Derek H. Alderman

Curriculum Vitae

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AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST

General: Cultural and Historical Geography, the American South

Specific: Geographies of Public Memory, Heritage Tourism, and Popular Culture

Commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement and African-American History

Landscape Inscription and Politics of Street and Place Naming

Critical Textual and Discourse Analysis

Geographies of Race, Rights, and Social Justice

Place Images, Media Geographies, and Politics of Representation

Naturework, Environmental Biography, Cultural History/Geography of Kudzu

Innovations in Geographic Education

EDUCATION

1993-1998. Ph.D. in Geography, University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia).

Major: Cultural Geography, Minors: Urban Geography, Computer Cartography

Dissertation: Creating a New Geography of Memory in the South: The Politics of (Re) Naming

Streets in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Advisor: Dr. Andrew J. Herod)

1990-1993. M.A. in Geography, University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia).

Thesis: Exploring the Effects of Socio-Spatial Distance on State Mental Hospital Admission

Patterns: A Case Study of Georgia, 1865-1870 (Advisor: Dr. Kavita Pandit)

1986-1990. B.A. in History/Minor in Geography, Georgia Southern College (Statesboro,

Georgia). G.P.A.: 3.94/4.00 (Graduated Summa Cum Laude), Dean's List (1986-1990), and

Academic Excellence Award (1987-1990).

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2010-Present. Professor of Geography (tenured), Department of Geography, East Carolina

University, Greenville, North Carolina.

2005-2010. Associate Professor of Geography (tenured), Department of Geography, East Carolina

University, Greenville, North Carolina.

2000-2005. Assistant Professor of Geography (tenure-track) Department of Geography, East

Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Appointed to Graduate Faculty (2001).

1998-2000. Assistant Professor of Geography and Interdisciplinary Studies (tenure-track),

Department of History & Geography, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia.

Appointed to Graduate Faculty (1999).

1997-1998. Temporary Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens,

Georgia.

1996-1997. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Georgia,

Athens, Georgia.

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1995-1996. Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography, Department of Geology & Geography,

Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia.

1991-1995. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Georgia,

Athens, Georgia.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

2010-Present, Research Fellow in Cultural and Heritage Tourism, Center for Sustainable

Tourism, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

2010-Present, Co-Coordinator, RESET (Race, Ethnicity, & Social Equity in Tourism) Initiative,

East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina (with Carol Kline).

2009-Present, Faculty Affiliate, African and African American Studies Program, East Carolina

University, Greenville, North Carolina.

2008-Present, Faculty Affiliate, Center for Sustainable Tourism, East Carolina University,

Greenville, North Carolina.

2007-Present, Faculty Associate, Center for Natural Hazards Research, East Carolina University,

Greenville, North Carolina.

2004-Present, Faculty Associate, Coastal Resources Management Ph.D. Program, East Carolina

University, Greenville, North Carolina.

2003-2007. Co-Editor, Southeastern Geographer, Peer-reviewed journal of the Southeastern

Division of the Association of American Geographers (with Scott Lecce).

2002-2004. Co-Coordinator, North Carolina Geographic Alliance (with Robert Brown).

1999-2000. Project Co-Director, Center for Georgia Studies, Georgia College & State University,

Milledgeville, Georgia (with John Fair, Sarah Gordon, and Bob Wilson).

1993. Location Analysis Research Assistant, Supervisor: Dr. Jean Claude-Thill, Department of

Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

1990. Entomologist Research Assistant, Chatham County Mosquito Control, Savannah, Georgia.

PUBLICATIONS

Books (1)

Dwyer, Owen J. and Derek H. Alderman. 2008. Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of

Memory. Published by Center for American Places, Distributed by University of Georgia Press.

o Recipient of 2008 Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, Association

of American Geographers.

Chapters in Edited Books (20)

Alderman, Derek H., and Joshua F.J. Inwood. (forthcoming) Landscapes of Memory and Socially

Just Futures. A New Companion to Cultural Geography, Wiley-Blackwell (edited by Nuala

Johnson, Richard Schein, and Jamie Winders).

Moreau, Terri and Derek H. Alderman. (forthcoming) Graffiti Heritage: Civil War Memory in

Virginia. Geography and Memory: Explorations in Identity, Place, and Becoming, Palgrave (edited

by Owain Jones and Joanne Garde-Hansen).

Long, Patrick, Mick Ireland, Derek H. Alderman, and Huili Hao. 2012. Rural Tourism and Second

Home Development: The Case of Colorado. Handbook of Tourism and Quality of Life Research,

Springer (edited by Muzzo Uysal, Richard Perdue, and Joe Sirgy), pp. 607-633..

Alderman, Derek H., Terri Moreau, and Stefanie Benjamin. 2012. The Andy Griffith Show:

Mayberry as Working Class Utopia. Blue-Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to Jersey Shore,

(Vol. 2) Television and the Culture of Everyday Life, Praeger (edited by M. Keith Booker), pp. 51-

69.

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Alderman, Derek H. 2012. Cultural Change and Diffusion: Geographical Patterns, Social

Processes, and Contact Zones. 21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook (Vol. 1), SAGE

Publications (edited by Joseph Stoltman), pp. 123-134.

Alderman, Derek H. and Robert N. Brown. 2011. When a New Deal is Actually an Old Deal: The

Role of TVA in Engineering a Racialized Jim Crow Landscape. Engineering Earth: The Impacts of

Mega-engineering Projects, Volume 3, Springer (edited by Stanly Brunn), pp. 1901-1916.

Mitchelson, Ronald L. and Derek H. Alderman. 2010. Red Dust and Dynamometers: Charlotte as

Memory and Knowledge Community in NASCAR. Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New

South City, University of Georgia Press (edited by William Graves and Heather A. Smith), pp.50-

86.

Alderman Derek. H. and Owen J. Dwyer. 2009. Memorials and Monuments. International

Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Oxford: Elsevier (edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift),

Volume 7, pp. 51-58.

Alderman, Derek H. 2009. Virtual Place-Naming, Internet Domains, and the Politics of

Misdirection: The case of www.martinlutherking.org. Critical Toponymies, Ashgate Press (edited

by Lawrence Berg and Jani Vuolteenaho), pp. 267-283.

Alderman, Derek H. 2009. Street Names as Memorial Arenas: The Reputational Politics of

Commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. in a Georgia County. Critical Toponymies, Ashgate Press

(edited by Lawrence Berg and Jani Vuolteenaho), pp. 179-197. Revised reprint of Historical

Geography 2002.

