Publications

Interviews

• “Quotidian Intellectuals: The Afro-German Women's Movement-A Conversation"

Books

• Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (University of Illinois Press, 2020). Awards: Winner of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) First Book Prize, 2021; Finalist for ASWAD’s Outstanding First Book Prize, 2021; Honorable Mention for the DAAD/GSA Book Prize in Literature and Cultural Studies, German Studies Association, 2021; “The Best Black History Books of 2020,” Black Perspectives

• Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories (Peter Lang Press, 2018).

Special Journal Issue

• “Zur Beständigkeit der Graswurzel. Transnationale Perspektiven auf Schwarzen Antirassismus im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts,” Special Issue “(Anti-)Rassismus,” Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) 70, no. 42-44 (Oktober 2020): 33-38.

• Guest editor, “Transnational Civil Rights and Antiracist Activism,” in Journal of Civil and Human Rights vol. 4, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2018): 1-4.

Journal Forum

• “Race and Intersectionality,” “Forum on Feminism in German Studies,” in The German Quarterly vol. 91, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 207-09.

Chapters in Edited Volumes (Peer Reviewed)

• “Connected Differences: Black German Feminists and their Transnational Connections in the 1980s and 1990s,” in Friederike Bruehoefener, Karen Hagemann, and Donna Harsch, eds. Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements (Berghahn Books, 2019), 229-49.

• “Distant Ties: May Ayim’s Transnational Solidarity and Activism,” in Keisha N. Blain and Tiffany M. Gill, eds. To Turn this Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism (University of Illinois Press, 2019), 74-97.

• “Transnational Feminist Solidarity, Black German Women, and the Politics of Belonging,” in Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, eds. Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora: Contesting History and Power (Routledge, 2017), 87-110.

• “Emotional Connections: Audre Lorde and Black German Women,” in Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck, eds. Audre Lorde’s Transnational Legacies (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), 135-147.

Public Writing

• “Queer Memory and Black Germans,” The New Fascism Syllabus: Exploring the New Right Through Scholarship and Civic Engagement, June, 8, 2021 

• “A New Day Dawns in Germany: Black Queer Women Resuscitating Darkness in the Urban Space,” Nocturnal Unrest, May 20, 2021 (co-written with Jeannette Oholi and Vanessa Plumly) 

• “Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance,” Black Perspectives, May 17, 2021  

• “Beyond Shorelines: Audre Lorde’s Queered Belonging,” Black Perspectives, February 15, 2021 

• “Anti-racism Protests and Black Lives in Europe,” Historian Speaks, June 28, 2020.

• “On The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books,” Black Perspectives, June 26, 2019.

• (with Vanessa Plumly), “Why does Black German Studies Matter Now?,” Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum, April 22, 2019.

• “Rethinking Black History Month in Germany,” Black Perspectives, February 20, 2019.

• “Black German Women and the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute,” Black Perspectives, January 17, 2018.

• “Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim,” Black Perspectives, September 6, 2017.

• “From ADEFRA to Black Lives Matter: Black Women’s Activism in Germany,” Black Perspectives, July 5, 2017.

• “The Young Historians Project in Britain, Part II: An Interview with Aleema Gray and Amelia Francis,” Black Perspectives, May 20, 2017.

• “The Young Historians Project in Britain: An Interview with Hakim Adi,” Black Perspectives, April 18, 2017.

Articles and Book Chapters (in progress)

• “Black Lives Matter in German History,” Forum, German History (winter 2022)

• “Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Affinity with Germany,” in Annette Joseph-Gabriel and Phillip Luke Sinitiere, eds. Shirley Graham Du Bois: Artist, Activist, and Author in the African Diaspora (under contract)

Manuscripts and Edited Volumes (in progress)

• Twenty-five Women Who Shaped European Feminisms with Patricia Tilburg (under contract with Routledge and tentative publication 2026)

• Borderless and Brazen: The Life and Legacy of May Ayim, 1960-1996—an intellectual biography on Black German poet and activist May Ayim

• Innovations in Black European Studies (under contract with Peter Lang and tentative 2023)

Journal Special Issues [Organizing]

• “Black Europe” for Central European History (confirmed 6 contributors)

• “Decolonizing European History” Forum for European History Quarterly (confirmed 6 people)