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Teaching Experience
Associate Professor, Department of History, Case,
2004-present.
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Case,
1998 - 2004.
Program Faculty and Steering Committee Member,
Ethnic Studies Program, Case, 2003-present.
Program Faculty, Women Studies, Case, 2000 - present.
Assistant Prof./Instructor, Department of History,
Case, 1997-1998.
Instructor, College of General Studies, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104,
Summer 1996.
Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania,
1994-1995.
Education
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Ph.D., History. May 1998.
Advisor: Dr. Mary Frances Berry.
Dissertation: "Living Just Enough in the City:
Change and Activism in Baltimore's Public Housing,
1940-1980."
University of Maryland College Park, College Park,
MD.
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, May
1989.
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Book
The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's
Struggles Against Urban Inequality (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2004). Inaugural book in
interdisciplinary series, Transgressing Boundaries:
Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities,
with special co-editors Cathy Cohen and Fred Harris.
Essay Collection, Co-editor
Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement:
Freedom's Bittersweet Song, edited by Julie
Armstrong, Susan Hult, Houston Roberson, and Rhonda
Y. Williams (New York:
Routledge), September 2002.
This collection of pedagogical essays evolved from
the National Endowment for the Humanities' "Teaching
the Southern Civil Rights Movement" Summer
Institute in 1998 at Harvard University. (See Honors
and Fellowships below.) The book provides strategies,
materials, and resources (including a chronology)
for teaching about civil rights struggles. My essay
entitled, "Raising the Curtain: Performance,
History, and Pedagogy," discusses the historical
place of performance in black politics and focus
on how teachers can use performance as an innovative
pedagogical practice.
Articles
"Raising the Curtain: Performance, History,
and Pedagogy," Teaching the American Civil
Rights Movement.
"We're Tired of Being Treated Like Dogs: Poor
Women and Power Politics," The Black Scholar,
Special Edition on Black Power Studies: A New Scholarship,
Fall/Winter 2001, 31-41.
"I'm a Keeper of Information: History-Telling
and Voice," Oral History Review 28/1,
Winter/Spring 2001, 41-63.
Review Essay
Robert O. Self, American Babylon for the
American Quarterly. Forthcoming.
Book Reviews
Daniel J. Walkowitz, Working with Class: Social
Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity
for the Journal of Social History. Summer
2001, 977-979.
Christopher Waldrep, The Roots of Disorder:
Race and Criminal Justice in the American South,
1817-80 for the Journal of Social History.
Fall 2000, 222-224.
Robert Max Johnson, Destined for Equality: The
Inevitable Rise of Women's Status for the Journal
of Social History. Spring 2000, 749-751.
Dennis E. Gale's Understanding Urban Unrest:
From Reverend King to Rodney King for the Journal
of American History. September 1999, 851-852.
Other Publications
"Teaching Black Women's History and Other
Stories," HUArchivesNet: The Electronic
Journal of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center,
Howard University, Issue #4, May 2000,
http://www.HUArchivesNet.howard.edu.
"Maryland," Civil Rights in the United
States Reader, edited by Patricia Sullivan and
Waldo E. Martin Jr., Vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan
Reference USA, 2000), 456-458.
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Work in Progress
The Dope Wars: Street-Level Hustling and the
Culture of Drugs in Post-1940s Urban America
My next monograph project is an attempt to explore
what the public considers the 'seedy' sides of urban
life such as numbers running and dope dealing. While
I am focusing initially on Baltimore's black community
between the 1940s and 1970s and its "underground"
personalities, some of whom I hope to interview,
the study will cross geographical and disciplinary
boundaries by using autobiographies, novels, and
films that document "the life" in places
such as Detroit, Washington, D.C., and New York.
"Grassroots Empowerment and Baltimore's
War on Povery."
Article Abstract Proposal for published collection
of War On Poverty Conference Proceedings.
