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Allison Blakely

Professor of European and Comparative History

George and Joyce Wein Professor of African American Studies

Boston University

Office: African American Studies Center

*** ****tfort Street, Rm 201

Brookline, MA 02446

Ph.: 617-***-****

abqewq@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Oregon State College, Corvallis 1958-1960

University of Oregon, Eugene 1960-1962, B.A.1962, U.S. History

University of California, Berkeley 1962-1966, 1968-1970

M.A.1964, Russian History; Ph.D.1971, Modern Europe (Russia)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor of European and Comparative History, Boston University, 2001-present

Visiting Professor, Centre d' tudes Africaines, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales,

Paris, March 2002

Howard University: Asst. Professor, 1971-1977; Assoc.Professor, 1977-1987; Prof, 1987-2001

Director of the Honors Program, College of Arts and Sciences, 1990-1993

Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Howard University, 1989-1990

Academic Director of Alexander Crummell Humanities Seminar, Boston U, July-August 1992

Visiting Fellow, Dutch Royal Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies Fall 2007

Visiting Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard U, Spring 2008; Non-Resident Fellow to 2010

Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University Program in Atlantic History, 1987-1988

Scholar-in-Residence, Department of History, Spelman College, 1981-1982

Instructor, Stanford University, Western Civilization Program, 1970-1971 (taught history of

European society and culture and seminars on socialism)

Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, 1969-1970 (taught senior seminar)

Research Assistant and Reader, University of California, Berkeley 1965-1966 and 1968-1969

(research, translation of Russian to English, grading of course work)

U.S. Army active duty: to Captain, Army Intelligence, 1966-1968: Viet Nam, 1967-1968

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Historical Association

Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History

World History Association

American Association for Netherlandic Studies

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

International American Studies Association

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Blacks in the Dutch World: the Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society. Bloomington:

Indiana University Press, 1994.

Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought. Washington, D.C.: Howard

University Press, 1986.

(A 1988 winner of the American Book Award /from The Before Columbus Foundation, Berkeley, California)

Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings:

Coda: Black Identity in France in a European Perspective, in Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean

Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall, eds., Black France/France noire: The History and Politics of

Blackness (Durham: Duke University Press), 287-305.

Postcolonial Immigration and Identity Formation in Europe since 1945: The Russian Variant, in

Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lu- cassen & Gert Oostindie (eds), Postcolonial Migrations and Identity Politics

(New York: Berghahn Books, 2012), 181-92.

The Emergence of Afro-Europe: a Preliminary Sketch, in Darlene Clark Hine, Trica

Danielle Keaton, and Stephen Small, eds., Black Europe and the African Diaspora

(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009), 3-28.

Normes Blanches et Accomplissements des Noirs en Europe:

Une Th orie raciale de la relativit, in Dieudonn Gnammankou et Yao Modzinou, eds, Les

Africains et leurs descendants en Europe avant le XXe si cle (Toulouse: MAT ditions, 2008),

309-16.

African Imprints on Russia: A Historical Overview, in Maxim Matusevich, ed., Africa in

Russia, Russia in Africa: Three Centuries of Encounters (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press,

2006), 37-59.

The Image of Africa in the Age of Exploration, in Thomas Battle and Donna Wells, eds.,

Legacy: Treasures of Black History (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2006).

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[Book Chapters, cont d]

Putting Flesh on the Bones: History-Anthropology Collaboration on the New York City African

Burial Ground Project, in Kevin C. MacDonald and Jay B. Haviser, eds., African Re-Genesis:

Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora (London: UCL Press, 2006), 62-67.

The Quest for Cultural Identity in the African Diaspora in the Americas and Europe in the Early

Twentieth Century, in Theo D haen, et. al., eds., How Far is America from Here? (Amsterdam:

Rodopi, 2005), 123-42.

