Associate Professor of History
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EDUCATION Ph.D. in African-American History, University of Maryland, College Park. December, 2002. Degree granted with distinction. M.A. in History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Dec. 1992. RESEARCH & TEACHING SPECIALTIES
PUBLICATIONS Book Academic Articles & Book Chapters “From Outposts to Enclaves: A Social History of Black Barbers from 1750 to 1915.” Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History 5 (Dec. 2004). “The Victory of Black Barbers Over Reform in Ohio, 1902-1913.” Essays in Economic and Business History 16 (1998). “Black Enterprise between Reconstruction and the Great Depression.” In African Americans in Business: The Path Towards Empowerment, edited by Larry L. Martin. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1998. Book Reviews & Reference Works Review of Anthony E. Kaye, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, in the Journal of Mississippi History LXX (Spring 2008). “Barbers,” Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, edited by Eric Arnesen. New York: Routledge, 2006. “Barbers.” Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, edited by Steven A. Reich. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006. Work in Progress “Afro Entrepreneurs & Black Power: Examining the Intersection of Commerce & the Counterculture.” Submission to the Business History Review in spring 2009. “Race & Economic Development in the South, 1870-1970” This book will compare black and white business leaders in the South to determine if they shared a common vision of prosperity that would help explain how the business community shaped race relations and influenced southern society. PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES & INVITED PRESENTATIONS “Japanese Soul Brothers? The Afro Meets the U.S. Military in Japan, 1970.” Submitted as part of a proposed panel on race and business in modern Japan for the Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference, Milan, Italy, June 2009. Discussant. “Cultural Authority in the Workplace.” Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference, Sacramento, California, April 2008. “The Bush Doctor Cometh: Putting the Soul in the Soul Market.” Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, May 2007. “’Big Labor Can Dominate the Little Shop Owner’: Defending Small Business as the Battle Cry of Free Enterprise.” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Portland, Oregon, November 2005. “Regional Identity, Black Barbers, and the African American Tradition of Enterprise.” Invited paper presented at the Natchez Literary and Cinema Festival, February 2005. “A Heritage of Success: The History of Black Barbers in America.” Black History Month Speech, Louisiana Tech University, February 2005. “From Barbershops to Boardrooms: Transforming African American Enterprises for Urban Enclaves in the Twentieth Century.” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 2004. “From Outposts to Enclaves: A Social History of Black Barbers from 1750 to 1915.” Kroos Dissertation Prize Panel, Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference, LeCreusot, France, June 2004. "Empowering Beauty: Female Entrepreneurs, Women's Culture and the Emergence of the Cosmetics Industry." Women's History Month Lecture, Georgian Court College, Lakewood, New Jersey, March 15, 2004. “Uncivil Rights: Understanding the Paradox of Desegregating Black-Owned Businesses.” Race and Place, Annual Conference at the University of Alabama, March 2004. "A Black Outpost in a White Downtown: Black Barbers and the History of First-Class Barbershops in the Nineteenth Century" Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 2003. "'Breaking the Barbershop Habit: Shaving and the Packaging of Scientific Expertise." Ambiguities of Work Conference, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, November 2003. "From Downtown to Our Side of Town: The Impact of Jim Crow on Black Barbers in Mobile, Alabama." 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, October 2000. “African-American Men & Their Different Strategies for Exploiting the Barbering Trade in Antebellum America.” 84th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, October 1999 “George Myers and the Struggle Against Licensing Laws in Ohio, 1902-1913.” 22nd Annual Conference of the Economic and Business History Society, April 1997. AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS Faculty Service Learning Fellow, University of Southern Mississippi, Spring, 2006. John Hope Franklin Fellow, Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Summer 2005 Mississippi Humanities Council Grant, October, 2004. Wrote the successful grant application that funded honorarium and travel costs for key speakers at conference that I organized with my colleague Dr. Tom Lansford, “Managing Globalization: The Role of Business and the State.” Postdoctoral Fellow, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Summer 2004. Finalist, One of four finalists for the 2004 Kroos Dissertation Award of the Business History Conference. Outstanding Advisor Award. Division of Student Life, Coppin State College, May 2002. Distinguished Teaching Assistant. Center for Teaching Excellence & Office of the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 1997-1998 Hearst Travel and Research Grant. History Department, University of Maryland, College Park, 1997 & 1998 TEACHING Undergraduate Courses Graduate Courses Ph.D. Advisees
Ph.D. Committees
Senior Honor Theses Chaired
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE University, College, Departmental
Community of Southern Mississippi
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