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Juliet E. K. Walker's Curriculum Vitae
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CURRICULUM VITAE, 1976-2003
Juliet E.K. Walker
Professor, Department of History
Founder/Director Center of Black Business, History, Entrepreneurship,
Technology
The University of Texas at Austin
Garrison Hall 101
Austin, TX 78712
Office 512-471-5581
History Office 512-471-3261
Fax 512-475-7222
jekwalker@mail.utexas.edu
jekwalker@aol.com
EDUCATION
Roosevelt University, B.A. American History 1963
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, 1966-67
University of Chicago, A.M. American History,
1970
University of Chicago, Ph.D. American History,
1976
Academic Awards:
University of Chicago History Department
Fellowship, 1970
Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1970-73
Harvard University, DuBois Institute, Post-doctoral
study, 1982-1983
UNIVERSITY
APPOINTMENTS
Roosevelt University, Department of History,
Lecturer, 1972-73
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Black Studies,
Instructor, 1973-76
University of Illinois at Urbana, Department
of History, 1976-2001
Assistant Professor, 1976-1982
Associate Professor, 1982-1990
Professor, 1990-2001
University of Texas at Austin, Visiting Professor,
Spring 1979
Harvard University, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Research Associate, 1986-87
Princeton University, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Fellow,
Fall, 1994
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Senior Fulbright
Professor, Department of History, 1995-1996
The University of Texas at Austin, 2001-
BOOK
PUBLICATIONS
The History of Black Business in America:
Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (paper, rev. ed.; New York:
St. Martins Press, forthcoming 2003)
The History of Black Business in America:
Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (New York/London: Macmillan/Prentice
Hall International, 1998; 2nd Printing, Macmillan, 1999).
War, Peace, and Structural Violence: Peace
Activism and the African-American Experience (Bloomington: Indiana
University, Center on Global Change and World Peace, 1992).
Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum
Frontier (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983;
2nd printing, 1985, paper, 1995).
Editor, Encyclopedia of African American
Business History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999).
Guest Editor, African Americans in Business:
The Path Towards Empowerment: Essays on Black Entrepreneurship from
the African Background to the Present, Editor, Larry Martin (Washington,
D.C.: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1998).
BOOKS
FORTHCOMING
Oprah Winfrey: An American Entrepreneur
(Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming 2004)
African-American Business and Entrepreneurship:
Critical Historiographical Assessments in the Economic and Cultural
Life of Blacks and Capitalism. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing
Group, forthcoming 2003)
Editor, The Oprah Winfrey Enterprise: Race,
Culture and the Media (Westport CT: Praeger Publishers, forthcoming,
2002)
Senior Consulting Editor, "Commerce and Industry,"
Encyclopedia of the Midwest. (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, forthcoming, 2003). Contributors selected by me provide entries
on mining, steel, auto, rubber, agricultural, food, Publications, pharmaceuticals,
and hi-tech industries, banks, insurance, stock and commodity exchanges,
mail-order, department stores, ethnic enterprises..
BOOK
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Economic and Racial Thought
of an American Intellectual (Interest expressed by Princeton University
Press)
The Golden Age of Black Business, 1900-1930
(Interest expressed, St. Martin’s Press)
Captive Capitalists: Critical Race Theory in
the African American Search for Economic Freedom (Interest expressed
by Princeton University Press)
Apartheid in a Global Economy, Black Business
in the United States and South Africa
PUBLICATION
AWARDS
2000 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book, Encyclopedia
of African American
Business History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999).
1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Honorable
Mention for The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race,
Entrepreneurship (New York/London: Macmillan/Prentice Hall International,
1998)
1999 Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH)
Letitia Woods Brown Prize for best Book, The History of Black Business
in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (New York/London: Macmillan/Prentice
Hall International, 1998) Published by a Black Woman Historian/Best
Book Published on African American Women's History.
1999 American Association of Publishers Scholarly and Professional Division,
Award in Business and Management Category for The History of Black Business
in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (New York/London: Macmillan/Prentice
Hall International, 1998)
1999 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book in African
and African American Studies for History of Black Business in America:
Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (New York/London: Macmillan/Prentice,
Hall International, 1998)
1999 Black Caucus of the American Library Association
1998 Award for Outstanding Publication for The History of Black Business
in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (New York/London: Macmillan/Prentice
Hall, 1998)
1998 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book in Management
and Labor for The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism,
Race, Entrepreneurship (New York/ London: Macmillan/Prentice, Hall International,
1998)
1988 Carter G. Woodson Award for Best Article ("Pioneer
Slave Entrepreneurship on the Kentucky Pennyroyal Frontier), Journal
of Negro History, 1983-1987.
1987 Harvard University Business School, Newcomen
Prize for the best article "Racism, Slavery, and Free Enterprise:
Black Entrepreneurship in the United States before the Civil War,"
published in the Business History Review for 1986.
1987 Association of Black Women Historians, Letitia
Woods Brown Publication Prize for the best article "Racism, Slavery,
and Free Enterprise" published by or on Black Women, 1986.
1984 Association of Black Women Historians Brown
Publication Prize, Special Citation for Free Frank: A Black Pioneer
on the Antebellum Frontier (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky,
1983)
1979 Otto A. Rothert Award, Honorable Mention,
for best article ("The Legal Status of Free Blacks in Early Kentucky,
1792-1825") published in The Filson Club History Quarterly, 1983.
FELLOWSHIPS,
GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS
Walter Prescott Web Chair, Fellow, University
of Texas at Austin, 2001-02
Senior Fulbright Fellowship for Teaching and
Research, South Africa, 1995-96.
Princeton University, Shelby Cullom Davis Center
for Historical Studies, Fellowship, Fall Semester, 1994.
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1986-87.
Berkshire Fellowship in History, Radcliffe College
Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, 1985.
American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge
Grant for Research in American History, April, 1984.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
for Independent Study and Research, 1982-83.
Newberry Library Fellowship for the Study of
State and Local History, Summer, 1977.
UIUC Research Board Grant, Project, Black Business
historiography, 1998
University of Illinois International Studies
Summer Grant, 1994.
Scholars Travel Fund Award to Ghana to deliver
paper, March, 1993.
International Research Support Grants in the
Humanities and Arts Program Recipient for Research on Ghanaian Business,
April 1993.
International Programs and Studies Research and
Travel Grant to Ghana, April 1993.
Research Board Grant, Black Women Historians,
Spring 1992-1993.
Incomplete List of Faculty Rated As Excellent,
1991.
Research Board Grant for Black Business in American
History, January 1991-December 1991.
Center for Advanced Studies, Research Associate,
1990-91
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant, University
of Illinois Office of International Program and Studies, Summer 1985.
Research Board Grant, 1985.
University of Illinois Undergraduate Instructional
Award, 1981.
Research Board Grant, 1979
UIUC All-Campus Award for Excellence in Guiding
Undergraduate Research, 1998
Finalist, Oakley-Kunde Award for Excellence in
Undergraduate Education, 1993.
United States Information Agency Fulbright Certificate of Award, 1996.
E. Franklin Frazier Visiting Scholar for 1988-1989
at Clark University, Worchester, MA., declined.
Ralph Metcalfe Professor, October 3-6, 1989,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. (Two lectureships granted each
year for "Distinguished Black Professors" in various fields.)
Certificate of Achievement, United States Department
of Agriculture, Farm Homes Service, Spring 1993.
Georgia Interdepartmental Universities' History
Program Visiting Distinguished Scholar, 1990.
George Rogers Clark Award, September, 1990.
Key to City of Barry, Illinois, October, 1990.
Congressional Record mention of Free Frank and
my activities as Founder and Director of the Free Frank Foundation,
1990.
Illinois General Assembly, House Resolution for
Free Frank and my activities as Founder and Director of Foundation,
1990.
Listed:
Directory of American Scholars
World's Who's Who of Women
International Who's Who in Education
JOURNAL
ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS
“White Corporate America: The New Arbiter
of Race?,” in Kenneth Lipartito and David Scilica, Constructing
Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture (New York: Oxford
University Press, forthcoming 2003).
“War, Women, Song: The Tectonics of Black
Entrepreneurship and Business Enterprise, 1939-2000,” in Robert
L. Harris and Rosalyn Terborg- Penn, eds, The Columbia Guide to
African American History Since 1939 ( New York: Columbia University
Press, forthcoming.2003).
“Racial Capitalism in a Global Economy:
“Double-Consciousness “ and Black Business in the Economic
Philosophy of W.E. B. Du Bois,” in Chester Fontenot, ed., W.E.B.
DuBois, Race, and the New Millennium (Mercer, GA: Mercer University
Press, 2002), 70-96..
"Oprah Winfrey, The Tycoon: Contextualizing
the Economics of Race, Class, Gender in Black Business History in
Post-Civil Rights America" in Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola,
eds., Black Business and Economic Power (Rochester: University
of Rochester Press, 2002), 484-525
"Neocolonialism in the African Diaspora?:
Black American Business Competition in South Africa,”in Alusine
Jalloh and Toyin Falola, eds., Black Business and Economic Power
(Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2002), 539-571.
