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  • Caryl PhillipsCaryl Phillips, Professor of English, Yale University. Phillips was born in St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, and he now lives in New York City. He is the editor of two anthologies, has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and he is the author of three works of non-fiction and eight novels. Crossing The River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. After being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1992, Caryl Phillips was on the 1993 Granta list of Best of Young British Writers. His novel A Distant Shore won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize. In 2006, he received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award for Dancing in the Dark. His new book, Foreigners, will be published in September 2007 in Britain and the United States.
  • brundageW. Fitzhugh Brundage, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Lynching in the New South (Illinois, 1993), A Socialist Utopia in the New South (Illinois, 2003), and The Southern Past (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005), for which he won the 2006 Charles Sydnor Prize and the 2006 Lillian Smith Award. He has also edited three collections of essays, Under Sentence of Death: Essays on Lynching in the South (University of North Carolina Press, 1997), Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Regional Identity in the American South (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), and Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: A Centenary of Up From Slavery (University Press of Florida, 2003).
  • DunsonStephanie Dunson, Department of English, University of Rhode Island. Educated at Ohio University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she has taught in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University and the Center for Academic Development at Smith College. She has served as Director of the Writing Center at Mount Holyoke College and is a faculty consultant for the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. While at UMass, she received funding from a special Mellon Foundation Grant to research current methods in African-American Studies and was also awarded a Minority Dissertation Fellowship by the Ford Foundation and National Academies.
  • KrasnerDavid Krasner, Department of Theater, Emerson College. He received his Ph. D. from Tufts University. His books include: A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1920 (Palgrave, 2002); A Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama (ed.) (Blackwell, 2004); African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader (co-ed.) (Oxford, 2001), winner of the 2002 Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research for the best book on African American Theatre and Performance; Method Acting Reconsidered: Theory, Practice, Future (St. Martin's, 2000), and Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910 (St. Martin's, 1997), winner of the 1998 Errol Hill Award.
  • staufferJohn Stauffer, Departments of English and History of American Civilization, Harvard University. His books include Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism(co-ed.) (New Press: 2006); Meteor of War: The John Brown Story (co-ed.) (Brandywine Press, 2004); The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (Harvard University Press, 2002), which won the Lincoln, the Frederick Douglass, and the Avery Craven Prizes.





  • CurtisSusan Curtis, Department of History, Purdue University. She is the author of A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture (Johns Hopkins,1991), which demonstrated the interplay between sacred and secular realms in the reformulation of Protestant thought and practice between the 1880's and 1920's; Dancing to a Black Man’s Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin (University of Missouri Press, 1994), which used the life of Scott Joplin to examine the cross-racial collaboration at the turn of the century that resulted in ragtime, a quintessentially American popular music; and The First Black Actors on the Great White Way (University of Missouri Press, 1998), which places the landmark event noted in the title in the cultural context of the United States on the eve of World War I.
  • BaldwinDavarian Baldwin, Department of History, Boston College. Baldwin is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. He has been the recipient
    of the Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame (2000-2001) and the Carter G. Woodson Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Virginia (2003-2004). He is the author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (UNC Press, 2007) as well as (articles already posted on the site can go here). He is currently at work on two manuscript projects: Black Belts and Ivory Towers: The Racial Foundations of U.S. Social Thought and UniverCities: How Knowledge Institutions are Re-Structuring the Urban Landscape.
  • jacksonRobert Andrew Jackson, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia. Jackson received his Ph.D in English from New York University in 2001. He is the author of Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation (Louisiana State University Press, 2005) as well as "The Celluloid War Before The Birth: Race and History in Early American Film," in Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee, eds., Southern Exposure: The U.S. South in Film (University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming) and co-author of “We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves': Race and Southern History in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain," in Richard C. Moreland, ed., A Companion to William Faulkner (Blackwell, 2006). He is currently completing “Fade In, Crossroads: The Southern Cinema, 1890-1940,” his doctoral dissertation in History at the University of Virginia.
  • HaleGrace Elizabeth Hale, Department of History, University of Virginia. She is the author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (Pantheon, 1998), for which she won the Willie Lee Rose Award from the Southern Association of Women' Historians and the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award from the University of Virginia. Her new book Rebel, Rebel: Outsiders in America, 1945-2000 is forthcoming.



  • Shane WhiteShane White, Department of History, University of Sydney. He is the author of (with Graham White) The Sounds of Slavery (Beacon Press, 2005); Stories of Freedom in Black New York (Harvard University Press, 2002); (with Graham White) Stylin': African-American Expressive Culture From Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit (Cornell University Press, 1998); Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 (University of Georgia Press, 1991). He is currently an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow, 2006-2010. Among many awards, Prof. White has received the Queensland Premier's History Prize in 2005, the James A. Rawley Prize for 2003 from the Organization of American Historians, and the John Cawelti Award of the American Culture Association for 1999.