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Honors and Fellowships
Professional
Student Government's Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
Award for the Arts and Humanities, CWRU, 2004.
Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship, American
Association of University Women American Educational
Foundation, July 2002-June 2003.
Nominee for the Carl F. Wittke Award, University-wide
Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Case Western
Reserve University, Spring 2001 & Spring 2000.
W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Fund
Award, CWRU, supported research and travel, Fall
2000.
Nominee for the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
Award, Undergraduate Student Government, CWRU, Spring
1999.
Selected to appear in the Undergraduate Viewbook,
featuring faculty and students. (Outstanding undergraduates
nominated faculty members.) Undergraduate Admissions
Office, CWRU, Summer 1999. Have appeared in each
subsequent publication through 2002.
Glennan Teaching Fellowship, University Center
for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE),
CWRU, 1999-2000.
Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University:
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute,
"Teaching the Southern Civil Rights Movement,
1865-1965," Summer 1998. Invitation Accepted.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute,
"Roots: The African Background of American
Culture Through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,"
Summer 1998. Declined invitation.
University of Pennsylvania
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1996-1997.
Fontaine Fellowship, 1992-1996.
Graduate/Professional Student Outstanding Achievement
Award, Women of Color Day, 1995.
Malcolm X Outstanding Service to the African-American
Community, Black Graduate and Professional Student
Association (BGAPSA), 1994.
Paul Robeson Academic Excellence and Leadership,
BGAPSA, 1994.
University of Maryland College Park
University of Maryland Full Scholarship Award,
1985-1989
Maryland Senatorial Scholarship, 1985-1989
Maryland State Scholarship Board, Distinguished
Scholar Award, 1985-1989
Graduation Commencement Speaker, UMCP, First black
speaker in the University's history, 1989.
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Presentations
"Grassroots Empowerment and Baltimore's War
on Poverty," War On Poverty Conference, The
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
and the African-American Studies Program, Princeton
University, Princeton, Pennsylvania, November 2003.
"They Were Fighting Organizations: Black Power,
Gender and Urban Activism in the 1960s," The
Black Power Movement in Historical Perspective:
Dialogues on Race and American Society, Institute
for African American Studies, University of Connecticut
Storrs, November 2003.
"Dopefiends and Drug Dealers: Narcotics in
Postwar Urban America," for the Works-in-Progress
Colloquium Series, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities,
CWRU, September 2002.
Commentator, Conference on Social Connectedness
and Public Activism, Center for American Political
Studies/Department of Government, Harvard University,
Boston, Massachusetts, May 2002.
"Poor Women and 'Black Power' Politics: Race,
Gender and Urban Activism in Baltimore," African-American
Studies: Transnationalism, Gender and the Changing
Black World Conference, Department of African American
Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York,
April 2002.
"Sitting at the Table with the Decision-Makers:
Black Women's Push for Representation," Southern
Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
LA, November 2001.
"'We're Tired of Being Treated Like Dogs':
Poor Women and the Power Politics," Association
for the Study of African-American Life and History
Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 2001.
Chair, Gender, Charity, and the State, Diaspora
Paradigms Conference, Michigan State University,
Lansing, Michigan, September 2001.
"Public Housing and Welfare Rights Activism:
The Confluence of Identities," University of
Rochester, Rochester, New York, Works-in-Progress
Colloquium, Presentation of Book Chapter, May 2001.
(One of 15 scholars invited nationwide.)
"Public Housing and Welfare Rights Activism
and the Emergence of the Racial Bogeywoman,"
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting,
San Francisco, California, April 2001.
Panelist, Black Workers Remember: A Symposium on
the Past and Future of Black Labor Through the Eyes
of Workers, Labor, and the New Millenium Conference,
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, October
2000.
"Citizenship Rights & Entitlements to
Housing and Welfare," Engendering Social Justice
Roundtable, Organization of American Historians
Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2000.
