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Peniel E. Joseph
Peniel.Joseph@tufts.edu
Tufts University
Dept. of History
East Hall, Room 108
Medford, MA 02155
617-627-5583 (office)
617-627-3479 (fax)
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Temple University (American History)
B.A. Stony Brook University (Double Major in Africana Studies and European History)
Research Fields: Civil Rights/Black Power Movements; African American History; African American Intellectual History; Black Feminism; Comparative Black Nationalism; Twentieth Century American Political and Social History; Urban History; African Diaspora; Pan-Africanism
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Fluent in Haitian Creole
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
Tenured Professor of History, Tufts University (Fall 2009-present)
Tenured Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, Core Faculty in History,
Brandeis University (Fall 2007-Spring 2009)
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, SUNY-Stony Brook (Fall 2005- Spring 2007)
Assistant Professor of History and African/African-American Studies, University of Rhode Island (2000-2005)
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FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Fellowship, Harvard University, 2008-2009.
Norman Award for Faculty Research and Creative Projects, Brandeis University, 2008.
Historical Analyst, PBS NewsHour, 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions
The Littlefield Lectures, University of Texas-Austin, Biennial Endowed Lectures Featuring Distinguished Scholars of the South. April 22 and 24, 2008. Lectures: “Fertile Soil and Barren Fields: Black Power, Community Organizing, and the South” and “Stokely Carmichael and American Democracy in the 1960s”
W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize, Northeast Black Studies Alliance, Fairfield University, December 6, 2007.
Lecture based on Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America Featured on C-SPAN Booknotes, October, 2007.
Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award, Gustavas Myers Center.
Finalist, Mark Lynton History Prize, Lukas Prize Project (Co-sponsored by Columbia and Harvard Universities)
“Distinguished Lecturer,” Organization of American Historians, Fall 2007-Spring 2010.
“Tubman-Wells-Hamer Social Justice Award,” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, March 23, 2007.
Provost’s Lecture, Stony Brook University, “Dark Days, Bright Nights: Black Power and American Democracy,” February 20, 2007.
“2007 Emerging Scholar” by DIVERSE: Issues in Higher Education, January 11, 2007.
Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America named A Washington Post Book World Best Nonfiction 2006 Pick.
Named a “Top Young Historian” by George Mason University’s the History News Network, November 19, 2006. http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/32037.html06.
Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Residential Fellowship,
Washington, D.C., September 2002-May 2003.
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institutional Affiliation: Dept. of Africana Studies, Brown University, May 2002-August 2002, June-August 2003.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002-2003 (declined).
Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002-2003 (declined).
Robert Woodruff Special Collections Library Grant, Emory University, Summer 2002.
URI Council of Research Grant, Summers 2001 and 2004.
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama (New York: Basic Books, 2010)
Editor, Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America* (New York: Henry Holt, August 2006), 416 pp. Paperback published July, 2007. Audio Book, 2007. Boston Globe Paperback Nonfiction Bestseller List, Feb. 17, 2008. Paperback in 3rd Printing. Recommended, Macmillan Books for the First Year Experience.