Alderman, Derek H. 2009. Writing on the Graceland Wall: On the Importance of Authorship in

Pilgrimage Landscapes. Sound, Society, and the Geography of Popular Music, Ashgate Press

(edited by Ola Johansson and Tom Bell), pp. 53-65. Revised reprint of Tourism Recreation Research

2002.

Alderman, Derek H. 2008. Place, Naming, and the Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes. The

Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity, Ashgate Press (edited by Brian Graham and

Peter Howard), pp. 195-213.

Alderman, Derek H. and Donna G Segner Alderman. 2008. Kudzu: A Tale of Two Vines.

Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader, 1993-2008, University of North Carolina

Press (edited by Harry L. Watson & Larry J. Griffin), pp. 287-302. Reprint of Southern Cultures

2001.

Gentry, Glenn W. and Derek H. Alderman. 2007. Trauma Written in the Flesh: Tattoos as

Memorials and Stories. Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina, Cambridge

Scholars Publishing (edited by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Kristen Barber), pp. 184-197.

Alderman, Derek H. 2007. Street Names and the Scaling of Memory: The Politics of

Commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. within the African-American Community. Martin Luther

King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates. Palgrave Macmillan (edited by

John A. Kirk), pp. 232-244. Reprint of Area 2003.

Alderman, Derek H. 2007. Writing on the Graceland Wall: On the Importance of Authorship in

Pilgrimage Landscapes. The Heritage Tourism Experience: Critical Essays, Volume 2 of The

International Library of Essays in Tourism, Heritage, and Culture Series, Ashgate Press (edited by

Dallen Timothy), pp. 1-8. Reprint of Tourism Recreation Research 2002.

Alderman, Derek H. 2006. Naming Streets after Martin Luther King, Jr.: No Easy Road.

Landscape and Race in the United States, Routledge Press (edited by Richard Schein), pp. 213-236.

Alderman, Derek H. 2006. Street Names as Memorial Arenas: The Reputational Politics of

Commemorating Martin Luther King in a Georgia County. The Civil Rights Movement in

American Memory, University of Georgia Press (edited by Renee Romano and Leigh Raiford), pp.

67-95. Significantly revised reprint of Historical Geography 2002.

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Alderman, Derek H. 2006. Rednecks, Bluenecks, and Hickphonics: Southern Humor on the

Electronic Frontier. The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor, Louisiana State University

Press (edited by Edward J. Piacentino), pp. 261-278.

Alderman, Derek H. and Owen J. Dwyer. 2004. Putting Memory in its Place: The Politics of

Commemoration in the Post-Civil Rights Movement South. In WorldMinds: Geographical

Perspectives on 100 Problems, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers (edited by Don Janelle, Barney

Warf, and Kathy Hansen), pp. 55-60.

Journal Publications (54) (articles/essays refereed except where indicated)

Alderman, Derek H. and Arnold Modlin, Jr. (forthcoming, 2013). Southern Hospitality and the

Politics of African American Belonging: An Analysis of Photographs in North Carolina Tourism

Brochures. Journal of Cultural Geography. Contribution to special issue "Terra Cognita: A Tribute

to the Life and Work of James 'Pete' Shortridge. (guest edited by John Patrick Harty, Steven

Schnell, and Scott Deaner).

Alderman, Derek H., Paul Kingsbury, and Owen Dwyer. (forthcoming, 2012) Re-examining the

Montgomery Bus Boycott: Toward an Empathetic Pedagogy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Professional Geographer.

Alderman, Derek H., and Stefanie Benjamin. (forthcoming, 2012) Transforming Mount Airy into

Mayberry: Film-Induced Tourism as Place-Making. Southeastern Geographer

Alderman, Derek H. and G. Rebecca Dobbs (forthcoming, 2011). Geographies of Slavery: Of

Theory, Method, and Intervention. Historical Geography. Non-refereed introduction to special

thematic issue guest edited by the authors.

Alderman, Derek H. and William Graves. 2011. Innovations in Southern Studies within

Geography. Southeastern Geographer 51(4): 505-512. Non-refereed introduction to special

thematic issue guest edited by the authors.

Modlin, E. Arnold Jr., Derek Alderman, and Glenn W. Gentry. 2011. Tour Guides as Creators of

Empathy: The Role of Affective Inequality in Marginalizing the Enslaved at Plantation House

Museums. Tourist Studies 11(1): 3-19.

Rose-Redwood, Reuben and Derek H. Alderman. 2011. Critical Interventions in Political

Toponymy. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 10(1): 1-6. Refereed

introduction to special thematic issue guest edited by the authors.

Mitchelson, Ronald L. and Derek H. Alderman. 2011. Mapping NASCAR Valley: Charlotte as

Knowledge Community. Southeastern Geographer 50(1): 31-48. Contribution to special issue

Economic Geography of the South (guest edited by James O. Wheeler).

Moreau, Terri, and Derek H. Alderman. 2011. Graffiti Hurts and the Eradication of Alternative

Landscape Expression. Geographical Review 101(1): 106-124. Contribution to special issue

Popular Icons of Political Identity (guest edited by Pauliina Raento).

Covington, Ryan, Jennifer Arrigo, Scott Curtis, Pat Long, and Derek H. Alderman, 2009-2010.

Tourists' Climate Perceptions: A Survey of Preferences and Sensitivities in North Carolina's Outer

Banks. The North Carolina Geographer 17:38-53.

Alderman, Derek H. 2010. Place Naming and the Politics of Identity: A View from Martin Luther

King Jr. Blvd., USA Interaction 38(3): 10-14. (Invited, non-refereed feature article for quarterly

journal published by Geography Teachers Association of Victoria, Australia).

Edwards, Mike B., Derek H. Alderman, and Steve G. Estes. 2010. An Appraisal of Stock Car

Racing s Economic and Geographic Development in North America: NASCAR as Flexible

Accumulation. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 8(1/2): 160-179.

Rose-Redwood, Reuben, Derek H. Alderman, and Maoz Azaryahu. 2010. Geographies of

Toponymic Inscription: New Directions in Critical Place-Name Studies. Progress in Human

Geography 34(4): 453-470.

