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1 Tyran Steward Department of History, University of Michigan 2425 Foxway Drive, Ann Arbor, MI Tel: EDUCATION Ohio State University, PhD, African American History with secondary in U.S. History and minor in Women s History, August 2013 Dissertation: In the Shadow of Jim Crow: The Benching and Betrayal of Willis Ward My dissertation examines Jim Crow in the North via the interplay of race and sport. It analyzes the 1934 benching of Willis Ward, an African-American football player at the University of Michigan and reveals how Northern institutions maintained segregationist practices without having the same legal sanctions that existed in the South. This project chronicles how racism toward Ward shaped the politics of his teammate and future President Gerald Ford, particularly in matters concerning civil rights. This study also probes how Ward s benching affected his own career as a lawyer, judge, and personnel director for Henry Ford. By using the Ward incident to probe the entrenched restrictions that African Americans encountered in the North, this dissertation provides a more comprehensive view of Jim Crow life in America. Committee: Dr. Hasan Jeffries (advisor); Dr. Kevin Boyle; Dr. Judy Wu Eastern Michigan University, Graduate Certificate, African-American Studies, April 2010 Eastern Michigan University, M.A., History, June 2009 Morehouse College, B.A., Sociology, May 2000 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Visiting Lecturer and Fellow, Department of History, University of Michigan, Fall Instructor, Department of History, Ohio State University, Spring 2012 RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS 20 th Century African American History: race relations; long freedom struggle; rise of black conservatism Modern US History: interwar period; labor history; immigration and migration; race and ethnicity; sports Women s History: intersectionality; notions of masculinity; race and gender PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

2 ARTICLES Time Not Ripe: Black Women s Quest for Citizenship and the Battle for Full Inclusion at Ohio State University, Ohio History 121 (March 2014) The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights in the 50 th Anniversary of the March on Washington, Origins (August 2013) Scarcely Pink: Herbert Miller, Academic Freedom, and the Crucible of Race, Transnational Subjects (under review) BOOK REVIEWS Review of Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20 th -Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa, by Yuichiro Onishi, (New York: New York University Press, 2013), in Journal of African American History (forthcoming) Review of Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College: A Documentary History, by Roland M. Baumann, (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010), in Ohio History (forthcoming) Review of Children of Fire: A History of African Americans, by Thomas C. Holt, (New York: Hill & Wang, 2010), in North Carolina Historical Review (October 2012) Review of Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics & Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, , by Clarence Lang, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), in Journal of African American History Vol. 97, No. 3 (Summer 2012) Review of In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, , by Zachery R. Williams, (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009), in North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 88, No. 4 (October 2011) WORKS IN PROGRESS The Benching of Willis Ward: The Making of a Black Conservative in the Jim Crow North, book project Citizen of the World: The Life of Herbert Adolphus Miller, , book project Lost Opportunity: Willis Ward, the Strike at Willow Run, and the Rise of the Labor-Civil Rights Union in Detroit, Organization of American Historians 2014 conference paper Rivals Not by Race: Michigan, Ohio State University, and the Keeping of the Color Line, article Pioneering into Paternalism: Henry Ford and the Making of a Black Conservative, article AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS Black and Blue: The Story of Willis Ward, Gerald Ford, and the 1934 Michigan-Georgia Tech Football Game (Stunt3 Media, Fall 2011) Historical Commentator and Lead Content Expert PRESENTATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

3 CONFERENCES Inside and Outside the Lines: Race, Power, and Sport in 20 th -Century America, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 10-13, 2014 (Panel) Black and Blue: Willis Ward, Gerald Ford, and the Ubiquitous Color Line, North American Society for Sports History Conference, Berkeley, California, June 1-4, 2012 At the University but Not of the University: Black Athletes Battle Michigan s Jim Crow, Tri-University Conference for the Trans/Disciplinary Study of Sport, entitled, Humanistic Foundations: Historical, Philosophical, and Sociocultural Studies of Sport, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, March 30, 2012 To be Good from Day One: The African American Athlete as a Superspade, National Council for Black Studies 36 th National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, March 7-10, 2012 All I Want is Opportunity: Doris Weaver, Wilhelmina Styles, and the Pursuit of a Professional Status, Thinking Gender Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, February 3, 2012 Of Jim Crow Clauses and Gentlemen s Agreements: How the North Imitated the South on Race in Sports, Association for the Study of African American Life and History 96 th Annual Conference, Richmond, Virginia, October 7, 2011 Jim Crow in Michigan s Big House and the Exclusion of Black Performance, Performing Ethnicities through Sport Conference, University of Iowa, April 2, 2011 GRADUATE SHOWCASES Time Not Ripe: Black Women s Quest for Citizenship and the Battle to End Jim Crow at The Ohio State University, Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, Ohio State University, March 4, 2011 The Story of Doris Weaver and a 1933 Ohio Supreme Court Case, Inaugural Graduate Showcase in Women, Gender, and Sexuality History, Ohio State University, February 25, 2011 INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS Guest Lecturer, Graduate Prospectus Writing Tips, Department of History, Ohio State University, January 14, 2013 Willis Ward, Gerald Ford, and the Value of Interdependence, Keynote Speaker, Graduate Student Welcome Orientation, Ohio State University, August 20, 2012 Benching Jim Crow: The Integration of College Football, Guest Lecturer, Marshall University, April 17, 2012 Discussant, Black and Blue Documentary Screening, Department of History Prospective Graduate Student Visitation Day, Ohio State University, April 6, 2012 Panelist, Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 16, 2012

