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| Education |
| 1993 |
Ph.D. received in Political Science from Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dissertation:
Atomic-Powered Democracy: Policy Against Politics in the
Quest for American Nuclear Energy. |
| 1982 |
B.A. received in Political Science and in History,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, and with Honors in History. |
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| Positions Held |
| 2004- |
Department of Political Science and Social Work /
Sociology, Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina, 27401.
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| 1993-2004 |
Department of Political Science, Livingstone College,
Salisbury, North Carolina, 28144. (Department Chair,
1998-2004). |
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| Teaching Experience (Courses Taught) |
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 Political theory (U.S., African American, and Western political
theories; philosophy of social science) |
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American government (national government; state and
local government; politics of race, gender, and class) |
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International politics (globalization; global
environmental issues; political economy) |
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Comparative politics (theories of the state)
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Political geography |
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| Research Interests |
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Political theory (W.E.B. Du Bois; U.S. and Western political
thought; theories of democracy; public space; cultural
politics) |
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Environmental policies (environmental justice;
civilian nuclear energy) |
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Creation and maintenance of <WEBDuBois.org>, a links
site to Internet-accessible sources written by and about
W.E.B. Du Bois |
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| Journal Publications (Peer-Reviewed) |
| Accepted |
"Paradoxes of the South in W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk." Forthcoming in The Mississippi Quarterly. |
| 2006-07 |
"Political Legitimacy and the Dynamics of Anti-Nuclear Protest in America." Online at EnterText, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Winter) [in MS Word format]. |
| 2006 |
"Democracy, Cyberspace, and the Body." Online at Cultural Logic, Vol. 9. |
| 2006 |
"The Early Social Science of W.E.B. Du Bois." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 3:2 (September): 365-394.
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| 2005 |
"W.E.B. Du Bois and His Social-Scientific Research: A Review of Online Texts." Online at Sociation Today, 3:2 (Fall). [Journal of the North Carolina Sociological Association]. |
| 2005 |
"Getting
to the Heart of Environmental Injustice: Social Science and
Its Boundaries." Online at Theory &
Science, 6:1 (Summer). |
| 2005 |
"Politics
and Self in the Age of Digital Re(pro)ducibility." Online
at Fast
Capitalism, 1:1. |
| 2004 |
"W.E.B. Du Bois and the Socio-Political Structures of
Education." The Negro Educational Review, 55:1
(January): 9-26. [Draft
version] |
| 2003 |
"Terrorism, Anti-Terrorism, and the Normative Boundaries
of the U.S. Polity: The Spatiality of Politics after 11
September 2001." Space and Polity, 7:3 (December):
273-292. |
| 1999 |
"The Contested Terrain of Environmental Justice Research:
Community as a Unit of Analysis." Social Science
Journal, 36:2: 313-328. |
| 1999 |
"Environmental Injustice in America and Its Politics of
Scale." Political Geography, 18:1 (January):
49-74. |
| 1998 |
"Hegemony and Resistance: Toward a Research Agenda for
Cultural Politics." Midsouth Political Science
Review, vol. 2; pp. 73-93. |
| 1997 |
"Intergovernmental Conflict Over Emergency Planning: The
Politics of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant."
Polity, 30:2 (Winter): 285-314. |
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| Manuscripts Submitted |
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"Night Spaces: Darkness, Deterritorialization, and Social Control." Submitted to Space and Culture. [Status: revised and resubmitted.] |
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| Work in Progress |
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Analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois' novel, The
Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911). |
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| Professional Presentations |
| 2008 |
"Problematizing Reality: Zora Neale Hurston and Their Eyes Were Watching God." Paper presented at the 5th Annual Africana Women's Studies / Womanist Religious Studies Summit, Bennett College. 4 April. |
| 2006 |
"Politics, Rights, and Spatiality in W.E.B. Du Bois' 1906 'Address to the Country'". Presented at "The Niagara Movement and the Dawning of 20th Century Civil Rights, 1906-2006", a symposium sponsored by the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and the Harpers Ferry Historical Association. August. |
| 2005 |
"The Role of Marginality in the Social Science of W.E.B.
