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CHERISSE JONES-BRANCH, Ph.D. Professor of History

Arkansas State University

Department of History (870) 972-3291(Office) PO Box 1690 (870) 972-2880 (Fax) State University, AR 72467

[email protected] EDUCATION___________________________________________________________ The Ohio State University Ph.D. American History, 2003

The College of Charleston M.A. History, 1997 B.A. History, 1994

ACADEMIC POSITIONS_________________________________________________ 2017- James and Wanda Lee Vaughn Endowed Professor of History 2016- Professor of History, Arkansas State University 2016- Director, A-State Digital Press 2009-2016 Associate Professor of History, Arkansas State University 2003-2009 Assistant Professor of History, Arkansas State University 2009-2014 Assistant Chair, Department of History, Arkansas State University 2003- Major and Minor Advisor, Department of History,

Arkansas State University 2003- Advisor and Coordinator, African American Studies Minor, Arkansas

State University 1996-2003 Graduate Teaching Assistant, The Ohio State University PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT________________________________________ 2019- Fellow, World Woman Foundation 2018- Executive Committee, Agricultural History Society 2018-2019 National Endowment for the Humanities, Media Projects Development and Production Grants Review Panel 2018- Editorial Board, African American Intellectual History Society 2018- Distributed Table Leader, Advanced Placement U.S. History Reading 2018 Coordinating Council for Women in History /Berkshire Award Committee 2018- Editorial Advisory Committee, University of Arkansas Press


2017- Board of Editors, Arkansas History Quarterly 2017- Editorial Board, International Journal of Africana Studies 2017 Board Chair, Arkansas Humanities Council 2016- Commissioner, Black History Commission of Arkansas 2015- Executive Council, Southern Association for Women Historians 2015-2017 Willie Lee Rose Book Prize Committee, Southern Association for Women

Historians 2014-2016 International African American Museum Program Committee, Charleston,

South Carolina 2014-2015 Local Arrangements Committee for 2015 Annual Meeting, Southern

Historical Association 2014-2016 Committee for Minorities, Southern Historical Association 2014 Classroom Consultant, Paragould High School 2014 Vice President Court Appointed Special Advocates of the 2nd Judicial

District, Jonesboro, Arkansas 2014 Professional Development Workshop, Paragould School District 2014 Arkansas Department of Education Social Studies Framework Revision

Committee, Little Rock, Arkansas 2013-2014 Project Scholar, “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation,

1863 and the March on Washington, 1963: A Traveling Exhibition,” American Library Association Public Programs, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Museum of American History, and the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor

2013-2019 Board Member, Arkansas Humanities Council, Little Rock 2013-2016 Board Member, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Jonesboro,

Arkansas 2013 African American Civil War Advisory Board, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center 2013-2015 Table Leader, Advanced Placement U.S. History Reading, Louisville,

Kentucky 2012-2013 Humanities Scholar, “Dreamland Ballroom,” Arkansas Educational Television Network 2012-2013 Humanities Scholar, “The History of the Arkansas Order of the Eastern Star, Prince Hall Affiliated” 2012 Humanities Scholar, “Discovering the Forgotten Past: The History of the Catholic School for African American Children in Pocahontas, Arkansas,” 2012 2011 Commentator, “CW 150: Remembering The Civil War in Arkansas,” Arkansas Educational Television Network, Old State House Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2011 2010 External Program Reviewer, Ethnic Studies Program, West Chester University, Pennsylvania 2010 Advisory Board Member, Civil Rights Traveling Exhibit, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Little Rock, Arkansas 2009-2014 Board of Trustees, Arkansas Historical Association


2009 Project Scholar, “Soul of a People” Grant-National Endowment for the Humanities, Arkansas State University

2009-2011 Board Member, Arkansas Women’s History Institute 2008 Humanities Scholar, "Hope and Despair Live Here: Farm Security Administration Photographs in Arkansas,” Arkansas Humanities Council 2008 Humanities Scholar, Kentucky Humanities Council Grant 2009 Advisory Board Member, “Reel to Real”: Gone with the Wind and the Civil War in Arkansas, Historic Arkansas Museum 2008- Reader, Advanced Placement U.S. History, Louisville, Kentucky 2006 Humanities Scholar-Horace Man High School Film Project, Little Rock, Arkansas 2005- Membership Committee, Southern Association of Women’s Historians 2004-2005 Humanities Scholar-Hoxie 21 Project, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS________________________________________ Agricultural History Society

• 2018 Executive Committee • 2016 Chair, Program Committee

American Association of University Professors Arkansas Historical Association Association of American University Women Association of Black Women Historians

• 2018 Annual Program Committee • 2018 Southern Regional Director

Association for the Study of African American Life and History Berkshires Conference for Women Historians

• 2019-2020 Program Committee British Agricultural History Society European Rural History Organisation Jonesboro Business and Professional Women’s Club Organization of American Historians Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Rural Women’s Studies Association

• 2018 Program Co-Chair Southern Association of Women’s Historians

• Membership Committee • Executive Council Committee (2014)

The South Carolina Historical Association


Southern Historical Association • Nominating Committee • Membership Committee • Committee on Minorities (2014) • Local Arrangements Committee for 2015 annual meeting

