BARR
Performance Experience:
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2010 National Conductor, 105 Voices of History at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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Pipe Organ Recitalist
Wayne A. Barr, D.M.A
Assistant Professor
Director of Choral Activities
College of Arts & Sciences
E-mail: wabarr@mytu.tuskegee.edu
wayne_barr@att.net
Office Phone: (334) 727-8394
Office Address: University Chapel
67 Tuskegee University Suite 2
Tuskegee, AL, 36088
Biographical Sketch:
Professor Wayne Barr received his D.M.A. from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His current project is a catalogue of pipe organs in Black churches and academic institutions in the United States of America.
Representative Publication:
Wayne Barr, “A History of the Pipe Organ in the Black Church,” in Readings in African American Church Music and Worship, ed. James Abbington, (Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2001), 429-31.
Related Activity:
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Workshop presenter, clinician
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Co-Director, Italian Opera Study
Abroad Program
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Adjudicator for Alabama State
Performance Assessment for Middle
School and High School Choirs
Fine and Performing Arts
DUNCAN
Performance Experience:
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Seven appearances at the Honda Battle of the Bands Showcase – Atlanta, GA
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Founder/Conductor - Macon County Community Band
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Musical Director – Tuskegee Repertory Theater
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Adjudicator – Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
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Special Performances at Battles of the Bands in:Beaumont, TX; Baton Rouge, LA; St. Petersburg, FL; Birmingham, AL; Mobile, AL; Montgomery, AL; Atlanta, GA; Houston, TX
Warren L. Duncan, M.M.E.
Head, Fine & Performing Arts Program
Director of Bands
College of Arts & Sciences
E-mail: duncan@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Office Phone: 334-727-8325
Office Address: Band Cottage
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, AL, 36088
Biographical Sketch:
Warren L. Duncan received his Master of Music Education degree from Auburn University, Auburn, AL. and the Bachelor of Science degree from Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL. Other current professional responsibilities are: Vice-President of the HBCU Band Directors Consortium and Chairman of the Band Directors Council for the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
History and Political Science
BRATTON
Grants Received:
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Humanities Council of South Carolina, Historic Brattonsville Community Oral History Project (Principal Investigator)
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Cal Humanities Community Stories Grant (California) Lofas-Lakeside Neighborhood
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Alabama Historical Society Public Discussion Grant (Application in process)
Lisa M. Bratton, M.B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, History
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History and Political Science
Email Address: lbratton@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Office Phone: 334-724-4913
Office Address: John A. Kenney Hall
Room 70-100
1200 West Montgomery Road
Tuskegee, Alabama 36088
Biographical Sketch:
Professor Lisa Bratton received her Ph.D. from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her diverse research interests include economic exploitation in South Africa's diamond industry, female genital mutilation in east Africa, the Tuskegee Airmen, and images of Africans and African Americans in advertising. Her current research focuses on Historic Brattonsville, the York County, S. C. plantation where her ancestors were enslaved and the documents spanning over a century that have been preserved. Her upcoming book, “I am the Forever,” chronicles the lives of her once-enslaved great-great-grandparents who went on to become among the first landowners in York County.
History and Political Science
HAYES
Research Fields:
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African-American Educational History
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Black Private Education (K-12)
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Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
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Black Nationalism
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Urban History
Worth Kamili Hayes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, History
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: whayes@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Office Phone: 334-727-8541.
Office Address: Room 44-312
John A. Kenney Building
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, Alabama 36088
Biographical Sketch:
Worth Kamili Hayes received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2010. His research has uncovered the understudied, yet critical role of Black private schools in post-World War American educational history. His current project examines community activism among a “community of activists” in Black Power era Chicago.
Representative Publications:
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Hayes, Worth K. “The Rise and Fall of a Black Private School: Holy Name of Mary and the Golden Age of Black Private Education in Chicago, 1940-1990.” iIn Using Past as Prologue: Ceontemporary Perspectives on African American Educational History, edited by Chris Span, Dionne Danns, and Michelle Purdy (forthcoming from Information Age Publishing, (2014).
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Hayes, Worth K. “The Very Meaning of Our Lives: Howalton Day School and Black Chicago’s Dual Educational Agenda.” American Educational History Journal 37 (2010).
History and Political Science
HILL
Research Fields:
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Women’s Studies/African and African American, Race, Class and Gender
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Civil War
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Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
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Public History- Particularly African American and Diasporic-related sites
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Oral History – African American women activists
Collaborations:
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Dr. Rhonda Collier- Associate Professor, Department of English, Tuskegee University
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Mr. Dana Chandler – Archivist, Tuskegee University
“Favela Rising” – Teacher’s workshop (2/23-2/24/2012) in conjunction with Vanderbilt University’s Institute of Latin American Studies
Department of History
Morgan State University
Exploring and maximizing Distance Education at HBCU’s (Fall 2010 to present)
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