​​I am a professor of history at Kennesaw State University. My work focuses on 20th century US urban history, particularly housing, poverty, and spatial inequality. I have recently completed Poor Atlanta: Poverty Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development​ (University of Georgia Press, January 2023) which documents how, as Atlanta city builders fashioned "the world's next great city" in the 1960s and 1970s, poor families insisted that their lives and living conditions, too, should improve. I have also written ​The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950 (University of Georgia Press, 2009), which examines the relationship between whiteness and neighborhood landscapes. Additionally, my students and I have partnered with communities in NW Georgia to document and interpret histories underrepresented on the public landscape. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on urban history, historical methods, the 1970s US, and the US since 1945.

While I work at Kennesaw State University in the northwest Atlanta metro area, my husband, cats, and I live just outside Atlanta's central business district in a neighborhood established in the spirit of new urbanism.

In my spare time, I row.