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT__________________________________________ 2019- Board of Directors, Foundation for the Arts, Jonesboro, Arkansas 2019- Advisory Board, Hoxie: The First Stand, Hoxie, Arkansas 2019- Jonesboro Rotary Club, Arkansas 2018- Board Member and Vice-President, Future for Felons, Jonesboro,

Arkansas 2018- Blytheville Social and Art Club, Blytheville, Arkansas 2018-2019 Crowley’s Ridge Toastmasters, Jonesboro, Arkansas 2018- Anti-Basileus, Mu Sigma Sigma chapter, Sigma Gamma Sorority,

Incorporated, West Memphis, Arkansas 2017- Board Member and President, The Voice of Arkansas Minority

Advisory Council, KLEK 102.5 FM, Jonesboro, Arkansas 2013- Eliza Murphy #395, Order of Eastern Star, Prince Hall Affiliated,

Jonesboro, Arkansas TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Taught since 2003 African American History I and II, Practice of History, United States History since 1876 (seated, online and for the Honors College), Age of Jim Crow (combined undergraduate and graduate course), U.S. Civil Rights Movement, Women’s Activism and Reform, Readings in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, Special Topics: Race, Gender, and Identity(Cross-listed with the Heritage Studies Ph.D. program. Team taught with Dr. Joseph Key), Regional Cultures: The History of the Mississippi Delta Region (Heritage Studies Ph.D. program), Special Topics in American History: Women, Family, and Community (Cross listed with Heritage Studies Ph.D. program), Readings in 20th Century African American History, Studies in Women’s History, Studies in African American Intellectual History, African American Women’s History, Race and Ethnicity in United States History, American Women in Rural History


DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________ Departmental Committees 2019 Chair, European History Search Committee 2014 Chair, Social Science Search Committee 2009- Executive Committee 2011- Curriculum Committee 2011- Graduate Studies Committee 2009- Promotion, Retention, and Tenure Committee 2010-2016 Chair, Assessment Committee 2008- U.S. History Minor Committee 2007- Chair, BA Undergraduate Committee 2013-2014 Social Science Search Committee 2012-2013 Latin American History Search Committee 2003- African American Studies Minor Committee College Committees 2016-2017 College Renaming Committee 2013-2014 Historic Preservationist Search Committee 2011-2012 Archivist Search Committee 2011-2016 Assessment Committee 2011-2014 Faculty Achievement Awards Committee 2010- Admission/Academic Credit/Graduation Appeals Committee 2008- Heritage Studies Program Committee 2007- Faculty Achievement Awards Committee 2006-2011 Executive Committee, Delta Symposium 2006- Admissions and Credits Committee 2003- Program Committee, Women and Gender Studies Minor 2003- Editorial Committee, Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies University Committees 2019- Faculty Senate 2018- Red Wolves Digital Initiative 2017- Black History Committee 2014- Advisory Board, A-State K-20 Center for Educational Enrichment 2014-2016 Vice Chair, Faculty Senate 2014-2016 Faculty Senate Executive Committee 2012-2016 Faculty Senate 2012-2014 Commencement Committee


2013-2014 Faculty Marshall 2012-2013 World AIDS Day Committee 2011- Multicultural Advisory Council 2011 Graduate School Recruiter 2011-2014 Museum Advisory Committee 2011-2015 CHSS Coordinator, New Student Orientation Session 2011-2012 Arkansas State University Chancellor’s Search Committee 2011-2012 Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Search Committee 2011- Founding Member, Academic Retention Consortium 2010-2013 North Central Association, Higher Learning Commission Self- Study Steering Committee 2010 Teaching and Research Ad Hoc Committee 2008 New Faculty Orientation Committee 2006 Mentor, Circle of Trust Mentoring Program Dissertation Committees In progress Jennifer Hardin, “Arkansas Women’s Experiences During World War II (Chair) 2019 Carmen Lanos Williams, “Arkansas in the African American Imaginary” 2019 JaJuan Johnson, “Heritage Terrorism” (Chair) 2016 Aketa Guillory, "Heritage Defined, But Not Mine: The Lakeport Plantation House Restoration Case Study" 2011 Lisa Renee Perry, Ph.D. Heritage Studies, “Memory, Identity, and Paternalism: Creating An Appalachian Camelot” Master’s Theses Committees 2019 Kelsey DeFord, “A Tale of Two Culpers: Social Context of Revolutionary Espionage” 2018 Chelsea McNutt, “Arkansas Rosenwald Schools” (Chair) * Ph.D. Student at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 2017 Ryan Smith, “Laura Conner Cornelius, Arkansas Prison Reform Activist” (Chair) * Ph.D. Student at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 2014 Zachary Elledge,“The Arkansas Confederate Women’s Monument” * Ph.D. Student at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 2014 Monica Campbell, "The 'Invisible' Empire: An Examination of the Kraighead Kounty Ku Klux Klan in 1922" * Ph.D. Student at University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi


Honors Theses Committees 2018 Rayna Todd, “The Power of the Pen: Educational Access through the Writings of Black Women (Chair) * Thesis not completed. 2018 Meredith Carvell, “Nashville, Tennessee Sit In Movement” AWARDS AND HONORS_________________________________________________ 2019 Faculty Award for Excellence in Professional Service, Arkansas State

University, Jonesboro 2018 University Educator of the Year, Arkansas Council for the Social Studies 2017 February 2017, Research Professor of the Month, Arkansas State

University 2015 Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Arkansas State University 2014 Letitia Brown Woods Book Award, Association of Black Women