"Constructing A Historiography of African
American Business" in Arvarah E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems,
The African American Experience: An Historical and Bibliographical
Guide and Historiography (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2000),
278-314. .
"Free Black Women Enterprises and Entrepreneurship:
The Intersection of Business, Race, Sex, Color and Gender in the Antebellum
South,” in Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Janice Sumler-Edmond, eds.,
Black Women's History at the Intersection of Knowledge and Power
(Acton, MA: Tapestry Press, Ltd, 2000), 49-63.
“The Future of Black Business: Can It Get
Out of the Box,” in Lee A. Daniels, ed., . State of Black
America 2000 Report (New York: National Urban League, 2000),
199-226.
"African Americans," in Elliot Barkan,
ed., A Nation of Peoples: America's Multicultural Heritage
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1999), 9-50.
“Introduction,” Juliet E.K. Walker,
ed.. Encyclopedia of African American Business History (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), xiii-xxxi.
"Introduction" in Juliet E.K. Walker,
[guest] ed., African Americans in Business: The Path Towards Empowerment
(Washington, DC.: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1998), xxi- xxiv.
"Historical Perspectives of Black Business
from Africa to America, in African Americans in Business: The
Path Towards Empowerment, in Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. (Washington,
D.C.: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1998), 25-38.
"Antebellum Black Entrepreneurship: Free
Blacks and Slaves in Juliet E .K. Walker, ed., African Americans
in Business: The Path Towards Empowerment (Washington, D.C.:
The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1998),
"Twentieth Century Rise of Black Corporate
America," in Juliet E.K. Walker, ed., African Americans in
Business: The Path Towards Empowerment (Washington, D.C.: The
Associated Publishers, Inc., 1998), 207-218.
"Forging Links: African Americans and Business
in South Africa," in Juliet E.K. Walker, ed., African Americans
in Business: The Path Towards Empowerment (Washington, D.C.:
The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1998), 292-300.
"Trade and Markets in Precolonial West and
West Central Africa: The Cultural Foundation kof the African American
Business Tradition," in Thomas D. Boston, ed., A Different
Vision: Race and Public Policy (London: Routledge Press, 1997),
206-252.
"Promoting Black Entrepreneurship and Business
Enterprise in Antebellum America: The National Negro Convention, 1830-1855,"
in Thomas D. Boston, ed., A Different Vision: Race and Public
Policy (London: Routledge Press, 1997), 280-318.
"The Promised Land: The Chicago Defender
and the Black Press in Illinois, 1862-1970,î in H. Lewis Suggs
ed., The Black Press in the Midwest (Westport CT: Greenwood
Press Publishing Group, 1996),
"Prologue to Capitalism: Free Enterprise
and Black Entrepreneurship, A Comparative History of Black Business
in the United States and South Africa’(Johannesburg, South Africa:
University of the Witwatersrand, Institute for Advanced Social Research,
1995) 1-25.
"Prejudices, Profits, Privileges: Commentaries
on 'Captive Capitalists': Antebellum Black Entrepreneurship,"
Essays in Economic and Business History 8 (1990): 399-422.
"The Afro-American Woman: Who Was She?"
in Black Women in the Middle West: A Comprehensive Resource Guide,
Illinois and Indiana, Historical Essays, Oral Histories, Biographical
Profiles and Document Collections. Reprinted in Darlene C. Hine,
Black Women in the United States, 8 vols. (Brooklyn: Carlson
Publishing Inc., 1990)
"Whither Liberty, Legality, or Equality:
Slavery, Race, Property and the 1787 American Constitution,"
New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 6, 2 (Spring
1989): 299-352.
"Racism, Slavery, Free Enterprise: Black
Entrepreneurship in the United States before the Civil War,"
Harvard Business History Review 60, 3 (Autumn 1986): 343-382.
"The Legal Status of Free Blacks in Early
Kentucky, 1792-1825," The Filson Club History Quarterly
57 (October 1983): 383-395. Reprinted, Paul Finkleman, ed., Race
and Law Before Emancipation (Hamden, CT: Garland Publishers,1991).
"Entrepreneurial Ventures in the Origin
of Agricultural Towns in Nineteenth Century Illinois," Illinois
Historical Journal 78, 1 (Spring 1983): 289-303.
"Legal Processes and Judicial Challenges:
Black Land Ownership on the Western Illinois Frontier," Western
Illinois Regional Studies 6, 2 (Fall 1983): 22-38. Reprinted,
Paul Finkleman, ed., Race and Law Before Emancipation (Hamden,
CT: Garland Publishers, 1991).
"Pioneer Slave Entrepreneurship on the Kentucky
Pennyroyal Frontier," Journal of Negro History 68, 2
(Summer 1983): 289-308.
"Black Entrepreneurship: An Historical Inquiry,"
Essays in Economic and Business History, 1, (1983): 37-55.
"Occupational Distribution of Frontier Towns
in Pike County: An 1850 Census Survey," Western Illinois
Regional Studies 5, 2 (Fall 1982): 146-171.
"Free Frank's New Philadelphia: A Black
Town Founder on the Illinois-Mississippi River Valley Frontier,"
in H.W. Blakely, ed., 10th Dakota History Conference (Madison,
S.D.: Dakota State College, 1979): 88-105.
SCHOLARLY
ESSAYS/COMMENTARIES/ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Harriet Tubman,” in Elliott Barkan,
ed., Making it in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent
Ethnic Americans (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001).
“Booker T. Washington,” in Elliott
Barkan, ed., Making it in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of
Eminent Ethnic Americans (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001).
“William E. B. Du Bois,” in Elliott
Barkan, ed., Making it in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of
Eminent Ethnic Americans (Westport, CT:
Greenwood, 2001).
“Mary McLeod Bethune in Elliott Barkan,
ed., Making it in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent
Ethnic Americans (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001).
“Madam C. J. Walker,” in Elliott
Barkan, ed., Making it in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of
Eminent Ethnic Americans (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001).
“John H. Johnson,” in Elliott Barkan,
ed., Making it in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent
Ethnic Americans (Westport, CT: Greenwood, forthcoming 2001)
“Martin Luther King, in Elliott Barkan,
ed., Making it in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent
Ethnic Americans (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001).
“Oprah Winfrey,” in Elliott Barkan,
ed., Making it in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent
Ethnic Americans (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001).
"Business and African Americans," in
Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, eds. Encarta Africana Encyclopedia,
CD ROM (Seattle: Microsoft Corporation, 2000)
“Multicultural Education for the New Millennium:
is it enough?” in Dialogues in Diversity [Harvard University:
Office of President], 12,1(Winter 2000), 7
”Automobile, Patterson Greenville,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 50
“Boyd,; Richard Henry,” Juliet E.K.
Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 94-95.
“Catering, Inns, Hotels,” Juliet
E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 128-34.
“Corporate America's Black Executives,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999), 164-66.
“Craftsmen, Manufacturing, Construction,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999), 160-74.
“Delany, Martin,” Juliet E.K. Walker,
ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1999),180-82.
“Extractive Industries Enterprises,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 219-25.
“Ford, Cornelius,” Juliet E.K. Walker,
ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 239-40.
“Free Black Entrepreneurs,” Juliet
E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 248-52.
“Freedman’s Bank,” Juliet E.K.
Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 252-53.
“Fuller, S.B.,” Juliet E.K. Walker,
ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 253-54.
“Gaston, Arthur,” Juliet E.K. Walker,
ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 271-73.
“Insurance Companies,” Juliet E.K.
Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 295-99.
“International Trade Enterprises,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 300-317.
“Investment Banking,” Juliet E.K.
Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 321-24.
“National Negro Business League,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 416-19.
“National Negro Convention Movement,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999), 419-20.
“Payton, Philip A.,” Juliet E.K.
Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 445-46.
“Rose Meta House of Beauty;” Juliet
E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 473-74.
“Russell, Herman Jerome,” Juliet
E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 478-79.
“Sims; Naomi Sims,” Juliet E.K. Walker,
ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 483.
“Slave Drivers, Plantation Managers, Intrapreneurs,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999). 483-85.
“Slave Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999), 485-88.
“Slaves Hiring Out Own Time,” Juliet
E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 488-90.
“Slaveholders, Large Black,” Juliet
E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 490-94.
“Slave Law Economic Constraints,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 495-97.
“Slave Revolts and Black Craftsmen,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999), 499-501.
“Smith, Stephen,” Juliet E.K. Walker,
ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 509-511.
“Stock Market Listings (Black-Controlled
Publicly Trade Companies,” Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia
of African American Business History (Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1999), 540-43.
“Taxicab Enterprises,” Juliet E.K.
Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 553-55.
“Taylor, Hobart T.,” Juliet E.K.
Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 555-56.
“Transportation Enterprises,” Juliet
E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 561-71.
“Underground Railroad and Black Business,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood,1999), 575-77.
“Women Business Activities, 1600s-1990,”
Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Encyclopedia of African American Business
History (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999), 597-612.
"Banking," Jack Salzman, David Lionel
Smith and Cornel West, eds., Encyclopedia of African-American
Culture and History, Vol. 1 (New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan,
1996), 246-250.
"Entrepreneurs," Jack Salzman, David
Lionel Smith and Cornel West, eds., Encyclopedia of African-American
Culture and Hisory, Vol. 2, (New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan,
1996), 896-908.