No Greener Pastures and No Hid n Place; the Reception of Blacks in Europe in the Middle and

at the End of the Twentieth Century, in A. S. Balezin, ed., Afrocentrism and Eurocentrism on the

Eve of the 21st Century: African Studies in World Context [Proceedings of an International

Conference in Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Prof. A.B. Davidson] (Moscow: Russian

Academy of Sciences, 2000 also online at www.africana.ru/biblio/afrocentrism),

"Remembering Slavery in the United States, in Gert Oostindie, ed., Facing up to the Past:

Perspectives on the Commemoration of Slavery from Africa, the Americas and Europe. Kingston,

Jamaica: Ian Randle, 2001 [first published as De herdenking van de slavernij in de Verenigde

Staten," Het verleden onder ogen: Herdenking van de slavernij (The Hague: Arena/Prins Claus

Fonds, 1999), 102-08.

"European Dimensions of the African Diaspora: The Definition of Black Racial Identity," in

Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline McLeod, eds., Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of

Black People in Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999),. 87-104.

Blacks in Modern Europe, in Leonard L. Bethel, ed., Africana: An Introduction and

Study (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1999), 91-107.

John Oliver Killens s Great Black Russian: Afro-American Writers and Artists and the

Pushkin Mystique. in Dieudonn Gnammankou, ed., Pouchkine et le monde Noir (Paris:

Pr sence Africaine, 1999), 159-67.

The Making of Populist Revolution in Russia, 1900-1907, in M. Conniff, Ed., Latin American

Populism in Comparative Perspective (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press,1982), 155-89.

Historical Ties among Suriname, The Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and The Netherlands,

Callaloo 21(August 1998): 472-78.

Problems in Studying the Role of Blacks in Europe, Perspectives [American Historical

Association Newsletter] (May/June 1997)[republished in S. Gillespie, ed., Perspectives on

Teaching Innovations: Teaching to Think Historically (AHA, 1999)].

[Articles, cont d]

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"American Influences on Russian Reformist Thought in the Era of the French Revolution," The

Russian Review 52 (October 1993): 451-71.

"Blacks in the Dutch Color Spectrum: Lexicography and Racial Imagery," The Historian

54(Summer 1992):657-68.

"Slavery and Slavishness in Russia and America"[review article], Slavery and Abolition

10(May 1989): 76-86.

"Dutch Minorities: The Three Waves," in T.R. Rochon, "Beyond Perfection." The Wilson

Quarterly (Spring 1987): 64-65.

"Zwarten in Rusland (Blacks in Russia)." Rusland Bulletin 10 (april-juni 1986): 9-11.

"Santa's Black Aide: A Glimpse at Race Relations in Holland." New Directions (The HU

Magazine), January 1980, pp. 26-29.

"Recent Soviet Interpretations on The Negro Problem " [review article] The Black Scholar

10(March/April 1979): 59-65.

"Black U.S. Consuls and Diplomats and Black Leadership 1880-1920."

Umoja 1 (Spring 1977): 1-16.

"The Dynamics of Revolutionary Populism in Russian and American Society." Studia Africana

1 (Spring 1978): 164-81.

"The Negro in Imperial Russia: A Preliminary Sketch." Journal of Negro History 61

(October 1976): 351-66.

"Richard T. Greener and the Talented Tenth's Dilemma." Journal of Negro History 59

(October 1974): 305-21.

"The John L. Waller Affair 1895-1896." Negro History Bulletin 37 (Feb./March 1974): 216-18.

Encyclopedia Articles:

Entries on Adolf Frederik Gravenberch, Otto Huiswoud, and Carl P. Rier in Colin Palmer, ed.,

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History [New York: Thomson Gale, 2005]

Europe and the Harlem Renaissance 5 The Soviet Union, in Encyclopedia of the Harlem

Renaissance, vol. 1, 452-56 [New York: Routledge, 2004].

African Diaspora in the Netherlands, in Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee

Cultures Around the World, vol. II, 593-602[New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,

2004]

[Encyclopedia Articles, cont d]

Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (18 entries).

