African American History; Africana Studies; Black Freedom Movement; California History; Career and Leadership Development; Digital History; Pan Africanism; Popular Culture; Public History; Race and Ethnic Studies; Race and Sports Studies; Research Methods and Methodology; Texas History; Urban History; U.S. Social History; U.S. West History

Forward:

Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900–1930, by Timothy E. Nelson (Texas Tech University Press, June 2023).

Peer Reviewed Articles, Featured Digital Articles, and Book Chapters:

“The State of African American Studies in Pacific-Northwest History” in Pacific Northwest Quarterly 114:1 (2024), pp. 35-39.

“We Can Best Honor Our Past by Not Burying It: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921” in Blackpast.org (May 26, 2021).

“Working together to survive and thrive: the struggle for Black lives past and present” Leadership 17:1 (2021).

“African Americans in Western Historiography Since 2000,” Montana The Magazine of Western History—African American History in Montana and the West 1:1 Digital Issue (Summer 2020).

"The Forging of an African American Community on the Outskirts of Alamo City: African American Suburbanization in San Antonio, 1980-2000,” in M. Scott Sosebee, and Paul Sandul (et.al) Lone Star Suburbs: Life on the Texas Metropolitan Frontier (Norman, OK: Oklahoma University Press, 2019), pp. 188-211.

“Struggle on Multiple Planes: California’s Long Civil Rights Movement,” in Bruce Glasrud (ed.), Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West (Norman, OK: Oklahoma University Press, 2019), pp. 38-70.

“From Orchards to Silicon Valley: African American Suburbanization in the U.S. West, the Black San Jose Model, 1945-2000,” in Yuya Kiuchi’s edited volume, Race Still Matters: The Reality of African American Lives and the Myth of Postracial Society (New York: SUNY Press, 2017), pp. 133-162.

“Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement” in Blackpast.org “Perspectives” (August 23, 2015).

“’Doing the Right Thing for the Sake of Doing the Right Thing’: The Revolt of the Black Athlete and the Modern Student-Athlete Movement, 1956-2014,” The Western Journal of Black Studies (Vol. 38, Num. 4, Winter 2015), pp. 260-278.

“I Try To Do the Best Job I Can: Herbert Ruffin I and Life in Central Texas and the San Francisco Bay Area, 1946-2002”, Lone Star Legacy: African American History in Texas 2:2 (2013), pp. 7-34.

“The Search for Significance in Interstitial Space: San Jose and its Great Black Migration, 1941-1968,” in Ingrid Banks (et. al.) Black California Dreamin': The Crises of California’s African-American Communities (Santa Barbara: UC Santa Barbara Center for Black Studies Research, December 2012), pp. 19-56.

“Sunnyhills: Race and Working-Class Politics in Postwar Silicon Valley, 1945-1968,” Journal of the West 49:1 (Fall 2009), pp. 113-123.

Accepted for Publication:

Book (At Copyediting Stage), “Urban Archipelago: African Americans in the Twentieth Century West” (Currently Under Contract with University of Arizona Press). Coauthored, first-author monograph with Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Emeritus Professor of American History Professor Quintard Taylor.

Article/Government Report, “The Color Line and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, 1890-2024” in Organization of American Historians-National Parks and Services, Golden Gate National Recreation Area: Historic Resource Study. Will be published in 2025 as 50th year report.

Book Reviews:

Book Review, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 54, Number 2 (Summer 2023). Quintard Taylor, The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era — 2nd Edition (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022).

David R. Johnson, In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2020) in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 124:5 (October 2021), pp. 214-215.

Marne L. Campbell, Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016) in American Historical Review: Journal of the American Historical Association 122:5 (2017), pp. 1617-1618.

Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, Sweet Freedom’s Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841-1869 (Norman, OK: University Press of Oklahoma, 2016) in Southern California Quarterly 99:3 (2017), pp. 374-376.

