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WANDA A. HENDRICKS
EDUCATION
August 1990 Ph.D. History, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
May 1984 M.A. History, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
May 1976 B.A. History, Limestone College, Gaffney, South Carolina
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2018 Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of South Carolina
2016-2018 Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina
2005-2015 Associate Professor, Department of History
2001-2005 Associate Professor, Women’s Studies Program and Department of History,
University of South Carolina
1998-2001 Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University
1992-1998 Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State University
1990-1992 Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1989-1990 Instructor, Afro-American History, Purdue University
1987-1988 Instructor, Afro-American History, Purdue University
1989 Summer Graduate Assistant, Humanities, Social Science and Education Library, Purdue
University-Reference
1988 Spring Guest Lecturer, Women in America, Purdue North Central, Westville, Indiana
1987 Fall Graduate Assistant, Humanities, Social Science and Education Library, Purdue
University-Government Documents
1985 Graduate Assistant, Afro-American Studies Center, Purdue University
1984-1987 Graduate Teaching Assistant, American History, Purdue University
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2006-2008 Initiated the creation of and raised $52,000 endowment funds for the Darlene Clark
Hine Award In African American Women’s & Gender History to institutionalize
black women’s history in the Organization of American Historians (OAH); The
annual prize range is $1,000 and $2,000 and the first was awarded in 2010
2001-2005 Graduate Director, Women’s Studies Program, University of South Carolina, 2001-
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2005
CONSULTANT
May-June 2016 Z. Smith Reynolds Library Annual Open Online Course, Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, NC
OTHER EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
1987 Summer Teacher, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System, Charlotte, NC
1988
1985 Summer Library Assistant, Indiana Historical Society Library, Indianapolis, IN
1984 Summer Researcher, Charlotte Historic Properties Commission, Charlotte, NC
1986
1976-1984 Teacher, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System, Charlotte, NC
HONORS and AWARDS
2014 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians
2012 Associate Professor Professional Development Award, College of Arts and Sciences,
University of South Carolina
2007 Outstanding Achievement in Historic Preservation, Lucy Craft Laney Museum of
Black History, Augusta, Georgia
2003-2006 Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished
Lectureship Series
2001 Outstanding Achievement & Contribution Award, Commission On The Status Of
Women, Arizona State University
1999-2000 Excellence in Historical Writing Award for Best Article Published in Journal of
Illinois History
1995-1996 Outstanding Black Faculty, Black & African Coalition, Arizona State University
1995 Zebulon Pearce Dean’s Quality Teaching Award for Faculty, College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences, Arizona State University
1995 Summer Research Award, Women's Studies Program, Arizona State University
1994 Mini Grant, Women's Studies Program, Arizona State University
1994 Mini Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Award, Arizona State
University
1993-1994 Council for Research and Creative Activities Grant, Arizona State University
1992 Faculty Research Grant, UNC-Charlotte (forfeited-moved to Arizona State
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University)
1991 Faculty Research Grant, UNC-Charlotte
1991 Duke Power Company Foundation Grant, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Coalition of
African American Research Associates
1991 Faculty Exchange Program, Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey,
England
1988-1989 American Association of University Women Educational Foundation Fellow
1988-1989 David Ross Doctoral Research Fellow, Purdue University
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
In Progress:
Book Manuscript: “Madie Hall Xuma: A Transnational Biography of Jim Crow and Apartheid”
Essay: “A Geography of Black Women’s History,” submitted spring 2016
Editor:
Series Editor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History Series (formerly Women In American
History Series), University of Illinois Press (2013-present)
Senior Editor, Black Women in America: Second Edition. 3 Vols. New York: Oxford University Press,
2005.
Books Published:
Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing The Borders of Region and Race. Urbana, Illinois: University of
Illinois Press, 2014.
• Letitia Woods Brown Book Award for best book by a senior scholar in African American
Women’s History, Association of Black Women Historians
Gender, Race and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana
University Press, 1998.
