CURRICULUM VITAE

OF

ELEANOR ALEXANDER

adz21u@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

MLS Library Service Rutgers University

M.A. Early American University of Delaware

Culture (Winterthur Program)

M.A. Interior Design University of Minnesota

Ph.D. American Civilization Brown University

B.A. History Morgan State College

WORK EXPERIENCE (LIBRARY)

A.Morgan State College Library, 1980s.

Director of Special Collections (African American Collection)

Supervised one librarian: two library technicians.

Provided reference services to faculty, students, & surrounding community.

Designed & executed special materials for celebratory.

African American History events.

Evaluated staff workers (written reports)

Collection development & management

Other duties as assigned.

B.Howard University Library, 1970s.

Reference Librarian

Provided reference service for students, faculty, &

surrounding community members.

Intermittent supervision of Circulation Staff.

Other duties as assigned.

C.Civil Rights Documentation Project, 1970s. Washington, DC.

Organized thousands of typed interviews of Civil Rights

activists.

Supervised one library technician & one secretary.

D.Children’s Librarian, Hyattsville Public Library. Hyattsville, Maryland.

Reference services for adults & children.

Conducted regular story hours.

Reviewed new books for the collection.

Recommended acquisition of new material.

LEFT LIBRARY FIELD BECAUSE OF LOW PAY. Returned to school to prepare for a new field.

E.DEPT. of HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (GEORGIA TECH). Atlanta, Georgia. August 1996 to July 31, 2013.

Retired 2013 as Associate Professor of History.

Designed & taught six American History courses & eight African American History courses. U.S. History courses (Reel History, Parts I & II) & African American History Course (Civil Rights Goes to the Movies), cited by Outside Department Review team as INNOVATIVE.

Annual Responsibility for African American History Month Activities/Festivities.

Supervised three staff members.

Created AFRICAN AMERICAN TIMES newspaper. Researched & wrote articles. Researched photographs. Supervised newspaper design & layout.

Secured program speaker, or materials for major program.

Secured funding for African American History Month activities.

Supervised annual African American History Month lunch (menu, preparation & serving), for faculty, students in African American History classes, & community members.

Devised or purchased honoree’s gift. For example: purchased & framed sheet of U.S. Post Office stamps: Negro League Baseball Team, for a local member of the Georgia Black Crackers baseball team.

Supervised public service announcements about African American History Month events that were open to the public.

Mentored students; supervised student research.

Department Committee work.

Reviewed book manuscript for publication: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” edited by Jennifer Fleischner. New York: McMillan. November 2007.

Reviewed book Film and History for publication for Pearson Press. March 2009.

PUBLICATIONS

A. BOOK: Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

B.JOURNAL ARTICLES

“’Woman’s Place is in the Tea Room’: White Middle-Class

American Women as Entrepreneurs and Customers.”

Journal of American Culture, 32:2 (June 2009), 126-136.

“The Courtship Season: Love, Race, Sex, and Elite African American Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Magazine of American History, 18:4 (July 2004), 17-19.

“‘And a Bed Is Yon Seeming Bookcase,’: An Interpretation of Deception Beds in Victorian Homes.” Journal of American Culture, 8 (Fall 1985), 2-10.

“A Portrait of Cinque,” Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, 49 (Winter 1984), 31-51.

BOOK REVIEWS

Louisiana History. (Fall 2010), 51:4, 492-493. REVIEWED: Up from History: A Biography of Booker T. Washington, by Robert J. Norrell.

American Historical Review. (June 2009), 763-764. REVIEWED: Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing and Region, by JerriAnne Boggis and others.

F.OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Introduction.” Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Heart of Happy Hallow. New York: Harlem Moon, 2005, xii-xiii.

G.QUOTED IN OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Jarrett, Gene. Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird. Princeton University Press, 2022.

Revis, Tim. “Dave the Slave Potter.” VERANDA, (May/June) 2006.

H.PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS/PUBLIC RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

British Association of American Studies Conference, April 10, 2010. University of East Anglia. Norwich, England. TOPIC: “African American Homes at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Focal Points of Social Negotiation.”

BBC-FOUR Radio. Program, Thinking Aloud. TOPIC: “‘Woman’s Place Is in the Tea Room.’” 2009.

Today In America, an internet-based talk show on www.blogtalkradio.com/TodayinAmerica. TOPIC: “Courtship & Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore.” August 29, 2009.

University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland. TOPIC: “George Washington and Slaves in the Executive Mansion”. March 29, 2008.

Library, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia. TOPIC: “President Washington and Slaves in His ‘White House.’” March 27, 2007.

Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia. Panel Member. TOPIC: “Confronting Historical Injustice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee Panel.” February 2007.

Radio Station WOL (Baltimore-Washington area). TOPIC: “African Americans and Reconstruction”. November 16, 2006.

Mid-Atlantic American Popular Culture Conference.

Baltimore, Maryland. TOPIC: “Women and the Tea Room Movement at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” October 26, 2006.

Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. TOPIC: “President George Washington and Slaves in the President’s House.” September 28, 2006.

San Jose State University. San Jose, California. TOPIC: “Slaves in the White House: The Washington Years, 1789-1797.” February 27, 2006.

National Association of African American Studies. Houston, Texas. TOPIC: “Washington and Slaves in His Executive Mansion.” February 18, 2005.

Mt. Holyoke College. New York, New York. TOPIC: “Paul Laurence Dunbar & Alice Ruth Moore: Their Courtship and Marriage.” April 2004.

Southern Connecticut State University. TOPIC: “Elite African American Women at the turn of the Twentieth Century.” 2003.

Tavis Smiley Radio Show, National Public Radio. TOPIC: “Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore.” 2002.

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Library Association (general member)

American Historical Association (former member)

AWARDS/HONORS

Georgia Institute of Technology. IAC Dean’s Small Grants for Scholarship. $19,000.00.

Dorothy Danforth Memorial Scholarship, 1990-1996.

Drusilla Dunjee Houston Memorial Scholarship, 1992-1993.

Distinguished Black Woman Award, 1985.

Henri Dupont Winterthur Fellow, 1980-1982.

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