Historians 2014 Finalist, George C. Rogers, Jr. Award, South Carolina Historical Society 2011 Nathan Deutsch Development Fund, Arkansas State University 2011 American Council of Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education,

South Carolina Regional Leadership Forum for Women Administrators, Charleston, South Carolina

2009 Diversity Excellence Award, Office of Diversity Initiatives, Arkansas State University

2007 Faculty Research Award, Office of Research and Technology Transfer, Arkansas State University 2004 Dean’s Research Award, Arkansas State University 2004 Institute for Southern Studies, Short-Term Summer Fellowship, University of South Carolina 2002 Graduate School Summer Research Award, The Ohio State University 2002 Foster Rhea Dulles Award, The Ohio State University 2002 South Caroliniana Library Summer Research Award, University of South Carolina 2002 Margaret Storrs Grierson Travel-to-Collections Funds, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 2001 Association of Faculty and Professional Women Scholarship, The Ohio State University 2000 Elizabeth D. Gee Research Grant, The Ohio State University 2000 Graduate Student Alumni Research Award, The Ohio State University


PUBLICATIONS________________________________________________________ Books Crossing the Line: Women's Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014). Manuscripts in Progress "Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps": Rural Black Women's Activism in Arkansas, 1913-1965 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press). Edited Volumes Co-edited with Dr. Adrienne Petty, “African American Women in the 20th Rural South,” a special issue of Agricultural History (Summer 2019) Co-edited with Dr. Gary Edwards, Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018). Online Publications “John Henry Gammon Jr.,” (forthcoming from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, 2019). “Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching,” (forthcoming from Encyclopedia of Arkansas, 2019). “Mame Stewart Josenberger,” https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/mame-stewart-josenberger-12404, 2019. “Jeanes Industrial Supervising Techers,” https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/jeanes-supervising-industrial-teachers-8493/, 2019. “Yuri Kochiyama,” Encyclopedia of Arkansas, https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/yuri-kochiyama-8428/, 2019. “Annie Zachary Pike,” Encyclopedia of Arkansas History, https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/annie-zachary-pike-2841/, 2019. “Sharecropping: The Economic System that Drove the South,” 1919 Elaine Massacre Virtual Exhibit, https://ualrexhibits.org/, 2019. “Annie Zachary Pike,” Rural Women’s Studies Association, https://ruralwomensstudies.wordpress.com/, 2019.


“The not-so-long-ago alliance of African-American women and the Arkansas Republican Party,” http://amppob.com/not-long-ago-alliance-arkansas-republicans-african-american-women/, September 2016. “Teaching Reflection: Women and Rural Life,” https://ruralwomensstudies.wordpress.com/, 2016. “Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas,” https://ruralwomensstudies.wordpress.com/page/2/, 2016. “Six EOA Entries Everyone Should Read,” The Butler eBanner: News Letter of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=3ca97a74-6a29-4ba0-86f5-b00688988e94&c=3149d4a0-b683-11e3-a66e-d4ae52844279&ch=7968c530-3468-11e4-80f2-d4ae5292c38a, 2016. Articles/Book Chapters “Gennie Revelise Gergel Seideman: A Jewish Civil Rights Activist in 1940s South Carolina,” An article in progress commissioned by Southern Jewish History. “African Americans in Agriculture,” R. Douglas Hurt, ed., A Companion to American Agricultural History (Wiley-Blackwell: Hoboken, NJ, forthcoming 2020). “What Each Good Citizen and Christian Women Can Do!:” Ethel B. Dawson, the Home Missions Division of the National Council of Churches of Christ, and Civil Rights Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1950-1956,” Journal of African American History (invited submission, 2020). “Can The Sistas’ Get Some History Too”: Transformations in Southern Black Women’s History, in Catherine Clinton, ed., Strange Careers: 50 Years of Southern Women’s History (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, forthcoming 2020). “The Arkansas Association of Colored Women During World War I,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, (forthcoming 2020). “Fighting, Protesting, and Organizing:” African Americans in World War I Arkansas,” in Mark Christ, ed., The War At Home: Perspectives on the Arkansas Experience during World War I (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, forthcoming 2020). “Pickens Black Sr.: The Patriarch of Blackville, Arkansas,” The Stream of History, The Jackson County Historical Society, (forthcoming Spring 2020). “‘We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest,’ The Civil Rights Movement,” co-authored with Katherine Mellon Charron, in Craig Friend and Lorri Glover, eds., Rewriting