Articles and Essays Published:
Digital:
“Fannie Barrier Williams: At The Intersections of Region, Race And Reform,” Women and Social
Movements in the United States 18, no. 2 (September 2014) (Database). Virginia: Alexander Street Press,
2014.
Print:
“On The Margins: Creating Space and Place in The Academy.” In Telling Histories: Black Women In The
Ivory Tower, edited by Deborah Gray White, 146-157. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2008.
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(With Elaine F. S. Qadeem) “Eva C. Monroe: Social Welfare Reformer and Advocate for Children.”
Illinois History Teacher, 10(2003): 13-22.
“Child Welfare and Black Female Agency in Springfield: Eva Monroe and The Lincoln Colored Home.”
Journal of Illinois History, 3(Summer 2000): 86-104.
• Excellence in Historical Writing Award for Best Article Published 1999-2000
“African American Women As Political Constituents In Chicago Illinois, 1913-1915.” In “We Have
Come to Stay”: American Women And Political Parties, 1880-1960, edited by Melanie Gustafson, Kristie
Miller and Elizabeth Israels Perry, 55-64. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
“Fannie Barrier Williams.” In African American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, edited by Richard
W. Leeman, 393-399. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.
(With Paulette Pennington Jones and Careda Taylor) “Ida Wells-Barnett Confronts Race and Gender
Discrimination.” Illinois History Teacher 3(1996): 30-37.
“Ida B. Wells-Barnett and The Alpha Suffrage Club.” In One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering The
Woman Suffrage Movement, edited by Marjorie S. Wheeler, 263-275. Troutdale, Oregon: NewSage Press,
1995.
“‘Vote for the advantage of ourselves and our race’: The Election Of The First Black Alderman In
Chicago.” Illinois Historical Journal, 87(Autumn 1994): 171-184
Encyclopedia Entries Published:
“Political Parties,” Black Women in America: Second Edition, (New York: Oxford University Press,
2005), 521-526; Reprint in Oxford African American Studies Center Online Database.
“Alpha Suffrage Club,” The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 17.
“Alpha Suffrage Club,” Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (New York: Carlson
Publishing, Inc., 1993), 25-26. Reprinted in Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America:
Social Activism vol. 10 (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1997), 29-31.
“Elizabeth Lindsay Davis,” Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, pp. 306-307.
Reprinted in Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Religion and Community vol. 7
(New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1997), 75-76; Modified and Reprinted as “Scribe of The Club Movement”
in Black Women In America: Second Edition vol. 2 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 431.
“Ida B. Wells-Barnett,” Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, pp. 1242-1246. Reprinted
in Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Social Activism vol. 10 (New York: Facts on
File, Inc.), 1997, 183-188; Modified and Reprinted in Black Women In America: Second Edition vol. 3
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 337-340; Reprint in Oxford African American Studies
Center Online Database.
“Fannie Barrier Williams,” Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, pp. 1259-1261.
Reprinted in Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Religion and Community vol. 7
(New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1997), 214-216; Modified and Reprinted in Black Women In America:
Second Edition vol. 3 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 352-354; Reprint in Oxford African
American Studies Center Online Database.
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“World's Columbian Exposition of 1893,” Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 1293-
1294. Reprinted in Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: The Early Years 1617-1899
vol. 1 (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1997), 194-195.
“Hallie Quinn Brown,” African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary edited by Dorothy C.
Salem (New York: Garland Publishing, 1993), 69.
“Nancy Prosser,” African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 410-411.
“Ida B. Wells-Barnett,” African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 552-553.
“Charlotte, North Carolina, Sit-in,” Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights from Emancipation to
the Present edited by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Manszalek (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1992),
95. Reprinted in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights From Emancipation to
the Twenty-First Century vol. 1, 2003, 95.
“High Point, North Carolina, Sit-in,” Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights from Emancipation
to the Present, 256-257. Reprinted in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century vol. 1, 2003, 246-247.
Contributor:
Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, and Stanley Harrold, The African-American Odyssey vol. 2 (New
Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000)
Introduction:
An African American Album: The Black Experience in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, edited by
Elizabeth Randolph. Charlotte, N. C.: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library, 1992.