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Eskridge, Anna and Derek H. Alderman. 2010. Alien Invaders, Plant Thugs, and the Southern

Curse: Framing Kudzu as Environmental Other through Discourses of Fear. Southeastern

Geographer 50(1): 110-129. Contribution to special issue Political Ecology of the South (guest

edited by Ed Carr and Patrick Hurley).

Alderman, Derek H. 2010. Surrogation and the Politics of Remembering Slavery in Savannah,

Georgia. Journal of Historical Geography 36: 90-101.

Alderman, Derek H., and E. Arnold Modlin, Jr. 2008. (In)Visibility of the Enslaved within Online

Plantation Tourism Marketing: A Textual Analysis of North Carolina Websites. Journal of Travel

and Tourism Marketing 25(3-4): 265-281. Contribution to special issue Geography and Tourism

Marketing (guest edited by Alan Lew and David Duval).

Alderman, Derek H. 2008. The Politics of Saving the King s Courts: Why We Should Take Elvis

Fans Seriously. The Southern Quarterly 46(1): 46-77.

Rose-Redwood, Reuben, Derek H. Alderman, and Maoz Azaryahu. 2008. Collective Memory and

the Politics of Urban Space. GeoJournal 73(3): 161-164. Non-refereed introduction to special issue

(guest edited by Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman, and Maoz Azaryahu).

Dwyer, Owen J. and Derek H. Alderman. 2008. Memorial Landscapes: Analytic Questions and

Metaphors. GeoJournal 73(3): 165-178. Contribution to special issue Collective Memory and the

Politics of Urban Space (guest edited by Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman, and Maoz

Azaryahu).

Alderman, Derek H. and Rachel Campbell. 2008. Symbolic Excavation and the Artifact Politics of

Remembering Slavery in the American South: Observations from Walterboro, South Carolina.

Southeastern Geographer 48(3): 338-355. Contribution to special issue Museums, Narratives, and

the Contested Memory of Slavery (guest edited by Derek Alderman and E. Arnold Modlin Jr.) .

Alderman, Derek H. 2008. Martin Luther King, Jr. Streets in the South: A New Landscape of

Memory. Southern Cultures 14(3): 88-105. Non-refereed, heavily annotated photo essay.

Alderman, Derek H., Steve Spina, and Preston Mitchell. 2008. A Bumpy Road: The Challenges of

Naming Streets for Martin Luther King, Jr. Planning 74(1): 18-21. Non-refereed contribution to

American Planning Association magazine (circulation: 37,749).

Alderman, Derek H. and Heather Ward. 2008. The Writing on the Plywood: Toward an Analysis of

Hurricane Graffiti. Coastal Management 36(1): 1-18.

o Recipient of 2010 Urban Communication Foundation Journal Article Award.

Alderman, Derek H. and Preston Mitchell. 2007. A Sign of Changing Times: A Street Renaming

Lesson from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Public Management 89(6): 37-38. Non-refereed

contribution to International City/County Management Association magazine (circulation: 9,500).

Alderman, Derek H. 2007. Social Justice in the American South. Southeastern Geographer 47(1):

86-91. Non-refereed introduction to 7 essay forum organized by Derek Alderman.

Mitchelson, Matthew, Derek H. Alderman, Jeff Popke. 2007. Branded: The Economic Geographies

of MLK Streets. Social Science Quarterly 88(1): 120-145.

Alderman, Derek H. 2004. Channing Cope and the Making of a Miracle Vine. Geographical

Review 94(2): 157-177. Contribution to special issue People, Places, & Invasive Species (guest

edited by Paul Robbins). [2005 copyright]

Mitchell, Preston, Derek H. Alderman, Jeffery T. Web, and Dustin Stancil. 2004. When Wal-Mart

Doesn t Come to Town: Competitive Responses of Established Retail Merchants in Edenton, North

Carolina. Geographical Bulletin 46(1): 15-24.

Hoelscher, Steven and Derek H. Alderman. 2004. Memory and Places: Geographies of a Critical

Relationship. Social and Cultural Geography 5(3): 347-355. Introduction to special issue Place

and Memory (organized by Derek Alderman, Steve Hoelscher, and Owen Dwyer). Most

downloaded article from journal for 2005.

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Pandit, Kavita and Derek H. Alderman. 2004. Border Crossings in the Classroom: The

International Student Interview as a Strategy for Promoting Intercultural Understanding. Journal of

Geography 103(3): 127-136. Contribution to special issue Teaching Social Justice (guest edited by

Chris Merrett).

Lecce, Scott and Derek H. Alderman. 2004. Southeastern Geographer: Looking Back, Looking

Forward. Southeastern Geographer 44(1): 1-7. Non-refereed study and statement to mark

beginning of term as editors of journal.

Alderman, Derek H. 2004. Toward a Newsworthy Cultural Geography. Journal of Cultural

Geography 22(1): 139-142. Invited, non-refereed contribution to Dialogues section of journal.

Alderman, Derek H. 2003. Street Names and the Scaling of Memory: The Politics of

Commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. within the African-American Community. Area 35(2):

163-173.

Jones, Kimberly L. and Derek H. Alderman. 2003. Antiques Tourism and the Selling of Heritage in

Eastern North Carolina. North Carolina Geographer 11: 74-87.

Alderman, Derek H., Preston Mitchell, Jeffrey T. Webb, and Derek Hanak. 2003. Carolina Thunder

Revisited: Toward a Transcultural View of Winston Cup Racing. Professional Geographer 55(2):

238-249.

Alderman, Derek H. 2003. No Teacher Left Behind: The Implications of Porter and Rossbach.

North Carolina Geographer 11: 20-21. Non-refereed, invited commentary.

Alderman, Derek H. 2002. School Names as Cultural Arenas: The Naming of U.S. Public Schools

after Martin Luther King, Jr. Urban Geography 23(7): 601-626.

Alderman, Derek H. and Jeffery Popke. 2002. Using Humor and Film in the Geography Classroom:

Learning from Michael Moore s TV Nation Journal of Geography 101: 228-239. Contribution to

special issue Teaching Cinematic Geographies I (guest edited by Leo Zonn).

Meindl, Chris, Derek H. Alderman, and Peter Waylen. 2002. On the Importance of Environmental

Claims Making: The Role of James Wright in Promoting Drainage of the Everglades in Early 20th

Century Florida. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92(4): 682-701.

Alderman, Derek H. 2002. Street Names as Memorial Arenas: The Reputational Politics of

Commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. in a Georgia County. Historical Geography 30: 99-120.