Bernadette Pruitt, The Other Great Migration: The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 (College Station, TX: Texas A&M, 2013) in Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 17:1 (2015), pp. 75-76.

Andre Johnson (ed.), Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013) in Journal of Race and Policy.

Charles M. Robinson III, The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper (Norman, OK: Oklahoma University Press, 2008) in the New Mexico Historical Review 87:3 (2012), pp. 373-374.

Rev. France A. Davis, and Nayra Atiya, France Davis (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2007) in the Journal of the American West (Fall 2007), pp. 88-88.

Johnnella E. Butler, Color-Lines to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001) in the Journal of the West (Fall 2004).

Jack M. Balkin, et. al., What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said (New York: New York University Press, 2001) for the Journal of the West (Spring 2003).

Digital Publications:

Entries for Blackpast.org (2005-2019): “Akuetteh, Cynthia Helen (1948- )”; “Antoine, Caesar Carpenter”; “Ashe, Arthur (1943-1993)”; “Bean, Maurice Darrow (1928-2009)”; “Bertonneau, E. Arnold (1834-1912)”; “Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod (1875-1955)”; “Black Lives Matter, The Syracuse Chapter” (2015- ); “Brazeal, Aurelia Erskine (1943- )”; “Carlos, John (1945-present)”; “Carter, W. Beverly (1921-1982)”; “Davis Bend, Mississippi (1865-1887)”; “Davis, Ernie (1940-1963)”; “Dawson, William Levi - composer (1898-1990)”; “Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)”; “Dunn, Oscar J. (ca. 1825-1871)”; “East Palo Alto, California (1925-present),” *Spotlighted entry; “Edwards, Harry (1942-present)”; “Fortune, T. Thomas (1856-1928)”; “Gadsden, James I. (1948- )”; “Granger, Lester Blackwell (1896-1976)”; “Gross, Ben (1921-present)”; “Jackson, Jesse Louis. Jr. (1965-present),” *Spotlighted entry—showcased by the author during television interview about Blackpast.org in Chicago; “Jordan, Mosina H. (1943- )”; “Keith, Kenton Wesley (1939- )”; “Metcalfe, Ralph Harold (1910-1978)”; “Montgomery, Isaiah (1847-1924)”; “Mound Bayou (1887-present)”; “Nell, William C. (1816-1874)”; “Nichols, Brian A. (1965- )”; “Overton, Sarah Massey (1850-1914)”; “Owens, Jesse (1913-1980),” *Spotlighted entry; “O’Neal, Adrienne S. (1954- )”; “Pinckney, Clementa C. (1973-2015),” *Spotlighted entry; “Stith, Charles R. (1949- )”; “Sistema de Castas (1500s-1829)”; “Smith, Tommie (1944-present)”; Stuckey Jr., Ples Sterling (1932-2018); “The California Fair Housing Act/The Rumford Act (1963-1968)”; “The Conventions of Colored Citizens of the State of California (1855-1865)”; “Washington, Kenny (1918-1971)”; “Vaughan, George L. (1885-1950)”; “Weaver, Robert Clifton (1907-1997)”; “Williams, Daniel Hale (1856-1931)”; “Withers, John Lovelle, II (1948-)”; and “Young, Johnny (1940- ).”

“Race: Jesse Owens and the African American Tradition” in Oxford African American Studies Center (Oxford University Press, 2016).

“The Great Migration from Alabama” in Encyclopedia of Alabama (Auburn University Press, 2008).

“Willie Mays” in Encyclopedia of Alabama (Auburn University Press, 2007).

Encyclopedia Entries:

“Which Came First, Jim or James Crow?: De Jure Racial Discrimination Revisited,” in Sherwood Thompson (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015).

“A. Phillip Randolph” in Matthew Whitaker, Icons of Black America (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2011).

“Arthur Ashe” in in Icons of Black America (2011).

“Nat Turner” in Icons of Black America (2011).

“Negro League Baseball,” in Carl Rollyson (ed.), The Twenties in America (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2012).