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Dictionary of American Negro Biography, R. Logan and M. Winston, eds. [W.W. Norton & Co.,

1982] (10 signed entries, mainly on black U.S. consuls whose careers included European posts).

American National Biography [Oxford University Press, 1999] (contributed 2 signed entries:

John L Waller, politician and diplomat; and William H. Hunt, diplomat)

Book Reviews in The American Historical Review, The Russian Review, The Journal of

American History, The New West Indian Guide, The Historian, The William and Mary Quarterly,

American Jewish History, The Journal of Popular Culture, and others.

Editorial Board, The American Scholar (2006-2012)

Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture, Eric Martone, ed.

(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2009)

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND GUEST LECTURES

Blacks in Post-colonial Europe, seminar presentation for the Schomburg-Mellon

Humanities Summer Institute for minority students bound for graduate studies,

Schomburg Center for Research, New York, N.Y., July 9, 2012.

The Black European Response to the Election of Barack Obama, featured lecture for

the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon,

November 4, 2010.

Blacks in the Diplomatic and Consular Services, 1869-1924, presented at the

Conference on African Americans & U.S. Foreign Policy sponsored by the Boston

University African American Studies Program and the African Presidential Archives &

Research Center, October 26, 2010.

Four Eighteenth-Century Portraits of Black Invisibility : Jacobus Capitein, Anton Amo,

Abram Gannibal, and le Chevalier de Saint-George, presented at the Symposium

Trajectories of Emancipation: Black European Thinkers, sponsored by the Netherlands

National Institute on the History and Legacy of Slavery, on June 29-30, 2009 in

Amsterdam.

The Image of Surinamese in the Netherlands in European Perspective, keynote address for the 2nd

Conferentie Surinaamse Amsterdammers, Amsterdam City Hall, May 29, 2009.

Black Civic Participation in Europe: Past and Present, presented at the Black European

Summit: Transatlantic Dialogue on Political Inclusion, at the European Parliament in

Brussels, April 16, 2009.

[Papers and Lectures, cont d]

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"Blacks in Early Modern Europe: Image vs. Reality?" presented at a conference titled

Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries, held at the German Historical

Institute, Washington, DC, March 19-21, 2009.

The Influence of Afro-America on Emerging Afro-Europe, presented at the Clark

University conference on Evolutionary Momentum in African American Studies: Legacy

and Future Directions, February 28, 2009, Worcester, MA.

Blacks in Europe: Presence and Prospects, presented at U Mass Boston for the Africana

Studies Department, February 18, 2009.

Gannibal, Pushkin, and Afro-Russian Identity in European Context, presented at the

conference on Alexander Pushkin and Russian National Identity: Taboo Texts, Topics,

Interpretations, held at the University of Notre Dame, January 9-11, 2009.

Postcolonial Immigration and Identity formation in Europe Since 1945: the Russian

Variant, presented November 7, 2008,in Amsterdam at the International Institute of

Social History workshop on Postcolonial Immigration.

Black Identity in France in European Perspective, presented at Columbia University

Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris, June 6, 2008.

Afro-Europe: A Neglected Dimension of the New Immigration, presented at the

Harvard University W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Colloquium, February 20, 2008.

Blacks in Europe Today: More Than Just a Notion, presented for the Vanderbilt

University African American and Diaspora Studies Black Europe Seminar, February 13,

2008.

Black Pete and Negro Kisses: The Representation of Blacks in the Netherlands and

Europe, presented in the Academiegebouw, University of Groningen, November 26,

2007.

That Other Culture Clash; Is Color Prejudice a Thing of the Past? presented at the

Dutch Royal Institute of Anthropology [KITLV], Leiden,,November 6, 2007,

Two lectures at Purdue University in the Conversations on the Diaspora series of the

African American Studies & Research Center, 26-27 April, 2007.

Two lectures on The Advent of Afro-Europe, to initiate Stanford University s Autumn

2006 lecture series on Europe & the African Diaspora, sponsored by the African and

African American Studies Programs, on October 19, 2006.

