In Development

Freedmen’s Education During Reconstruction (FEDR). With Breanna C. Gray, I am digitizing educational records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen’s Bureau), reporting the educational attainments of emancipated people in the Reconstruction-era American South, disaggregated by gender, subject, county, and month. We use these data to study how occupation forces shaped engagement with Freedmen’s Bureau schools and the political and economic legacies of Reconstruction-era education.

U.S. Coast Guard Migrant and Drug Interdictions. Through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, I have obtained declassified, geocoded information on all maritime migrant and drug interdictions by the U.S. Coast Guard from FY 1995 through FY 2017. Available upon request.