Alderman, Derek H. 2002. Writing on the Graceland Wall: On the Importance of Authorship in

Pilgrimage Landscapes. Tourism Recreation Research 27(2): 27-34. Contribution to special issue

Sacred Journeys (guest edited by Dallen Timothy).

Alderman, Derek H. 2002. Report of the Honors Committee. Southeastern Geographer 43(1): 146-

150. Non-refereed, service-related report to membership of SEDAAG.

Alderman, Derek H. and Donna G Segner Alderman. 2001. Kudzu: A Tale of Two Vines.

Southern Cultures 7(3): 49-64.

Good, Daniel B., Derek H. Alderman, and Delma Presley. 2001. Tomato, Snap, and Fly: Postal

Records and Place-Names in Local Settlement Histories. Georgia Historical Quarterly 85(2): 227-

244.

Alderman, Derek H. 2000. A Street fit for a King: Naming Places and Commemoration in the

American South. Professional Geographer 52(4): 672-684. In focus section New Memorial

Landscapes in the American South (organized by Derek H. Alderman).

Alderman, Derek H. 2000. New Memorial Landscapes in the American South: An Introduction.

Professional Geographer 52(4): 658-660. Introduction to focus section New Memorial Landscapes

in the American South (organized by Derek H. Alderman).

Alderman, Derek H. and Robert M. Beavers. 1999. Heart of Dixie Revisited: An Update on the

Geography of Naming in the American South. Southeastern Geographer 39:190-205.

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Alderman, Derek H. and Eric J. Fournier. 1998. Finding the Southern Part of Cyberspace: Using

the Internet to Teach the South. Journal of Geography 97(4/5): 213-227. Contribution to special

issue Teaching and Researching the American South (guest edited by Gerald Webster).

Alderman, Derek H. 1998. A Vine for Postmodern Times: An Update on Kudzu at the End of the

20th Century. Southeastern Geographer 38(2): 167-179.

Alderman, Derek H. 1997. TV News Hyper-Coverage and the Representation of Place:

Observations on the O.J. Simpson Case. Geografiska Annaler 79 B (2): 83-95.

Alderman, Derek H. 1997. Integrating Space into a Reactive Theory of the Asylum: Evidence from

Post-Civil War Georgia. Health & Place 3(2): 111-122. Contribution to special issue Space,

Place, and the Asylum (guest edited by John Radford and Deborah Park).

Alderman, Derek H., and Daniel B. Good. 1997. Exploring the Virtual South: The Idea of a

Distinctive Region on the Web. Southeastern Geographer 37(1): 20-45.

Alderman, Derek H., and Daniel B. Good. 1996. Mapping the Names of American Businesses: A

Teaching and Software Aid. Journal of Geography 95 (6): 281-286.

Alderman, Derek H. 1996. Creating a New Geography of Memory in the South: The (Re) Naming

of Streets in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Southeastern Geographer 36(1): 51-69.

Invited Contributions to Encyclopedias and Reference Works (8)

Alderman, Derek H. (forthcoming) You Might Be Redneck If New Encyclopedia of Southern

Culture: Social Class, Vol. 20, University of North Carolina Press (edited by Charles Reagan

Wilson).

Alderman, Derek H. (forthcoming). Street names as Commemorative Landscapes: the Case of

Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Landscapes in North Carolina (open access project

directed by Fitzhugh Brundage and published by Carolina Digital Library and Archives).

Alderman, Derek H. and Owen Dwyer (forthcoming). A Primer on the Geography of Memory: The

Site and Situation of Commemorative Landscapes. Commemorative Landscapes in North Carolina

(open access project directed by Fitzhugh Brundage and published by Carolina Digital Library and

Archives).

Alderman, Derek H. 2011. Internet Representations of the South. New Encyclopedia of Southern

Culture: Media, Vol. 18, University of North Carolina Press (edited by Charles Reagan Wilson), pp.

114-118.

Alderman, Derek H. 2010. Place names. Encyclopedia of Geography, SAGE (edited by Barney

Warf), Vol. 5, pp. 2188-2191.

Alderman, Derek H. 2007. Martin Luther King Drive, Greenville, NC. Guest field note in Human

Geography: People, Place, and Culture, 8th edition (by H.J. De Blij, Alexander Murphy, and Erin H.

Fouberg), p. 175.

Alderman, Derek H. 2006. Place names. Encyclopedia of Human Geography, SAGE (edited by

Barney Warf), pp. 358-360.

Alderman, Derek H. 2003. Martin Luther King Streets in Georgia. The New Georgia

Encyclopedia, University of Georgia Press, (http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org) .

Book Reviews (8)

Alderman, Derek H. 2010. Landscape (by John Wylie) in Social & Cultural Geography 11(3): 304-

306.

Alderman, Derek H. 2008. Caribbean and Southern: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South

(edited by Helen Regis) in Geographical Review 98(2): 304-306.

Alderman, Derek H. 2005. Race and Place in Birmingham (by Bobby Wilson) in Historical

Geography 33: 286-288.

Alderman, Derek H. 2004. The Unknown World of the Mobile Home (by John Fraser Hart, Michelle

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Rhodes, and John Morgan) in Urban Geography 25(2): 187-188.

Alderman, Derek H. 2002. Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Black Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980

(by Stephen G.N. Tuck) in Southeastern Geographer 42(1): 153-155.

Alderman, Derek H. 2001. The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on

Frontier Communities (edited by David Colin Crass at al.) in Professional Geographer 53:152-154.

Alderman, Derek H. 2000. Redefining Southern Culture: Mind & Identity in the Modern South (by

James C. Cobb) in Southeastern Geographer 41(2): 234-236.

Alderman, Derek H. 1998. Television and the Remote Control: Grazing on a Vast Wasteland (by

Robert V. Bellamy, Jr. and James R. Walker) in Social Science Quarterly 79(1): 255-257.

Monographs (2)

Alderman, Derek H. 1995. Integrating Space into Theories of Control and Conflict: A Case Study

of Berkeley in the 60 s, Discussion Paper Series, Department of Geography, University of Georgia,

Vol. 1, No. 2, 36 pp.

Alderman, Derek H. 1990. Register's Origin, Growth, and Decline: Major Evolutionary Trends in

Migration, Settlement, and Technology, Bulloch Crossroads: Readings in Bulloch County History,

Book 8, 40 pp.