"Black Women Entrepreneurs in Antebellum
America," Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia,
eds., Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown and rosalyn Terborg-Penn
(Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1993) 1: 394-397.
"Irene McCoy Gaines," in Black
Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, eds., Darlene Clark
Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (Brooklyn: Carlson
Publishing, 1993) 1: 476.
"Peace Activism and the African-American
Women in the Twentieth Century," Legacy [Washington,
D.C. Mary McLeod Bethune Museum Archives Newsletter] 4 (Spring 1993):
3.
"In Pursuit of the African-American Past
in United States History," in History at Illinois (Fall
1992-Winter 1993): 11-12
"Slave Drivers," in Dictionary
of Afro-American Slavery, Randall G. Miller and John David Smith,
eds. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988), 196-98.
"Slave Entrepreneurs," in Dictionary
of Afro-American Slavery, Randall G. Miller and John David Smith,
eds. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988), 220-22.
"Promoting Black Women Entrepreneurship:
Creative Strategies in Business Participation and Welfare Reform in
Black Women's Agenda Inc., Welfare Reform Projects (Washington,
D.C.: 1988), 18-35.
"The Black Woman History PHD Generational
Differences and the Crisis of Professionalism," OAH Newsletter
14, 4 (November 1986): 12-14.
"Black Business Enterprise Before the Civil
War," Radcliffe Quarterly 72, 2 (June 1986): 27-28.
"Blacks in Corporate America," Essay
Review of The Black Manager: Making It In The Corporate World
by G. Floyd Dickens, Jr. and Jacqueline B. Dickens (New York: AMACOM,
1982) in the Wall Street Review of Books 12, 1 (Summer 1984): 214-220.
Book
Reviews [incomplete listing]
Revolt Against Lynching: Jessie Daniel Ames
and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1979) in Crime and Justice:
A Historical Review 1 (Spring 1980): 270-272.
A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller and the
Promise of American Life by Randall Bennett Woods (Lawrence:
The Regents Press of Kansas, 1981) in Journal of American History
(June, 1982): 170-71.
Free Man of Color: The Autobiography of Willis
Augustus Hodges with an introduction by Willard B. Gatewood,
Jr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982) in Journal
of Southern History, 49, 3 (August 1983): 467-68.
Gatekeepers of Black Culture: Black Owned
Book Publishing in the United States, 1817-1981 by Donald Franklin
Joyce (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1982) in Business History
Review (1985): 301-302.
From Tennessee Slave to St. Louis Entrepreneur:
The Autobiography of James Thomas. Edited with an introduction
by Loren Schweninger, (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press,
1984) in Journal of Southern History 51, 3 (Aug. 1985): 442-43.
Ar'n't I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation
South by Deborah Gray White (New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
1985) in Journal of American History (December, 1986).
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women,
Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline
Jones (New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publisher, 1985) in Annals
of Iowa 49, 1, 2 (Summer-Fall 1987): 116-119.
Black Property Owners in the South,
1790-1915 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 by Loren
Schwenineger in Journal of Southern History.(1992).
African American Reactions to War in Ethiopia
1936-1941 by Joseph E. Harris (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1994) in North Carolina Historical Review, 1996.
Black Entrepreneurs in America: Stories of
Struggle and Success, Michael Woodward, Journal of American
Ethnic History,
Robert C. Kenzer, Enterprising Southerners:
Black Economic Success
in North Carolina, 1865-1915, Journal of American History
INVITED
UNIVERSITY LECTURES
Purdue University, 1978, "Black Images of
the Frontier."
University of Missouri at Kansas City, 1979,
"Historical Reconstruction of the Antebellum Afro-American Family."
Texas A & M, 1979, "Black Participation
in the Development of America's Antebellum Frontiers."
Eastern Illinois University, 1981, "Afro-Americans:
Prospects and Perspectives for the 1980s."
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of
Government, 1981, "Equality: An Appropriate Goal for the Afro-American."
Eastern Illinois University, February 15, 1983,
"Free Frank in the Liberation of Afro-American History."
Marycrest College, February 19, 1984, "Black
Women in the Civil Rights Movement."
University of Chicago, May 25, 1984, "Black
Faculty in Predominantly White Institutions."
Howard University, Lorraine J. Williams Scholarship
Lecture Series, October 22, 1984, "The Rise of Black Entrepreneurship."
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (Big Ten
and the University of Chicago) Minority Fellowship Conference Lecture,
October 28, 1984, "The Historian As Humanist Scholar in An Age
of Technology."
Earlham University, February 27, 1985, "Black
Entrepreneurship in Antebellum America."
Radcliffe College, Bunting Institute, August
22, 1985, "Racism, Slavery and Free Enterprise: Antebellum Black
Entrepreneurship."
Michigan State University, November 12, 1985,
"Is There A Usable Past: Black Business in Historic Perspective."
Arizona State University, January 21, 1986, "Developing
Black Business History as a Field in American Business History."
Eastern Illinois University, March 6, 1986, "Rethinking
American WomenBusiness History: The Nineteenth Century."
University of Maryland at Baltimore, March 13,
1986, "The Development of Antebellum Black Entrepreneurship and
Business Enterprise."
Lesley College, Cambridge, MA, March 10, 1987,
"New Interpretations in Afro-American History."
Harvard University, DuBois Institute, April 22,
1987, "Capitalists; Antebellum Black Entrepreneurs and Free Enterprise."
Clark University, Worcester, MA, February 20,
1988, "Black Business in American History."
Marquette University RALPH METCALFE DISTINGUISHED
PROFESSOR Lecture, "Captive Capitalists: Antebellum Black Entrepreneurship."
October 2-5, 1988.
University of Wisconsin at Madison School of
Business, Association of Minority Business Students, Paper, "Black
Entrepreneurship and Business Enterprise." March 2, 1989.
University of Georgia at Athens: "Black
Women in the Peace Movement." April 24, 1989.
Clark College/Atlanta University: "Prejudices,
Profits, Privileges: From Slavery to Freedom in the Reconstruction
of Afro-American Business History." April 25, 1989.
University of Missouri at Columbia: Paper, "The
Afro-American Woman Historian." "Black Women and Peace Activism,"
February, 1990.
University of Texas at Austin, "Herman Sweatt
Symposium on Civil Rights: Community, Self-Help and Entrepreneurship:
The Roots of Civil Rights." April 3, 1991.
Princeton University, Shelby Cullom Davis Center
for Historical Studies, Paper, "Black Business in the United
States and South Africa," November, 1994.
University of Witwatersrand Institute of Advanced
Research, "Capitalism, Free Enterprise and Black Entrepreneurship:
A Comparative History of Black Business in the United States and South
Africa," October, 1995.
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Economics
History Workshop, "Recovering Abandoned Memories: African American
Business Activity in WWII," March 1996.
University of Alabama, Black Business: A Reconsideration
of the Declining Significance of Race, February,1997.
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville,
Black History in Illinois, February, 1997
Duke University/North Carolina State Symposium
Conference Honoring John Hope Franklin's From Slavery to Freedom,
September, 1997
Florida International University, "The Commercial
Culture in Precolonial Africa as a Foundation for Diaspora African
Business Activities," October, 1998
Tulane University, Amistad Research Center Conference,
"Black Business in Antebellum New Orleans," February, 1998
Northeastern University, Chicago, "The African
American Entrepreneurial Tradition," February 1998
University of Missouri at Columbia, “African
American History From Slavery to Freedom,” November, 1998.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Lecture
"Black Business and the Deconstruction of African American History,"
March, 1999.
North Carolina Central University Women's History
Month Conference Panel, "Black Woman and Business: Historians,
Writers and Business Owners," March, 1999
Coppin State College, Lecture, "Reconstructing
African American Business History as a Path towards Economic Empowerment,
April, 1999.
Vanderbilt University, “Black Business
History in the Reconstruction of African American History,”
December 1999.
University of Texas at El Paso, African American
Studies Program, “The Golden Age of Black Business, 1900-1930,”
February, 2002
Texas Technical University, Rawls College of
Business, “African American Business: A Historical and Contemporary
Perspective,” March, 2002
University of New Hampshire, Department of History, “Black Entrepreneurs
in the Schumpeterian Tradition of the Creative Capitalist,”
March 2002
Texas Southern University, “War, Women, Song,: The Tectonics
of Black Business and Entrepreneurship, 1939-2001,” February,
2003
Prairie View University, “Double-Consciousness
“ and Black Business in the Economic Philosophy of W.E. B. Du
Bois,” February, 2003
Texas Technical University, “Racial Capitalism
and the 'Double-Consciousness' of Black Business in the Economic Philosophy
of W.E. B. Du Bois” March 27, 2003
PARTICIPATION
IN SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES
NATIONAL PAPERS PRESENTED
North Dakota History Conference, Madison, South
Dakota, Paper: "Free Frank's New Philadelphia: A Black Town Founder
on the Illinois-Mississippi River Valley Frontier, 1830-1854."