Southern History: Historiographical Essays (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming 2020). “Heritage Studies and Local History: Whose Heritage?,” Missouri Folklore Society Journal (Special Issue 2015/2019), 37-40. “To Raise Standards Among the Negroes:” Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers in Rural Jim Crow Arkansas, 1909-1950,” Agricultural History (Summer 2019), 412-436. “Mame Stewart Josenberger,” Fort Smith Historical Society Journal, 43, No. 1(April 2019), 23-28. “Rural Black Women’s Studies,” Truth: Newsletter of the Association of Black Women Historians, (June 2018): 3 and 7. “Been a Guinea Pig in this Race: Annie Ruth Zachary Pike, Arkansas Homemaker, Farmer, and Politician, International Journal of Africana Studies, (Spring-Summer 2018): 7-24. “An Uneasy Alliance: Farm Women and the United States Department of Agriculture, 1913-1995,” Federal History, Issue 10 (April 2018): 98-114. “Women and the 1919 Elaine Race Massacre,” in The Elaine Massacre and Arkansas: A Century of Atrocity and Resistance, Guy Lancaster, ed. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2018): 178-202. “Working Slowly but Surely and Quietly”: The Arkansas Council of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 1930-1941n Bullets and Fire: Case Studies of Lynching in Arkansas from Slavery to the 1930s, Guy Lancaster, ed. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2017), 223-237. “African American Home Demonstration Agents in the Field and Rural Reform in Arkansas, 1914-1965,” in Food History and Rural Woman Professionals, 1880-1965, Linda Ambrose and Joan Jensen, eds., (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017), 156-173. “‘To Speak When and Where I Can’: African American Women’s Political Activism in South Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s” in Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence, Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain, eds. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016), 201-206. “How Free is Free”?: A Historiographical Review of African American History in Post-Civil War and Reconstruction Arkansas in Competing Memories: The Legacy of Arkansas’s Civil War, Mark Christ, ed. (Little Rock: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2016), 57-70.


“Empowering Families and Communities: African American Home Demonstration Agents in Arkansas, 1913-1965,” in Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas: Perspectives on the African American and Latino/a Experience John Kirk, ed. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2014), 85-95. “African American Women and the South Carolina NAACP, 1930s and 1940s,” in True Worth of a Race: African American Women and the Struggle for Freedom, Lopez Matthews, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Association of Black Women Historians, 2013), 164-174.

“Scholarship on African American History in Arkansas during the era of Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction,” in African American Perspectives in Northeast Arkansas, Winter 2013: 14-17.

“I Cannot Be Bought and I Will Not Be Sold”: Modjeska Monteith Simkins, 1899-1992, in South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Valinda Littlefield, Marjorie Spruill, and Joan Johnson, eds. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012), 221-239 “Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Minorities,” in The Blackwell Companion to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, April, 2011): 135-154

“African American Marriage and Relationships: A Historical Perspective,” in African American Perspectives in Northeast Arkansas, (Winter 2010): 9-11 “Profile of an African American Professor at ASU: Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch,” in African American Perspectives in Northeast Arkansas (Fall 2010). “A Brief History of African American Art,” in African American Perspectives in Northeast Arkansas, (Winter 2009). “Soul Food and African American Families,” in African American Perspectives in Northeast Arkansas, Summer (2008): 14-15. “Mary Church Terrell: Revisiting the Politics of Race, Class, and Gender,” in Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume I, Beverly Bond and Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, eds., (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009): 68-92. “Classroom Preparedness: A Faculty Point of View,” in the First Year Parent Newsletter, Arkansas State University, Fall 2009, https://sites.google.com/a/sites.astate.edu/fy-parent-association/asu-s-weekly-featured-writer-1. “’May We Pray That We Be Given Strength and Faith To Stand Together’: Conflict, Change and the Charleston, South Carolina YWCA, 1940s-1960s,” Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association, (2008): 15-28.


“To Speak When and Where I Can”: African American Women’s Organizations and Political Activism in 1940s and 1950s South Carolina, South Carolina Historical Magazine, (July 2006), Volume 107, Number 3: 204-224. “‘How Shall I Sing the Lord’s Song’: United Church Women Confront Racial Issues in South Carolina, 1940s-1960s,” in “Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege”: Southern White Women Activists in the Era of Civil Rights, Southern Dissent Series, Gail Murray, editor, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004), 131-152. Book Reviews Beverly L. Bower and Mimi Wolverton, Answering the Call: African American Women in Higher Education Leadership in The Journal of Negro Education, (forthcoming). Karla Slocum, Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West, Western Historical Quarterly (forthcoming Spring 2020). Monica White, Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Power Movement, Agricultural History, Volume 93, Number 3, (Summer 2019): 556-558. Book review essay, “Farming Women and the State in North America,” Nancy Berlage, Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935 and Sarah Carter, Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies for The Journal of Women’s History 31.3 (Autumn 2019): 124-128. Ellen F. Fitzpatrick, The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency, https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=49237, January 2018. Elizabeth Griffin Hill, Faithful to Our Tasks: Arkansas’s Women and the Great War, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Volume 76, Number 4 (Winter 2017): 385-387. Joan Quigley, Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital in “Women and Social Movements in the United States,” http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/, Fall 2016. Audrey Thomas McCluskey, A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Volume 47, (August 2016), Issue 2: 126-128. Anne Stephani, Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920-1970 in the North Carolina Historical Review, (July 2016): -355-367. Debbie Z. Harwell, Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964 in American Historical Review, (December 2015): 1930.


Blain Roberts, Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, (Spring 2015): 90-92. Evelyn M. Simien, Gender and Lynching: The Politics of Memory, Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Volume 46, Issue 1, (April 2015): 51-53. Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta, Louisiana History, (Winter 2015): 113-114. Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, FDR and the Jews. Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 44, Number 1, (March 2014): 178-179.

Andrew W. Kahrl, The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South, Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Volume 44, Issue 2, (August 2013), 120-121. Erik S. McDuffie, Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism, History: Reviews of New Books, Volume 41, Issue 2, (2013): 56. Margaret Washington, Sojourner Truth’s America in the Journal of American Ethnic History, Volume 32, Number 1, (Fall 2012): 142-143. Rebecca Sharpless, Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960 in Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume CXV, (January 2012): 317-318. Orissa Arend, Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Volume 41, Number 3, (December 2010): 222-223. Lee Sartin, Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915-1945, Louisiana History, Volume L, Number 2, (Spring 2009): 231-233. Lisa G. Materson, For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1892 in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Volume 40, Number 2, (August 2009): 153-154. Simon Wendt, The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights, The Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History, (April 2008): 155-156.