Contributions to Professional Newsletters (9)

Alderman, Derek H. 2011. Difficult Memories and Monumental Words on Savannah s River

Street in Southeastern Division of the AAG Newsletter 30(1/2): 5-6.

Alderman, Derek H. 2009. Letter from the President in Southeastern Division of the AAG

Newsletter 28 (1/2): 1-3.

Alderman, Derek H. 2008. Letter from the President in Southeastern Division of the AAG

Newsletter 27 (1): 1-3.

Alderman, Derek H. 2008. Letter from the President in Southeastern Division of the AAG

Newsletter 27 (2): 1-2.

Alderman, Derek H. 2008. Noted Southern Scholar John Shelton Reed to Deliver Keynote Address

at Greensboro SEDAAG Meeting in Southeastern Division of the AAG Newsletter 27 (2): 2-3.

Alderman, Derek H. 2006. Review of No Lonesome Road, Selected Prose and Poems by Don West

in Southeastern Division of the AAG Newsletter 25(1): 12.

Alderman, Derek H. 2004. Letter from the Chair in Place and Culture: Newsletter of the Cultural

Geography Specialty Group of AAG Spring: 1-2.

Alderman, Derek H. 2003. Introduction to Cultural Geographers Forum: What are the five most

important principles that should be covered in an introductory course in cultural geography and

why? in Place and Culture: Newsletter of the Cultural Geography Specialty Group of AAG

Spring: 1.

Alderman, Derek H. 2002. Letter from the Chair in Place and Culture: Newsletter of the Cultural

Geography Specialty Group of AAG Summer: 1-2.

Work under review or in preparation

Carter, Perry, David Butler, and Derek Alderman. The Place of Slavery in Plantation Museum

Narratives: Insights from Analyzing Audience Interpretations. Under review for Annals of

Tourism Research

Hao, Huili, Derek Alderman, Patrick Long. Homeowners Attitudes toward Tourism in a Mountain

Resort Community: A Comparison of Seasonal and Permanent Property Owners. Under review for

Tourism Geographies

Alderman, Derek H. History on a Stick: Reading Highway Markers as Heritage Texts. In

preparation for Southeastern Geographer, special issue on pedagogical innovations in teaching

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memory (edited by Chris Post).

Modlin, E. Arnold, Jr. and Derek H. Alderman. Southern Plantation Museums as Emotional, Urban

Frontiers. Book chapter in preparation for Plantation Modernity, edited Jeremy Wells and Amy

Clukey, to be published by University of Georgia Press.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:

Co-Editor (with Scott Lecce), Southeastern Geographer (2003-2007).

Guest Co-Editor (with Selima Sultana), African Americans and Tourism, Tourism Geographies

(in preparation).

Guest Co-Editor (with Bill Graves), Innovations in Southern Studies within Geography,

Southeastern Geography (published Volume 51(4), 2011).

Guest Co-Editor (with Rebecca Dobbs), Historical Geographies of Slavery, Historical Geography

(forthcoming, 2011)

Guest Co-Editor (with Reuben Rose-Redwood), Political Toponymies: Intervention Essays,

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies (published Volume 10(1), 2011).

Guest Co-Editor (with Reuben Rose-Redwood and Maoz Azaryahu), Collective Memory and

Politics of Urban Space, GeoJournal (published Volume 73(3), 2008)

Guest Co-Editor (with E. Arnold Modlin, Jr.), Museums, Narratives, and the Contested Memory of

Slavery, Southeastern Geographer (published Volume 48(3), 2008)

Guest Editor, Forum on Social Justice in the American South, Southeastern Geographer

(published Volume 47(1), 2007).

Guest Co-Editor (with Owen Dwyer and Steven Hoelscher) special issue of Social and Cultural

Geography on Memory and Place, (published Volume 5(3), 2004).

Guest Co-Editor (with Holly Hapke, Rebecca Torres, and Jeff Popke), Curing the Future: Issues &

Strategies in Remaking Tobacco-Dependent Communities in North Carolina, North Carolina

Geographer (published Volume 10, 2002).

Guest Co-Editor, focus section of Professional Geographer, New Memorial Landscapes in the

American South (published Volume 52(4), 2000).

Co-Editor (with John Strait), Geography Discussion Paper Series, University of Georgia (1997-

1998).

Editorial Advisor, Sunbelt Studies Book Series, University of Florida Press (2005-Present)

Editorial Board, Historical Geography (2004-2008)

Editorial Advisory Board, The Flannery O Connor Review (2001-Present).

Editorial Committee, Southeastern Geographer (2000-2003, 2007-Present).

Editorial Board, Journal of Geography (2001-2004).

ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEWER FOR REFEREED ARTICLES IN:

African Affairs (1)

Annals of the Association of American Geographers (8)

Antipode (1)

Coastal Management Journal (1)

Current Issues in Tourism (1)

Ecumene / Cultural Geographies (8)

Environment and Planning A (2)

Environment and Planning D (2)

Flannery O Connor Review (4)

Food, Culture, and Society (1)

Gender, Place, and Culture (2)

Geoforum (1)

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Geografiska Annaler B (1)

Geographical Bulletin (2)

Geographical Review (3)

GeoJournal (5)

Historical Geography (3)

Housing, Theory, & Society (1)

Illinois Geographical Bulletin (1)

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (1)

International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (1)

Journal of Geography (10)

Journal of Heritage Tourism (2)

Journal of Historical Geography (4)

Museum & Society (1)

North Carolina Geographer (2)

Northeastern Geographer (1)

Papers for the Applied Geography Conference (2)

Political Geography (8)

Professional Geographer (8)

Rural Sociology (1)

Social and Cultural Geography (12)

Social Forces (3)

Social Science & Medicine (1)

Southeastern Geographer (9)

Southern Cultures (2)

Time & Society (1)

Tourism Geographies (11)

Tourism Recreation Research (1)

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (1)

Urban Geography (4)

REVIEWER OF BOOKS AND BOOK PROSPECTUSES

Ashgate Press (2006, 2009)

Center for American Places (2010)

Mellen Press (2005)

Oxford University Press (2001)

Routledge (2004)

Temple University Press (2001)

University of Georgia Press (2007, 2009)

REVIEWER OF GRANTS PROPOSALS

Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada) (2011, 2012)

Economic and Social Research Council (UK) (2009)

National Geographic Society (2012)

National Science Foundation (2007, 2009)

Howard Foundation, Brown University (2006)

Israel Science Foundation (2004)

German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research & Development (2002)

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HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

Outstanding Service Award, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers,

November 2011. Region-wide annual award in recognition of exceptional professional commitment

to geography at multiple levels.