*Pre-publication reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal (starred review). Reviewed in The Washington Post Book World, Philadelphia Weekly, New York Newsday, Rocky Mountain News, New York Amsterdam News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Black Issues Book Review, New York Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, Harper’s, Reviews in American History, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Reference and Research Book News, Left Turn, The Journal of African American History, American Historical Review, The Journal of Southern History, Rethinking Schools, Mosaic Magazine, Contemporary Sociology. A Washington Post Book World Best Nonfiction 2006 Pick. W.E.B. Du Bois Book Award, Finalist, Mark Lynton History Prize, Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award, Gustavas Myers Center. TransAfrica Forum's Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library Readers' Corner book club, February 9, 2009. Kansas City, MO Library Black History Month Book Selection, 2008. BlackAmericaweb.com Holiday Reading Pick, December 2006. Featured Arrival, Sonja Hayes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Library, UNC Libraries, December 2006. Named an October, 2006 Bestseller for Hardcover Non-Fiction by Kramerbooks in Washington, DC. Top Twenty book list for November, 2006 by Bus Boys and Poets Bookstore, Washington, D.C. Recommended Reading Lists: 2008 Wisconsin Book Festival (David Zirin); Santa Ana California Historical Society, 2008, Boston Public library, 2007, City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, 2006 and Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, Mass. Recommended Reading Lists, Madison Public Library, Madison, WI; Saginaw Library, Saginaw, MI; Forest Park Library, IL. Black History Month Feature, Cypress College, Cypress, CA. Chosen by YBP Library Services as part of the “YBP CORE 1000” books, out of over 50,000 published, essential to academic library collections, November 2006. Popular Non-Fiction Pick, Wellington Library (New Zealand), January 2007. Top Ten Pick, Karibu Books, August 2007. Featured book, BlackElectorate.com and BlackCoffeeChannel.com, August 2007. African American Literature Book Club Recommended Book, September 2007. Internet Reviews: H-60s, Socialist Worker, Columbia Flier, the48er.com, ChickenBones: A Journal, AfricanAmerica.org.
Editor and Introduction, The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights and Black Power Era (New York: Routledge, 2006), 385 pp. In 3rd Printing. Review in The Journal of American History.
BOOKS IN PROGRESS
Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s (under contract with Basic Books).
EDITED BOOK SERIES
Co-Editor (with Manning Marable) Contemporary Black History (Palgrave Macmillan)
Books published in this series include Andile Mngxitama, Amanda Alexander, and Nigel C. Gibson, eds., Biko Lives!: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Gerald Horne, Mau Mau in Harlem?: The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
EDITED ISSUES OF JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
Guest Editor and foreword, “Black Power,” Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, Volume 22, number 3 (July 2008)
Guest Editor and introduction “The New Black Power History,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 9, number 4 (October-December 2007): 98 pp.
Guest Editor and introduction, “Black Power Studies II,” The Black Scholar, Volume 32, number 1, (Spring 2002): 66pp.
Guest Editor, “Black Power Studies I,” The Black Scholar, Volume 31, number 3-4, (Fall/Winter 2001): 66pp.
JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, MAGAZINE ARTICLES
“The Black Power Movement: A State of the Field,” The Journal of American History (December 2009): 1-26.
“The Black Power Movement, Democracy, and America in the King Years,” The American Historical Review (October 2009): 1001-1016.
“Our National Postracial Hangover,” The Chronicle Review, July 27, 2009.
“Rethinking the Black Power Era,” The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 75, number 3 (August 2009): 707-716.
“Malcolm X’s Harlem and Early Black Power Activism,” Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
“Introduction: Community Organizing, Grassroots Politics, and Neighborhood Rebels: Local Struggles for Black Power in America” in Peniel E. Joseph, ed., Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
“Civil Rights, Black Power, and American Democracy,” Magazine of History, Volume 22, number 3 (July 2008): 30-33
“Historians and the Black Power Movement,” Magazine of History, Volume 22, number 3 (July 2008): 8-15
“Reinterpreting the Black Power Movement,” Magazine of History, Volume 22, number 3 (July 2008): 4-6.
“Revolution in Babylon: Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s,” Souls: A Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 9, No. 4 (October-December 2007): 281-301.
“Black Power’s Powerful Legacy,” The Chronicle Review (The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section B), July 21, 2006, pp. B6-B8. Cover Essay.
“Dashikis and Democracy: Black Studies, Student Activism, and the Black Power Movement,” Journal of African American History, Volume 88, number 2 (Spring 2003): 182-203. Reprinted as “Black Studies, Student Activism, and the Black Power Movement,” in Peniel E. Joseph, ed., The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era.
“Where Blackness is Bright? Cuba, Africa, and Black Liberation During the Age of Civil Rights,” New Formations, 45 (Winter 2001-2002): 111-124.