• Winner of The Publication Award by the White House Conference on Library and
Information Services Task Force, 30 July 1993
Book Reviews Published:
American Historical Review, (June 2007): 875-876
Journal of Southern History, 71 (2005): 152-153
H-SHGAPE, www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews (March 2002); Reprint Black History Bulletin 66 (2003): 56-57
Journal of American History, 82 (1995): 314
Gender And History, 6 (1994): 150-151
Civil War History, 39 (1993): 90-92
The Maryland Historian, 21 (1990): 45-47
Southern Historian, 11 (1990): 84
Southern Historian, 10 (1989): 89-90, 123-124
Keynote Speaker Presentations:
“Love, Labor and Brockport: Incorporating Fannie Barrier Williams in American History,” Fannie Barrier
Williams Women of Courage Biennial Celebration and Awards Ceremony, College at Brockport, State
University of NY, 1 April 2016
“Gender, Race & Politics: Club Women in Illinois,” Timuel D. Black Research Fellowship Lecture and
Reception, Vivian G. Harsh Society, Inc., Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago, IL, 21
September 2014
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“Political Equals and Contested Spaces: Race and the Suffrage Movement,” Women’s Center, University
of Louisville, 9 November 2006
“Context and History: Reflections On The African American Struggle For Equality,” 2003 Southern
Association for Women Historians Visiting Lecturer, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, 20 January
2003
“Black Womanhood, Fannie Barrier Williams, and the Woman’s Age,” Conference On Illinois History,
Springfield, IL, 4 October 2001
National Endowment For The Humanities Institute Presentations:
Presenting Scholar, NEH-funded Summer Institute, Freedom for One, Freedom for All?: Abolition and
Woman Suffrage, 1830s-1920s, Brooklyn Historical Society and Museum of the City of New York, New
York, NY 24-25, 27 July 2018
Presenting Scholar, NEH-funded Summer Institute, Freedom for One, Freedom for All?: Abolition and
Woman Suffrage, 1830s-1920s, Brooklyn Historical Society and Museum of the City of New York, New
York, NY 26-27 July 2016
Invited Presentations:
“Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma, The YWCA USA and the World YWCA,” YWCA World Service Council
98th Annual Meeting, Colony Club, New York City, NY, 25 October 2018
Plenary Panelist, Hinesight: A Symposium On The Work Of Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL, 12-13 May 2017
“Mapping Education, Labor and Social Policy: Black Women, Reform and Jim Crow,” League of
Women Voters of the Columbia Area, Lourie Center, Columbia, SC, 19 February 2015
“In Search Of One Of ‘The Greatest Thinkers Of The Black Race’: Writing The Biography of Fannie
Barrier Williams,” Black Atlantic Seminar Speakers Series, Black Women’s Lives, Rutgers Center for
Historical Analysis & Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 3 April
2014
“Madie Hall Xuma: The Globalization of Black Women’s Activism,” History Center, Department of
History, University of South Carolina, 27 February 2014
“Black Women and The Politics of Suffrage,” Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished
Lecture, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, 23 February 2006
“African American Clubwomen In The Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries,” OAH Distinguished Lecture,
Richmond County Board of Education, Augusta, GA, 13 February 2006
“African American Women, Race Consciousness, and Political Activism,” OAH Distinguished Lecture,
Park University, Parkville, MI, 7 February 2005
“The Woman’s Age: African American Clubwomen in the Late 19th and early 20th Centuries,” OAH
Distinguished Lecture, Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA, 5 February 2004
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“Race, Gender, and Identity: Black Women’s Auto/Biography,” African and African-American Studies
Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 4 April 2002
“Race, Rights & the Woman’s Age: Black Women During the Progressive Era,” Women’s Studies
Research Series, Women’s Studies Program, University of South Carolina, 19 September 2001
“The Complexities of Race, Class and Gender,” Faculty Women’s Association Women’s History Month
Luncheon, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 21 March 2001
“Privilege and Race: Fannie Barrier Williams and The Construction of Black Female Political Identity,”
African American Studies Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, 5 December 2000
“The Intersection of Race, Gender and Politics,” African Americans In The Land of Lincoln: Community
Building and Resistance Conference, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, 16-
17 April 1997