Elected Regional Councilor, Association of American Geographers (Representing Southeastern

Division on AAG Council), 2011-2014.

Meredith F. Burrill Award, Association of American Geographers, 2011. National award honors

work of exceptional merit and quality that lies at the intersection of basic research in geography on

the one hand, and practical applications or policy implications on the other.

Urban Communication Foundation Journal Article Award, 2010. Received (with Heather Ward) for

The Writing on the Plywood: Toward an Analysis of Hurricane Graffiti. Coastal Management

(2008).

UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, East Carolina University, 2009.

Highest award given at university for teaching. One professor recognized per campus across UNC

system.

Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, Association of American Geographers,

2008. Received (with Owen Dwyer) for Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory.

Research Award for Outstanding Research and Scholarly Achievement, Thomas Harriot College of

Arts & Sciences, East Carolina University, August 2008.

Elected President, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, 2007-2009.

Faculty Guest Coach, East Carolina University Basketball Team, January 2007. Recognition of

professors who have taken extra time and effort in helping student-athletes achieve their educational

goals.

Research Honors Award, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers,

November 2006. One of two recipients in region-wide recognition.

Five-Year Research Achievement Award, East Carolina University, August 2006. One of two

recipients in university-wide selection process.

Distinguished Professor of Teaching Award, East Carolina University, April 2005. One of six

recipients in university-wide selection process.

Scholar-Teacher Award, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, East Carolina University,

April 2005. Awarded to one recipient in college-wide selection process.

Robert L. Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching, East Carolina University, May 2004. Awarded to

one recipient in university-wide selection process.

National Finalist, Glenda Laws Award, Association of American Geographers, 2004. Award

recognizes outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues.

Research Award for Outstanding Research and Scholarly Achievement, Thomas Harriot College of

Arts & Sciences, East Carolina University, August 2003.

Distinguished University Teaching Achievement Award, National Council for Geographic

Education, May 2002. One of ten selected nationally.

Honorary Member of Gamma Theta Upsilon (International Geography Honor Society), Inducted

April 27, 2001.

J. Warren Nystrom Award, Association of American Geographers, April 2000. National award for

best paper based on recently completed dissertation in geography.

Departmental Nominee, 2000 Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award, University of Georgia. Award

for research accomplishment carried out as part of a candidate's graduate studies and during the

period immediately following completion of Ph.D.

Honorable Mention, Best Ph.D. Dissertation, Transportation Geography Specialty Group of the

Association of American Geographers, 1999.

Honorable Mention, Political Geography Specialty Group Student Paper Competition (Ph.D. level),

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Association of American Geographers, 1998.

Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Awarded

annually to only five graduate student teachers within university, 1997.

Best Student Paper Award, Ph.D. Level. Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers, Athens, Georgia, 1996.

Research Prize, First Annual Graduate Student Forum Promoting Interdisciplinary Interaction,

University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1995.

Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Geography Section, Georgia Academy of Science Meeting,

Augusta, Georgia, 1992, 1995.

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1994.

Graduated Summa cum Laude, Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, Georgia, 1990.

Michael E. Shaw History Scholarship, Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, Georgia, 1989.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, Georgia, 1988.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & RECOGNITION

Recognition

Recognized by MLK Memorial Committee in Manhattan, Kansas. Research on MLK streets

acknowledged as seed for the dedication of a Manhattan street for King. Delivered talk as part of

dedication ceremony in January 2007.

Recognized by Georgia Clients Council, a statewide organization of low-income grassroots

community-based leaders. Research on MLK streets acknowledged as partial impetus for

organization s Claiming a Street Named King Project, which seeks to learn about MLK

thoroughfares and their conditions and formulate a process to revitalize impoverished communities,

2006-2007.

Research article in Professional Geographer (2000) and interview on National Public Radio

recognized as inspiration for study of Los Angeles Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The project

was conducted in an interdisciplinary, upper-division social science class at University Southern

California taught by Katie Mills, who engaged students in community-based research, 2001.

Outreach Publication

Co-produced and co-authored (with Patrick Pease and Matthew Mitchelson) the educational

pamphlet A Street Fit for a King: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. along America s

Roadways. Over 10,000 copies of pamphlet distributed locally as well as to civil rights

organizations and museums across the country, including MLK Historic Site in Atlanta, Georgia and

the annual national meetings of the NAACP and SCLC, 2005-2007. Pamphlet funded by People s

Geography Project and East Carolina University.

Outreach Activities & Partnerships

Edgecombe County, North Carolina. As part of a partnership between ECU Center for Sustainable

Tourism and Community Development Division of Edgecombe County Government, I worked on a grant

proposal (with Alex Naar, Carol Kline, and Eric Evans) to plan a park at Shiloh Landing, an offloading site

for African Americans during the slave trade. The planned park is meant to be a place of outdoor

recreation, historical interpretation, and environmental education while also contributing to heritage

tourism in the area related to Princeville and Freedom Hill, 2010.

Uptown Business & Professional Association, New Bern, North Carolina. As part of a partnership between

ECU Center for Sustainable Tourism and the Uptown Business & Professional Association, I carried out a

NC Humanities Council Planning Grant to plan for the development of an educational/tourism promotion

web site related to 'The Great Fire of 1922,' which destroyed many African American neighborhoods in

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New Bern. I toured the site, visited with community organizers, and held planning meetings to devise a

preliminary plan to create the African American heritage resource, 2010.

Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce, North Carolina. As part of a partnership between ECU Center

for Sustainable Tourism and Director of Tourism of the Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce, I

supervised the development and implementation of a survey of visitors to the 2010 Mayberry Da ys Festival

(survey construction and administration carried out by Stefanie Benjamin). The survey was used to create

a traveler profile of festival goers for tourism officials in Mount Airy and as part of a larger scholarly

project looking at the sustainability of film/TV induced tourism.

L.E.A.D., Inc. Served as an unpaid guest facilitator for a summer leadership camp of 22 middle and high

school students called LEAD Under the Sun. Delivered a presentation about streets named for Martin

Luther King, Jr. and designed a field exercise in which summer camp students assessed the livability and

walkability of Tallahassee s MLK Blvd, 2010. Leaders by Empowerment-Activists by Development

(LEAD) is a non-profit organization.