“Black Liberation Without Apology: Rethinking the Black Power Movement,” The Black Scholar, Volume 31, number 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2001): 2-17.
“Waiting Till the Midnight Hour: Reconceptualizing the Heroic Period of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965,” Souls, Volume 2, number 2 (Spring 2000): 6-17.
“Preface” and “Introduction: Toward a Historiography of the Black Power Movement,” Peniel E. Joseph, ed., The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. xi-xii and 1-25.
“An Emerging Mosaic: Rewriting Postwar African American History,” Lewis R. Gordon and
Jane Anna Gordon, eds., A Companion to African-American Studies (Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell, 2006), pp. 400-416.
“Rethinking Harold Cruse and the Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,” Jerry G. Watts, ed., Harold Cruse and the Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 241-260.
“At the Crossroads: Black Radicalism’s Global Vision During the Age of Civil Rights,” Niyi Afolabi, ed., Marvels of the African World: Africa, New World Connections, and Identities (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003), pp. 425-450.
“All Power to the People! Teaching Black Nationalism in the Post-Civil Rights Era,” Julie Buckner Armstrong, et al, eds., Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom’s Bittersweet Song (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 147-158.
“`It’s Dark and Hell is Hot’: Cornel West, the Crisis of African-American Intellectuals, and the Cultural Politics of Race,” George Yancy, ed., Cornel West: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2001), pp. 295-311.
REVIEWS AND EDITORIALS
“Back in Black: The case for Du Bois after the century of the color line,” Bookforum (Dec/Jan 2010), p. 18.
“This Could let New Black Generation Reach for Top,” London Evening Standard, Nov. 5, 2008.
“From Black Power to Barack Obama,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2008, pp. 10-11.
“Lift Every Voice,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, No. 7 (Winter 2008), pp. 81-89
“Choosing Sides,” The Washington Post Book World, Janaury 13, 2008, p. 4. Review of Randall Kennedy’s Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (New York: Pantheon, 2007) and Bruce Bartlett, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past (New York: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2007).
“Forward,” Herb Boyd, Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin (New York: Atria Books, 2008), pp. ix-xiii.
“Acts of Righteous Disobedience,” The Washington Post, May 31, 2007, p C5. Review of Wesley C. Hogan’s Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2007).
“Unspeakable History,” The Washington Post, March 27, 2007, p. C02. Review of Jabari Asim’s The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
“Is Bill Cosby Right?” The Washington Post Book World, August 20, 2006, p. 10. Review of Juan Williams’ Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America -- and What We Can Do About It (New York: Crown, 2006).
“Black Power’s Quiet Side,” The New York Times, June 19, 2006, p. A19.
“Review of Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2004). Journal of African American History Volume 91, number 1 (Winter 2006): 104-106.
“Left Behind: Backdrop to a National Conference,” AfricanaNews.com (September 2005)
“Review of Bettye Collier Thomas and V.P. Franklin, eds., Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movements (New York: New York University Press, 2001). Journal of American History, Volume 92, number 1 (June 2005), pp. 304-305.
“Dark Days and Bright Nights: The NGO Forum and the World Conference Against Racism,” Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir,Volume 4, number 1 (Spring 2002): 64-68. Reprinted in Synthesis/Regeneration, 27 (Winter 2002): 42-44.
Review of Mike Marqusee’s Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (London: Verso, 1999). “More than Just a Champion,” The Gaither Reporter, Volume 4, number 9 (July-August 2001): 5-6.
Review of Michael Eric Dyson’s I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: The Free Press, 2000). “Reconstructing the Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Radicalism, and African-American Political Thought,” The C.L.R. James Journal, Volume 8, number 2 (Winter 2001): 178-186.
“Winter in America: Color, Democracy, and the Presidential Election,” The Black Scholar, Volume 31, number 2 (Summer 2001): 25-29.