1978
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life
and History, Los Angeles, California, Paper: "Free Frank and
the Development of New Philadelphia, Illinois, 1836-1885." 1978
Southern Historical Association, St. Louis, Paper:
"Black Entrepreneurship on the Kentucky Pennyroyal Frontier,
1799-1828." 1978
American Society for Legal History, Philadelphia.
Paper: "Free Blacks and the Use of the Law in Antebellum America."
1980
Illinois State Historical Society Symposium,
Springfield, Illinois. Paper: "Afro-American Town Development
In Antebellum Illinois." 1980
Western Illinois History Regional Conference,
Jacksonville, Illinois, Paper: "Black Land Occupancy on the Western
Illinois Frontier." 1982.
Business and Economic History Conference, Bradley
University, Paper: "Black Entrepreneurship."1983.
Oral History Conference, Lexington, Kentucky.
Paper: "Free Frank, Antebellum Black Pioneer Entrepreneur: The
Corroboration of Oral Family History." 1984.
Black Women in the Middle West Conference, NEH
Humanist Scholar Lectures: "Reconstructing Afro-American Women's
History" at:
University of Illinois, Urbana, May 19, 1984.
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois, June 16, 1984.
Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, June 23, 1984.
Southern Illinois U., East St. Louis, Illinois, June 30, 1984.
Gary Public Library, Gary, Indiana, July 14, 1984.
St. Mary's College, South Bend, Indiana, July 21, 1984.
National Women's Studies Association Conference,
Champaign, Paper: "Black Women Historians in the Liberation of
Afro-American History." 1986.
National Feminist Legal Strategies Conference,
Washington, D.C., Paper: "Racism, Feminism, Capitalism: The Contemporary
Afro-American Woman in Historic Perspective."1986
Association of Black Women Historians, Houston,
Paper: "Racism, Slavery, Free Enterprise: Antebellum Black Entrepreneurship."
1986
Knox College Sesquicentennial, 1837-1987 Conference,
Galesburg, Paper: "Challenges for the Future in Higher Education:
Knox College, A Legacy, A New Mission." 1987
Radcliffe College Bunting Institute Conference
on Black Women and the Professions: Looking Toward the 21st Century.
Cambridge. Paper: "Economics, Education and the Changing Labor
Market Participation of Black Women in the Professions." 1987.
Franklin College Conference on Pathways to the
Old Northwest, Franklin, Indiana. Paper: "Land, Law, Property
and Blacks: Afro-American Nationalism and the Search for Freedom in
the Old Northwest." 1987.
National Conference on Black Lawyers, Conference
on The Constitution and Race: A Critical Perspective, Harvard University
Law School. Paper: "Whither Liberty, Legality, or Equality: Blacks,
Property, and Constitutionalism in Revolutionary War America."
1987.
Black Congressional Caucus/Black Women's Agenda,
Inc. Workshop, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., Paper:
"History of Black Females in Business," 1987.
Bloomington-Normal/McLean County Historical Society
Black History Project Conference, Bloomington, McLean County Historical
Society Museum. Paper: "Preserving Our Heritage: Reconstruction
of Illinois Black History." 1987.
Ohio Historical Center Conference on the Northwest
Ordinance: A Framework for Statehood, Columbus, Paper: "Black
Ohioans: The Search for Freedom, 1787-1861." 1987.
Stanford University, School of Business, Minority
Council Conference, "The Creation of Black Wealth in America,"
Palo Alto, CA, Paper: "Prejudices, Profits, Privileges: From
Slavery to Freedom in the Reconstruction of Black Business History."
1989.
University of Illinois at Urbana, School of Social
Work, "Women and Peace: An International Conference," Urbana,
IL. Paper: "Black Women and the Peace Movement." 1989.
Business and Economics History Conference, Charleston,
SC, Paper: "Commentaries on 'Captive Capitalists': Antebellum
Black Entrepreneurs." 1989.
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life
and History Discussant, "Black Press in Illinois" 1989.
Consortium on Peace Research, Education and
Development Conference, Dayton, Ohio, "Structural Violence in
the African-American Historical Experience." 1990.
Black History Symposium: Hidden History: Building
Traditions that Endure, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, "Racism,
Slavery, Free Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship in Antebellum America."
1991.
Association for the Study of African-American
Life and History, Kansas City, Missouri, Paper: "The Black Press
in Chicago." 1992.
Harvard University Business School, Boston, Conference:
"African-American Leadership: Visionaries Breaking Through Traditional
Barriers," Paper presented: "Black Business in Historic
Perspective." 1993.
Boston University, Institute for the Study of
Economic Culture, Boston, Conference: "Economic and Cultural
Change Among Inner City Blacks in the United States" 1993.
DuSable Museum of African-American History Conference:
African-American History in Illinois, Chicago, Paper: "Black
History in Antebellum Illinois: The Pioneer Experience in Land Settlement."
1993.
Illinois Women's Public Policy Conference: Everything
to Gain: Women Seizing Power, University of Illinois, Urbana. Paper:
"Race, Class, Gender: Economic Orthodoxy and the Rise of Global
Multicultural Capitalism." 1993
Sojourner Truth Conference, Scripps College,
Paper: "Black Women Historians,” January 1994.
Helen G. Edmonds New South Annual Lectures Series
and Women's Conference, North Carolina Central University, Keynote
Address: "Having Our Say: Black Women Historians, Scholars and
Scholarship in the Forefront, March 1994.
American Historical Association, "Capitalism
and Christianity: A Comparative Historical Paradigm in the Twentieth
Century Black Business Tradition in the United States and South Africa,"
January 1996.
Association for the Study of African American
Life and History, "Black Business and American-American History,"
October, 1998
Berkshire Conference Berkshire Conference on
the History of Women," Black Women and Peace Activism,"
June, 1999
International Conference on Black Business in
Africa and the United States, University of Texas at Arlington, November,
1999. Papers:
"Oprah Winfrey, The Tycoon: Contextualizing
the Economics of Race, Class, Gender in Black Business in Post-Civil
Rights America"
"Neocolonialism in the African Diaspora?: Black American Business
Competition in South Africa, Luster Products, Inc (USA) V Magic
Style Sales,CC (SA) Case, 1990-1996"
W.E. B. Du Bois Race and the New Millenium: A
Symposium Celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of the Publication
of The Souls of Black Folk, Mercer University Conference, Paper: “Racial
Capitalism in a Global Economy:‘Double-Consciousness’
and Black Business in the Economic Philosophyof W.E. B. Du Bois,”
March 2000
Constructing Corporate America: Historical Perspectives
on Big Business, Society, and Politics, Harvard University Kennedy
School of Government, Paper: “White Corporate America: The New
Arbiter on Race?” March 2001
Texas Technical University,19th Annual All University
Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education, Panel
and Paper on “Leadership, Equity and Empowerment: Challenges
Facing Women Faculty of Color,” March 28, 2003
COMMENTATOR/MODERATOR
Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
1977 for Session: "Presidential Powers Under Eisenhower."
Organization of American Historians, Detroit, 1981
for Session: "20th Century Black Leaders."
Society of Historians of the Early American Republic,
Nashville, Tennessee, 1982 for Session: "Blacks and the Church."
Southern Historical Association, Houston, Texas,
1985. Session: "Criminal Justice in the Old South."
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley
College, June 21, 1987. Session: "Black Women Entrepreneurs."
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life
and History, Dayton, Ohio, October 6, 1989. Session: "The Black
Press."
Association for the Study of African-American Life
and History Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 26, 1990. Session,
"Racism, Slavery, Free Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship in Antebellum
America."
Association for the Study of African American Life
and History Conference, Detroit. October 8, 1999. Session: "Segmented
Markets, Divided Communities: Competition between African American in
the Hair-Care Business,"
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life
and History Conference, Washington, DC September 29, 2000, Session:
“The African American Economy in the 21st Session: A Survey of
Economic Issues Confronting African Americans.”
Business History Conference, Miami March 9 ,2000,
Moderator , Nigerian Conference, University of Texas, Panel, “Business
and Economics in Africa,” March, 2002
Symposium Panelist, Topic, “John Sibley Butler
and American Business” IC2, UTAustin, November, 2002
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCES: Invited Conferences, Papers, Seminars
Canberra, Australia
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, July
3, 1985, Canberra, Australia, "Comparative Assessments of Black-American
History with Black Australian History."
Hong Kong:
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Seminar Participant
in "Hong Kong and 1997: Politics, Culture and the Emergence of
South China." Hong Kong, November 1993.
Canada:
Toronto, Canadian African Studies Association Conference:
Urban and Community Development in Africa, Paper: "Economies in
Transformation: Precolonial African Merchants, Traders and Entrepreneurs."
1993
Accra, Ghana West Africa.
National Council on Black Studies, 17th Annual
and 1st International Conference: Uniting African World Scholars and
Communities: Global Realities and Social Transformation. Accra, Ghana,
August 1993.
Paper: "The African Foundation of the African-American Business
Ethos, Culture and Tradition."
South Africa:
Durban - United States Information Agency, Martin
Luther King Peace Awards Conference Ceremony, Durban, South Africa,
Paper: "The Relevance of Dr. King's Teachings on the Peace Process
in South Africa," February 1995.
