Email: truelove@bc.edu
Globalization I and II
20th Century U.S. History
African American History
Television and Media
Popular Culture
Comedy
Radicalism
My research focuses on the impact of comedy, television, and popular culture in United States history, and how it relates to radicalism, free speech, race, gender, and class.
Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant Award – April 2019 – Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
"Blue Is the New Green: Martin Lawrence and the Mainstream Appeal of Vulgarity." In Rolling: Blackness and Mediated Comedy, edited by Al Martin. Indiana: Indiana University Press, (Forthcoming).
"The Evolution of the Dora Milaje: Wakand’a Greatest Warriors in Comics and Film." In Black Panther: Afrofuturism, Gender, Identity and the Re-Making of Blackness, edited by Karen Ritzenhoff and Renee White. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2021.
“Review of Call to Arms: The Patriot Militia in the 1777 Raid on Danbury, Connecticut, by Stephen Darley.” Connecticut History Review 54, no. 2 (Fall 2015): 314–16