Review essay of Timothy Tyson’s Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (University of North Carolina Press, 1999). Beyond the Color Curtain,” The Black Scholar, Volume 31, number 1 (Spring 2001): 43-49.
Review of Joy James’ Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). “Dissidents in the Dark,” Social Identities, Volume 6, number 2, (2000): 223-226.
Review of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation With a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) & Black Power Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 1999). “Black Power Revisited,” The Gaither Reporter, Volume 4, number 4 (March-April 1999): 3, 10, 12.
“The Post Civil Rights Era,” New Politics (1996): 52-54.
“‘Black Reconstructed’: White Supremacy in the Post Civil Rights Era,” The Black Scholar, Volume 25 (1995): 52-55.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Book Manuscript, Stokely Carmichael: Race, Democracy, and the Quest for a New America, 1941-1969
Book Manuscript, A World of Our Own: Black Intellectuals and the Pan-African Dream
Book Manuscript, Any Day Now: African American Historical Criticism
CONFERENCES
Invited Speaker, Expanding the Civil Rights Movement in Time and Space Conference, University of New Hampshire, Nov. 12-14, 2009.
Invited Speaker, The Long Civil Rights Movement Conference, UNC-Chapel Hill, April 2-4, 2009
Lead Historical Consultant and Keynote Speaker, “1968 and Beyond: A Symposium on the Impact of the Black Power Movement on America,” Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Washington, D.C., March 30-31, 2009
Plenary Organizer and Presenter, “The New Black Power History,” Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Birmingham, Alabama, October 3, 2008.
Plenary Organizer and Moderator, “Storm Warnings: Rethinking 1968: The Year that Shook the World,” Organization of American Historians Conference, March 28, 2008, New York City.
Invited Panelist, “Dialogue on the Future of Black Liberation,” American Sociological Association Meeting, August 13, 2007.
Invited Panelist, Roundtable on 40th anniversary of Black Power by Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles Hamilton, American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA. January 4, 2007.
Ford Foundation Diversity Conference, October 21, 2006
Organizer and Presenter of Junior Faculty Workshop
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Atlanta, GA. Sept. 27-30
Organizer and Presenter: “The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights Black Power Era”
4th Annual How Class Works Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, June 10, 2006
Paper: “The Black Power Movement and Class Struggle”
Race, Roots, and Resistance: Revisiting the Legacies of Black Power Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, April 1, 2006.
Panel Organizer and Presenter, Paper: “Toward a Historiography of the Black Power Movement”
International Humanities Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 11, 2006
Paper: “New Perspectives on the Black Power Movement”
American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., November 5, 2005
Paper: “Re-imaging the Black Power Era”
The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Conference, National Academy of Sciences, October 1, 2005. Invited Discussant, Humanities Workshop Panelist.
The Black Power Movement in Historical Perspective, University of Connecticut, November 13-14, 2003. Paper: “Redefining the Black Power Movement”
The Black Panther Party in Historical Perspective, Wheelock College, June 12, 2003.
Comment: “The Black Panther Party in Historical Time”
Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Memphis, TN, April 5, 2003.
Panel Organizer and Presenter, Paper: “Rethinking the Black Liberation Movement”
How Class Works Conference Annual Conference SUNY Stony Brook, June 6, 2002.
Paper: “African-American Class Struggles during the Civil Rights/Black Power Era”
Philosophy Born of Struggle VIII Annual Conference, Brown University, October 19, 2001.
Paper: “Reparations and the Black Power Movement”
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., September 28, 2001. Panel Organizer and Presenter, Paper: “Black Liberation Without Apology: Rethinking the Black Power Movement”
World Conference Against Racism NGO Forum, Durban, South Africa, August 28-September 1, 2001. Official NGO Delegate
Crossroutes: New Meaning of “Race” in the 21st Century, Annual Conference, Sardenia, Italy, March 2001. Paper: “A Hopeless History? Constructing an Alternative Civil Rights Narrative”
C.L.R. James Scholarship: Old and New. Brown University, Providence, RI, April 2000.