Johannesburg United States Information Agency, "South African Fulbright
Students Preparation to the Colleges and Universities in the United
States," June 1995.
Soweto - The Bethel A.M.E. Church, "Black
Americans in South Africa," May 1995. Johannesburg Workers Library,
Johannesburg, S.A., "The Black Woman in America," June 1995.
Johannesburg - South African Black Housewives Association
Annual Conference: "An African American Views Higher Education
for Blacks in South Africa," August 1995.
Johannesburg - African American Institute,
Johannesburg, S.A., "African American and South African Blacks
Business Development," November 1995
Pretoria - Gauteng Province Education Conference-Seminar onResearch
CONFERENCE
ORGANIZER:
Association of Black Women Historians, "Meeting
the Challenge; Black Women Historians and History Makers," Chicago,
IL, August 16, 1988.
"Forging Links: Business Enterprise, Entrepreneurship
and Development, African Americans and South African Blacks Perspectives,
Processes, Prospects," University of Witwatersrand at The Wits
Business School, South Africa, 19 October 1995.
“Federal Government and Black Business”
Fall 2003
EDITORIAL
ACTIVITIES
Filson Club Quarterly, Editorial Board, 1984-86.
Dollars and Sense, Consultant for article, "Black
Women in Business," 1985.
University Press of Kentucky, Manuscript Reader,
1984.
Louisiana State University Press, Consultant
for paperback publication of book on Black Abolitionists, 1986.
Indiana University Press, Assessment on significance
of new book series, "Everywoman," 1986.
Wayne State University Press, Series General
Editor, Black Archival Sources, 1988.
Harvard University, Business History Review,
ad hoc editorial board article reviewer, 1988.
Cornell University Press, Consultant for paperback
publication of book on Black History, 1988.
SAGE: A Scholarly Journal of Black Women Advisory
Board of Editors, 1988; 1989; 1990.
Prentice-Hall Inc. Review of textbook in Afro-American
History.
Great Lakes Plains Quarterly, article reviewer,
1989.
University Press of Kentucky, manuscript reviewer,
1991.
University Press of Kentucky for manuscript,
Gender and the Withdrawal of Black Women From Field Labor, Alabama
Indiana University Press for manuscript: The
History of the Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company: An Example
of Business as a Black Community Institution.
Wayne State University Press for manuscript:
Platform for Change: The Foundations of the Northern Free Black Community.
Consulting Editor, Cobblestone [special issue]
The Antislavery Movement 14, 2, (February 1993)
University of Arkansas Press for manuscript 1997
University of California Press, Mss reviewer,
1998
Ohio State University Press, Mss. reviewer, Black
Business anthology, 1998
Collegiate Press, Editorial Board for A Turbulent
Voyage: Readings in African American Studies, 1998-1999.
Journal of Negro History, reviewer, articles,
1998, 1999, 2000
Journal of Illinois State Historical Society,
Editorial Board, 1998, 1999, 2000
Enterprise & Society: International Journal
of Business History, review article, South African Women and Stokvels,
2000
University of North Carolina Press, MSS, Black
Accounting History Review, 2000
Louisiana State University Press, MSS Review,
Black Business Woman, 2000
Journal of Negro History, Board of Editors,
2000-
Longman Publishers, African American History
Textbook Review, 2001
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life
and History Conference, Washington, DC September 29, 2000, Session:
“The African American Economy in the 21st Session: A Survey
of Economic Issues Confronting African Americans.”
Business History Conference, Miami March 9,2000,
Moderator, Panel, “Black Business History”
CONSULTANT,
PROPOSAL REVIEW, TENURE/PROMOTION REVIEWS
Proposal Reviewer for National Endowment for
the Humanities Division of Public Works, 1976-1977.
Proposal Reviewer for National Endowment for
the Humanities Division of Public Programs, 1977-79.
Bell Laboratories, Management Training Program,
1978; 1979.
Consultant for Organization of American Historian's:
"Quantitative Women's History: A First Conference, 1979."
Consultant for National Endowment for the Humanities
South East Chicago Project, 1980-81.
Consultant for Illinois Endowment for the Humanities
Newberry Library Program for State and Local History, 1981-82.
NEH Film Consultant and Script Reviewer on Black
Workers in Chicago's Meatpacking Industry, WWI Era, September 1981-December
1982.
Radcliffe College Committee on Fellowship Selection
for Bunting Institute Fellows for 1983-84, in November-December, 1982.
Newberry Library Proposal Reviewer for Fellowship
Selection, Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women, March
1983
NEH Proposal Reviewer for Black Women in the
Middle West: A Documentary Heritage Project, 1983
Illinois Humanities Council, Conference Evaluator,
"If Not Now, When?" Sangamon State College, March 1, 2,
1984.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada, Proposal Reviewer, "Blacks in Nova Scotia: 1850-1950,"
December, 1985.
Boston University, Institute for the Study of
Economic Culture, ISEC Project, "Rags to Riches: Entrepreneurship
in the Black Community," Advisory Council, 1986-1987.
UNC Ventures [Minority Venture Capital Investment
Firm], Consultant for Fifteenth Anniversary Report, 1986, section
on history of black business and black entrepreneurs, June, 1986.
Radcliffe College, Proposal Reviewer for Bunting
Institute Fellowship Applicants in History, November, 1986.
State University of New York at Buffalo, Scholarly
Evaluation of candidate for director of the University of Buffalo
new urban affairs and public policy program, March, 1987.
Radcliffe College Bunting Institute, Selection
Committee for Berkshire 1987 Summer Fellowship, April, 1987.
Bloomington-Normal, Illinois Black History in
McLean County Project, Consultant, 1988.
NEH Proposal Reviewer, Division of Preservation
and Access, 1991.
University of Indiana at Bloomington, Scholarly
Evaluation of Candidate for Tenure, 1991.
DuSable Museum of African-American History, Chicago,
Illinois Endowment for the Humanities, Proposal for Illinois Black
History Grant Awarded, 1992.
Field Museum of Natural History, "African
Project," February, 1993.
Illinois State Library, Advisory Committee for
African-American Resource Guide of Illinois and Brochure Project,
1993.
Chicago SUN-TIMES, on Illinois Black History
Sites for publication: Illinois Generations: A Traveler's Guide to
African-American Heritage.
Howard University, Scholarly Evaluation of Candidate for Tenure, 1993.
Association for the Study of African American
Life and History, Editorial consultant for the 1998 ASALH Black History
Month Resource Package on Black Business History, 1997.
Collegiate Press, Editorial Board for A Turbulent
Voyage: Readings in African American Studies, 1998-1999.
Black Enterprise, Consultant for May 1998 issue
article on International Business and Black Entrepreneurship, February,
1998
Consultant for Newsweek article on Black Economic
Development and Black Business development: re: Magic Johnson, February,
1998
National Research Council, Proposal Reviewer,
1998
Maryland Humanities Conference Workshop, "Incorporating
African American Business History in the Black Experience for Teachers"
September, 1998
University of Missouri at Columbia, Evaluation
of Candidate for Full Professor, 1998
Rutgers University, Evaluation of Candidate for
Tenure Promotion, 1999
Chicago Tribune, Consultant, Article on Illinois
Black Underground Railroad, 1999
American Visions, magazine, Consultant, Article
on Illinois Black Heritage, 1999
Fast Company, business magazine, 2000, Consultant
for articles on:
Innovative Black Entrepreneurs for article
on Innovative Entrepreneurs
Examples Business Travelers for article, How they reduce travel
time
University of Richmond, Full Professor Promotion
Review, 2000
Opportunity, Consultant, Article on Blacks and
E-Commerce, 2000
Associated Press, Consultant, Article on Blacks
and Investment, 2001
Oxford University Press, Book Review, 2002
Journal of African American History Editorial
Review Board, 2002
The Blackwell Companion to African American History,
Board of Advisors, 2002
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS ACTIVITIES
Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Fellowship
Committee Representative for University of Illinois, 1978-82; 1982-86;
1987-89.
Southern Historical Association: Membership Committee,
Illinois State Representative, 1979-80; 1980-81.
Advisory Board Member for Illinois Women's Agenda,
Illinois Women's History Week, 1980 and 1981.
Association of Black Women Historians: Midwest
Regional Director, 1985; 1986-1988; 1988-1990.
Convenor, Organizer and Director for Conference,
Association of Black Women Historians, "Meeting the Challenge;
Black Women Historians and History Makers," Chicago, IL, August
16, 1988.
Association of Black Women Historians. Committee
Member to select recipients for the 1988 Letitia Woods Brown Prize
(for the best publications, book and article, by a black women historian
or in Afro-American Womens' history.) Fall, 1988.
Association of Black Women Historians: Publications
Director for TRUTH, ABWH Newsletter, 1990-1993.
American Historical Association, Wesley-Logan
Prize Committee, 1997-99
Initiator, Cofounder, and President, Association
for Black Business and Economic Studies (ABBES), 1998-
Business History Conference, Member, Board of
Trustees, 2000-2003
Association of Black Women Historians, Chair,
Brown Publication Prize Committee, 2001 and 2002
Business History Conference (BHC), Representative
for the BHC Electronic
Media Oversight Committee at the EH-NET meeting,
2000.