4 Social Activism in the Age of Obama, Keynote Speaker, Black History Month Celebration, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, February 7, 2010 Becoming a Successful College Student, Guest Lecturer, College-Bound Summer Enrichment Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 2007 and Why We Can t Wait, Discussant, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Symposium, Eastern Michigan University, January 15, 2007 Remembering King, Advancing His Dream, Keynote Speaker, African American Student Symposium, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan, February 28, 2006 FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS Presidential Fellowship (Dissertation Fellowship), Ohio State University, May 29, 2012 The Presidential Fellowship is the premier honor awarded a graduate student at Ohio State University. It recognizes the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of a graduate student entering the final phase of dissertation research. Financial support is provided so that the fellow may devote one year of full-time study to the completion of the dissertation unimpeded by other duties. Recipients of this award embody the highest standards of scholarship in our graduate programs. Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (alternate; honorable mention), April 6, 2012 Research and Writing Fellowship, Ohio State University Department of History, November 9, 2011 The Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant, Ohio State University, September 21, 2011 The Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant, Ohio State University, March 9, 2011 History Department Excellence Bonus, Ohio State University, University Fellowship, Graduate Enrichment, Ohio State University, SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS Exemplary Diversity Scholar, National Center for Institutional Diversity, June 2014 Graduate Teaching Award (finalist), Ohio State University; April 2013 History Department Summer Research Award, Ohio State University Department of History, April 4, 2012 Foster Rhea Dulles Award, Ohio State University Department of History, April 4, 2012 Roberta Park Award (graduate honoraria), North American Society for Sports History, February 8, 2012 The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Inductee, November 20, 2011 Second Place, Humanities Division, Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, March 4, 2011

5 Dean s Award, Eastern Michigan University, March 2010 Distinguished Thesis Award, Eastern Michigan University, June 2009 Phi Alpha Theta Historical Honor Society, Inductee, December 2007 TEACHING AND ADVISING EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Instructor, History 197: Sport and the American University (seminar; Fall Semester 2014) Instructor, History 230: Sport and the Color Line in 20 th Century America (lecture; Fall Semester 2014) Instructor, History 497: Race, Gender, and Sport in Twentieth-Century America (seminar; Spring Semester 2014) Instructor, History 230: The Roaring Twenties and the Rough Thirties (lecture; Spring Semester 2014) Instructor, History 496: Black Power Movement (seminar; Fall Semester 2013) OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Instructor, History 152: American Civilization since 1877 (Spring Quarter 2012) Grader, History African Americans in the Age of Slavery (Fall Quarter 2011) Senior Thesis Advisor, Department of African and African American Studies ( ) Advised senior student concentrator in African American Studies who wrote a senior thesis in the areas of globalization, politics, and black leadership. Duties included counseling on thesis organization and research methodology. ADDITIONAL UNIVERSITY SERVICE Introducer/Presenter, 5 th Annual Historical Lecture Series, Ohio State University, February 5, 2013 K-12 Mentor-Tutor, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, Ohio State University, 2011-present Advisory Committee Member, Ohio State University Stand Your Ground Task Force, 2012 Participant, Department of History Visitation Orientation Program, Ohio State University, 2012 Graduate Student Host, Department of History Visitation Day Weekend, Ohio State University, 2012 Mentor, Department of History Graduate Buddy Program, Host, Prospective Graduate Student Week, Ohio State University, 2011 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

6 American Historical Association; American Studies Association; Association for the Study of African American Life and History; National Council of Black Studies; North American Society for Sport History; Organization of American Historians; Southern Historical Association

CURRICULUM VITAE. Jose A. Torres

CURRICULUM VITAE. Jose A. Torres CURRICULUM VITAE Jose A. Torres Department of Sociology Louisiana State University 10B Stubbs Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Email: jtorres@lsu.edu Phone: (225): 578-0144 Professional Employment 2016 Present