Divide in the Emergent Black Man's Party: The Political Strivings of the Bahamian Colored and Black middle class in the Progressive Liberal Party, 1953-1963. Advisor: Richard J.M. Blackett, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee | May 2011 Doctor of Philosophy in History Concentration: U.S. Dissertation: Raising a Nonviolent Army: Four Nashville Black Colleges and the Century-Long Struggle for Civil Rights, 1830s-1930s. Advisor: Richard J.M. Blackett, Ph.D. Tennessee State University | Nashville, Tennessee | May 2014

Tennessee State University | Nashville, Tennessee | May 2014 Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction Concentration: Education Technology

2016 Fisk University Women of Prominence

2015 Bishop Michael Eldon School 50th Anniversary Warriors Golden Jubilee Award

2015 HBCU Alumna of the Year Finalist

2014 HopeDealer of the Year Award

2011 TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Fellowship, Alternate

2009 - 2010 Bahamas Government Graduate Student Scholarship

2009 - 2010 Lyford Cay Foundation Graduate Student Scholarship

2008 - 2009 Bahamas Government Graduate Student Scholarship

2007 - 2008 Social Science Dissertation Fellowship

2007-2008 J. León Helguera Dissertation Fellowship (declined)

2006 Herbert and Blanche Henry Weaver Research Fellowship

2005 William Campbell Binkley Travel Award

2003-2007 Vanderbilt Departmental Fellowship

2002-2003 National Visionary Heritage Fellows Program

“Sexism in the World House: Women and the Global Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Reclaiming the World House in the 21st Century: Cross-Disciplinary Explorations of the Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. Lewis V. Baldwin and Crystal A. deGregory. Forthcoming.