Association of Black Women Historians, Chair,
Brown Publication Prize Committee, 2001 and 2002
Business History Conference, EH-NET Representative,
2001-2002
PUBLIC
SERVICE LECTURES
Chicago, IL Round-Table for African American
History, 1976
Naperville, IL Bell Laboratories Black/White
Feminists, 1977
Urbana, IL Champaign County Democratic Central
Committee, 1977
Kansas City, MO St. Augustine's Episcopal Church,
1977
Chicago, IL DuSable Museum of African-American
History, 1978
Rantoul, IL Chanute Air Force Base Black Heritage
Program, 1978
Champaign, IL Links Organization, Inc., 1978
Champaign, IL Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1978
Chicago, IL DuSable Museum of African American
History, 1981
Champaign, IL Order of the Eastern Star, Mar.
1982
Chicago, IL Operation PUSH, Aug. 1983
Chicago, IL Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Sept.
1983
Chicago, IL DuSable Museum of Afro-American History,
Sept. 1983
Frankfort, KY Kentucky State Book Fair, Nov.
1983
Chicago, IL Gorham United Methodist Church, Feb.
1984
Chicago, IL National Association of University
Women, Feb. 1984
Chicago, IL DuSable Museum of African American
History, Judge Oratorical Contest, June 15, 1984
Chicago, IL Women in Literature National Association,
Lecture, "The Woman Writer As Historian," February 23, 1985
Champaign, IL News Gazette, Judge, Black History
Month Quiz, February, 1985.
Champaign, IL Urban League Panel, "Beyond
Reagonomics: Economic Implications for Afro-Americans" at Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority Midwest Regional Workshop, April 5, 1985
Urbana, IL Divest Now Coalition, Rally, "Historical
Parallels Between Racism in South Africa and the United States,"
October 11, 1985
Chicago, IL DuSable Museum of African-American
History, Black Writers Workshop, Panel, Nonfiction Writing, October
19, 1985.
Chicago, IL Association for the Study of Afro-American
Life and History, Chicago Branch 15th Annual Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Commemorative Brunch, February 7, 1987. Paper: "Free Frank: Illinois
Pioneer, Entrepreneur and Town Founder."
Chicago, IL Harvard University MBA Club of Chicago,
February 17, 1987. Paper: "Black Entrepreneurship: Historical
Perspectives, Contemporary Implications.
Chicago, IL DuSable Museum of African American
History, "Lecture: The Illinois Black Press From the Civil War
to Civil Rights," April 1994
Urbana, IL Seventh Annual Women of Color Conference,
"Pan-Africanism and the African Woman: Which Way for the Twenty-First
Century?" 30 March 1996
Champaign, IL National Council of Negro Women,
"African American Women's Business History," Champaign,
IL, May 1996.
Rantoul, IL Rantoul High School, Lecture, “Black
Slaves and Free in Antebellum America, February, 1997.
Champaign, IL Order of the Eastern Star, Speaker,
“Black Fraternal Organizations and Community Economic Empowerment,”
October, 1997
Champaign, IL Church of Christ, Speaker, Free
Frank and New Philadelphia: Faith and Economic Empowerment, February
1998
Champaign, IL National Association of Colored
Women's Champaign Branch Annual Mother's Day Luncheon Speaker, May,
1998
Decatur, IL First Unitarian Church of Decatur,
"Peace Activism, Abolitionism, the Underground Railroad,"
November, 1998
Chicago, IL Latin School, speaker, "Free
Frank and the Underground Railroad," December, 1998
Champaign, IL National Conference of African
American Men, Inc. and the Champaign County Chamber of Commerce, Annual
Evening
of Celebration and Recognition, Speaker "Black Business Today
and for the 21st Century," February, 1999
MEDIA,
RADIO, TELEVISION, INTERNET
Austin, TX Voice of American Radio: In Black
America, 1979
Austin, TX Black History Program NBC-TV, 1979
Champaign, IL NBC-TV, Channel 15 Black History
Month - Commentaries, 1982
Chicago, IL WJPC, Aug. 1983 Topic Free Frank
Chicago, IL ABC "Today in Chicago,"
Television Program, Channel 7, Mar. 1984
Chicago, IL WGN "Issues Unlimited"
TV Program, Channel 9, April 1984
Jacksonville, IL WLDS-AM Program, Interview "Black
History in Illinois," February 25, 1985
Urbana, IL WILL-AM-FM TV, Program Focus 580,
on "Black Entrepreneurs Then and Now," February 26, 1986
Champaign, IL WLDS Radio Program, Guest Interview
Host for author of book on Plantation Slave Women, March 4, 1986
Champaign, IL UIUC "Radio Newsletter"
Program, Interview on Black Entrepreneurship, February, 1988.
Milwaukee, WI Two Radio Station Interviews on
Black Business in America, October, 1988.
Champaign, IL Cable TV forum on Malcolm X: The
Man, the Movie, December, 1992
Champaign, IL NBC Special News Feature on Blacks
in the Military, February, 1993
Champaign, IL Illinois Public Radio on the Underground
Railroad in Illinois, February, 1993
Champaign, IL TV Channel 3 News Features, Three
Part Series Interview, Ghana: Its Business Tradition, Past and Present,
September 1993
Champaign, IL Public Radio, Illinois Historic
Sites and the Underground Railroad, September 1993
Chicago, IL Public Radio, Illinois Black History
Before Civil War, September 1993
Chicago, IL WVON Radio, Black History Program,
September 1993
Chicago, IL Radio, Chicago Chamber of Commerce
Program Black Business History, October 1993
Johannesburg, S.A. Television Program on "Political
Correctness," April, 1995
Champaign, IL WBCP Radio, Black Business, September,
1997
Champaign, Il TV Interview on Dr. Martin Luther
King, January, 1998
Washington, D.C. University of Maryland video
of Smithsonian Black History Program on Black Business, February,
1998
Champaign, Il WILL-TV [NPT} Program "Black
Perspectives" Panel: "The Mis-Education of America: Missing
Black History," July, 1998
Baltimore/Washington DC WOLB-AM Talk Show Interview
on History of Black Business, August, 1998
Champaign, IL WBCU-FM "Black Business in
America," October, 1998
World Wide Web NETNOIR Internet, Business Roundup
Chat Site
October, 1998, Book, History of Black Business
February, 1999 “Black Business History”
North Chicago, IL Cable-TV “ The Career
of a Historian,” 2000
North Chicago, IL Cable TV-Black History Forum,
2000
New York, NY National Urban League Press Conference
State of Black America, 2000
Washington, D.C. National Press Club, National
Urban League, Black America 2000
World Wide Web Africana Encarta, “Business
and African Americans” at http:///www.africana.com
World Wide Web National Urban League, RealPlayer,
Live Streaming Broadcast
State of Black America 2000, Black Business Future
CBS News, radio New York Interview on Oprah Winfrey
seminar, February 7, 2001
BBC Frank Henry Interview, Oprah Winfrey Seminar,
February, 2001
FOX-TV News Chicago, David Navarro and Tamron
Hall Interview, Oprah February, 2001
Canada Radio Vancouver, MyCityRadio Interview,
The Oprah Seminar
WNTRadio Rockford Oprah Winfrey course, Feb 2001
WGST640 Atlanta First News Tom Hughes Interview
on Oprah Seminar
Chicago ABCTV News Teaching Oprah Winfrey, The
Tycoon, 2001
NPRWILL580AM The Afternoon Magazine Interview
“The Oprah Phenomenon” April, 2001
CSPAN Comments on Larry King’s Oprah Winfrey
Interview, September, 2001
Radio, Austin Host Hopeton Hays, “Black
Business in America,” November, 2002
RADIOONE-XM Interview Black Business History
September, 2002.
CSPAN Town Hall Meeting Panel, “The State
of Entrepreneurship in Black America,” Moderated by Tavis Smiley,
(Reverend Al Sharpton was on the panel and agreed with everything
I said—don’t know whether that was good or bad.”
aired several times in June, July, August, 2002.
Austin Radio W.E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of
Black Folk, February 2003,
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
Milwaukee, WI Founder, Milwaukee Branch, Association
for the Study of African-American Life and History, 1976.
Chicago, IL DuSable Museum of African-American
History, Member.
Chicago, IL Southside Community Art Center, Member.
National National Association of University Women,
Member.
Champaign-Urbana Champaign-Urbana Day Care Center,
Board of Directors, 1977-79.
Champaign-Urbana University YWCA, Board of Directors,
1977-79; 1980-81.
National Historic Preservation Committee for
the Establishment of a National Register of Historic Places Marker
and Plaque Commemorating Free Frank [McWorter], Antebellum Afro-American
Pioneer and Entrepreneur, founder and chairperson, 1986-
National Free Frank Historic Preservation Foundation,
Inc., activities for the Reconstruction of New Philadelphia as a Historic
Museum Village, 1989- Founder and Director
National Free Frank Grave Site National Register
of Historic Places Ceremony, October 6, 1990
National History Makers, Advisory Committee,
Project to Media Oral History Collection of 5000 Contemporary Prominent
Blacks Nationwide for Internet and Media Libraries
National Museum of Black Entrepreneurial History,
Committee Member
Cleveland, Race for Success, Inc. Board of Trustees
member
Cleveland, Race for Success, Museum of Black
Entrepreneurial History, Planning Committee, Member
Chicago, National Black Exp 2003 Conference to
Honor Black CEOs Member, Selection Board and Advisory
UNIVERSITY
OF TEXAS at AUSTIN, FACULTY ACTIVITIES, 2001-2002
Teaching and Course Development
History 357c African American History to 1860,
2 sems.
