Publications
Book Chapters
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-Winner, New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance (NJSAA) Award for Edited Works (2024)
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-Lambda Literary listed Queer Newark among their most anticipated LGBTQIA+ books for February 2024!
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-Review by John D’Emilio, professor emeritus at University of Illinois–Chicago, “The Liberation Spirit Comes to Newark,” The Gay & Lesbian Review, July/August 2024.
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Available for purchase through RU Press!
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Forthcoming:
“Brother of Dorothy: Phillip “Phil” Petrillo’s Imagined Life in Newark, New Jersey in the 1970s and 1980s,” in Down the Road and Back Again: Critical Approaches to The Golden Girls, ed. Jill E. Anderson (Routledge, 2025).
“Touring the Elizabeth Detention Center, A Diary Comic by Kristyn Scorsone,” for a volume on the Elizabeth Detention Center a privately owned immigrant detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey ed. Ulla D. Berg (Under review, 2025).
Journals
Exhibit Review: “Stonewall National Monument Visitors Center.” The Journal of American History (Bloomington, Indiana), Vol. 111, no. 3 (2024): 555-61.
Book review: Rosenthal, Gregory Samantha, Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City, Journal of the History of Sexuality 32, no. 3 (2023): 418-420.
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“Invisible Pathways: Public History by Queer Black Women in Newark,” The Public Historian, May 2019
- Listed as among the five “Most-Read Articles” in The Public Historian, October 2020.
Additional Publications and Media Appearances
Radio Interview. “The Heart and Soul of Jazz with April Dawn” Interview with Dr. April Robinson on WDQS Blaze Radio. March 9, 2025.
Radio Interview. “90.3 The Core” with Connor Riccardi on 90.3 RLC-WVPH FM Piscataway, Rutgers University. December 2, 2024.
Op-ed with Dominique Rocker, “LGBTQ+ students should see themselves represented in history, too,” The Star-Ledger, August 2022.
“Pride Month Q&A,” 94.5 PST, June 22, 2021.
“A call for resources on sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history,”
History@Work, March 2021.
“Queer Like Us: A Conversation with the Queer Newark Oral History Project,” Audible.com, June 2020.
“The Queer Newark Oral History Project,” Get Out!, August 15, 2018.
“Brick City Shines Light on the Past,” Out in Jersey, April 22, 2017.
“Emerging LGBTQ Scholars Reflect on Dawn of Trump Presidency,” OutHistory.org, January 2, 2016.
“Dispatch from Fireball in Newark: The Ballroom Scene and Legendary Houses,”
Notchesblog.com, May 12, 2016.
“Making Art, Resisting Detention,” States of Incarceration.org, 2016.
Staff blogger for Los Angeles Music Blog (LAMB). (2010–2011)
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