Comment: “Rethinking Black Liberation Struggles”
Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2000. Chair and Presenter Paper: “Black Power and Popular Culture”
Rethinking Slave Narratives: Between History and Literature Brown University, Providence, RI, March, 2000. Comment: “Antebellum and Neo-Slave Narratives”
National Council for Black Studies Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2000.
Paper: “Black Liberation in the Age of Civil Rights”
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Valley Forge, PA, November 1999. Paper: “`I Am We’: Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party, and Critical Race History”
Association for the Study of Afro-American History and Life Annual Conference, Detroit Michigan, October 1999. Paper: “Redefining Black Political Thought in the Age of Civil Rights”
Rethinking Marxism Annual Conference, Amherst, MA. December 1996.
Paper: "African-American Intellectuals in the Post Civil Rights Era"
INVITED LECTURES
Keynote Lecture, University of Georgia
November 9, 2009
Keynote Speaker, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
March 30 and 31, 2009
Keynote Speaker, University of Rhode Island
February 23, 2009
Keynote Speaker, Central Connecticut State University
February 3, 2009
Martin Luther King Lecture, Case Western Reserve University
January 21, 2009
Martin Luther King Lecture, Berea College
January 19, 2009
Invited Panelist, MLK Roundtable, D.C. Humanities Council
Nov. 16, 2008
Letitia Woods Brown Keynote Lecture, DC Historical Society
Nov. 13, 2008
Fellows Lecture, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University
November 3, 2008
Invited Speaker, The Windsor School
October 15, 2008
University of Western Ontario
September 18, 2008
NEH “The Long Civil Rights Movement” Seminar
Harvard University, July 24, 2008
Littlefield Lectures
University of Texas-Austin, April 22 and 24, 2008
Keynote Lecture
Norfolk State University, April 10, 2008
Keynote Lecture
Anne Braden Institute, University of Louisville, April 4, 2008
Invited Panelist and Moderator
The Black Power Movement
Barnes and Noble, New York City (82nd and B’Way), March 27
Panelists: Tommie Smith, Herb Boyd, and Michael Honey
Keynote Lecture
Lesley University, March 20, 2008
Keynote Lecture
Central Connecticut State University, March 13, 2008
Keynote Lecture
Earlham College, February 14, 2008
Keynote Lecture
University of North Texas, February 13, 2008
Keynote Lecture
Morgan State University, February 7, 2008
Keynote Lecture
Simmons College, February 4, 2008
Keynote Panel Presentation “Black Power, American Democracy, and the Hip Hop Generation”
Rutgers-Newark, December 8, 2007
Lecture “Teaching the Black Power Movement”
Lesley College, November 20, 2007
Lecture “Black Power Studies”
Kings College, London, October 31, 2007
Lecture “The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement”
Cambridge University, October 30, 2007
Invited Participant, Internationalising Black Power Conference, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, October 25-26 2007
Keynote Lecture: “Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America”
Clark University, September 27, 2007 (Featured Broadcast on C-SPAN’s Booknotes, October 21 and 22, 2007).