“The Black Nadir” in Leslie Alexander, and William Rucker (eds.), Encyclopedia of African American History (ABC-CLIO, 2010).

Funding:

Organization of American Historians-National Parks and Services, Golden Gate National Recreation Area: Historic Resource Study. 2023-2025.

Humanities Center Spring Symposia Funding, Syracuse University, 2023.

Office of Research Funding, Syracuse University, 2017.

Co-Curricular Funding, Syracuse University, 2008-present.

National Endowment for the Humanities Seed Grant Program, Syracuse University, 2015-2016.

Humanities Center Spring Symposia Funding, Syracuse University, 2015.

Conference Funding, Office of the Chancellor (for graduate panels at major conferences), Syracuse University, 2009-2011, 2013.

U.S. Historian Delegate, People to People Citizen Ambassador Program, South Africa, 2010.

Syracuse University Service:

Department of African American Studies, Director, AAS Undergraduate Studies Committee, Fall 2020; Fall 2021-present.

Department of African American Studies, Chair, Fall 2016-Spring 2020.

Department of African American Studies, Lead Organizer, AAS Colloquium/Speaker Series, 2019-2020; 2021-present.

Syracuse University, Pan African Studies Graduate Program Liaison, Future Professoriate Program, 2015-2020; Fall 2022-Spring 2024.

Syracuse University, Advisor, Student African American Society, Fall 2013-Spring 2020.

Syracuse University, Advisor, Itanwa Orinwa Ceremony (Black Graduation), 2013-2020.

Syracuse University, Africa Initiative, Committee Member, 2008-2020.

Co-Director, 2014-2015, Fall 2017-Spring 2019.

Syracuse University, Advisor, Black Graduate Student Association, Fall 2015-Spring 2020.

Department of African American Studies, Organizer and Tour Guide, Department of African American Studies Annual Field Trip, 2010-2020.

Department of African American Studies, Faculty and Staff Search Committee Member, 2010-Present.

Department of African American Studies, Interim Director, CFAC, Fall 2018.

Syracuse University, Invited Committee Member, Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination, April 2018.

Syracuse University, Invited Participant, University Plaque Dedication Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, April 4, 2018. The plaque was unveiled alongside Chancellor.

Syracuse University, Co-Convener (with Theo Cateforis), Harry Allen, “Shooting the Enemy: My Life in Pictures with the People who Became P.E. (Public Enemy),” Department of Art & Music Histories Symposium, March 23, 2010.

College of Arts and Sciences, Humanities Council Committee, 2016-2020.

Department of African American Studies, CFAC Board of Directors, 2016-2020.

College of Arts and Sciences, Arts and Sciences Chair Committee, 2016-2020.

Syracuse University, Faculty Participant, Future Professoriate Program Conference, Hamilton, 2009-2019.

Department of African American Studies, Webmaster, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Spring 2010-2018.

College of Arts and Sciences, First Year Forum Teacher, 2013-2016; 2017-2018.

Department of African American Studies, Committee Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 2014-2017.

Syracuse University, Advisor, Sports Professionals of Color, 2016-2017.

College of Arts and Sciences, Co-Convener (with Horace Campbell), “The Tireless Pursuit: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Micere Mugo as Activist, Artist, and Architect of Alternative Sites of Knowledge,” April 2, 2015.

Syracuse University, Advisor, Student Hip Hop Organization, 2015-2017.

Syracuse University, University Standing Committee Member, 2015-2016.

Syracuse University, Co-Convener (with Micere Githae Mugo), “Orature as Resistance Art Against Repressive Rule: A Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Achebe’s Arrow of God,” October 17, 2014.

College of Arts and Sciences, Dean of the College of Arts and Science Search Committee Member, 2014-2015.

Department of African American Studies, Committee Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2008-2014.

Department of African American Studies, Africana 365 Film Series, Spring 2013-2019.

College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty Council Member, 2013-2015.