“African American Women As Political Beings: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Suffrage,” Brown Bag Lecture,
Women's Studies Program, Arizona State University, 15 February 1996
“Perspectives on Applying for Faculty Positions in Academia,” The Association For The Study of Afro-
American Life And History Conference, Philadelphia, PA 6 October 1995(An Association of Black
Women Historians session)
“Race, Gender and Suffrage,” Women's Suffrage and Equality Week, University of Missouri-Kansas
City, Kansas City, MI, 21 September 1995
“The Politicization of Black Women, 1890-1920,” Brown Bag Lecture Series, University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 12 February 1991
Conference Presentations:
“A Geography of Black Women’s History,” Cross-Generational Dialogues in Black Women’s History: A
Comparative Black History Symposium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 19-21 March 2015
“Elements of Continuity: Reflections on Fannie Barrier Williams and Being a Black Woman in The
Academy,” Black Women Academics in the Ivory Tower Research and Praxis, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ, 5-6 March, 2009
“Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower,” Organization of American Historians
Conference, Seattle, WA, 27 March 2009
“Graduate Student Brownbag” The Association For The Study of African-American Life And History
(ASALH) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2 October 2004
“Permanently Replaced: The Black Female Social Reformer vs. The Trained Social Worker,” ASALH
Conference, Washington, DC, 30 September 2000
“African American Women As Electorates In Local Politics,” Organization of American Historians,
Indianapolis, IN, 3 April 1998
“African American Female Political Action Prior To The Great Migration To Chicago, 1913-1915,” The
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Berkshire Conference On The History Of Women, Chapel Hill, NC, 8 June 1996
“Voting for the Advantage of Ourselves and Our Race,” ASALH Conference, Atlanta, GA, 13 October
1994
“Race, Class and Gender in the Age of Accommodation,” ASALH Conference, Kansas City, MI, 9
October 1992
“Politicization and Mobilization: African Americans and The Civil Rights Movement in Charlotte, North
Carolina, 1960-1964,” The Southern Historical Association Conference, Fort Worth, TX, 16 November
1991
“Reform, Social Equality and An African American Woman,” Joint Conference of The Southeastern
Women's Studies Association and UNCC Annual Conference On Women In The Arts And Sciences, 13
April 1991
“‘To Be A Colored Woman’: Fannie Barrier Williams In The Age Of Accommodation,” The Association
of Social and Behavioral Scientists, Inc. Conference, Nashville, TN, 22 March 1991
“‘For The Future Benefit of My Whole Race’: Politics and the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's
Clubs, 1900-1915,” Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE, 8 March 1990
“The Politics of Black Women: Electing the First Black Alderman of Chicago, 1915,” Southern
Association for Women Historians, Spartanburg, SC, 11 June 1988
Conference Moderator/Chair/Comments:
“Race, Place, Space, And The Construction Of Black Womanhood,” Association For The Study of
African American History And Life Conference, Richmond, VA, 8 October 2016 (chair)
“Opening Plenary: Digital Blackness Studies,” Digital Blackness Conference, Zimmerli Art Museum,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 22 April 2016 (moderator)
“Session: Digital Blackness and Identity,” Digital Blackness Conference, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ, 23 April 2016 (moderator)
“African Americans and Their Contributions in the 20th Century: At Home and Abroad,” South Carolina
Historical Association Conference, Columbia, SC, 3 March 2012 (chair)
“Edgefield District and Reconstruction,” British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH),
Edgefield, SC, 19 March 2005 (chair)
“Emerging Scholars: A Brown Bag Lunch for Graduate Students and Junior Faculty,” The Association
For the Study of African American Life and History Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2004
(comments)
“Future Directions in African American Women’s History: A Roundtable,” Southern Historical
Association Conference (SHA), Houston, TX, 7 November 2003 (chair)
“Region and Race Work: Black Leaders and the Fight for Freedom in Twentieth-Century America,”
Organization of American Historians Conference, Memphis, TN, 3 April 2003 (chair)
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“The Urban Civil Rights Experience”, SHA Conference, Baltimore, MD, 8 November 2002 (comments)
“Remembering: Deafening Silences...Empowering Voices”, A Symposium to Commemorate The 1997