Lecture: “Rethinking the Black Power Movement”
The Brecht Forum, August 13, 2007
Lecture: “Race and Social Justice in the 20th century”
Institute of the Black World Forum, July 7, 2007
Lecture: “Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement”
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, June 6, 2007
Lecture: “Revisiting An Epoch: Black Power in American and World History”
St. John’s University, April 26, 2007
Lecture: “Waging War Amid Shadows: Black Power’s Hidden History”
Arizona State University, April 4, 2007
Lecture: “Rethinking the 1960s: Black Power, Race, and Democracy”
City University of New York, Graduate Center, March 29, 2007
Invited Panelist, Shabazz Conversations
Lecture: “Fannie Lou Hamer, Black Radicalism, and the Search for American Democracy,” Schomburg Research Center, March 23, 2007
Lecture: “The Black Power Movement: A Reassessment”
Fordham University, March 22, 2007
Lecture: “Rethinking Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Bus Boys and Poets Bookstore, February 24, 2007
Lecture: “Black Power and Civil Rights: A Reassessment”
Martin Luther King Public Library, Black Studies Division, Washington, D.C., February 23, 2007
Lecture: “Storm Warnings: Black Power, Race, and the 1960s”
University of Maryland College Park, February 22, 2007
Lecture: “Black Power and American Democracy”
University of the District of Columbia, February 22, 2007
Lecture: “Rethinking the Black Power Era”
University of Pennsylvania Bookstore, February 8, 2007
Lecture: “Black Power Studies”
Temple University, Dept. of History, February 8, 2007
Lecture: “Revolution in Babylon: Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s”
Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, February 7, 2007
Invited Panelist, “Black Power Today!”
Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, February 1, 2007
Lecture: “Black Power in American Society”
Calhoun School, New York City, January 17, 2007
Lecture: “Storm Warnings: Black Power and the 1960s”
UCLA, Ralph Bunche Center, November 17, 2006
Lecture: “An Unchronicled Epic: Black Power in American History”
Johns Hopkins University, October 20, 2006
Invited Participant, Book Panel on Waiting Til the Midnight Hour featuring Dr. Ron Walters and Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, October 19, 2006
Lecture: “The Black Power Movement and American History”
Boston University, October 3, 2006
Lecture: “Waiting Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America”
Columbia University, Center for Contemporary Black History, September 19, 2006
Lecture: “Exploring the Nexus: Civil Rights, Black Power, and Hip-Hop Culture”
Goucher College Martin Luther King Lecture, February 22, 2006
Lecture: “Rethinking the Black Power Movement”
Fairfield University, Black Studies Lecture Series, February 16, 2006
Presenter, “The Black Power Movement in Historical Perspective,” Latino Student Sorority,
University of Rhode Island, Spring 2002.
Presenter, “Report on U.N. World Conference Against Racism,” Diversity Week Workshop, University of Rhode Island, October 3, 2001.
Presenter, “The Contemporary African-American Experience,” UHURU Sasa Program, University of Rhode Island, Fall 2001.
Invited Participant, “Reparations Debate between Peniel Joseph and David Horowitz” The Steve Kass Show (radio talk show), WPRO-AM, April, 2001.
Panelist, Hip-Hop: Roots and Reach, The Providence Black Repertory Theater, April, 2001.
Presenter, “Radical Black Women,” Women of Color and their Allies, University of Rhode Island, April, 2001.
Panelist, King’s Unfinished Legacy: The Continued Fight Against Racism and Economic Injustice, Afro-American Studies, Brown University, April, 2001.
Black History Month Lecture Lecture, “Rethinking the Black Power Movement”
Deleware State University, Dover, DE February 2001.
Panelist, African-American Studies in the 21st Century, Afro-American Studies Program, University of Rhode Island, Fall 2000.
Presenter, “African-Americans at the Crossroads: Election Year 2000,” Diversity Week Workshop, University of Rhode Island, October, 2000.
Panelist, “The Future of Black Studies in the 21st Century,” African and African American Studies Program, University of Rhode Island, October 2000.
South County Anti-Racist Coalition, Kingston, RI, Annual Black History Month Dinner Lecture: “Rethinking Racial Justice for a New Millennium,” February 2000.
The Committee on African and African-American Research, Fall Lecture Series, Lecture: “At the Crossroads: Reconceptualizing the Heroic Period of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965,” Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, December 1998.
NAACP Black History Month Lecture Lecture: “W.E .B. Du Bois and the Modernist Project”
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 1998.