[Papers and Lectures, cont d]

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The Black Diaspora in Europe Today: Greater Presence, Greater Problems, presented

September 21, 2006 at UNESCO in Paris, for the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of

the First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists at the Sorbonne in 1956.

Lighthearted Racism: Humorous Black Stereotypes in Modern Europe, presented at the

Second International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Black European Studies, held July

27-30, 2006 at the Free University in Berlin.

The Emergence of Afro-Europe, presented at a symposium on Black Europe & the

African Diaspora, sponsored by the Center for African American History at Northwestern

University on April 22, 2006.

Keynote presentation (from Cambridge, MA) for a digital videoconference on "The

Changing Image of People of African Descent in Russia and the Soviet Union," held at

the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on February 21, 2006.

Guest discussion leader on Impediments to Black Achievement in American Society, for the

W.E.B. Du Bois Society (a program for academic and cultural enrichment of gifted high school

students of African descent sponsored by Harvard University s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute),

February 25, 2006, Harvard University.

White Standards and Black Achievement in Europe: A Racial Theory of Relativity,

presented at the Colloque International: Les Africains et leurs descendants en Europe avant le

XXe si cle, sponsored by La Maison de l Afrique a Toulouse and the University of Toulouse,

December 8-10, 2005.

Presentations on Black Identity at the First International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Black

European Studies, co-sponsored by the University of Mainz and the University of Massachusetts,

Amherst, meeting near Mainz November 10-13, 2005,

Chair of a panel on "The Soviet Diaspora Experience" at the third biennial conference of the

Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, which met from October 5-7, 2005

in Rio de Janeiro.

"Legacies at Home of Slavery Abroad: The Netherlands," presented at a conference on "Slavery

From Within: Comparative Perspectives and Legacies in the Atlantic World," cosponsored by the

History Department of Erasmus University at Rotterdam, the Zeeland Archives and Library, the

Roosevelt Study Center, and the Dutch National Institute on the Slavery Past and its Legacy, in

Middleburg on June 24, 2005.

The Influence of the Harlem Renaissance in France and Russia in Comparative Perspective,

presented at the conference on African American and Diasporic Research in Europe:

Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches, co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute of

Harvard University and the Cercle d Etudes Afro-Am ricaines, Paris, at the Sorbonne, 15-18

December 2004.

[Papers and Lectures, cont d]

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Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall, eds., Black France/France

noire: The History and Politics of Blackness (Durham: Duke University Press).

The Image of Blacks in Western Culture: An Historical Perspective, presented at University of

Delaware, March 10, 2004.

The Quest for Cultural Identity in the African Diaspora in the Americas and Europe in the Early

Twentieth Century, presented at the First World Congress of the International American Studies

Association, in Leiden, May 22, 2003.

Post-Colonial Migration and Cultural identities in the African Diaspora, presented for the

course African Diaspora in the Americas, University of Leiden, May 6, 2003.

"Black 'Reconstruction' in Europe in African Diaspora Perspective," presented at the

Internationale Conferentie "Oral History", Detraumatisering en Reconstructie, sponsored by the

Dutch National Slavery Atonement Monument Foundation, in the Hague, July 7, 2001.

"Putting Flesh on the Bones: History and Anthropology Collaboration on the New York African

Burial Ground Project," presented at the World Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress on the

African Diaspora, Cura ao, Netherlands Antilles, April 24, 2001.

Chaired Roundtable Discussion on Racism in Russia, American Association for the Advancement

of Slavic Studies 2000 National Convention, Denver, Colorado, November 9, 2000.

European Roots of American Racism, presented at Boston University School of Arts and

Sciences, October 16, 2000.

Lifting the Veil: Racism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, presented at a conference on The

African Diaspora in the new Millennium, co-sponsored by New York University, The Schomburg

Center, and Oberlin College, September 22, 2000, New York.