"Rescuers from Poverty: African-American Women,
Rights and Economic Activism," Southern Historical
Association Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, November
1999.
Chair and Discussant, "Ethnic Adaptation in
the US: Gendered Perspectives," Social Science
History Association Annual Meeting, Fort Worth,
Texas, November 1999.
"Teaching Black Women's History and Other
Stories," Black Women in the Academy II: Service
and Leadership Conference, Howard University, June
1999.
"Reflections on Black Women in Struggle: A
Play in Four Acts," African American Archives'
Jane Edna Hunter/Zelma Watson George Lecture, Western
Reserve Historical Society, March 1999.
"The City as Classroom: Concepts, Pedagogy,
and History," The University and the City Conference,
Wayne State University, March 1999.
"Rights and Freedom Talk: Tenant Organizing
and Public Housing in Baltimore," Social Science
History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois,
November 1998.
" 'I'm A Keeper of Information': History-Telling,
Voice and Narrative Modes," Oral History Association
Roundtable, Organization of American Historians
Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 1998.
Respondent, "African-American Cultural Studies,"
Afro-American Studies Program's 25th Anniversary
Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October
1997.
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Other Professional Duties
Reviewing a collection of essays for Duke University
Press, November 2003-present.
Reviewed a book for Duke University Press, September
2002.
Reviewed article manuscript for Journal of Women's
History, October 2002.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Level 100-200
Introduction to American History
Slavery and Emancipation
African-American History, Civil War - 1945
African-American History, 1945 - Present
Introduction to Black Studies (Ethnic Studies Program
core course)
Undergraduate Upper Level 300
Black Women's History
Undergraduate/Graduate Level 300/400
City as Classroom (cross-listed with sociology
and political science)
Social Movements, USA
Graduate 400 Level
Race, Gender & Social Policy
Readings in Black History
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University Service
Committees/Projects
Member, Faculty Senate, Minority Affairs Committee,
2003-present.
Member, Steering Committee, Ethnic Studies Program,
2003-present.
Member, Fisk/Case Exchange Taskforce, 2003-2004.
Member, Strategic Service-Learning Taskforce, Coordinated
by Office of Student Community Service, 2003-present.
Member, Case Center for Women Strategic Planning
Committee, 2003-present.
Member, Early American History Search Committee,
Department of History, CWRU, 2003-present.
Member, Advisory Committee, Establishing African/African-American
Minor, College of Arts and Sciences, CWRU, 2000,
2002.
Member, Speakers' Committee, Department of History,
CWRU, 1999-2001, 1997-1998.
Member, Search Committee for the Dean, College
of Arts and Sciences, CWRU, 2000-2001.
Member, Steering Committee and Curriculum Committee,
Women Studies Program, CWRU, 2000-2001.
Judge, Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation Essay
Contest, 1998-2001.
Supervising Professor, Building a Library Resource
Database for History 112: Introduction to American
History, Nord and Hewlett Packard Grants, Department
of History, CWRU, January-May 2000.
Member, Search Committee in American Women's History,
Department of History, CWRU, 1999-2000.
Member, Working Group on Nonprofit Public Policy/Advocacy
for Curricular Revision for the Master of Nonprofit
Organization Degree, Mandel Center for Nonprofit
Organizations, CWRU, Fall 1999.
Member, Advisory Committee on the Reassessment
of the American Studies Program, College of Arts
and Sciences, CWRU, 1998-1999.
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department
of History, CWRU, 1998-1999.
Chair, Committee on Mentoring Policy, Department
of History, CWRU, Spring 1998.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Reassessment of
Graduate Programs, Department of History, CWRU,
Spring 1998.
Presentations/Lectures to the University Community
Invited Speaker, "Africa Roots of Africa America,"
28th Annual Ebony Ball, Afro-American Society, CWRU,
November 2000.
Guest Speaker, Discussion of the "City as
Classroom" concept, Focus Group/Project Step-Up
Brown Bag Luncheon Series, Office of Student Community
Service, CWRU, March 2000.