History 357d African American History Since
1860 2 sems.
History 350 Oprah Race and Business in America
1 sems
History 365 Twentieth Century Black Intellectuals
and Activists
History 387 Grad Seminar, “Antebellum
Slavery”
TC 359T Plan II Thesis Advisor, “Race
In America”
History Senior Honors Thesis, Advisor and Co-Examiner
Departmental Committees:
Senior Search Committee, 2002-03
Budget Committee, 2002-03
Chair, African American History Search Committee,
2002-03
Administration/Organization
Founder/Director Center for the Study
of Black Business History Entrepreneurship, Technology
Vice President, University of Texas Austin,
African American Staff Advocating Progress (AASAP), 2002-03
Founder/Editor, University of Texas Undergraduate
Journal In African American History
Website, University of Texas at Austin,
“Texas Black History”
“Center for Black Business"
(both under continuous construction)
Student Organization Lectures,
Seminars and Panel Participation
Symposium Organizer and Panel Discussion Leader,
Topic “9/11 and African Americans” October, 2001
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, University of Texas
Undergrad Chapter,Panel Speaker “Black Business in Texas,”
March, 2002
Tehas Coffee, Undergrad Student Organization,
Speaker Topic: “Free Frank, Slave and Freeman, Entrepreneur
and Town Founder,” October, 2002
UT Lectures, Seminars and
Workshop Participation
Speaker, Center for African American and African
Studies (CAAAS) Open House for UT Student and Faculty Community,
Speaker, “The Oprah Winfrey Phenomenon” September, 2001
Moderator, Nigerian Conference, University
of Texas, Panel, “Business and Economics in Africa,”
March, 2002
Symposium Panelist, Topic, “John Sibley
Butler and American Business” IC2, UTAustin, November, 200
UNIVERSITY
OF ILLINOIS FACULTY ACTIVITIES
Teaching and Curriculum Development
Contributions to Course and Curriculum Development:
New Courses Approved LAS, 1980
History 271 History of Black Women in America
History 391 History of Blacks in Urban America
History 392 Topics in Afro-American Slavery
and Freedom
Intersession Course 1980 University Wide Competitive
Course Proposal Winner Hist 298 Historic Explorations of Chicago's
Ethnic Communities
Undergraduate Award for Development of Courses:
Race, Law, and the American Legal Process African American Women’s
History
Courses Taught to June, 1988, (on leave September
1982 to December 1983 and September 1986 to May 1987; September
1988-May 1989; August 1994-January 1996):
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
History 151 History of the United States to
1877 6 sems.
History 253 Afro-American History to 1877 20
sems.
History 254 Afro-American History Since 1877
20 sems.
History 271 History of Black Women in America
4 sems.
History 296 History of the Civil Rights Movement
1 sems.
History 296 Comparative Racism and Ethnocentrism
National and International 1 sem.
History 296 Race, Law, and the American Legal
Process 1 sem.
History 296 History of Black Business in America
4 sems.
History 298 Social and Cultural History of
Black Business 1 sem.
History 298 Black Land Settlement Pattern in
Historic 1 sem.
History 298 Oprah: The Tycoon 1 sem
GRADUATE COURSES
History 391 History of Blacks in the American
City 3 sems.
History 392 Free Blacks in the Age of Slavery
2sems.
History 453 History of Black Families and Communities
1sems.
History 487 History Antebellum American Slavery
20sems.
History 487 Black Intellectual History 4 sems
History 492 Readings on Afro-American History
10sems
History 496 Ind. Study, Topics in African
American History 10sems
UIUC ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
College and University Committees:
LAS Committee on Admission, 1976-78
School of Humanities Course, and Curriculum
Committee, 1978-79
Graduate College Fellowship Committee, 1981
Chancellor's Allerton Faculty Conference, March,
1982
LAS Equal Employment Opportunity Committee,
1984-1986
University Faculty Appeals Committee, member
1986-87;
Chairperson, 1987--1988
University Faculty Senate, member, 1987-1989
j CIC Minority Fellowship Committee, 1984;
1990
Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women,
1990-1993
Illini Union Board, 1990-1993
Chancellor's Bookstore Committee, 1990-1993
Chancellor Committee on Teaching Excellence,
2000
Departmental Committees:
Committee on the Undergraduate Program, 1976-77
Committee on Teaching Improvement and Evaluation,
1977-78
Committee on Teaching Assistant Evaluation,
1977-78
Capricious Grading Committee, 1979-1980
Affirmative Action Officer, 1978-81; 1984-85;
1985-86; 87-88; 89-92; 92-93
Graduate Fellowship Committee, 1985-86
American History Search Committees, 1980-81;
1990-92
Library Committee, 1996-97
Undergraduate Course Committee, 1998
Undergraduate Student Committee Fall, 1998
Undergraduate Student Committee Fall, 1999
Library Committee, 1999-2000
African American History Search Committee,
2000
Academic Programs Committees:
Women's Studies Committee, 1977-79; 1984-85;
1985-86
Afro-American Studies and Research Program
Advisory Committee, 1977-78; 1979-80
Unit One, Advisory Committee, 1989-1992
Afro-American Studies and Research Program,
Tenure Review Committee, 1988-89
Afro -American Studies, Library Advisory Committee,
1989-
Afro-American Studies Faculty Affiliate, 1981-
African Studies Faculty Affiliate, 1992-
Women's Studies General Council, 1994, 95,
96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
III. UIUC PROGRAMS- Lectures, Seminars
and Workshop Participation
Afro-American Studies and Research
Program and Afro-American Cultural Center Program
Symposium: "Afro-American/African Relations:
Myths and Realities," 1977
Panel: "Roots: Its Impact and Effects,"
1978
Seminar: "The Black Experience: Research
and Writing," 1980
Lecture: "Black History Month Celebration,"
1981
Lecture: Afro-American Studies 298, "The
Black Family," 1982
Lecture: Afro-American Studies 100, "Reconstructing
Afro-American History," 1986
Lecture: Afro-American Studies 100, "The
Black American Historical Past, 1988
Lecture: Afro-American Studies 100, "Reconstructing
Afro-American History," Fall, 1989
Lecture: Faculty address at Black Congratulatory
Ceremony, May 1990
Lecture: "Business and Entrepreneurship
in the Black Experience," for "IF NOT NOW" Black
Student Organization, Fall, 1990.
Lecture: "Afro-American Studies and Research
Program "The Deconstruction of Black Business History."
September 1992.
Panel: “The State of Black America and
the Twenty-First Century,” February, 1997
Panel: Organizer, Moderator, Presenter, Dr.
Martin Luther King, Black Business and the New Civil Rights Movement,î
January, 1998.
Faculty Adviser/Participant Black History Month
2001 Activity
African Studies Program
African Curriculum Workshop: "The Black
Family in Africa and America," 1980
Lecture Series: "Black Families in Transition,"
1981
Women's Studies, Programs and Organization
Activities
Office for Women's Resources, Panhellenic Council,
University YWCA, Unit One, Lecture: "Afro-American Women 1977:
An Historical Perspective," 1977
Feminist Scholarship Conference, Introduction
and Moderator for Session: "Feminist Scholarship and the Disciplines:
History," 1978
Lectures, Women's Studies Courses:
171 "Introduction to Women's Studies
in the Humanities," 1979
171 "American Women in Change,"
1980
171 "Black Women's History and Historians,"
1984
370 "Afro-American Women, Feminist Thought
and the Feminist Movement," 1990
National Organization of Women, UIUC Chapter
Lecture: "Generations of Protest and Self-Help: The Black Woman
American History," 1982
Women's Studies Program for Women's History
Week
Lecture: "Black Women Historians and Historiography,"
March 7, 1984
Introduction and Commentary: Black Women in
the Nursing Profession, March, 1985
Introduction of speaker on Plantation Slave
Women, March 4, 1986
Moderator: "The Supreme Court, Women and Minorities."
Lecture: Department of History Women's Caucus,
"'Daughters of Africa, Awake, Arise, Distinguish Yourselves':
Black Women Business Enterprises Before the Civil War," March
1996
School of Commerce
Strategies in Entrepreneurship Workshop Paper:
"African American Entrepreneurship," Fall February, 2000
Black Student Campus Organization
Activities
Sponsor: Afro-American History Club, 1976-1979
Speaker: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Undergraduate
Chapter, Black History Month Celebration, February, 1980
Speaker: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Undergraduate
Chapter, Black History Month Celebration, February, 1980
Lectures: UIUC Annual Black Women's Conferences
"An Assessment of the Status of Black
Women," 1980
"An Overview of the History of Black Women," 1981
"Black Women in American History," April 24, 1984
Lecture: Black Graduate Student Association,
Black History Month Program, "Rethinking the Afro-American
Historical Past: Black Business in Historic Perspective," March
1, 1985
Lecture: Black Architectural Students Conference,
"Black Urban History As A Basis for Redeveloping the American
City in Century III," June 3, 1986
Speaker: UIUC Delta Sigma Theta Chapter and
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Program, The Ritual on "Racial Issues
of Importance to Minorities on Campus," September 19, 1989
Advisor: UIUC, NAACP Student Chapter, 1989
Faculty Address, Black Student Graduation Congratulatory
Ceremony Program, May 12, 1990.