Laurie Green, Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle, Journal of American Ethnic History, (Spring 2008): 131-132.


Judith Kilpatrick, There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior, Journal of Southern History, Volume 74, Number 4, (November 2008): 1015-1016.

Anne Firor Scott, Pauli Murray & Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White in Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, Volume 11, Number 3, (September 2007), http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/issueV11N3.htm. Grif Stockley, Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas, Journal of Southern History Volume LXXIII, Number 2, (May 2007), 498-499. Kenneth Morgan, editor, Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide, Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Volume 37, Number 3, (December 2006), 206. Silvana R. Saddali, From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Volume 37, Number 1, (April 2006): 69-70. Paul Harvey, Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era, Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Volume 37, Number 1, (April 2006): 70. Encyclopedia Entries “Clara Belle Williams,” 1885-1994: The first African American graduate of New Mexico State University,” www.blackpast.org, 2019. “Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, 1941-2018: A Pioneering Scholar in Black Women’s History,” www.blackpast.org, 2019. “The Murder of Sergeant Thomas P. Foster,” Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net, 2017. “Thelma Johnson Streat,” www.blackpast.org, 2015. “Arkansas Association of Colored Women,” Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net, 2015. “Arkansas YWCA,” Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net, 2011. “Segregation and Desegregation”, Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/, 2007. Marion Birnie Wilkinson, “in The South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006), 1028.


“The South Carolina Women’s Club Movement,” in The South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006), 1040-1041. Film Reviews Dawn Logsdon, director, Lolis Eric Elie and Lucie Faulknor, producers, Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, The Public Historian, Volume 31, Number 3, (Summer 2009): 117-119. PRESENTATIONS_______________________________________________________ “Women and the 1919 Elaine Massacre,” Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, November 2019 “Ethel B. Dawson, the National Council of Churches of Christ Home Missions Division, and Progressive Women's Activism in Rural 1950s Arkansas,” European Rural History Organisation, Paris, France, September 2019 “Women and the 1919 Elaine Massacre,” The Elaine Massacre, 100 Years Later, Black History Commission of Arkansas, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 2019 “Women and the 1919 Elaine Massacre,” Teaching and Learning Difficult History: A Curriculum Workshop and Training Seminar on Racial Violence in Arkansas, The Butler Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, July 2019 “What Each Good Citizen and Christian Women Can Do!:” Ethel B. Dawson, the Home Missions Division of the National Council of Churches of Christ, and Civil Rights Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1950-1956,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2019 “From the Palmetto to the Natural State,” Black Women’s Activism in the Twentieth Century South, 2019 Felice Hill Gaines Lecture in Africana Studies, University of Central Missouri, April 2019 “Rural Women in American History,” From Protest to Politics: Women’s Movements and Strengthening Democracies, University of Buffalo, April 2019 “Race and Gender in Rural History,” Rural, Agricultural, Technological, or Environmental History Speaker Series, Iowa State University, March 2019 “Racial and Economic Activism in Rural Arkansas: The 1919 Elaine Massacre,” Southern Sustainable Agricultural Working Group (SAWG) Annual Meeting, Little Rock, Arkansas, January 2019


“Can the Sistas Get Some History Too?”: Transformations in Southern Black Women’s History, Milbauer Conference, University of Florida, November 2018 “African Americans in Clark County, Arkansas,” Clark County Historical Society, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, November 2018 “The Arkansas Association of Colored Women and World War I,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2018 “Protocol of an Academic Lecture,” Student Support Services, Arkansas State University, August 2018 “What Shall Be Done With the Negro?: African Americans in the Arkansas Civil War,” Delta Cultural Center, Helena, Arkansas, August 2018 “Mame Steward Josenberger and the Arkansas Association of Colored Women,” Arkansas Association of Colored Women Annual Meeting, Fort Smith, Arkansas, June 2018 “Anna M.P. Strong: A Rural Arkansas Educational Activist, 1884-1966,” Rural Women’s Studies Association Triennial Conference, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, June 2018 “Anna M.P. Strong: A Rural Arkansas Educational Activist, 1884-1966,” Arkansas Teachers Corps, Arkansas State University, July 2018 “Transition from Teaching With No Tech to Being Fully Engaged with Digital Content,” A-State Faculty Center Summer Institute, July 2018 “Fighting, Protesting, and Organizing,” African Americans in World War I Arkansas, Arkansas State University, April 2018 “African Americans in Arkansas’s Rural History, 1909-1965,” The History Makers Advisory Board Meeting, New York City, New York, February 2018 “The Negro Division of the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation, 1948-1965,” Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, February 2018 “Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas,” Arkansas State University Museum, February 2017 “African American Women and the Arkansas Republican Party,” Black Political Engagement in Arkansas, Black History Commission of Arkansas, February 2017, Little Rock, Arkansas