Million Woman March, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 23 October 1998 (chair)
Association For The Study Of Afro-American Life And History (ASALH) Conference, Los Angeles, CA,
3 October 1997 (chair and comments)
ASALH Conference, Charleston, SC, 2-6 October 1996 (comments)
American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Conference, San Francisco State University, San
Francisco, CA, 8-11 August 1996 (chair)
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 11-13 June 1993
(chair)
Southern Association for Women Historians Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, 8 June 1991 (comments)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
National:
2015 Member, 2015 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize Committee, Association of Black
Women Historians (ABWH)
2009-2010 Chair, Darlene Clark Hine Award Committee, Organization of American Historians
(OAH)
2006-2008 Member, 2008 Program Committee, OAH
2005-2007 Member, 2007 Program Committee, Southern Historical Association (SHA)
2006 Member, Julia Cherry Spruill Book Prize, Southern Association for Women
Historians (SAWH)
2003-2005 National Director (President), ABWH
2003-2006 Member, Executive Council, SAWH
2003-present Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality
in the Twentieth Century edited by Steven F. Lawson and Cynthia Griggs Fleming.
University Press of Kentucky
2002-2014 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Illinois History
2003-2004 Chair, OAH Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian
American and Native American Historians (ALANA) and ALANA History
(Formerly Committee on the Status of Minority Historians and Minority History)
2001-2004 Member, OAH Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian
American and Native American (ALANA)
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2001-2003 Treasurer, ABWH
2001-2002 Member, Ad Hoc Committee On The Status Of Women In The Profession, SAWH
2000-2002 Member, H. L. Mitchell Award Committee, SHA
1999-2001 Western Regional Director, ABWH
1996-1999 Council Member, The Society For Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
(SHGAPE)
1993-1994 Member, Committee on Women, SHA
1992 and 2000 Panelist, National Endowment For The Humanities
1991 and 2000 Member, Program Committee, SAWH
Manuscript Reviewer: Princeton University Press, Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Pearson Education,
Inc. (Pearson Prentice Hall); Harcourt School Publishers; University of Illinois Press; Journal of The
Illinois State Historical Society; University Press of Colorado; The Historian; The Oryx Press
University:
2008-2014 Member, University of South Carolina Press Committee
2008-2010 Member, Faculty Senate, University of South Carolina
2006 Member, Graduate School Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Committee
2004-2006 Member, Graduate School Faculty Fellowship Committee
2001 Member, Committee on Law and the Social Sciences (COLASS), Arizona State
University
1999-2001 Chair, Committee on African and African American Research (CAAAR) Lecture
Series, Arizona State University
1999-2001 Member, CAAAR
1995-1997 Faculty Advisor, Graduate College Academic Support Program (GCASP), Arizona
State University
1993-1998 Member, University Committee on African and African American Studies
(UCAAAS), Arizona State University
1995 Chair, Review Committee, Mini Grants, UCAAAS, Arizona State University
1992-1993 Member, Curriculum Sub-Committee, UCAAAS, Arizona State University
1991-1992 Member, Affirmative Action Committee, UNC-Charlotte
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1989 Member, Screening and Review Committee, Assistant Director of Black Cultural
Center, Purdue University
1988 Member, Selection Advisory Committee, Dean of Libraries, Purdue University
1986-1987 Member, Humanities, Social Science and Education Dean Search Committee, Purdue
University
College:
2002-2018 Faculty Affiliate, African-American Studies Program, University of South Carolina
1996-2001 Faculty Affiliate, African American Studies Department, Arizona State University
1994-2001 Faculty Affiliate, Women's Studies Program, Arizona State University
Department/Programs:
2016-2018 Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of History, University of
South Carolina
2017-2018 Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History, University of South
Carolina
2015-2017 Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of History, University of South
Carolina
2008-2013 Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of History, University of South
Carolina
2005-2007 Member, Executive Committee, Department of History, University of South Carolina
