EDUCATION

Ph.D.	Temple University (American History)
B.A.	SUNY Stony Brook (Double Major in Africana Studies and European History)

Research Fields: Civil Rights/Black Power Movement; African American History; African American Intellectual History; Comparative Black Nationalism; Twentieth Century American Social History; African Diaspora; Pan-Africanism

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Fluent in Haitian Creole; reading knowledge of French

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

UNIVERSITY TEACHING

Tenured Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Brandeis University (Fall 2007-)
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

W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize, Northeast Black Studies Alliance, Fairfield University, December 6, 2007.

Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award, Gustavas Myers Center.

Finalist, Mark Lynton History Prize, Lukas Prize Project

“Distinguished Lecturer,” Organization of American Historians, Fall 2007-Spring 2010.

“Tubman-Wells-Hamer Social Justice Award,” The Shabazz Conversations, 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.

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.

Teaching Assistant, Dept. of History, Temple University, 1993-1996.

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS

Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), 416 pp. Paperback published July, 2007

*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, Philadelphia Inquirer, Black Issues Book Review, New York Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, Harper’s, Reviews in American History. 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.  BlackAmericaweb.com Holiday Reading Pick, 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 list, 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.

Editor and Introduction, The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights and Black Power Era (New York: Routledge, 2006), 385 pp.

EDITED ISSUES OF JOURNALS

Guest Editor and introduction “The New Black Power History,” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (forthcoming, 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 AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Revolution in Babylon: Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s,” Souls: A Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 9, No. 4 (December 2007): 281-301.

“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., TheBlack 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.

REVIEWS AND EDITORIALS

“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 Powerful Legacy,” The Chronicle Review (The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section B), July 21, 2006, pp. B6-B8. Cover Essay.

“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 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
Edited Anthology, Neighborhood Rebels: Local Black Power Activism

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CONFERENCES

Plenary Organizer and Moderator, “Storm Warnings: Rethinking 1968,” Organization of American Historian 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

Littlefield Lectures
University of Texas-Austin, April 2008

Keynote Lecture
Anne Braden Institute, University of Louisville, April 4, 2008

Keynote Lecture
University of Western Ontario, March 6, 2008

Invited Participant, Internationalising Black Power Conference, Part II, Center for Caribbean Thought, University of West Indies, Mona, February 22-23, 2008.

Keynote Lecture
University of California, Santa Cruz, February 19, 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
Jamaicaway Books (Boston), February 2008
Portersquare Books (Cambridge, MA) February 2008
Barnes and Noble (New York City), March 2008

MEDIA APPEARANCES

New York Times, Black Issues Book Review; The Crisis; Diverse: Issues in Higher Education; Providence Journal. 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.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

The Black Power Movement

Black Nationalism in America

Recent African American History

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

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         

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           

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

PROFESSIONAL ACTVITIES

Panel Member, NAACP Image Awards, Nonfiction Committee

Chair, Liberty Legacy 2008 Book Award Committee (Best Book on Civil Rights), Organization of American History.            

Co-editor (with Manning Marable of Columbia University) of The Palgrave Macmillan Series in Contemporary Black History Book Series. Winter 2006-           

Member, Editorial Working Group, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Winter 2006-           

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; 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