Historic Hope Plantation, Windsor, North Carolina. Advised site managers about their plans to incorporate

history of slavery into docent-led tours of plantation. Provided copies of research, made on-site visit, and

provided unpaid consultation about strategies for including history of slavery, 2009.

Straight, No Chaser Productions (SNC), Washington DC. Interviewed on camera by the producers of

documentary film I May Not Get There with You about research on streets named for Martin Luther

King, Jr. SNC is a community-minded group that involves youth in film-making, 2009

The Flannery O Connor Andalusia Foundation, Inc., Milledgeville, Georgia. Provided unpaid consultation

to executive director about foundation s research needs and created maps for displaying and analyzing the

geographical origin and distribution of visitors to the heritage tourism site, Andalusia Farm, 2008.

Ambassadors for a Legacy Committee, Southern Illinois University. Provided unpaid consultation to group

seeking to name a street for Dr. King. Group met with local opposition and sought information on street

naming struggles in other areas of country, 2008.

Florida Department of Education, Bureau of Family and Community Outreach. Provided unpaid

consultation and materials for developing community course and assessment project entitled Streets

Where Kings Walk: A Discussion of MLK Boulevards in the US, which would examine the economic,

social, and political challenges on MLK streets, 2008.

Office of US Congressman John P. Sarbanes, Maryland Third District. Provided unpaid consultation for

project focused on identifying US schools named for Martin Luther King, Jr. Assembled database of named

schools and provided copies of relevant published research to Congressman's office, 2008.

National Alliance of Faith and Justice. Provided data and copies of published research to assist with

dissemination of engagement tool for promoting Justice Sunday, MLK Day of Service, and the 'PEN OR

PENCIL' youth initiative, 2007.

Multnomah County Commission and Mayor's Office, Portland, Oregon. Provided unpaid consultation to

two staffers on two occasions about strategies for responding to controversy over naming street after Cesar

Chavez, 2007.

Georgia Office of Film, Video, and Music Development. Provided a copy of a film-induced tourism project

carried out in Warm Springs, Georgia in reaction to airing of HBO film (released 2005). Also provided

copies of previously published academic research on economic impact of films on tourism, 2007.

Vision 2015, Covington, Kentucky. Provided unpaid consultation to community planning development

group about the politics of naming street for Martin Luther King Jr., provided data and copies of research,

and presented pros/cons of proposing a dual naming of 12th Street and MLK, 2007.

Tompkins County Living Wage Coalition, Ithaca, New York. In response to MLK street naming

controversy, visited city, met with local activists and municipal officials, and gave public talk hosted

by Ithaca College and The History Center, 2006.

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Social Compact (Washington D.C.). Provided data and published research on MLK streets to assist

its DrillDown analyses of inner-city neighborhoods for the purpose of promoting successful

business investment in lower-income communities for the benefit of current residents, 2006.

Service for Peace (Bridgeport, CT). Provided data on MLK streets to assist with development of

MLK Season of Service, a program that advances King s dream of peaceful and just communities,

2006.

Sonshine Communications (North Miami Beach, FL). Provided data on MLK streets to public

relations firm working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on nationwide

campaign for Black History Month, 2005.

Quincy Human Rights Commission, City of Quincy Planning and Development Department, Illinois.

Provided data and published research on MLK streets in response to a street naming controversy,

2005.

Congressional Research Service, United States Congress, Washington, D.C. Provided data on MLK

streets to unidentified members of U.S. Congress, 2005.

North Carolina Humanities Council. Served as a paid consulting scholar on planning grant for

Dismal Swamp and the Underground Railroad. Planning meeting at Elizabeth City State

University, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, 2005.

Black Leadership Roundtable, Highpoint, North Carolina. In response to MLK street naming

controversy, visited city, attended roundtable meeting, and gave two public talks, 2004 & 2005.

MLK Sub-committee, Community Relations Commission, Grand Rapids, Michigan. In response to

a MLK street naming controversy, visited city, gave extensive media interviews, met with local

activists and municipal officials, and delivered public talk, 2004.

North Carolina Humanities Council. Served as paid consulting scholar on planning grant for

Portsmouth Village, North Carolina as a Place. North Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort,

North Carolina, 2004.

EDUCATIONAL ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH

Developed and implemented Fridays with Professor, an outreach initiative in which Geography

faculty members visit area public schools to assist with content delivery and student preparation for

university life, East Carolina University-Pitt County, NC Schools, 2010-2011.

Designed and conducted professional development workshop on Five Themes of Geography to K-

5 teachers as part of Advanced Placement Institute, North Carolina Department of Public

Instruction, 2010.

Contributed invited feature article to Interaction, quarterly journal published by Geography Teachers

Association of Victoria, Australia. (Alderman, Derek H. 2010. Place Naming and the Politics of

Identity: A View from Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., USA Interaction 38(3): 10-14).

Designed two social studies content modules for pre-service teachers and partnered with faculty in

College of Education, East Carolina University Teacher Quality partnership Grant (TQP),

Greenville, North Carolina, 2010.

Geography Specialist Advisor and Review Team Member, Elective High School Course Global

Geography, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, NC. Provided unpaid

consultation, 2009-2010.

Geography Specialist Advisor and Review Team Member, Social Studies Standard Course of Study

Revision, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, NC. Provided on-site unpaid

consultation, 2009-2010.

Invited Judge, Senior Project Presentations, South Central High School, Pitt County Schools,

Greenville, NC, 2009 & 2011.

Designed and delivered (with Douglas Gamble) workshop on incorporating fieldwork into large

Geography undergraduate classrooms, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, 2009.

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Designed and conducted teacher training workshop for Geography in Action, a newly designed

elective course for North Carolina high schools, Department of Public Instruction, 2003. Workshop

co-sponsored by North Carolina Geographic Alliance.

Delivered three-hour presentation on geography content for Grade 2 Social Studies Trainer of

Trainers session, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2003.

Designed Geography in Action, an elective course in geography for North Carolina high schools,

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2001.

Expert Committee Member, Social Studies Standard Course of Study Revision, North Carolina

Department of Public Instruction, 2000-2001.

Invited Judge, 23rd Annual Golden Eagle Student Awards (sponsored by The Macon Telegraph

newspaper), 2000.