Du Bois." Paper presented at the 2005 Southern
Conference on African American Studies, Inc., Montgomery, AL.
February. |
| 2002 |
"Night as Dis/Order: Imagination contra Social
Rationality." Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Blue
Ridge International Conference on the Humanities & Arts,
Appalachian State University. April. |
| 2002 |
"Terrorism, Anti-Terrorism, and the Normative Boundaries
of the U.S. Polity." Paper presented at the NC Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Catawba College,
Salisbury, NC. April. |
| 2002 |
"Political Philosophy and Geographical Imagination."
Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles. March.
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| 2001 |
"Cyberspace and (Dis)Embodiment." Paper presented at
the Third Annual Blue Ridge International Conference on the
Humanities and Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
April. |
| 2001 |
"Night Spaces: Darkness and Power." Paper presented
at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, New York City. March. |
| 2000 |
"Politics Disembodied: The Internet and Democracy."
Paper presented online at a conference on the "Internet,
Democracy and Public Goods" sponsored by the Centro de
Virtual Estudios Politicas, Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Brazil. November. |
| 2000 |
"The Culture Industry in a Time of Accelerated
Globalization." Paper presented at the Second Annual
Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the
Arts, Boone, NC. April. |
| 1998 |
"Monuments and Public Space in South Africa."
Presentation at the Fall Conferences of SERSAS,
the Southeastern Regional Seminar on African Studies,
Charlottesville, Virginia. October. |
| 1998 |
"A Critical-Theoretic Approach to Environmental Inequity."
Paper presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts. March. |
| 1997 |
"The Politics of Scale: Environmental Inequity in
America." Paper presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of
the Association of American
Geographers, Fort Worth, Texas. April. |
| 1996 |
"American Attitudes toward Hispanic Immigrants: An
Exploratory Study." Paper presented at the 43rd Annual
Conference of the South Eastern Council on Latin American
Studies (SECOLAS 1996), Coral Gables, Florida. April.
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| 1996 |
"Community: The Contested Analytical Unit of Environmental
Justice Research." Paper presented at the 92nd Annual
Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Charlotte, North Carolina.
April. |
| 1995 |
"The Land of Opportunity Is Now Closed: 'Defending'
America from Foreign Influence." Paper presented at the
XIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association (LASA 1995), Washington, D.C. September.
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| 1995 |
"International Trade, National Cultures: Forces of
Hegemony and Dissent." Paper presented at the 42nd
Annual Conference of the South Eastern Council on Latin
American Studies (SECOLAS 1995), Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
March. |
| 1994 |
"Western Roles in an Interdependent World."
Presentation at the conference, "A World of
Transitions," sponsored by the Center for International
Studies of Duke University, and the Triangle Universities
Security Seminar, Durham, North Carolina. June. |
| 1992 |
"What's Behind Yucca Mountain? The High-Level
Politics of Nuclear Waste." Paper presented at the 1992
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Chicago, Illinois. September. |
| 1991 |
"Streamlined Regulation, Sidelined Democracy: The Case of
U.S. Nuclear Licensing Reform." Paper presented at the
1991 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern
Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November. |
| 1991 |
"Atomic-Powered Democracy? Intergovernmental Conflicts
Over U.S. Nuclear Energy." Paper presented at the 1991
Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association,
Tampa, Florida. November. |
| 1990 |
"Labyrinth and Leviathan: Politics Versus the State in the
Quest for American Nuclear Energy." Paper presented at
the 1990 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, San Francisco, California. September. |
| 1990 |
"'Crisis? What Legitimation Crisis?' Policy,
Protest, and American Nuclear Energy." Paper presented
at the 1990 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political
Science Association, Fort Worth, Texas. March. |
| 1989 |
"Politics, 'Anti-Politics' and Nuclear Energy: Legitimacy
and the Structure of Anti-Nuclear Protest in America."
Paper presented at the 1989 Annual Meeting of American
Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
September. |
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| Invited Lectures |
| 2008 |
"W.E.B. Du Bois and Zora Neale Hurston on the Craft of Writing."