College of Arts and Sciences, Committee Member, Curriculum Committee, 2012-2013.

Syracuse University, Co-Organizer, Host, and Moderator, “A Conversation with WellsLink Keynote Speaker Jeff Chang,” Office of Multicultural Affairs, October 5, 2012.

Syracuse University, Co-Convener (with Kendall Phillips), “The Activist Story: The Legacy of George Wiley,” CRS Storytelling Conference and Activist workshop, March 24-25, 2010.

History Department, Search Committee Member, 2009-2010.

College of Arts and Sciences, Committee Member, Webpage Design Committee, Spring 2009-Spring 2010.

Professional Organizations:

Award Committee Member, Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award Committee, Western History Association, Spring 2024.

WHA Business Meeting Member, Western Historical Association, Kansas City, October 2024; Las Vegas. October 16-19, 2019; and Oakland. October 15, 2011.

Conference Program Committee Member, Western Historical Association [WHA], Albuquerque. November 2019-October 17, 2020.

National Historical Publications and Records Commission Documentary Editions Grants Program, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC, 2019-present.

Professional Development Instructor, National History Day, Worked with young scholars on their research from G. Ray Bodley High School in Fulton, New York; D.C. Everest Junior High School in Weston, Wisconsin; and Bonnie Branch Middle School in Ellicott City, Maryland. 2016-2019.

Education Advisory Board Member, Blackpast.Org, Seattle. Fall 2008-Present.

Attended National Educational Association’s (NEA) Human and Civil Rights Annual Awards Dinner, Orlando. July 2, 2015. Blackpast.Org received the NEA’s 2015 Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award.

Attended New York Public Library’s Best of Reference Invitation (honoring the top 25 referenced sources in the NYPL system), New York. May 7, 2009.

Board Member, Silicon Valley Africa Developments, Inc., San Jose. Fall 2015-Spring 2017.

Committee on Committees Standing Member, Organization of American Historians, Bloomington, Indiana. Spring 2014-Spring 2016.

Speaker Bureau Member, Blackpast.Org, Seattle. November 2012-Present.

U.S. Historian Delegate, People to People, South Africa. October 25-November 4, 2010.

Steering Committee Member, New York African Studies Association (NYASA), Syracuse. Fall 2008-Spring 2009.

African American Studies Webpage, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Fall 2010-Spring 2018. Projects: Developer, Webmaster, and Researcher.

African Initiative Webpage, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Fall 2008- Spring 2018. Projects: Developer, Webmaster, and Researcher.

Contributor: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Cultures in the Americas (Washington DC: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, 1999).

Guest Lecturer, “Black Westerners in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century U.S. History,” Colorado College. November 2023.

Panelist, Presidential Roundtable on “Teaching the Black West,” Western Historical Association, Los Angeles, October 2023.

Chair, “Restoring Black Pasts: Stories of Power and Memory in the American West,” Western Historical Association, Los Angeles, October 2023.

Roundtable Participant, “2022 PCB-AHA session honoring Quintard Taylor” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historians Association, Portland. August 10, 2022.

Chair, “Forging Community and Fighting for Justice in the Multiracial West,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historians Association, Virtual. October 21 2021.

Keynote, “Freedom's Racial Frontier: African Americans and Their Quest for Freedom in the Contemporary Century U.S. West,” National Parks and Services. February 11, 2021.

Guest Lecturer, “Black Westerners in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century U.S. History,” Colorado College. December 2020.

Committee on Race and American West Panel Organizer and Host, “In Search of the Racial Frontier: The State of the African American History in the American West,” Western Historical Association, Albuquerque/Virtual. October 17, 2020.

Chair, “Memory and Civil Rights Among African American and Latinx Activists,” Western Historical Association, Albuquerque. October 17, 2020.

Presidential Panel Organizer and Chair, “Presidential Panel: The West as Meeting Grounds in African American History,” Western Historical Association, Albuquerque. October 16, 2020.

