Scholarly Activities



Publications in Progress
The Romani Atlantic: Flows, Circulations and Migrations that Made the Modern World. Co-edited collection (with Martin Fotta). Book proposal with press.

Romani Americans: Making Atlantic Empires, Races and Nations. Book manuscript under preparation.

Books

Sounds American: Identity and the Music Culture of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800–1860 (The University of Georgia Press), 2011. Limited Preview Available.

Articles
“The Limits and Opportunities of Romani American History.” Romani Studies 34(1) (2024): 13–38. https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2024.2

“Louisianští Romové: Konstrukce rasy v koloniálním Karibiku.” Romano Dzaniben 28 (2021): 33–55. (Louisiana Romani: Constructing Race in the Colonial Caribbean) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10404617 

“Louisiana Bohemians: Community, Race, and Empire.” Early American Studies (Fall 2021): 659–698. Winner of the Louisiana Historical Association’s Glenn R. Conrad Prize for best article in Louisiana history. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2021.0021
  
“‘To Get Himself Out of Slavery”: Escape, Justice, and Honor in the Life of a Colonial French Louisiana Bohemian (Gypsy).” Frühneuzeit-Info 31 (Fall 2020). 

“Novel Adventures: Using The Journey to the West to Teach Tang China History and Culture.” Education About Asia 25 (Fall 2020): 12–17. Read Online

“Racializing American ‘Egyptians’: Shifting Legal Discourse, 1690s-1860s.” Critical Romani Studies 2 (Fall 2019): 42–59. Read Online.

“The Mythical Musical Boatmen: Integrating National Icons in Early American Culture.”American Music 37 (Summer 2019): 197–228. Access via Jstor.

 “Music of the Early American Republic.” The American Historian 19 (February 2019): 14–19. Read Online 

 “Contextualizing American Gypsies: Experiencing Criminality in the Colonial Chesapeake.” Maryland Historical Magazine 114 (Fall/Winter 2018): 192–222. Read Online.

 “‘An Egiptian and noe Xtian Woman’: Gypsy Identity and Race Law in Early America.” Journal of Gypsy Studies 1 (2017): 5–15. Read Online.

"Where Music is Not the Devil Enters: Children's Music Instruction in Late Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee." Wisconsin Magazine of History 89 (Winter 2005–2006): 2–11. Access via Jstor. 

"Song Catchers, Ballad Makers and New Social Historians: A Historiography of Appalachian Music." The Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Fall 2004): 192–202. Access via Jstor.