Education ph. D. (1997) Pennsylvania State University

BOOKS

Lead editor, Message in the Music: Hip Hop, History, and Pedagogy, with James B. Stewart and V.P.

Franklin Association for the Study of African American Life and History Press, 2011.

Guest editor, “Hip-Hop in History,” with James B. Stewart, Journal of African American History 90, no. 2 (Summer 2005), 226-252.

Section editor, “The History of African American Education,” with V.P. Franklin, Linda Tillman executive editor, Handbook of African American Education (Thousand Oaks, CA,: Sage Publishers, 2008).
ARTICLES

“Of Victorianism, Civilizationism, and Progressivism: The Educational Ideas of Anna Julia Cooper and W.E.B. Du Bois, 1892-1940.” History of Education Quarterly 47, no. 4 (November 2007): 416-

446.

“The Limits of Master Narratives in History Textbooks: An Analysis of Representations of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Teachers College Record 108, no. 4 (2006): 662-686.

“Hip-Hop in History: Past, Present, and Future,” with James B. Stewart, Journal of African

“The Dilemmas, Challenges, and Duality of an African American Educational Historian.”

“Black Violence and Crime in the 21^st Century: A Socio-Historical Structural Analysis,” with

Maurice C. Daniels, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 4, no. 2/3/4 (2001): 27-43.

“Guiding Philosophical Principles for a Du Boisian-Based African-American Educational Model,” Journal of Negro Education 68, no. 2 (1999): 182-199.

“Conceptualizing a Du Boisian Philosophy of Education: Toward a Model for African American

Education. Educational Theory 49, no. 3 (1999): 359-379.

“Revisiting the Los Angeles Riots: Classroom Reflections from a Du Boisian Perspective,” The Educational Forum 63, no. 2 (1999): 160-165.
BOOK CHAPTERS

“African American Historians of Education and the Griot’s Craft.” In African American Historians

“The Ideas and Craft of the Critical Historian of Education. In Critical Research in Higher Education,

edited by Brian Pusser and Estela Mara Bensimon, (Johns Hopkins Press, forthcoming Spring 2015).

“The Social Ideas of African American Educators and the African American Intellectual Tradition.” In The Handbook of African American Education, edited by Linda Tillman (Thousand Oaks, CA,: Sage Publishers, 2008).

“W.E.B. Du Bois: Race Man, Teacher, and Scholar.” In They Led by Teaching: Influential Educators, edited by Sherry Field and M. Berson, 102-114. Indianapolis: Phi Delta Pi Publications, 2003.

“Teaching Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in High School History Courses.” In

“Redefining and Refining Scholarship for the Academy: Standing on the Shoulders of Our Elders and Giving Credence to African American Voice and Agency. In Retaining African-American Faculty, Administrators, and Students at Predominately White Universities: A Tale of Multiple Competing Paradigms, edited by Lee Jones (Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing, 2001), 193-206.

“Going Public: The Imperative of Public Education in the 21^st Century,” with Carl D. Glickman. In Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development and Practice, edited by Ann Lieberman and L. Miller, 12-22. New York: Teachers College Press, 2001.

CREATIVE SCHOLARLY PROJECTS/PUBLICATIONS (with Maurice C. Daniels)

Donald L. Hollowell: American Freedom Fighter. 55 min. Foot Soldier Project Documentaries. 2010.

Recipient of 2011 Telly Award. Served as co-executive producer.

“W.E.B. Du Bois in Georgia.” The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2004. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-905&hl=y

“Atlanta Compromise.” The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2004. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2554

“American Philosophies of Education.” Encyclopedia of American Studies. vol. 2, 67-72. Washington,

D.C.: Grolier Publishing., 2001.

“Carter G. Woodson.” Encyclopedia of American Studies. vol. 4, 358-359. Washington, D.C.: Grolier Publishing, 2001.

Review of Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince

“Civil Rights or Hip Hop,” review of The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop by Todd Boyd. Journal of African American History (2003).

With Larry L. Rowley, review of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis. Journal of African American Men 6, no. 3, (2001): 85.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Courses

Introduction to African American Studies

The School in U.S. Society

The Hip-Hop Mind: History, Ideology, and Pedagogy

W.E.B. Du Bois Seminar

History of U.S. Education before 1865

History of U.S. Education after 1865

History of African American Education

Historiography and Historical Methods in Education

Oral History Methods and the Civil Rights Movement

Education, Schooling, and the Civil Rights Movement

Jefferson Trust Award for “Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project” (2014)

Diversity Award, College of Education, University of Georgia (2010)

Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Georgia (2007-2008)

Carl D. Glickman Faculty Fellow Award, University of Georgia (2005).

Top 10 Outstanding and Rising Scholars Recognition, Black Issues in Higher

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Award for Service to Education, Athens, GA (2005).

Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Lecturer, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (2004-2005).

2004 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Education, University of Georgia (2004).

Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Lecturer, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (2003-2004).

National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2001).

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University (Summer 2000).

Outstanding Writing Award, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Awarded for 1999 essay in Educational Theory (2000).

"The Radical Pedagogy of W.E.B. Du Bois: Toward a History of Ideas." History Lecture Series, Ohio

State University, February 24, 2015.

“From Martin Luther King to Tupac Shakur: Implications of Hip Hop for Graduate Education, Engaged

Pedagogy, and Public Scholarship.” Martin Luther King Lecture, Rackham Graduate School,

University of Michigan, January 15, 2014.

“Ideas Have Consequences: The Educational Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois.” Walter Ridley Lecture,

University of Virginia, scheduled for March 19, 2012.

“Ideas Have Consequences: The Radical Pedagogy of W.E.B. Du Bois.” University of Massachusetts,

18^th Annual Du Bois Birthday Library, scheduled for February 23, 2012.