Invited Judge, Central Georgia Regional Social Science Fair, Georgia College & State University,

2000.

Invited Judge, Social Science Regional Fair, Georgia College & State University, 1999.

Invited Judge, 22nd Annual Golden Eagle Student Awards (sponsored by The Macon Telegraph

newspaper), 1999.

MASS MEDIA ENGAGEMENT & RECOGNITION

National and International Level

Quoted and research highlighted in online news article, MLK, USA: Many King Streets Stuck on

Economic Outskirts. American Online (AOL), January 17, 2012.

http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2012/01/17/mlk-usa-many-king-streets-stuck-on-economic-outskirts/

Quoted and research highlighted in national newswire article, Memphis may finally name city

street after King. Associated Press, January 12, 2012. (Article appeared in several print and online

news outlets across United States and on the Association of American Geographers SmartBrief

News for Geographers ).

Quoted and research highlighted in online news article, The Pitfalls of Naming Places after Famous

People. BBC News Magazine, July 29, 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14323173

Research recognized in television interview, A Film Explores MLK Legacy. CNN, January 17,

2011. http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2011/01/18/nr.mlk.street.project.cnn.html

Quoted and research highlighted in newspaper story, By Chance, Two Memorable Days. The New

York Times, January 18, 2009, section NJ, p. 3.

Quoted in newspaper story, The Other Side of the Mountaintop; Scholars Assess Nation s Progress

Four Decades after Assassination. Washington Post, April 4, 2008, A1.

Interviewed and research highlighted in television news story, On King Drive, A Dream Deferred.

National CBS Evening News (Weekend Edition), January 20, 2008.

Quoted and research highlighted in magazine story, Life on Martin Luther King Jr. Drives across

the U.S. Ebony, January 2008, pp.72-75.

Quoted in newswire story, Naming things after living politicians can be risky. Associated Press,

March 15, 2007. (Article appeared in several news outlets including Los Angeles Times,

Washington Times, Guardian Unlimited (UK), New York Newsday, Florida Times-Union,

Sacramento Bee, Tuscaloosa News, Houston Chronicle, Fox News, and Forbes.com).

Quoted in on-line news story, MLK streets traverse nation s past, future. CNN.com February 21,

2007 (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/19/rte.mlk.streets/index.html).

Quoted and research highlighted in newspaper story, Despite stereotypes, MLK streets are

economically vibrant. Newhouse News Service, January 13-15, 2007. (Article appeared in several

news outlets including Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Austin American Statesman, The Birmingham

News, Charlotte Observer, Kalamazoo Gazette, Kansas City Star, New Orleans Times-Picayune,

Seattle Times, St. Paul Pioneer Press).

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Quoted in newswire story, New South Wrestles with Confederate Memorials. Scripps Howard

News Service, August 18, 2005.

Research highlighted in newswire story, Group seeks more life along King streets. Scripps

Howard News Service, January 12, 2005.

Interviewed and research highlighted in live radio news story, MLK Street Naming in Zephyrhills,

FL. BBC Radio News (Five Live), May 10, 2004.

Quoted and research highlighted in newspaper article, Honor for Dr. King Splits Florida City, and

Faces Reversal. The New York Times, May 10, 2004, p. 1A.

Research highlighted and assistance acknowledged in popular book, Along Martin Luther King:

Travels on Black America's Main Street (By Jonathan Tilove, Random House, 2003).

Research highlighted in newswire article San Jose, Calif., Split over MLK Street. Associated

Press, November 2, 2003. (Article appeared in Washington Post, The Guardian (UK) and other

major media outlets).

Consultant for television documentary MLK Boulevard: The Concrete Dream (produced and

directed by Marco Williams). Documentary aired on Discovery Times Channel, October 2003.

Interviewed and research highlighted for web publication The Martin Luther King Boulevard

Phenomenon: An Interview with Derek Alderman. Discovery Times Channel

(http://times.discovery.com/convergence/civilrights/expert/expert.html), Oct. 2003.

Quoted in newswire article Slavery-era place names dot U.S. maps. Reuters, May 19, 2003.

(Article published on CNN.com and several other national media outlets).

Quoted and research highlighted in newspaper article, Streets named MLK at crossroad. USA

Today (by Larry Copeland), January 18-20, 2002, p. 3A.

Interviewed and research highlighted in radio news story, MLK Streets. Public Radio

International program Marketplace (Hosted by David Brancaccio) August 28, 2001.

Interviewed and research highlighted in radio news story, King Memorials. National Public Radio

program Morning Edition (Hosted by Bob Edwards), January 15, 2001.

Quoted and research highlighted in on-line news article, Cyberwar Breaks Out over Domain

Names. National Geographic News, March 15, 2001

(http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0315_domainterrain.html)

Regional, State, and Local Level

Quoted and research highlighted in newspaper editorial, Building on MLK s Legacy: Naming

streets is one thing; seeking equality is another. The Anniston (AL) Star, January 16, 2012.

Quoted and research highlighted in newspaper column, Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.: Safe

Icon or Radical Organizer. The Miami Herald, January 15, 2012.

Quoted and research highlighted in online newspaper article, Dr. King Honored Nationally with

Street Name. Chicago City Hall Examiner, January 13, 2012.

Quoted in newspaper column, Renaming the Street could be a Good Thing, If Done Right.

Indianapolis Star, September 25, 2011, p. B1.

Quoted and research highlighted in newspaper article, Effort to Rename Road for MLK Launching

in DeKalb. Atlanta Journal Constitution, September 12, 2011, p. 3B.

Quoted and research highlighted in blog, In Hawaii, No Martin Luther King Street. Honolulu

Civil Beat, August 28, 2011. http://dc808.blogs.civilbeat.com/post/954-***-****/in-hawaii-no-

martin-luther-king-street.

Quoted and research highlighted in newspaper article, With Street project, Spokane pays Tribute to

King s Legacy. The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), January 17, 2011, p. A1.

Quoted in newspaper article, ECU to help create website on 1922 New Bern fire. Sun Journal,

December 30, 2010, p. 5.

Quoted in newspaper article, Festival Season Arrives in Eastern North Carolina. Jacksonville

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(NC) Daily News, October 3, 2010, p. 5.

Quoted and research highlighted in newspaper article, Plan to Rename Street for King Put Aside.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, June 8, 2010, p. B7.

Quoted and research highlighted in newspaper arti

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