Chair, “Afro-Frontier & Borderlands: 100 Years Later, Intersection at Blackdom, New Mexico,” Western Historical Association, Albuquerque. October 15, 2020.

Keynote, “The African American West in Contemporary African American Studies,” University of Kansas. March 2020.

Keynote, “Struggle on Multiple Planes: Blacks in 20th and 21st Century California,” Fresno State University. February 2020.

Guest Lecturer, “Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Contemporary West,” Colorado College. December 2019.

Invited Talk, “The State of Race and Islamophobia in the Contemporary U.S.,” The Pan African Community of Central New York, Syracuse. September 28, 2019.

Panel Organizer and Presenter, “African American West in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,” Western Historical Association, San Antonio. October 19, 2018.

Keynote and Roundtable Participant, “Campus Climate and the Freedom Rights Struggle,” Hendricks Chapel Dean’s Convocation, Syracuse University. March 2018.

Roundtable Chair and Presenter, “The State of the African American West, 1900-present,” American Historical Association, Washington D.C. January 2018.

Invited Talk, “The Politics of Professional Service in the Academy,” Future Professoriate Program Conference, Hamilton. May 2017.

Invited Talk, “The Black Panther: The Influence of Africa and Its Diaspora on the 21st Century Global Imagination,” Ghana Society of Central New York, Syracuse. March 24, 2017.

Guest Lecturer, “Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in the Silicon Valley,” Berea College, Berea. March 16, 2016.

Invited Participant, “’We Believed We Could Change Things’: African Americans in the Silicon Valley and the Revolt of the Socially Conscious Athlete, 1956-2016,” Urban Historical Association, Chicago. October 14, 2016.

Keynote, “San Jose’s Colored Convention Movement, Civil Rights, and Suffrage, 1860-1893,” Trinity Episcopal Church/Allies for Freedom, San Jose. April 18, 2015. For the ordination of San Jose Black pioneers into the Sainthood of the Episcopal Church of America.”

Invited Participant, “On Racialism,” Syracuse University NAACP Blacktivism Conference. November 14, 2015.

Workshop Organizer and Presenter, “A Quest for Freedom: The African American Experience in the West,” Organization of American Historians Summer Regional Workshop, Glendale. July 18, 2015.

Invited Participant, “Diverse Faculty and the Tenure Track,” Future Professoriate Program Conference, Hamilton. May 14-15, 2015.

Invited Participant, “Setting the Socio-historical foundation for Understanding Ferguson, Missouri,” AAS Teach-In on Ferguson at Maxwell, Syracuse. September 2014.

Keynote, “The Forging of a Black Community: Rev. Peter Williams Cassey and the Origins of Black San Jose.” Trinity Episcopal Church/Allies for Freedom, San Jose. July 27, 2014.

Invited Talk, “The Legacy of Nelson Mandela,” The Pan African Community of Central New York, Syracuse. May 25, 2014.

Panel Chair, for two Syracuse University graduate student panels, National Council of Black Studies, Miami, May 5-8, 2014.

Invited Participant, “Brothers Taking Action: African American Soldier Activism from Fort Hood 43 (Texas) to People’s Justice Committee, 1966-1971,” Social Science History Association, Chicago. November 21-24, 2013.

Panel Chair, “Black Histories and Heritages,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Jacksonville. October 2, 2013.

Invited Participant, “Why Graduate School?,” McNair Graduate School Series Workshop, Syracuse. July 19, 2013.

Chair and Invited Participant, “The Revolt of the Black Athlete and its Contribution to the Achievement of the Santa Clara County and America,” Urban Affairs Association Conference, San Francisco, April 3-6, 2013.

Keynote, “Radical Roots: A. Philip Randolph, and the Impact of the African American Left on the Civil Rights Movement,” Rochester City School District, New York. December 13, 2012.

Invited Talk, “When Athletes Were Rebels: Speed City, San Jose, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete,” Africa Initiative, Syracuse. April 26, 2012.