"The Role of Black Women in the Suffrage Movement,"
presentation with Tracy Glover Williams for the
University Women's Coalition, CWRU, March 2000.
" 'A Date with Death': The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal,"
African-American History Month presentation for
Clarke Tower Residence Hall, CWRU, February 2000.
Guest Facilitator, "New Ways to Get Better
Grades," seminar for the 2000 New Year, New
You Series, Educational Support Services, CWRU,
February 2000.
Panelist, "Bigotry, Racism, Prejudice: Inherited,
Learned or Mental Disorder?" University Counseling
Services, SCWRU, February 2000.
Participant/Panelist for the session "Developing
Identities," for the Defining the Minority
Experience one-day community-building retreat sponsored
by the Office of Minority Student Programs, CWRU,
January 2000.
Panelist, Gender Roles Workshop, Undergraduate
Intercultural Dialogue Group on Women's Issues,
CWRU, March 1999.
Participant/Panelist for the session "Singing
My Life with Your Song," for the A Structured
Learning Experience for the African-American Females
one-day conference sponsored by the Office of Minority
Student Programs and Student Affairs, CWRU, February
1999.
"Black Women, Radicalism & Struggle,"
presentation for the University Women's Coalition
and the Women Studies Program, CWRU, February 1999.
"Realizing the 'Dream' of Public Housing,"
History Associates, CWRU, February 1999.
Invited and Introduced Dr. Mary Frances Berry,
Chair, US Commission on Civil Rights, for the Center
for Policy Studies' Public Policy Forum and co-organized
campus activities, CWRU, October 1998.
Panelist, "Assessing the Clinton Presidency,"
Forum featuring David Maraniss, Public Policy Forum,
CWRU, April 1998.
Presenter/Moderator, "The Afro-American Struggle
for Freedom and Democracy," Black History Month
Undergraduate Student Forum for Alumni House Residents,
CWRU, February 1998.
Panelist, "Shaker Heights: The Struggle for
Integration," Forum featuring Stuart Math,
Public Policy Forum, CWRU, February 1998.
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Community Service
Guest Speaker, "Resistance against Oppression,"
Morning Show with Janet Babin, WCPN/NPR 90.3 FM,
Cleveland, 2004.
Member, Community Education and Outreach Committee
for the Winter production of Uncle Tom's Cabin at
Cleveland Public Theater in February 2004, Coordinated
by Cleveland Public Theater, 2003-present. In addition
to coming up with topics for theater talks and community
events, I served as a post-performance speaker opening
weekend (February 7, 2004), and as co-leader for
a panel on "Race and Representation" at
CPT (February 15, 2004).
Post-Performance Speaker for the Suzan-Lori Park's
play "In the Blood," The Dobama Theater,
Cleveland, 2003.
Advisory Committee Member, African-American Women's
Papers Projects, Western Reserve Historical Society,
Cleveland, 1999-2001.
Consultant on the Afro-American Museum's grant
proposal for the preservation and exhibit development
of photographic images, Cleveland, Ohio, 2000.
Guest Speaker, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice,
Cleveland, 2000.
Guest Speaker, Juneteenth Celebration, Afro-American
Museum, Cleveland, 2000.
Guest Speaker, "The Forgotten Black Woman,"
Roundtable for the Around Noon Show with Dee Perry,
WCPN/NPR 90.3 FM, Cleveland, 2000.
Pre-Performance Speaker for the play A Raisin in
the Sun, Ohio Theater, Great Lakes Theater Festival,
Cleveland, 1999.
"On the Hills of Black … History: Thoughts
on the Script," written dramaturgy for the
play On the Hills of Black America, Cleveland Public
Theater, Cleveland, 1999.
Post-Performance Speaker for the play Truth, The
Dobama Theater, Cleveland, 1999.
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Professional Associations
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association
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