“Training as Will Fit Them for Their Work”: Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers in Rural Jim Crow Arkansas, 1909-1950, British Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, Plumpton College, East Sussex, United Kingdom, April 2017 “Who is a Collaborator?: Networking and Publishing Rural Women’s History,” Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 2017 “The Arkansas YWCA,” YWCA USA National Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2017 “Research: How Do I Do This?,” Minority Faculty Retreat, University of Central Arkansas, July 2017 “African American Home Demonstration Agents in Rural Jim Crow Arkansas, 1914-1965,” Cultivating Live: Agricultural History in Northeast Arkansas, Powhatan, Arkansas, August 2017 “Mame Stewart Josenberger: Arkansas Businesswoman, Activist, and Internationalists, 1872-1964, Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora, Universidad Pablo De Olavide, Seville, Spain, November 2017 “Fighting, Protesting, and Organizing,” African Americans in World War I Arkansas, Old State House Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 2017. “Mame Steward Josenberger and Women’s Suffrage Activism in World War I Arkansas, Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, September 2017 “Arkansas Jeanes Teachers,” Agricultural History Society, City University of New York, New York City, New York, June 2016 “African American Women’s Rural Reform and Arkansas Home Demonstration Clubs, 1930s-1960s,” Arkansas Association of College and History Teachers, Old Statehouse Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 2015 “Rural African American Women’s Agency and Home Demonstration Clubs in Arkansas, 1930s-1960s,” Southern Association for Women Historians, Charleston, South Carolina, June 2015 “Gennie Revelise Gergel Seideman: South Carolina’s Jewish Civil Rights Activist,” South Carolina Historical Association Annual Conference, Walterboro, SC, March 2015 “Rural Black Women’s Health Care Initiatives in the Arkansas Delta, 1915-1960s,” Rural Women’s Studies Association, San Marcos, Texas, February 2015 “Historical Perspectives of Rural Black Women’s Health Care Initiatives in the Arkansas Delta,” Delta Heath Disparities Workshop, Arkansas State University, November 2014


“Gennie Revelise Gergel Seideman: South Carolina’s Jewish Civil Rights Activist,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Memphis, Tennessee, September 2014

Crossing the Line: Women's Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II, Advanced Placement U.S. History Reading, Louisville, Kentucky, June 2014 “Rural African American Women’s Agency and Home Demonstration Clubs in Arkansas, 1930s-1960s,” Agricultural History Society, Provo, Utah, June 2014 “African American Home Demonstration Agents in Arkansas,” Agricultural History Society, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 2013 “Lifting Themselves Up By Their Bootstraps: African American Home Demonstration Agents in Arkansas,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2012 “African American Women and the South Carolina NAACP, 1930s and 1940s,” 15th Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2011 “Modjeska Simkins: A South Carolina Civil Rights Icon,” Court House, State House, Her House: Southern Women and Politics, University of South Mississippi, Gulfport, Mississippi, March 2011 “Arkansas Women’s History,” Mid-America Conference on History Little Rock, Arkansas, September 2010 “Arkansas Women’s History,” 69th Annual Conference, Arkansas Historical Association, Jonesboro, Arkansas, April 2010 “’Meeting and working together, not as people of two races, but as citizens with a common purpose:’ Women, Racial Issues, and the Greenville, South Carolina YWCA, 1940-1960s”, 8th Annual Southern Association of Women’s Historians Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, June 2009 “I Cannot Be Bought and Will Not Be Sold”: Modjeska Monteith Simkins, 1899-1992, 8th Annual Southern Association of Women’s Historians Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, June 2009 “Repairers of the Breach:” Black and White Women and Racial Activism in South Carolina, 1940s-1960s, Mid America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri, September 2008


“Women, Let Us Register! Women, Let Us Register Everyone Else That We Can. Then Let Us All Vote!” Black Women’s Political Activism in 1940s and 1950s South Carolina, National Association of African American Studies National Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 2008 “A Small Beginning of a Slow Climb”: Racial Activism in the Winthrop College Student YWCA, 1940-1947, Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, January 2008 “May We Pray That We Be Given Faith and Strength” Black and White Women and the Charleston YWCA, 1940s-1960s, South Carolina Historical Association Annual Meeting, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina, March 2007

“‘.…To Speak When and Where I Can’: African American Women’s Organizations and Political Activism in South Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s,” Arkansas Association of College History Teachers, Old State House Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 2005 “Black Women Activists During the Civil Rights Movement,” Landmarks of American Democracy: National Endowment for the Humanities, “From Freedom Summer to the Sanitation Workers Strike,” Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, July 2005

“The Hoxie 21 Story: What We’ve Learned,” National Resources Conservation Service Employee Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, May 2005 “‘Agreed to Differ, Resolved to Love, United to Serve’: United Church Women in South Carolina,” American Church Society, Washington, D.C., January 2004

“‘How Shall I Sing the Lord’s Song’: United Church Women in South Carolina, 1940s-1960s,” Women’s History Symposium, University of South Carolina, Columbia, August 2004

“How Shall I Sing the Lord’s Song?” United Church Women Confront Racial Issues in South Carolina, 1940s-1960s, The Citadel Conference on the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, March 2003 “The Black Women’s Club Movement in Charleston, South Carolina, 1916-1930,” The South Carolina Historical Association Annual Meeting, Columbia, South Carolina, March 1997 Chair/Discussant/Commentator/Facilitator/Panelist Discussant, “The Vote and Equal Rights: From the Fifteenth Amendment to the ERA,” Berkshires Conference of Women Historians, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, May 2020


