Included in the special issue “Reconceptualizing the History of Black Internationalism.”

• Despite the many examples of Black internationalist protest against US Empire in secular society, scholars have not recorded the same degree of ambivalence amongst Black Protestant Christians at the end of the nineteenth century. Countering a singular vision of Black Christian thought, this article examines a moment in African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church history when clergy quarreled over the idea of "ecclesiastical imperialism"—the attempt to unite all people of African descent through Protestant Christian evangelization and AME Church expansion in Canada and the Caribbean.

A revised Spanish-language version of “Black Protestants in a Catholic Land” (2015), including new images.

• La Iglesia episcopal metodista africana (AME, por sus siglas en inglés), iglesia negra fundada en los Estados Unidos en 1816, se estableció por primera vez en la isla de Haití cuando más de 6.000 hombres libres negros emigraron de los Estados Unidos a La Española entre 1824 y 1825. Casi un siglo después, la iglesia AME creció rápidamente en la República Dominicana a medida que un grupo importante de personas provenientes de las Antillas menores inglesas se estableció en el sureste dominicano para trabajar en las plantaciones de azúcar. Este artículo examina los vínculos entre los descendientes de inmigrantes afroamericanos, las personas provenientes del Caribe inglés y los líderes de la AME con sede en EE. UU., entre los años 1899-1916.

2020 Winner of the Sidney E. Mead Prize, American Society of Church History.

• This article examines North Atlantic views of Protestant missions and race in the Dominican Republic between 1905 and 1911, a brief period of political stability in the years leading up to the U.S. Occupation (1916–1924). Although Protestant missions during this period remained small in scale on the Catholic island, the views of British and American missionaries evidence how international perceptions of Dominicans transformed in the early twentieth century.

2018 Honorable mention, Haiti-DR LASA Section Article Prize.

• Often recognized for its advocacy on behalf of African descendants, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church has been silent on issues regarding anti-Haitian sentiment in the Dominican Republic. By tracing the historical connection between Black America and Haiti in the nineteenth century and recounting the twentieth-century history of the AME Church in the Dominican Republic, this article explains how an institution created in defense of racial equality could inadvertently facilitate its own silencing.

• The AME Church was first established in eastern Haiti when over 6,000 black free people emigrated from the United States to Hispaniola between 1824 and 1825. Almost a century later, the AME Church grew rapidly in the Dominican Republic as West Indians migrated to the Dominican southeast to work on sugar plantations. This article examines the links between African-American immigrant descendants, West Indians, and U.S.-based AME leaders between the years 1899–1916.