Lecture, Central Black Students Union, "African
American History," Oct. 1991.
UIUC Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Lecture: "The
Feminist Movement and the African-American Women," September
1992.
McNair Honor Students Program, Banquet Speaker,
September 1993.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Undergraduate Chapter Speaker.
Topic: "Black Women and Business," April, 1998
UIUC Black Congratulatory Graduation Program
Participant, Faculty Awarding of Certificates for Black Undergraduates
and Graduaate Students May 1998
Speaker, Iota Phi Theta,“Black Business
and Multicultural Education,” 2000
Faculty Advisor, UIUC Graduate Student Black
History Forum for 2001
Speaker, UIUC Black Graduate Student Association,
“Economics, Business and the Black Athlete), April, 2001
Speaker, UIUC Black Graduate Student Association,
“
All University Student Activities
Lecture, "Black Military Participation
and the Gulf Crisis," for the Committee Against War in Gulf,
Fall, 1990.
Speaker: Freshman Summer Orientation Program,
"Advice from UIUC Professors Rated As Excellent Teachers,"
June 17, 1986.
Keynote Address, Minority Student "Ritual"
Program, "Succeeding As a Minority Student at the UIUC,"
September, 1989.
Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Hall Panel, "Race,
Ethnicity and Gender Conflict in the University," October 1992.
Illinois General Assembly Special Committee
Hearing at UIUC on Latin American Student Protest. Testimony support
for Latin American and African-Americans Student Protesters, November
1992.
Latin American Students Forum, Speaker in Protest
of Disciplinary Action Taken in Cases of Student Protest Activities,
December 1992.
UIUC Office of Minority Affairs Program for
Chicago High School Freshman and Sophomore Honor Student "Preparing
for a Successful University Career While in High School: An Introduction
to University Life," April 1993.
Unit One Faculty Advisory Committee, 1989-1992
Illini Union Board, Faculty Advisor,1990-1993,
STUDENT
RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Undergraduate Research Paper Awards
Michael Scher Award, for student Susanna L.
Vasquez for best undergraduate paper written for Independent Study
Course, "Black Women's Organizations," AY 1992-1993.
SROP Research Paper Award, for student Anthony
Andrews for one of top five papers out of field of several hundred
CIC SROP students. Paper Topic: Chicago Black Business, 1992.
UIUC Best Senior Honor's Thesis, Peter Berger,
on topic, "Childhood, White and Black in the Era of Antebellum
Slavery" Academic Year, 1992-1993.
[1994 to 1996, I was away, first as a Research
Fellow at the Princeton University Davis Center for historical Studies
and then as a Senior Fulbright Professor in South Africa at the
University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg]
UIUC African American Studies Program Research
Paper Competition, Student paper, "Mound Bayou," Quincy
Mills, Second prize., 1997
Association for the Study of African American
Life and History National Undergraduate Research Paper Competition,
student research paper by Quincy Mills won first prize and $500.00
scholarship, October, 1997. Paper to be published in the Journal
of Negro History. Student now at University of Chicago, PhD Program,
History Department.
American Research Education Association Undergraduate
Paper Award, John Cater for SROP Research Paper on "The Black
Press," 1997.
UIUC Environmental Council Undergraduate Research
Award, Director for Undergraduate Students. Competitive Proposals
Director and Professor in Independent Study Course, Environmental
Racism,. The two students below were designated Environmental Research
Scholars.
"The Environmental Movement and Environmental
Justice: Chicago's Altgeld Gardens: A Case Study of Environmental
Toxins in a Low-Income Minority Community," Oluwatoyin Caldwell,
funded, $2,600, 1998-1999. Presently, DD program, University of
Chicago, School of Divinity
"Environmental Racism/Justice: The Correlation
Between Cockroach Allergens and Asthma in Minority and Low-Income
Populations," Regina Coleman, funded, $2,500. 1998-1999. Student
plans to enter Medical School, Fall 2000
SROP Faculty Advisor, Research Topic Paper "Black Athletes,
Entrepreneurship and
Enterprises," Olabsisi Olivia Martin, Summer, 1999.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Masters Program
M.A. Thesis Adviser:
Clause Meyers (German International Student) M.A. 1992, "Slave
Narratives and Paternalism." Presently working on doctoral
dissertation, Bochum, Germany and in Italy.
.M.A. External Thesis Adviser
Goddard College, for Glennette Tilly Turner, M.A. History and Juvenile
Literature, 1982. Thesis Underground Railroad. In Public History.
National Park Service Underground Railroad Advisory Committee and
Illinois Humanities Council. Author, Juvenile books on the Underground
Railroad and Biographies of Black Historical figures. Professor,Department
of Education, National Louis University.
Doctoral Program
Ph.D Dissertation Adviser:
Sundiata Cha Jua, Ph.D. 1993, Associate Professor,
African American history, Southern Illinois at Edwardsville, Book,
America’s First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000)
Clarence Lang, ABD 2000, topic, "Black
Class Formation and Urban Social Movements in St. Louis, MO,"
Minkah Mukani ABD, 2001, topic, "African
Blood Brotherhood: Black Radicalisms and the New Negro Movement,”
Doctoral Committee Member/Prelim Examiner/ Dissertation
Proposal Hearings:
Shannon M. Cormier, PhD candidate, University
of Texas at Austin
Stephen Ward, PhD, 2002 University of Texas at Austin
Kelly Mendiola, PhD, 2002 University of Texas
at Austin
Yvette Abrahams, University of Capetown, South
Africa, PhD dissertation reader, “Colonialism, Dysfunction
and Dysjuncture: The Historiography of Sarah Bartman [The Hottentot
Venus],” 2001
Joy Williams, Major Field, African History;
Subfield ,African American Women’s Activism and history, Prelim
Examiner, forthcoming 2002.
David Krugler, PhD 1997, American Diplomatic
History, Subfield and Research Assistant in African American history
and Encyclopedia of African American Business History. Assistant
Professor,American History, University of Wisconsin, Plattsfield;
also developed/teaches African American history course.
Joy Williamson, PhD, 1997, School of Education,
Educational Policy Studies, Examiner prelim sub-field, Civil Rights
Movement, 1994. Assistant Professor, School of Education, Washington
University; Stanford University Post-Doc
E. Taylor Atkins, PhD, 1997, Japanese History.
Examiner, prelim subfield African-American history, 1994, and diss
proposal hearing committee on Jazz in Japan. Presently, Assistant
Professor, Japanese History, Department, Northern Illinois University.
Eric Burin, Prelim examiner in African American
history, 1994. Dissertation proposal hearing committee advisor,
1995, on American Colonization Society.
Sundiata Djata, PhD African history, 1994.
Examiner, prelim minor field in African American history. Appointment
at Northern Illinois University is in African American history,
also publishes in African American history.
Peter Botticelli, PhD British History, 1994.
Examiner, prelim sub-field, American Business history, Post-doctoral
Fellowship Harvard Business School.
Eric Pullin, Prelim examine, American History,
1992, PhD student, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2001
Arna Alexander Bontemps, PhD, 1989, African-American
History. Dissertation Committee. Topic, African American culture
in Colonial North Carolina. Presently Assistant Professor, Dartmouth,
Department of History.
Sara Washington, PhD, 1982, School of Education
and English Department, Dissertation committee member, topic “African-American
Women Biographies and Autobiographies,” presently Professor,
HBCU
INTERNATIONAL
TRAVEL AND RESEARCH:
Research Topic: Precolonial
Africa and the TransAtlantic Slave Trade:
Senegal and Gambia, 1979
Research Topic: Comparative Racism
and Ethnocentrism:
Australia, 1994
New Zealand, 1984
Tahiti, 1984
England, France, Belgium, Netherlands and
West Germany, 1987
Canada, 1992, 1997
Research Topics:
Comparative International Business Cultures;
Global Economy and Blacks
Transnational Economic Flows of African American
Popular Culture Through Television, Music, and Sports Industries
African American Neocolonialism
Ghana, African Business: Accra, Ghana, 1993;
Diaspora Commercial Cultures
Hong Kong November 20-28, 1993; Comparative
Decolonization and Business Activity in Hong Kong With Apartheid’s
End in South Africa
South Africa, 1995-1996, Comparative Black
Business, USA and SA History Post-Apartheid Black Business, SA,
African-American Neocolonialism
Johannesburg
Soweto,
Durban
Capetown
Pretoria
University of Zululand
Pietermaritzburg
This CV does not include the listing of more than
80 newspaper and magazine articles and radio and TV phone interviews,
both National and International and TV tapings related to the Oprah
Winfrey Seminar..
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