BOOKSTORE READINGS
Eso Won Books (Los Angeles), August and November 2006
Hue-Man Books (Harlem), September 2006
Everyone’s Place Books (Baltimore) October 2006
Bus Boys and Poets Bookstore (Washington, D.C.) October 2006 and February 2007
Karibu Books (Maryland) October 2006 and February 2007
Barnes and Noble Inner Harbor (Baltimore) February 2007
B. Dalton (Washington, D.C.) February 2007
Unversity of Pennsylvania Bookstore, February 2007
Horizon Books (Philadelphia), February 2007
The Strand Bookstore (New York City) February 2007
Bluestocking Books (New York) June 2007
McIntyre and Moore Books (Boston) November 2007
Back Pages Books (Waltham, MA), November 2007
Bus Boys and Poets (Washington, D.C. and Arlington, VA), February 2008
Karibu Books (Maryland), February 2008
Portersquare Books (Cambridge, MA) February 2008
Barnes and Noble (New York City), March 2008
MEDIA
Lead Historical Analyst for 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, PBS NewsHour; Regular panelist, Basic Black. WGBH Boston; Guest Interviewer, “Afterwords,” C-SPAN; Tavis Smiley Show, PBS; 2006 Harlem Book Fair Panel on Democracy and Elections, C-SPAN; 2007 Harlem Book Fair Panel, “From Black Power to Hip Hop,” C-SPAN; Bev Smith Radio Show (nationally syndicated); Bob Edwards Show-XM Satellite; Michael Signorelli Show, XM Satellite; WBAI (New York City’s Pacifica Radio); WPFW (Washington, D.C. Pacifica Radio); WOLB (Baltimore); Local and national radio. New York Times, Black Issues Book Review; The Crisis; Diverse: Issues in Higher Education; Providence Journal.
Expert historical analyst interviewed in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Irish Times.
Documentary Consultant: Roots Remembered (2007)
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
The Black Power Movement
Black Nationalism in America
Recent African American History
The Black Panther Party
American Attitudes Toward Race
Blacks in the Urban City
GRADUATE COURSES
The Black Radical Tradition
Seminar on Civil Rights and Black Power
UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND COMMITTEE WORK
Tufts University
After Hours Conversation, Guest Speaker, September 15, 2009
Speaker, Voices of a Tufts Diversity Experience, October 30, 2009
Coordinator, Gerald Gill Lecture Series, 2009-2012
Coordinator, Symposium on President Barack Obama, Spring 2010
Brandeis University
In addition to specific events listed below, my public intellectual work, most notably as a historical analyst on PBS’s NewsHour, has represented a continuing form of service since the spring semester of 2008.
Speaker, Black History Month Plenary, Brandeis University, February 2, 2009
Speaker, Brandeis Orthodox Organization and Brandeis Black Student Organization, Blacks and Jews Program, Brandeis University, January 29, 2009
Faculty Respondent to Ted Sorenson, “From Ask Not…To Yes We Can,” January 13, 2009, Brandeis University
Featured on Brandeis Home Page, PBS NewsHour Analyzing President Elect Obama’s appearance at the White House with Past Presidents
Moderator, “Black is…Black is…” Brandeis Black Student Organization, Nov. 19, 2008.
Speaker, “Assessing the Presidential Election,” Brandeis University, Waltham, Nov. 6, 2008.
BrandeisNOW university home page, “Peniel Joseph on Historic Significance of Obama Victory,” Nov. 5, 2008.
Speaker, “Obama, Blacks, and the Jews,” Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, October 16, 2008.
Speaker, “Obama, Blacks, and Jews,” Old Statehouse, Boston, MA, October 16, 2008.
Speaker, Meet the Author Series, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Sep. 10, 2008
Featured Cover Story and Profile, Brandeis University’s Inquiry: A Magazine Devoted to the Social Sciences (Winter 2008)
Speaker, “Barack Obama Phenomenon,” Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, March 3, 2008
Speaker, “Barack Obama Phenomenon” Old State House, Boston, MA, March 3, 2008
Stony Brook University
Speaker, EOP Academic Seminar, August 2, 2007
Keynote Speaker, EOP Food For Thought Dinner, July 30, 2007
Speaker, International Students, Chapin Apartments, Spring 2007
Provostial Lecture, February 20, 2007
Profiled in Pathways, the Annual Report 2005-2006 College of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook University.
