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Education

Atlanta University; Atlanta, GA 30314 (now Clark Atlanta University)

Doctor of Philosophy (Political Science)
Concentration Areas: (1) Public Administration; (2) American Government;
(3) Urban Politics; (4) International Relations (Ford Foundation Fellowship)

Dissertation: “The Souls of Women Folk in the Political Thought of W.E. B. Du Bois”
Dissertation Chair: Shelby F. Lewis
Committee Members: William Boone, Mack H. Jones, and Milton Crook

Atlanta University; Atlanta, GA 30314

Master of Public Administration (MPA)
Emphasis Areas: (1) Urban and Regional Administration; (2) Human Resources
Management; (3) Intergovernmental Relations (Ford Foundation Fellowship)

Thesis: “An Analysis of the Position Classification and Compensation Practices
Of the Georgia State Merit System” (Revised Title)

Mercer University; Macon, GA 31207

Bachelor of Arts (English, with minors in Education and Mathematics)

Teaching and Research Interests

• W.E.B. Du Bois, Social Science, and the Humanities
• African American Women in Politics, History, and Culture
• African American Leadership and Politics
• Race, Class, and Gender
• Social Policy in the USA
• The Modern Civil Rights Movement
• USA Cultural Periods: 1920s and 1960s
• Community, Government, and Democracy
• Social Movements in the USA
• Intergovernmental Relations
• Public Personnel Administration

Teaching Experience

Williams College, African American Studies, Sterling A. Brown ’22 Visiting Professor

Fall 2004

• “Significant Texts in The Social Sciences and Humanities: The Souls of Black Folk , An Exemplar; a reading, writing, and discussion course, designed to study Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois as an important thinker of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and to examine his most popular book, one hundred years later as a teaching resource in several social science and humanities disciplines.
• “W.E.B. Du Bois and Suffrage for Women,” A Lecture, October 27, 2004.
• “The Sorrow Songs in The Souls of Black Folk ,“ a Lecture and Performance with audience participation, November 17, 2004.

State University of New York – Empire State College, Mentor/Coordinator, Associate Professor of Political Science with tenure

• Fall 1991 to Present; on a twelve months work schedule.
• Instructing and administrative responsibilities at a decentralized, multifaceted college;
• Recruiting, advising, and teaching non-traditional adult learners;
• Guiding independent study in a broad number of tutorials, study groups, residencies, workshops, and courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels;
• Assessing and evaluating college level learning acquired by students as a result of work experience and life interests;
• Participating in faculty development activities that address multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning;
• Serving on governance committees; supporting student and alumni activities; participating in community service activities.

Skidmore College, American Studies Department, Visiting Associate Professor (On Leave from Xavier University of Louisiana)

Fall 1989 to Spring 1991

• Black Political Leadership in the USA
• African American Autobiography: W.E.B. Du Bois
• Race Class and Gender in the USA
• African Americans and The Law, a course offered through the Liberal
• Studies Program
• Taught University Without Walls students
• Served as Faculty Mentor for Students who planned to become teachers

Xavier University of Louisiana, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, advanced from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, with tenure; Pre-Law Advisor; Internship Coordinator

Fall 1980 to Spring 1989

• American Government and Politics
• International Relations
• Black Politics
• Urban Government and Politics
• Research Methods
• Introduction to Public Administration
• Public Personnel Administration
• Intergovernmental Relations
• Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
• Constitutional Law

Atlanta University, Graduate Department of Public Administration, Assistant Professor

Fall 1977 to Summer 1979

• Urban and Regional Planning
• Intergovernmental Relations
• Urban Government and Politics
• Program Planning and Development
• Public Budgetting

Central High School, Talbot County Board of Education, GA, Teacher, English and Literature

Fall 1971 to Spring 1972

• Taught English grammar and literature to 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students.

Other Professional Experience

United Negro College Fund, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Program Coordinator

May 1980 to August 1980

• Served as the coordinator of a summer Faculty Fellows Research Program, funded by the US Department of Labor. Collaborated in selecting participants on the basis of their proposed research projects.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Program, Civil Rights Specialist

April 1977 to November 1978

• Reviewed affirmative action programs of public and private entities that applied for national government funds for capital projects.
• Made recommendations with regard to compliance with affirmative action goals

Southern Regional Council, Southern Governmental Monitoring Project, Research Assistant

June 1976 to July 1977

• Collected data in a selected city and state, Macon, GA, of the of old confederacy to monitor and report on the use of national government community block grants.
• Wrote reports that summarized and analyzed the collected data.

Georgia Department of Human Resources, Harris and Fulton Counties Department of Family and Children Services, Services Caseworker

September 1972 to October 1975

• Provided direct social services to individuals and families receiving public assistance. Services included referals for food, clothing, transportation, health care and education.