“2 Pac, Mythology, and the Black Radical Tradition.” Institute for African American Studies Brown Bag

Lecture, University of Georgia, September 8, 2010.

“The Hip Hop Generation and the Du Boisian Call for the Talented Tenth.” Honors Convocation, Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia, March 29, 2007.

“‘Ideas Have Consequences,’ Race and Civil Rights in the Administrations of Ronald Wilson Reagan and George H.W. Bush.” Morehouse College. Atlanta, Georgia, June 14, 2006.

“Hip Hop and the African American Intellectual Tradition.” Woman’s Studies Course on Hip-Hop. Georgia State College, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2006.

“Introduction Speech,” Charter Lecture Series on Martin Luther King, Jr. by historian Taylor Branch. University of Georgia, March 2006.

“W.E.B. Du Bois and the Education of the Hip-Hop Generation.” South Carolina Department of Education. Columbia, South Carolina, March 2006.

“An Intellectual History of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Educational Thought: Implications for Contemporary Education. Pennsylvania State University, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University Park, PA, October 26, 2005.

“Understanding and Educating the Hip-Hop Generation,” UGA School of Social Work, 7th Annual African American Families Conference, Black School of Social Work, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, April 21, 2005.

“The Niagara Movement.” U.S. Department of Agriculture, Black History Month Program Athens, Georgia, February 15, 2005.

“The Niagara Movement.” African American Cultural Center, Black History Month Program, University of Georgia, February 8, 2005.

“Remembering the Past, Moving Forward.” Fortieth Anniversary Commemoration of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Auburn Avenue Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta, Georgia, August 24, 2004.

“The Life, Humanity, and Revolutionary Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Service, University of Georgia Chapel, January 23, 2002.

“W.E.B. Du Bois: A Message for the 21^st Century.” Clark Atlanta University 34^th Annual Writers Workshop, Clark/Atlanta University, Atlanta Georgia, April 2003.

“The Idea of the Talented Tenth.” Wolfpack Productions, First Fridays of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2000.

“The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois.” W.E.B. Du Bois Center for African-American Research, Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1999.

Senior Editor, 2013-Present, American Journal of Education.

Associate Editor, 2003-Present, Journal of African American History (formerly Journal of Negro History).

Guest Editor, 2003-2005, Journal of African American History.

Section editor, 2006-2008, Handbook of African American Education, Sage Publishers.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

National Council for Black Studies

History of Education Society

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Researching Walter N. Ridley and the Desegregation of the University of Virginia." Paper presented

at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, PA, April 2014.

“W.E.B. Du Bois’s Early Construction of the Talented Tenth Idea.” Presentation at the annual meeting of

the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Jacksonville, FL, October 2013.

“Productive Habits of Highly Respected Historians.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, British Columbia, March 2012.

“W.E.B. Du Bois and his Ideas on Education.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American

Education Research Association (AERA), New York, NY, April 2008.

“Oral history and the Black Freedom Struggle.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association

for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2007.

“Retrospect and Prospect: Conceptualizing a Vision for the Study African American Intellectual History and the History of Ideas in the Journal of African American History. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2006.

“W.E.B. Du Bois, ‘Strong Man Leadership,’ and the Construction of the Talented Tenth Idea.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of Southern Historical Association. Atlanta, Georgia, November 2005.

“From Civil Rights to Hip-Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Buffalo, New York, October 2005.

“From Civil Rights to Hip-Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of National Council for Black Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005.

“From Civil Rights to Hip-Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of College Language Association. University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia, April 2005.

“Hamilton E. Holmes: The Legacy Continues.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri, November 2004.

“The Dilemmas, Challenges, and Duality of an African American Educational Historian.” Paper presented at the Dean’s Diversity Committee Lecture Series. University of Georgia College of Education, Athens, Georgia, March 2004.

“W.E.B. Du Bois and the Education of Black Folk.” Paper presented at the Sixtieth Annual Family Institute Conference: Mis-Education of the Negro. Morehouse College Department of Sociology, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004.

“Revisiting ‘Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?”: W.E.B. Du Bois and the School Dichotomy Paradox.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 2003.

“Hip Hop as a Social Movement and Radical Pedagogy of Resistance.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Orlando, Florida., October, 2004.

“Victorianism, Civilizationism, and Progressivism in the Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1895-1920.” Paper presented at the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October, 2004.

“The Educational Ideas of Anna Julia Cooper and W.E.B. Du Bois, 1892-1940.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October, 2002.

“W.E.B. Du Bois and the Separate and Integrated School Dichotomy Paradox. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2002.

“High Stakes Testing and the Education of African-Americans in Georgia: An Historical Policy Analysis,” with Jessica DeCuir. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2002.

“Ideas and Representations of Martin Luther King, Jr. in High School History Textbooks. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Washington, DC., April 2001.

“Black Education and a History of the Present.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2000.

“The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois for Contemporary Higher Education at the Dawn of the Twenty- First Century,” with Larry L. Rowley. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association Montreal, Canada, April 1999.

“W.E.B. Du Bois and the History of Curriculum.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, California, April 1998.

“Answering the Call: Towards a Du Boisian Curricular Model of Education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada, April 1999.

“Retrospect and Prospect: Voucher Possibilities for African American Youth. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council for Black Studies, Washington, DC., April 1996.

“Conceptualizing an Afrocentric Approach to School Administration.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council for Black Studies, Washington, DC., April 1996.

“An Afrocentric Approach to School Leadership. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Alliance of Black School Educators, Detroit, Michigan.

“Towards an Optimal Curriculum for African-American Youth: The Educational Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois from 1930-1934. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the History of Education Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1995

“Separatist and Inclusionist Thought of African-American Philosophers during the 1930s.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1995.