Research Interests

Jim Crow America, The Civil Rights Movement, Social History, Labor and Working-Class History 

Publications

Books

• Crafting Constitutions in Florida, 1810–1968, ed. Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2025
• To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013
• Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 with Colin J. Davis, eds Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010
• Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration with Melanie Shell-Weiss, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009

Films

• Marching Forward, (2020) Film, with Lisa Mills, Executive Producer, Director

• Filthy Dreamers, (2020) Film, with Lisa Mills, Executive Producer, Director

• The Committee, (2012), Film, with Lisa Mills, Executive Producer, Director

Articles/Essays

• "The Right to Vote and the Long Nineteenth Century in Florida," The Florida Historical Quarterly 95 (Fall:2016), 194-220.
• “Avoiding “Jim Crow:” Negotiating Separate and Equal on Florida’s Railroads and Streetcars and The Progressive Era Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1882-1905” Journal of Urban History, 34 (March 2008) 435-457.
• “The Fluidity of Racial Hierarchy: Changing Ethnic Images of Germans and Czechs in the American Mind, 1877-1918," (March 2001) 49th Parallel

Book Sections/Chapters

• "Park Monroe Trammell" in The Governors of Florida, R. Boyd Murphree and Robert A. Taylor eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020, 332-344
• with Melanie Shell Weiss "Introduction: The Promise of Florida's Labor History" in Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009), 1-16
• with Melanie Shell Weiss "Epilogue: Florida and the Contemporary Labor Movement," in Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009), 257-274
• with Colin J. Davis, "Introduction" in Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010), 1-12.
• We Are White Men and Haven't Got Black Hearts Racialized Gender and the Labor Movement in Florida, 1900-1920. in Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009

Podcasts/Digital Media Projects

• The Florida Constitutions Podcast, (2019) [H-Net] Co-Producer and Co-Host

• The Art of the Review: An H-Net Podcast, (2015) [H-Net] Executive Producer and Co-Host

• A History of Central Florida Podcast, [iTunes] (2013-2015), Executive Producer

• Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast, [Stars-UCF Digital Commons] (2009-2017), Producer

Awards

Suncoast Emmy© Award, [Nominated] Best Historical Documentary, "Marching Forward" (2021)

Hampton Dunn Broadcasting Award, "Filthy Dreamers" (2021)

Suncoast Emmy© Award, [Nominated] Best Historical Documentary, "Filthy Dreamers" (2020)

Hampton Dunn Internet Award, "The Florida Constitutions Podcast" (2019)

Florida Humanities Council, Mini Grants for Community Organizations, (2018)

UCF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) 2018

UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA) 2017

Special Recognition Award, (In)justice For All Film Festival, Hymns of Three Cities, (2016)  

Hampton Dunn Internet Award, "A History of Central Florida Podcast" (2016)

Hampton Dunn Internet Award, "A History of Central Florida Podcast"(2015)

Suncoast Emmy© Award, Best Historical Documentary, "The Committee" (2014)

Harry and Harriette Moore Award, To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville (2014)

Hampton Dunn Internet Award, "A History of Central Florida Podcast" (2014)

International Jury Award for Best Documentary, Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, South Africa, "The Committee" (2014)

Love Your Shorts Film Festival, Best Documentary, "The Committee" (2014)

Florida Humanities Council, Mini Grants for Community Organizations, (2013)

Hampton Dunn Internet Award, RICHES Podcast Documentaries, (2013)

Hampton Dunn Broadcasting Award, Film “The Committee,” (2013)

UCF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) 2013

Broadcast Education Association, Best of Competition Mixed Video, “The Committee,” (2012)

UCF Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, (2012)

Florida Humanities Council, Mini Grants for Community Organizations, (2011)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Extending the Reach Fellowship: Research Grant (2001-2002)

Courses

• Fall 2025
• Spring 2026