Panelist, “Connecting Contemporary U.S. Elections with Histories of Working-Class Women’s Political Mobilization,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2019. Panelist, “Racial and Economic Activism in Rural Arkansas: The 1919 Elaine Massacre,” Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Annual Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, January 2019 Roundtable Panelist, “Workplace Challenges, Important of Self-Advocacy, Allies and Support Networks,” Association of Black Women Historians Symposium, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, December 2018 Chair, “Protest, Liberation, and Revolution, Chronicling Black Women’s Activism,” Association of Black Women Historians Symposium, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, December 2018 Chair, “Black Women and the Great War,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2018 Chair, “Race, Resistance, and Anti-War Protest,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2018 Chair, “Rural Women’s Activism through Oppression,” Rural Women’s Studies Association Triennial Meeting, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, June 2018 Chair, Rural Women and Organizational Activism within and beyond Boarders, Rural Women’s Studies Association Triennial Meeting, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, June 2018 Chair and Commenter, “Mapping Intersectionality in the South,” Southern Feminisms, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, October 2016 Facilitator, “1971,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Richmond, Virginia, October 2016 Chair, “Race, Gender, and Power,” Race, Gender, and Power,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Richmond, Virginia, October 2016 Moderator, “MLK Sunday Supper: Race Relations in Jonesboro,” Jonesboro Public Library, Jonesboro, Arkansas, January 2016 Moderator, “History and Heritage Studies,” Delta Symposium, XXII, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, April 2016 Legacies & Lunch: Black History Month Panel Discussion, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock, Arkansas, February 2015


“The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Discussion, ”Arkansas State University, February 2014 Facilitator, “Project 1927: The Lynching of John Carter,” Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, February 2013 Moderator, “Civil Rights and Human Rights,” 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Heritage Studies Ph.D. Program, Arkansas State University, October 2011 Commentator, “Working for Equality: Women, Organizations, and The Freedom Struggle,” Southern Historical Association, Mobile, Alabama, November 2012

Chair, “Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves: Black Female Entrepreneurs and Their Legacies,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2012 Commentator, “Modern Black Politics,” 12th Annual Conference in African American History, Graduate Association of African American History, University of Memphis, November 2010 Commentator, “Civil Rights in Arkansas” Mid-America Conference on History, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 2010 Moderator, “Northeast Arkansas in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 69th Annual Conference, Arkansas Historical Association, Jonesboro, Arkansas, April 2010 Panelist, "Placemaking and the Blues: A Transdisciplinary Open Forum", Delta Blues Symposium, Arkansas State University, March 2008 Chair, “Blacks in the Ivory Tower: Black Activism in the Academy and its Pan-Africanist Implications”, 9th Annual Graduate Conference in African American History, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, September 2007

Commentator, “Race and Education,” Mid-America Conference on History, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, September 2007

Moderator, Roundtable, “Little Rock, 1957,” 3rd Annual Constitution Day, Arkansas State University, September 2007 Chair, Media Research Panel, Undergraduate Scholars’ Day, Arkansas State University, April 2007 Moderator, “The Civil Rights Struggle,” Delta Blues Symposium, VIII, Arkansas State University, March 2007


Panelist, “Southern Women and Politics”: In Theory and History, Senator Hattie Caraway Day Celebration, Arkansas State University, October 2006

Panelist, “Voting: The Central Element in Our Democracy,” 2nd Annual Constitution Day, Arkansas State University, September 2006

Panelist, “Secret Harvests”: Hidden Fruits of Southern Women’s History, Senator Hattie Caraway Day Celebration, Arkansas State University, October 2005 Panelist, “African American Civil Rights in the Nadir,” Discover Diversity Leadership Conference, Arkansas State University, October 2005 Chair, “The Hoxie 21-Stories, New Voices, New Perspectives: Imagining Race in the Arkansas Delta, Delta Blues Symposium XI: Imagining the Delta, Arkansas State University, April 2005 Panelist, “African Americans During the American Revolution,” Discover Diversity Leadership Conference, Arkansas State University, April 2005 Panelist, “Race and Rock, The Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference in African American History, University of Memphis, Tennessee, October 2004 Invited Talks “Crossing the Line: Women’s Interracial Activism in South Carolina During and After World War II,” University of South Carolina Center for Civil Rights History and Research, November 2019 “1919 Elaine Massacre,” Lyon College, September 2019 “African American Women's Lives and Activism in Rural Jim Crow Arkansas,” Robert Walz Lecture in Arkansas and Regional History, Southern Arkansas University, September 2019 “Black Women, Violence, and Criminality in Post-World War I Arkansas,” Elaine at 100: Labor, Race, and Violence in the Mississippi Valley, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Little Rock, September 2019 “Better Living By Their Own Bootstraps,” Southern Foodways Alliance Summer Field Trip, Bentonville, Arkansas, June 2019 “A Historical Contextualization of Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,” Arkansas Literary Festival, Little Rock, Arkansas, April 2018 “Remarks for Graduates,” Multicultural Center Graduation Reception, Arkansas State University, May 2018