Humanities Institute Lecture, February 7, 2006
Stony Brook University Bookstore, Featured Author, December 6, 2006.
Search Committee Member, Africana Studies Caribbeanist Search, Fall 2006
Search Committee Member, English, Multi-Ethnic Studies Search, Fall 2006
Faculty Coordinator, Black World Newspaper, Stony Brook University, Fall 2006-
Faculty Coordinator, AFS 283, Community Service, Fall 2006-
Faculty Mentor, Black and Latino Women’s Leadership Commission.
Speaker, “Is the Black Woman Becoming Obsolete?” Program, sponsored by Phi Beta Sigma, November, 2006.
Keynote Speaker, Black Solidarity Day, November 2006.
Melville Author Library Lecture, November 7, 2006.
Organized Provostial Black History Month Lecture on “Rethinking the Black Panther Party: Race, Class, and American Democracy in the 21st Century,” by Dr. Yohuru Williams, SUNY-Stony Brook, February 2006
Dialogues Across Difference Grant Recipient, SUNY Stony Brook, February 2006
Keynote, “Hurricane Katrina: An Eye Opener to the American People” Program, SUNY Stony Brook, December 7, 2005
Presenter, New Faculty Symposium, Sunwood, SUNY Stony Brook, November 18, 2005
Keynote Speaker, Black Solidarity Day, UNITI Cultural Center, SUNY Stony Brook, November 7, 2005
Presenter, History Department Colloquium, SUNY Stony Brook, October 10, 2005
Participant, “Fundraiser for Victims of Hurricane Katrina,” Wang Center, SUNY Stony Brook, September 22, 2005
Organized “Left Behind: Backdrop to a National Crisis” Post-Katrina Forum, Africana Studies Library, SUNY Stony Brook, September 14, 2005
Member, Black Male Leadership Commission, SUNY Stony Brook, Fall 2005-present
Participant, Fine Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences at Stony Brook (FAHSS), Fall 2005-present
University of Rhode Island
Awards Selection Committee, Brown vs. Board of Education Essay Contest, Spring 2004
Committee for Faculty Course Load Reduction, Fall 2003
Nominator and Presenter, William Gould Award for All-Around Outstanding Achievement, Fifth Annual Black Scholars Award, Spring 2002
Awards Selection Committee, URI Diversity Awards, Fall 2001
EDITORIAL BOARDS
The Sixties Journal (2008-)
Transformations in Higher Education: The Engaged Scholar (2008-)
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (2006-2008)
PROFESSIONAL ACTVITIES
Program Committee, 2008 Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History Conference
Panel Member, NAACP Image Awards, Nonfiction Committee, 2007
Chair, Liberty Legacy 2008 Book Award Committee (Best Book on Civil Rights), Organization of American History.
Guest Editor, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 2007
Co-Chair, New York Chapter, Membership Committee, Organization of American Historians, Spring 2006-
Participant, “Surviving the Job Market” Workshop, American Studies Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 5, 2005
Organization of American History Committee on the Status of Minority Historians and Minority History, 2000-2002
Organization of American History Membership Committee, 2002-2007 (Co-chair of New York State Committee, 2005-2007)
Book Reviewer: Journal of African American History, Journal of American History, 2003-, Manuscript Reviewer: Journal of American History; Journal of Southern History; Journal of Social History; Journal of Urban History; Journal of Women’s History; Journal of Law and Society; Cornell University Press; University of Georgia Press
Scholar-in-Residence, Brown University, 2002-2003
Guest Editor, The Black Scholar, 2001-2002
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Association for the Study of Afro-American History and Life
Association for the Study of the World Wide African Diaspora
National Council of Black Studies
Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association
PEN American Center
Author’s Guild
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