Invited Participant, “Modern Day Lynchings: Trayvon Martin and the Stand Your Ground Movement,” Africa Initiative Teach-In, Syracuse. March 26, 2012.

Invited Participant, “Ben Gross and UAW Local 560: How the Civil Rights Movement and Labor Movement Intersected into Black Liberation Politics in Postwar Silicon Valley, 1945-1968,” Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee. March 2012.

Invited Participant, for film Egalite for All (on the Haitian Revolution), CFAC, Syracuse. February 11, 2012.

Presenter, “De facto Discrimination: Silicon Valley Blacks and the 21st Century Color-Line, 1968-1990,” American Studies Association Conference, San Antonio. November 18-21, 2011.

Presidential Panelist (Round Table), “The State of the Field: Western African American History,” Western Historical Association, Oakland, October 2011.

Invited Participant, “The Forging of a Postwar Community: Black San Jose during the Second Great Migration, 1941-1968,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historians Association, Seattle. August 13-16, 2011.

Invited Participant and Workshop Organizer, “Diversity in the Classroom,” Future Professoriate Program Conference, Hamilton. May 2011.

Invited Participant, “The Socio-Historical Context of U.S. Society and Influences on Justice Marshall’s life,” College of Law Symposium, Syracuse. April 16, 2011.

Round Table Participant, “Committed to Serve: Africana Studies at Predominantly White Institutions,” National Council of Black Studies Conference, Cincinnati. March 2011.

Panel Chair, “Expanding Narratives: Reconstructing Popular Discourses of Agency” (SU graduate panel), National Council of Black Studies, Cincinnati. March 2011.

Presenter, “Vanilla Suburb: Silicon Valley, Sustainability and Race, 1945-1968,” The Urban History Association, Las Vegas. October 20-23, 2010.

Invited Participant and Workshop Organizer, “Maximizing Your Experience at Conferences,” Future Professoriate Program Conference, Hamilton. May 21-22, 2010.

Guest Lecturer, “Politics and Poetics during the Golden Age of Hip Hop, 1979-1992,” AAS 338, Syracuse. March 29, 2010.

Panel Chair, “Political Agency in the African Diaspora: Producing Counter-Narratives through Social Movements, Scholarship, and Cultural Resistance” (SU graduate panel), National Council of Black Studies, New Orleans, March, 2010.

Keynote, “Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in the Santa Clara County from the Spanish Era to the Silicon Valley,” African American Heritage House/History San Jose. June 2010.

Invited Participant, “The Job Interview,” Graduate Career Services, Syracuse University. October 2009.

Presenter, “Uninvited Neighbors and their Quest for Freedom: Silicon Valley Blacks and the State of Housing during the Third Great Migration, 1970-1990,” Suburbanization Conference, Hofstra University. October 2009.

Panel Chair, “Blackness as Invisible: Struggles for Citizenship across the Americas” (SU graduate panel), Association for the Study of African American Life and History and (ASALH), Cincinnati. October, 2009.

Presenter, “Silicon Valley Blacks Quest for Freedom, 1860-2000,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historians Association Conference, Albuquerque. August 8, 2009.

Invited Participant, “Is Your Dissertation Publishable?,” Future Professoriate Program, Blue Mountain Lake, New York. May 13-14, 2009.

Invited Talk, “Slavery and Our Roots,” Beyond Boundaries, Syracuse. March 5, 2009.

Presenter, “Harry Edwards, Kenneth Noel, and the Rise of the Black Athletic Revolt, 1960-1967,” Association for the Study of African American History and Life Conference, Birmingham, Alabama. October 3, 2008.

Guest Lecturer, “Post-Colonialism and Urban American during the Golden Age of Hip Hop, 1979-1992,” AAS 611, Syracuse. September 9, 2008.

Invited Talk, “Nineteenth Century Black Rural San Jose,” Beyond the City Limits: The Rural African American Experience in the West Conference, Fresno State University. April 26, 2008.