2004-2005 Chair, Search Committee, Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality, Women’s Studies
Program and Open Department
2003-2005 Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of History, University of
South Carolina
2002-2005 Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on M. A. in Women’s Studies, Women’s Studies Program,
University of South Carolina
2002-2005 Member, Teaching Awards Committee, Women’s Studies Program, University of
South Carolina
2001-2005 Chair, Graduate Committee, Women’s Studies Program, University of South
Carolina
2001-2003 Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History, University of South
Carolina
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2001 Co-Chair, Search Committee, African American or Latina Women’s History,
Women’s Studies Program and Department of History
2001-2004 Member, Women’s Studies Advisory Committee, University of South Carolina
2000-2001 Member, 2010 Committee, Department of History, Arizona State University
1995-1996 Member, Cultural Diversity Committee, Department of History, Arizona State
University
1995-1996 Member, Ad Hoc Committee on B. A. and M. A. in Education for History Degree,
Arizona State University
1995 Member, Appeals Committee, Department of History, Arizona State University
1993-1994 Member, Personnel and Advisory Committee (PAC), Department of History,
1995-1997 Arizona State University
1992-1993 Member, Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate Promotion and Tenure Decisions and
Probationary Reviews, Department of History, Arizona State University
1990 Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of History, UNCC
1989-1990 Member, Library Committee, Department of History, Purdue University
1988-1989 Member, Search Committee Afro-American Historian, Department of History,
Purdue University
1987-1988 Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of History, Purdue University
1985-1987 Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History, Purdue University
Community:
2010 Moderator, South Carolina Women’s History Session, South Carolina Book Festival
2005-present Collections and Interpretation Committee, Historic Columbia Foundation, Columbia,
South Carolina
2007 Consultant, Charlotte Museum of History, Charlotte, North Carolina
1999 United States Postal Service 2000 Diversity Education Kit, Partners In Brainstorms
Incorporated, Phoenix, Arizona
1991-1992 Board of Directors, Museum of the New South, Charlotte, North Carolina
1991-1992 Project Coordinator, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Coalition of African American Research
Associates, Charlotte, North Carolina
1990 Charlotte-Mecklenburg History Museum Planning Committee
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TEACHING
Courses Taught:
Graduate:
African American Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
American Women’s History
Directed Reading & Research
Issues & Methods in Women’s Studies Research
Late Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century African American History
Race, Gender & Identity: Black Women’s Auto/Biography
Raced Women: Black Women In American History Reading Seminar
Reading Seminar in American History Since 1876
Undergraduate:
Historians Craft
African American History Before 1865
African American History After 1865
American Women’s History Seminar
Constructing Identity: African American Women in United States History Seminar
History of the Civil Rights Movement
History of African American Women
Rise of Industrial America: Gilded Age and Progressive Era
United States History Since 1865 (also taught as a separate Honors College course 501)
United States Since 1945
Women in United States History, 1880-1980
Graduate Students at University of South Carolina:
Alexandria Russell, Ph.D., December 2018
Sarah Conlon, M.A., August 2012
Mary Mac Ogden, Ph.D., May 2011
Michele Coffey, Ph.D., August 2010
Undergraduate Honors College Students at University of South Carolina
Courtney Todd, SCHC 390Z, Fall 2013 and SCHC 499 Spring 2014
Madeline C. Wood, SCHC 390Z, Fall 2011
Graduate Students at Arizona State University:
Karen Vanae Carson, M.A., Spring 2000
Matthew C. Whitaker, M.A., Spring 1997(Co-Chair)
Graduate Advisor at Arizona State University
Laura Munoz, HIS 700 Introduction To College Teaching, Faculty Mentor and Advisor, Fall 1999
Undergraduate Honors College Student at Arizona State University:
Jacqueline Lanni, Honors Thesis, Spring 2001
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association of Black Women Historians
Association for the Study of African-American Life and History
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Organization of American Historians