Talk delivered as part of the Faculty Lecture Series at Bennett College. 19 February. |
| 2007 |
"The Genres of W.E.B. Du Bois." Lecture and discussion in an Advanced Composition class, an English course, at Bennett College. April. |
| 2006 |
"Survey Research and W.E.B. Du Bois' The Philadelphia Negro." Lecture in a Research Methods and Design class at Bennett College. October. |
| 2005 |
"African Americans and 19th Century Social Science."
Lecture in a Social Theory class at Bennett College.
April. |
| 2005 |
"The Social Science of W.E.B. Du Bois." Talk at a faculty
gathering of the Division of Social Sciences and Education,
Bennett College. April. |
| 2005 |
"Existentialism and Existential Psychology." Lecture in a
History and Systems of Psychology course at Fayetteville State
University. February. |
| 2004 |
"Conducting Research in the Republic of South Africa."
Lecture for the Psychology Club of Livingstone College.
April. |
| 2003 |
"John F. Kennedy: Politics and Policy Forty Years Later."
Lecture at Livingstone College's Andrew Carnegie Library
during a commemoration of J.F.K. November. |
| 2003 |
"Reexamining Existentialism." Lecture at a Livingstone
College class session on Existential Psychology.
October. |
| 2003 |
"Gandhi, King, and Non-Violent Civil Disobedience."
Lecture at a Livingstone College seminar on Conflict
Resolution. April. |
| 2002 |
"Existentialism: An Introduction." Lecture at a
Livingstone College class on the History and Systems of
Psychology. November. |
| 2002 |
"Marxist Analysis and Literary Theory" and "The Frankfurt
School and the Culture Industry Revisited." Lectures at a
Livingstone College seminar on Literary Theory. March,
April. |
| 1999 |
"Rousseau and the Historical Context of the Romantic
Tradition." Lecture at a Livingstone College seminar on the
Romantic Tradition in Literature. October. |
| 1996 |
Scholar/Facilitator for the "Choices for the 21st Century"
Program, a four-week public policy discussion series held at
the Rowan County Public Library (NC). Sponsored by the Watson
Institute for International Studies, Brown University and by
the Center for the Book, State Library of North Carolina, with
major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
October. |
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| Awards |
| 1998 |
Participant in the 1998 Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar
Abroad Program, "Overcoming the Past and Meeting the
Challenges of the Future in South Africa." Sponsored by
the US Department of Education, Center for International
Education, and arranged and administered by the
African-American Institute (Washington, DC and South African
offices). July. |
| 1982-1986 |
Departmental Fellowship, Department of Political Science,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. |
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| Organizational and Professional Experience |
| 2008 |
Reader's Report of a book manuscript; solicited by the University of Toronto Press (UTP site). |
2007 |
Manuscript reviewer for Antipode (a journal published by Blackwell).
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| 2007 |
Manuscript reviewer for Space and Culture (the journal's blog).
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| 2005 |
Manuscript reviewer for The Professional Geographer (a journal of the Association of American Geographers). |
| 2002 |
Chair of a panel, "Geographic Thought - Representing Space
and Place," at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Los Angeles. March. |
| 2001 |
Chair of a panel, "Exploring Politics and Regions," at the
97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, New York City. March. |
| 2000 |
Chair of a Roundtable Discussion on "Teaching Political
Science" convened at the Annual Meeting of the North Carolina
Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Greensboro, NC.
April. |
| 1997 |
Chair of a panel on Environmental Justice at the 93rd
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Fort Worth, Texas. April. |
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| College Service |
| 2004- |
Committee participation at Bennett College: Scholarship
Committee, Faculty Welfare Committee, General Education Curriculum Committee. |
| 1993-2004 |
Committee participation at Livingstone College, including
the Library Committee, Computer Literacy Committee, Technology
Team, Faculty Grievance Committee, and Curriculum and Catalog
Committee. |
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| Computer and Internet Skills |
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Tutoring in the use of the Internet for academic
research |
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World Wide Web site development (HTML; javascript)
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Training and troubleshooting Windows-based software
(spreadsheets; word processing; utilities)
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