Manuscripts in Process

• “The Significance of the Sorrow Songs in The Souls of Black Folk.” Expected completion and submission: March 2005 .
• “The Souls of Black Folk as a Teaching Resource in the Social Sciences and Humanities.” Expected completion and submission: March 2005 .
• “W.E.B. Du Bois and Women’s Rights: Suffrage for Women Revisited.” Expected completion and submission: January 2005 .

Conference Presentations, Book Reviews, Lecture/Performances, and Media Projects (A Partial List)

• “The Sorrow Songs in The Souls of Black Folk ,” W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of the Color Line: A Centennial Commemoration; A Conference at Williams College, Williamstown, MA, November 6 – 8, 2003.
• “The Today in Schenectady Show,” SACC – TV, Channel 16, John Borel, Program Host, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of The Souls of Black Folk and some of the Sorrow Songs, August 2003.
• “The End of Education: W.E.B. Du Bois and Educational Planning,” Scholar Across the College Presentation, SUNY-Empire State College, July 2003.
• “The Souls of Women Folk in the Work of W.E.B. Du Bis,” a presentation at the Women’s Studies Residency, SUNY-ESC, Syracuse, NY, April 2003.
• “The 100th Anniversary of The Souls of Black Folk,” University of Illinois, Chicago, Department of Education, April 2003.
• “Race, Redistricting, and Census 2000,” Panel Organizer, Chair, and Discussant, Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Richmond, VA, March 7 – 11, 2001.
• “Aids in Africa: A Benefit Performance,” Community Hospice, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 22, 2001.
• “African American Voices: Past, Present, Future,” Lecture/Performance, Albany Boys and Girls Club, Albany, NY, March 1, 2001.
• “Call and Response: Celebrating African American History,” Discussion/Performance, Greenwich Free Public Library, Greenwich, NY, February 21, 2001.
• “Race, Redistricting, and Census 2000,” Conference sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law held at Mississippi Valley University, Itta Bena, MS, January 12 – 14, 2001.
• “Gender Politics and the Moral Legitimacy of the Clinton Presidency,” manuscript reviewed for the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Journal, Volume 12, Number 3 (Fall 2000).
• “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Differences: Fannie Lou Hamer,” Women’s Studies Residency Workshop, SUNY-Empire State College, Albany, NY, October 20 –22, 2000.
• “W.E.B. Du Bois, Race and the New Millennium; The Souls of Black Folk: A Symposium,” Lecture/Performance, Mercer University, Macon, GA, March 22 –26, 2000.
• “Redistricting and a Changing Black Politics: Incumbency, Community, and Turnover,” Discussant, Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Washington, D.C., March 8 – 12, 2000.
• “Balancing Justice,” A League of Women Voters Project, Participant, Saratoga Springs, NY, October – November, 1999.
• Concert, “Wiles, Women, and Song: A Collaboration of Music and Dance; Celebrating The Strength and Talent of Women in Creation, Interpretation, and Performance,” accompanied by Ms. Carol Daggs, piano; NYS Council on The Arts, Saratoga Springs Arts Center, October 24, 1999.
• “Organizing for Census 2000,” at Clark – Atlanta University, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 3 – 5, 1999.
• Research Consultant and Reviewer, Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York, 1900 – 1940 , Lillian Serece Williams, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999.
• “Report on the Saratoga County, NY Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Atlanta, GA, Apr. 8–11, 1998.
• “Blues and Jazz People: African Americans and Women,” Lecture/Performance, SUNY-Empire State Student Alumni Association, Binghamton, NY, April 26, 1998.
• “Traditions of Resistance: Women of African Descent” Discussant, Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Chicago, IL, March 13 – 16, 1997.
• “African American History Considers W.E.B. Du Bois,” Lecture/Performance, Baltimore, MD, February 20 – 24, 1997.
• The African American Experience, Course Guide, Center for Distance Learning, SUNY-Empire State College, 4th edition, July 2001 (1996).
• “W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices,” -- Wesley Brown, Tulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Amiri Baraka -- (1995) a documentary film, produced and directed by Louis Messiah, Scribe Video Center; California Newsreel, 149 9th Street, Suite 420, San Francisco, CA 94103; Televised February 1997 on PBS; Served as Research, Planning, and Review Consultant, 1992 – 1997.
• “W.E.B. Du Bois on Women’s Issues,” (1996) article in Historical Encyclopedia of Black Feminism/Womanism, Imana Lillie B. Fryar, editor, Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.., Westport, CT. “W.E.B. Du Bois on Women’s Issues,” (1996) article in Historical Encyclopedia of Black Feminism/Womanism, Imana Lillie B. Fryar, editor, Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.., Westport, CT.
• “Gender and Work: A Women’s Studies Residency Workshop,” SUNY-Empire State College, Painted Post, NY, October 4 – 6, 1996.
• Annual Meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Local Organizing Committee Member, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, July 1996.
