Dr. H. Lavar Pope, Ph.D.

aka AVDJ $am $oul

Phone: 408-***-**** Web: http://lavarpope.com Email: actfmz@r.postjobfree.com Résumé/Press Kit

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Politics, December 2012

Fields of Study: American Political Development; Race & Ethnicity; Political Communication; Political Ethnography

Dissertation: “Internal colonization and revolt: Rap as an underground political discourse in Oakland, CA from 1965-2010” M.A. Lehigh University, Department of Political Science, 2005 B.A. Lehigh University, Department of Political Science; Department of English, summa cum laude, 2004

RELEVANT TECHNOLOGICAL PROFICIENCIES

Operating Systems: Mac OSX (Advanced); Microsoft Windows (Advanced); Linux (Intermediate)

Audio/Video Hardware: Technics SL-1200 MK2, M3D, and MK5 turntables (Advanced); Rane 57, Sixty-One, Sixty-Two, Sixty-Four, and Sixty-Eight mixers (Advanced); Shure 58 Beta microphone (Advanced); Shure 44-7 turntable cartridge (Advanced)

Live Audio/Video Mixing Software: Rane Serato DJ and Video Plug-in

(Advanced); Virtual DJ (Advanced); Mix Emergency (Intermediate) Audio Engineering and Editing Software: Adobe Audition (Advanced); Audacity (Advanced); Avid Pro Tools (Intermediate) Video Engineering and Editing Software: Final Cut Pro (Intermediate) Research Software: Thomson Reuters Endnote (Advanced); Microsoft Word

(Advanced); Google Docs (Advanced); Yoshicoder Content Analysis

(Advanced); SPSS (Intermediate)

Instructional Technology: Blackboard (Advanced); Moodle (Advanced); D2L

(Advanced)

RELEVANT PRACTITIONER MEMBERSHIPS

The Association of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Coast 2 Coast DJ Coalition Member

Dr. H. Lavar Pope, Ph.D. aka AVDJ $am $oul – Résumé/Press Kit, 2 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professional Audio-Visual Disc-Jockey, Various Organizations, 2000 – Present

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Ohio University, Athens, OH. January 2015 – December 2015

Visiting Instructor, Department of Political Science, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA. August 2013 – May 2014 Instructor, Department of Political Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. May 2010 – July 2013

Instructor, Division of Social Sciences, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA. January 2010 – December 2012 Graduate Assistant, Department of Politics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2006 – June 2009

Graduate Assistant, Department of Political Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. August 2004 – May 2005

RELEVANT TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Ohio University (Visiting Assistant Professor)

Special Topics in American Politics: Power, Rap Music, and Urban America

(4901), Upper Division Undergraduate Course and Graduate Course, Fall 2015

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Visiting Instructor) Seminar: Power, Rap Music, and Urban America (POLISCI 492-02), Upper Division Undergraduate Course Cross-listed as a Gender Studies Minor Course, Spring 2013

Lehigh University (Instructor)

Music and Politics in Contemporary American Society (POLS 395), Upper Division Undergraduate and Graduate Course Cross-listed as an Africana Studies Course, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, and Fall 2013 RELEVANT EVENT PLANNING, CONFERENCE

PRESENTATION, AND PANELS

Registered Peer-Reviewer for: Journal of Hip-hop Studies; Social Movement Studies; Journal of Social, Cultural, and Political Protest; Words, Beats, and Life Dr. H. Lavar Pope, Ph.D. aka AVDJ $am $oul – Résumé/Press Kit, 3

“A New Industry Standard: Illustrating Video Manipulation with a Digital Vinyl System and Exploring its Implications for Political Communication Specialists,” Paper Presented at the “Twittering on the Brink: New Media and Campaigning” Panel at the 2015 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, Chicago, IL

“The Rise of the Politics of Visibility, Last Resort, and Disregard in the Bay Area Underground Rap Music Scene” Presented at the “Race, Class, and Ethnicity” Panel at the 2013 Midwest Political Science Association

(MPSA) Conference, Chicago, IL and at the “Hip-hop: The Art of Resistance” Panel at the 2013 Left Forum held at Pace University, New York, NY

Co-Presenter for “The Underground Method: A Live Interactive Demonstration of Production, Recording, and Remixing Urban Protest Media” at The Inter(Play) Hip Hop Symposium (with co-presenter André McDaniel) at Lehigh University, Department of Theater, Spring 2015 Event Co-Planner for Linda Williams “On the Wire” Visit and Talk for 2015 James Lecture in Urban Politics at Ohio University, Department of Political Science, Spring 2015

Presenter for “The Ballot, the Bullet, or the Microphone: Rap Music’s Origins, Development, and Future as a Form of Political Communication in America” at the 2014 Frederick Douglass Interdisciplinary Research Conference (Theme: Turning Points) at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2014

Presenter for “The Rise of the Politics of Visibility, Last Resort, and Disregard in the Bay Area Local Rap Music Scene” at the Political Science Student Association (POSSA) Faculty Research Panel at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in September 2013 and at the 2013 First Annual Black Cultural Conference at University of California Santa Cruz, Winter 2013 Event Liaison for Marc Bamuthi Joseph, “The Spoken Word” Talk and Performance, Lehigh University, Department of Theater, Fall 2012 Panelist for “Love the Way You Lie” Music Video Panel Discussant, Lehigh University, Women’s Center, Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 Event Liaison for Kris “KRS-ONE” Parker’s “The Fundamentals of Hip-Hop” Visit and Talk, Lehigh University, University Productions and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Spring 2004

Dr. H. Lavar Pope, Ph.D. aka AVDJ $am $oul – Résumé/Press Kit, 4 PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Pope, H. L. (Forthcoming 2016). Rap and Politics: A Case Study of Panther, Gangster, and Hyphy Discourses in Oakland, CA (1965-2010). New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Pope, H. L. (2014). Hyphy rap music, cooptation, and black fanatics in Oakland, CA (1994-2010). SOULS: A critical journal of black politics, culture, and society. doi: 10.1080/10999949.2014.970471

Pope, H. L. (2014). The politics of violence, hustling, and contempt in the Oakland, CA rap music scene. In C. Malone & G. Martinez (Eds.), The organic globalizer: The political development of hip hop. New York and London: Bloomsbury Press.

Work in Progress

Pope, H. L. “A New industry standard: Digital Vinyl Systems, Video Manipulation, and the Future of Political Communication.” (Article Manuscript in Progress)

Other Research

Pope, H. L., & Malek, V. (Producers). (June 4, 2005). My last days (the last days of Socrates) (DVD). Community Television of Santa Cruz County Pope, H. L. (May 2004). Protest into pop: Hip-hop’s devolution into mainstream pop music and the underground resistance.” Lehigh Review Pope, H. L. (December 2003). Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali. Reel American history, Part of the History on Trial Project, from http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/reels/films/list/0_2/ REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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