No Greener Pastures and No Hid in Place: The Reception of Blacks in Europe in the Middle and

at the End of the Twentieth Century, presented at the International Conference on Eurocentrism

and Afrocentrism sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences World History Institute and the

Moscow State University African Studies Institute, held in Moscow, September 8-9, 1999.

African Americans in the Soviet Union, for a conference on African-American Artists and

Writers in Europe (1919-1939), Washington University at St. Louis, March 27, 1999.

Keynote Speaker for the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Africa Studies Center of the

University of Leiden, held in Amsterdam, December 1, 1998, on the theme, The African

Communities in the Netherlands 1948-1998.

[Papers and Lectures, cont d]

Keynote Speaker for Colonial Williamsburg History Forum, November 5-7, 1999, with a

presentation on November 6 on Seeing Race in Black and White.

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A Commentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson s 1837 Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Oration, presented at

Willamette University Phi Beta Kappa chapter installation banquet, Salem Oregon, Feb. 1, 1998.

Panelist on The Value of Studying Western Civilization in an Era of Multi-Culturalism,

University of Oregon Honors College, Eugene, Oregon, January 31, 1998.

West African Contributions to the Dutch Empire, presented at the West African Research

Association First International Symposium: West Africa and the Global Challenge, Dakar,

Senegal, June 24, 1997.

Keynote speaker for a symposium on The Relevance of Russian Studies to the Black

Community, Duke University, April 12, 1997.

"European Dimensions of the African Diaspora: the Definition of Black Racial Identity," Keynote

Lecture for the Symposium on Comparative History of Black Peoples in Diaspora, Michigan

State University, April 14, 1995.

Two presentations on Blacks in Europe at the University of Chicago Department of History,

November 3-4, 1994.

"American Influences on Russian Radical Thought in the Era of the French Revolution,"

presented at the Annual Meeting of the World History Association, June 26, 1992, Philadelphia.

"Soviet Crosscurrents in African Diasporan Political Movements," presented for the National

Museum of American History Columbus Quincentenary Conference on Historical Perspectives on

the African Diaspora, February 8, 1992, Washington.

The Color Spectrum in the Dutch Empire: The Lexicography Concerning Blacks since the

Sixteenth Century," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association,

December 28, 1990, in New York.

Lecture Series on European dimensions of the African Diaspora, Smithsonian Institution Resident

Associate Program, September-December 1990, Hirshhorn Museum Ring Auditiorium,

Washington, D.C.

Comments on "The French Revolution and Russia/USSR and Eastern Europe," a panel at the

Conference on The Global Ramifications of the French Revolution, November 13-16, 1989, The

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, D.C..

"The Image of Blacks in Modern Europe: the View from the Low Countries," presented at

Villanova University, February 8, 1989.

[Papers and Lectures, cont d]

"Minority Relations as a Legacy of Dutch History," presented at the United States Department of

State Foreign Service Institute, March 5, 1987.

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"From Russia to the Soviet Union: Historical Bases of the Soviet World View," presented at the

United States Department of State Foreign Service Institute, October 8, 1986, Washington, D.C..

"The Image of Blacks in The Netherlands to 1900," presented at the History Institute, University

of Groningen, May 22, 1986.

Discussant: Conference on "Images of the Non-White World," sponsored by the University of

Warwick Centre for Caribbean Studies and School of Comparative American Studies, February

10, 1986, Coventry, England.

"Soviet History and World View," presented at American Friends Service Committee National

Seminar on the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and U.S. -Soviet Relations, May 24, 1985,

Philadelphia.

"Early Dutch Perceptions of Blacks," presented at the Centennial Meeting of the American

Historical Association in Chicago, December 30, 1984.

"Populist Voluntarism and Social Revolution," presented at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson

International Center for Scholars, September 17, 1980, Wash., D.C.

"Theory and Practice in Russian Revolutionary Populism 1901-1907," presented for the Amsterdam

B.E.S.E.D.A. Slavic Studies Society, January 25, 1979, Amsterdam.