“Young, Gifted, and Seeking,” Baccalaureate Service, First Baptist Church, Jonesboro, Arkansas, May 2018 “Been A Guinea Pig in this Race”: Annie R. Zachary, Arkansas Homemaker, Farmer, and Politician, 46th Annual Celebration, Southern Association for Women Historians, St. Pete’s Beach, Florida, November 2016 “Better Living By Their Own Bootstraps: Rural Women’s Activism in Arkansas” Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Jonesboro, Arkansas, March 2016 "Find a Way to Maintain the Home Demonstration and 4-H Work in this County:" African American Home Demonstration Agents in Arkansas, 1914-1965, Archives Month Celebration, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, October 2016 “Rural Black Women’s Health Care and Educational Activism in the Arkansas Delta, 1915-1960s,” Arkansas Teachers Corps, El Dorado, Arkansas, June 2016 “To Raise Standards Among the Negroes”: African American Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, February 2016 “‘Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps’: Rural Black Women’s Activism in Arkansas, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Jonesboro, Arkansas, March 2016 “Crossing the Line: Women’s Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II,” First United Methodist Church Women’s Book club, Jonesboro, Arkansas, March 2015 “Crossing the Line: Women’s Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II,” Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Jonesboro, Arkansas, February 2015 “Riding for Justice:” The 1961 Freedom Rides, Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963, Dean B. Ellis Library, Arkansas State University, October 2014 “The Promise of Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation and the 1963 March on Washington,” Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963, Dean B. Ellis Library, Arkansas State University, September 2014 “African American Women in Arkansas History: A Legacy of Pride and Service,” First Baptist Church, Newport, Arkansas, February 2014 "From the Margins to the Center": Women's Civil Rights Activism in the 1940s and 1950s South, Keynote Address, Phi Alpha Theta Arkansas Regional Conference, Arkansas State University, March 2014


“History and the Meaning of Quilts made by African Americans from Slavery Through the 21st Century,” Eddie Mae Herron Center, Pocahontas, Arkansas, February 2014 “Integration at Little Rock Central High School,” Nettleton Junior High School, Jonesboro, Arkansas, March 2013 “Civil Rights Activism in the 1940s,” Westside High School, Jonesboro, Arkansas, July 2012 “The History of Juneteenth,” 3rd Annual Juneteenth Celebration, Eddie Mae Herron Center/Museum, Pocahontas, Arkansas, June 2012 “Negro Home Demonstration Agents in Arkansas: 1913-1966,” Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas: Perspectives on the African American and Latino/a Experience in Arkansas, Central Arkansas Library, Little Rock, May 2012 “Arkansas YWCA,” Old State House Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas, March 2012 “Repairers of the Breach”: Black and White Women and Racial Activism in South Carolina, 1940s-1960s,” Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Jonesboro, Arkansas, February 2012 “Seven Little Known African American Women Leaders,” Craighead County Library, Jonesboro, February 2012 “Mary Church Terrell,” "Shelby County Women and the Long Road to Civil Rights,” Shelby County Public Library, Memphis, Tennessee, January 2010 “The Struggle and Triumph of Women During the 1930s,” Dyersburg BookFest 2010: The Conflict and Triumph of the Human Spirit in the 1930s and 1940s, Dyersburg State Community College, Dyersburg, Tennessee, March 2010 “The Significance of African American Emancipation,” First Annual Juneteenth Celebration, Eddie Mae Herron Center and Museum, Pocahontas, Arkansas, June 2010 “Women’s History Month,” Social Security Administration, Jonesboro, Arkansas, March 2008 “Women in the Civil Rights Movement,” Arkansas State University-Newport, March 2007 “Loyal Women of Palmetto”: Black Women’s Clubs in Charleston, South Carolina,” Phyllis Wheatley Literary and Social Club 90th Anniversary Celebration, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, South Carolina, December 2006


Campus, Departmental, and Community Talks “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURE), Arkansas State University, August 2019 “Dr. Jones-Branch, Historian,” Westside Middle School Professional Day, Jonesboro, Arkansas, April 2019 “Little Known Civil Rights Stories,” talk given to Jonesboro High School Students, Arkansas State University, February 2019 “Self-Care Panel,” Sister to Sister Program, Arkansas State University, October 2018 Inaugural “Sister’s Tea,” Keynote Speaker, Sister to Sister Mentoring Program, Arkansas State University, September 2018 “African American Women in Arkansas History: Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark and Dr. Edith Irby Jones,” African American Achievers Club, Wynne High School, Wynne, Arkansas, July 2018 “Dr. Jones-Branch, Historian,” Westside Middle School Professional Day, Jonesboro, Arkansas, May 2018 Comments for Multicultural Graduation Reception, Arkansas State University, April 2018 “Engaging Diverse Learners,” A-State Faculty Center, Arkansas State University, June and July 2016 “Keeping Up With Your Research Agenda,” A-State Faculty Center, Arkansas State University, October 2014 “CASA Volunteers: A Journey to Cultural Awareness and Competency,” Multicultural Center, Arkansas State University, November 2013 “Black Women’s Political Activism,” Constitution Day, Arkansas State University, September 2013

“Interracial and White Activism during the Civil Rights Movement,” Advanced Placement U.S. History Summer Institute, Arkansas State University, June 2013

“Interracial Activism during the Civil Rights Movement,” 1st Annual Meeting of Students Taking Action against Racism (STARR), Arkansas State University Museum, February 2013 "Art as Resistance: The History and Significance of African American Quilts," Arkansas State University Museum, February 2013


“Mary Church Terrell: Early Civil Rights Activist,” Honors Reception Day, Arkansas State University, March 2011

“South Carolina Rice Plantations,” Arkansas, Africa, and Rice Workshop, Arkansas State University, October 2010

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