• “In Their Own Right: Women’s Solutions to Black/White Issues of Race, Class, and Gender, 1895 – 1995,” National Conference to commemorate the centennial of the Cotton States and International Exposition, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, November 12 – 14, 1995.
• “W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk : A Roundtable Discussion,” Annual Meeting of the Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah, GA, February 24 – 26, 1994.
• “W.E.B. Du Bois, The Social Sciences, and the Humanities,” Proceedings of a Special Conference, James D. Steele, editor, North Carolina A. and T. University, February 17 – 19, 1994.
• “The Sentiments of the Soul: Songs in the Life of Five African American Women in North Carolina,” Mary Coleman and MaryNell Morgan, Duke University, NEH Summer Seminar, 1991.
• Planning Consultant to the Saratoga Springs Historical Society, “Exhibit on African Americans and Work,” June 1, 1990 (for 1992 exhibit date).
• Teaching About Women With Music,” Workshop, Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Atlanta, GA, March 14 – 18, 1990.
• “Sisters, Mothers, and Daughters: A Musical and Oratorical Tribute to Multicultural Women,” Lecture/Performance held at Skidmore College; Bard College; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ithaca, NY; SUNY-University at Albany; Albany State College, Albany, GA; and Dillard University, New Orleans, LA; 1990 to 1992. NOTE: The Performance at Dillard University was recorded and has be televised several times on the PBS station.
• “An Imperfect Assessment of Movement Flank Actions,”a review of Black Radicals and the Civil Rights Mainstream, 1954 – 1970 , Herbert H. Hanes (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988, 244 pages) published in Southern Changes , January – February, 1990, Southern Regional Council, Atlanta, GA, Volume 12, Number 1, pages 12 -13.
• “W.E.B. Du Bois and a Theory on the Emancipation of Women: Education and Work,” Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Memphis, TN, November 2 – 4, 1989. (Nominated for Best Paper in the Women’s Section of the Conference.)
• "Philanthropy in Black America: The Case of New Orleans," Joint Center for Political Studies, Washington, D.C., 1987.
• "Perspectives on Black Consciousness: W.E.B. DuBois and Women's Issues," Symposium celebrating the establishment of the W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Center for Pan­African Culture, Accra, Ghana, August 23­29, 1986.
• "Training Women in the Classroom for the World of Work: W.E.B. DuBois on Education for Women," National Women's Studies Association (Assn. of American Colleges), Fairmont Hotel, New Orleans, LA, January 9­11, 1986.
• "Woman Honor: A Black History Month Program," Black Woman's Group and Xavier University, February 9, 1985.
• "Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds ­ A Symposium and Exhibit," Xavier University and the La. Endowment for the Humanities, November 1984.
• "The Black American woman in the Church, Politics, and Employment," article published in The Cascade Chronicle (church newsletter), Atlanta Georgia, February 1983.
• "Black Women: Struggling, Awakening, and Achieving, " A Conference, Xavier University, April 1982.
• “Intergovernmental Relations: National, State, and Local Governments and Block Grants,” Southern Regional Council Governmental Monitoring Project, Macon, GA, 1977.

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

• “Scholar Across the College,” State University of New York-Empire State College, The Mentoring Institute, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2003-04.
• United University Professionals (UUP)), Research and Professional Development Grant; Archival Research on W.E.B. Du Bois and the Jubilee Singers, Fisk University, Nashville, TN, 1999.
• “Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South,”
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, Duke University, 1991.
• United Negro College Fund/Pew Humanities Foundation Faculty Development Fellowship Program, 1985­86.
• Wellesley & Spelman Colleges Women's Centers Workshop: "Black Women's Studies
• Curriculum Development," 1983­84.
• "Southern Black Culture," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Spelman College, 1982.
• New Orleans/Baton Rouge Consortium for International Studies for Summer Study in West Africa (Senegal, 1982).
• Louisiana Consortium for International Studies West Africa Curriculum development Seminar Summer Study in Sierra Leone; Mali; and Senegal, 1981.

Professional Affiliations

• National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS)
• National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
• American Political Science Association (APSA)
• American Society of Public Administration (ASPA)
• African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA)
• Peoples’ Music Network – Songs for Struggle and Freedom (PMN-SFS)
• American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Travel

• Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Mali, Senegal, SeneGambia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana ); Europe (London, England and Paris, France); and The Caribbean (Jamaica and The Bahamas).