DISTINCTIONS

National Council on the Humanities (appointed by President Obama to serve 2011-2016)

National President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society (2006-2009)

Elected to Fellows of the Phi Beta Kappa Society (2004-)

Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award, Howard University, 1992

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 1987-1988

Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship 1985-1986

National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant, 1984

Andrew Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies,

1976-1977

Military service awards include the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, 1968

National Defense Foreign Language Fellow, 1963-1965

Faculty Research Grant, Stanford University, Summer 1971

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1962-1963

Distinguished Military Graduate (ROTC)

Phi Beta Kappa; B.A. with Honors

Phi Eta Sigma Scholastic Honorary Fraternity

FOREIGN TRAVEL

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Russia, The Netherlands, France, Germany, England, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal,

Austria, Czech Republic, Ghana, Senegal, C te d' Ivor, Japan, Thailand, Viet Nam, Canada,

Australia, Netherlands Antilles, Brazil, Mexico, Honduras

FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCY

Russian (read, write, speak, translate); Dutch (read, write, speak, translate); French (read, speak)

German (read)

SELECTED ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

National

Governing Senate, The Phi Beta Kappa Society (1994-2012)

Committee on Qualifications, The Phi Beta Kappa Society (1994-2003)

Executive Council, Association for the Study of African American Life and History (2010-2012)

Board of Trustees, National History Day, Inc. (1996-2001)

Nominating Committee, American Historical Association (1999-2002)

Advisory Board, Committee on Graduate Education, AHA (2000-2003)

Chairman, Committee on Minority Historians, AHA (1993-1997)

University

Boston University CAS Humanities Foundation Executive Committee 2008-2011

Boston University Appointments Promotion and Tenure Committee 2004-2005 and 2010-2011

Boston University History Department Executive Committee, 2002-2003

Boston University Writing Program Advisory Board 2003-2007

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Whitney Young Fellowships Committee

American & New England Studies Affiliated Faculty

Elected At-Large Council Member, Howard University Faculty Senate 1997-2001

Member Howard University Commission on the Future of the University, 1990-91

Chairman, APT Committee, College of Liberal Arts,1988-1989, 1993

Campus Representative for Rhodes and Truman Fellowships, 1990, 1991, 1992

President Gamma Chapter Phi Beta Kappa of Howard University (2 years)

President Howard University Chapter AAUP, 1983-1985

Chairman Tenured Committee Howard History Department 1982-1983,1984-1985, 1995-97

Director of Graduate Program 1977-1981

SELECTED CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Consultantships for Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J.

-Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations in European History 1974-1980, 1985

European History Examination Development Committee, AP Program,1984-1985

[Consulting, cont d]

European History and World Cultures Achievement Test Committee, 1986-1989

-National Advisory Committee on Revison of the Praxis Social Studies Exam,, 2000

Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Program, 1979 and1980

Selection Committee ITT International Fellowship/Frank Boas Fellowship, for Netherlands

America Commission for Educational Exchange, November 1985

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Review Panelist, State of New Jersey Dept. of Higher Education Humanities Program, 1988-89

Evaluation Panelist for Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships for Minorities,

Panel on History and Philosophy, March 1990, 1991, 2003; chairman 1992,1993 and 1994

Advisory Review Panelist, United States Institute of Peace, December 1992, 1994

World History Standards Review Panel, Council for Basic Education, 1995-1996

U.S. State Department Foreign Service Selection Board, 1995

Evaluation Panelist for American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships, 2001-2002

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Public Members Association of U.S. Foreign Service (Board of Directors 1999-2001)

Member of Black Professionals in International Affairs

All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington DC (Board of Trustees 1993-1995)

Cosmos Club, DC

Listed in: Who's Who in America; Who s Who in the World; African American National

Biography; Who's Who Among Black Americans; Encyclopedia of Black America; Directory of

American Scholars

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