  • GiggieJohn M. Giggie, Department of History, University of Alabama. He previously was the Director of the American Studies Program, and won the Presidential Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teaching at UTSA in May 2006. He is the editor of Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2002). His lastest work is After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2007). He recently coedited a volume, "Selling Race: The Limits and Liberties of Markets," to be published in March 2008 under the aegis of the American Quarterly.






  • CorboldClare Corbold, Department of History, University of Sydney. She is the author of "Streets, Sounds and Identity in Interwar Harlem," Journal of Social History (forthcoming); “African Americans and the Global Black World, 1919-1935,” Global America, ed. Frank A. Ninkovich et al, (Imprint Publications, Chicago, 2006); and “US Imperialism in the Twentieth Century?” Australasian Journal of American Studies 24 (Dec. 2005): 128-141. Her book, Becoming African Americans, 1919-1939, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.



  • ErenbergLewis Erenberg, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago. He is the author of The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling (Oxford University Press, 2005); Swingin' The Dream: Big Band Jazz and The Rebirth of American Culture (University of Chicago, 1998); The War in American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 1996); and Steppin' Out: New York City Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 1984). He has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Culture at the University of Salzburg and Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Munich.
  • RiisThomas Riis, College of Music and and Director of the American Music Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder. His book Just Before Jazz (Smithsonian, 1995), devoted to African-American Broadway shows, received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1995. He edited a complete edition of the first major African American Broadway musical in 1902, In Dahomey, (A-R Editions, 1996) and is the author of Frank Loesser (Yale University Press, forthcoming). He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Lueneburg, Germany.



  • registerCharlene Regester, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has published widely on the contributions of African Americans to American cinema before 1950. Her articles and essays have appeared in Film Literature Quarterly, Popular Culture Review, Western Journal of Black Studies, Studies in American Culture, Film History, Journal of Film and Video. She is the co-editor of the Oscar Micheaux Society Newsletter (published by Duke University) and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Film and Video.





  • katzMark Katz, Department of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mark Katz has written two books, Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music (2004) and The Violin: A Research and Information Guide (2006). He is currently at work on two books, The Social Life of Sound Technologies: A History in Documents (with Timothy Taylor and Anthony Grajeda) and Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip Hop DJ. Other professional activities include membership on the AMS (American Musicological Society) Council and on the International Advisory Board of CHARM (Centre for the Historical Analysis of Recorded Music). He is currently a review editor for Beethoven Forum and serves on the advisory board of the Journal of Musicology and editorial board of the Journal of the Society for American Music. Mark Katz is a long-time violinist and a beginning turntablist.
  • kasson2.jpgJohn Kasson, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Professor Kasson has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1971. He has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards, including a Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship for inspirational undergraduate teaching, election to the Society of American historians, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Humanities Institute at the University of California at Davis, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is author of Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900 (1976); Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (1978); Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America (1990); and Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America (2001). His current scholarly project, which has the working title, The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America, will explore the place of children in the changing financial and emotional economies during a pivotal decade.
  • mafflyLaurie Maffly-Kipp, Department of Religion, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Professor Maffly-Kipp's research and teaching focus on African-American religions, religion on the Pacific borderlands of the Americas, and issues of intercultural contact. She is the author of Religion and Society in Frontier California (Yale University Press, 1994), co-editor of several collections, Practicing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630-1965 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006); writings by African-American women historians; and a forthcoming volume of essays about Mormonism in the Pacific Basin. Her forthcoming book is entitled African-American Communal Narratives: Religion, Race, and Memory in Nineteenth-Century America. She serves on the editorial boards for The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History, and Teaching Theology and Religion.
  • jankenKenneth Janken, Department of African and African American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Kenneth Janken is the author of two biographies: Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual (1993) and White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP (2003), which won honorable mention in the Outstanding Book Awards from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. He has published articles on topics ranging from the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights movement in the 1940s and African Americans and world affairs.



  • williamsLyneise Williams, Department of Art, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Lyneise Williams is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art. Her scholarly interests include race and representation, post-colonial theory, identity formation, and visual culture of the African Diaspora, particularly the cultural production of Afro-Latinos. Williams also is active in the field of public art and is a member of a team of artists selected through an international competition to design and create the North Carolina Freedom Monument in Raleigh, North Carolina.



  • harperMatt Harper, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
    A Ph.D. Candidate in U.S. History, Matt Harper is a Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellow (2007-08) and a McColl Fellow (2007-08) at UNC's Center for the Study of the American South. He is writing a dissertation on African-American religion and public life in North Carolina from emancipation to Jim Crow.








  • kalissGreg Kaliss, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Greg Kaliss is a Ph.D. candidate in History at UNC, currently writing his dissertation, "Everyone's All-Americans: Race, Men's College Athletics, and the Ideal of Equal Opportunity." A version of one chapter, "Un-Civil Discourse: Charlie Scott, the Integration of College Basketball, and the 'Progressive Mystique,'" will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Sport History. He is a member of the UNC African-American History Workshop, and his rock and roll lifestyle is being generously supported by the McColl Dissertation Year fellowship from the Center for the Study of the American South.
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