ALISA Y. HARRISON CURRICULUM VITAE. Duke University Department of History (250)

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1 ALISA Y. HARRISON CURRICULUM VITAE Duke University Department of History (250) Box Durham, NC EDUCATION 2008 Ph.D. in History and Graduate Certificate in African American Studies, Duke University (On leave Sept. Dec. 2007; degree expected May 2008). Dissertation title: Reconstructing Somerset Place: Historical Consciousness and Collected Memory in Twentieth Century North Carolina. Committee: William Chafe (co chair), Thavolia Glymph (co chair), Peter Wood, John Thompson, Leigh Raiford (University of California Berkeley) A.B.D. in History, Duke University. Preliminary examinations: 20 th century U.S.; southern U.S.; U.S. women; comparative colonialism. Committee: William Chafe (chair), Thavolia Glymph, Laura Edwards, Susan Thorne, Peter Wood M.A. in History, University of British Columbia.. Thesis: Ain t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round The Southwest Georgia Freedom Movement and the Politics of Empowerment. Supervisor: Paul Krause B.A. in History, University of British Columbia. RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS U.S. History: 20 th century; southern; women and gender; comparative. African American Studies Historiography, theory and methodology Feminist theory Social movements Memory FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS History Department Graduate Fellowship, Duke University.

2 Crown Fellowship, Brandeis University (declined). Graduate Fellowship, College of William and Mary (declined) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship Conference Travel Grant, Department of History and Graduate School, Duke University Graduate Student Teaching Award, African and African American Studies, Duke University. Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellow, Graduate School, Duke University. Research Travel Grant, African and African American Studies, Duke University Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians: Best Graduate Student Paper, 6 th Southern Conference on Women s History. Guion Griffis Johnson Southern Studies Research Stipend, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Conference Travel Grant, African and African American Studies, Duke University Graduate Fellowship, University of Georgia (declined) History Department nominee, Faculty of Arts Teaching Assistant Award, University of British Columbia. Travel Grant, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of British Columbia University Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia Knigge Millennium Scholarship, University of British Columbia Dean s Honour List, University of British Columbia Full Tuition Scholarship (undergraduate), York University (declined). PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES Women s and Girls Activism in 1960s Southwest Georgia: Rethinking History and Historiography, in Angela Boswell and Judith McArthur, eds., Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change (University of Missouri Press, 2006). PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS Georgina Hickey, Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, (University of Georgia Press, 2003). H South, msu.edu, July 12, Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta (Harvard University Press, 2003). In the North Carolina Historical Review (April 2004). Bryant Simon, Glenda Gilmore and Jane Dailey, eds., Jumpin Jim Crow (Princeton University Press, 2000). In thirdspace, 1 (March 2002), CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS 2

3 SHA 2007 Testimony of the Abundant Life : Changing History at Somerset Place. 7 th Southern Conference on Women s History. Southern Association for Women Historians. Baltimore, MD. June Complexity and Continuity, History and Memory: Representing Slavery at Somerset Place. Presenter and panel organizer, Memory, Place and Race: African American History in the American Landscape. Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. April Representing Slavery in the 20 th Century South: History and Memory at Somerset Place. 119 th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Seattle, WA. January Representing Slavery in the 20 th Century South: History and Memory at Somerset Place. Invited presentation in the series, Wednesdays at the Center, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University. Durham, NC. April A Moment in the Middle: Women s and Youth Activism in 1960s Southwest Georgia. Presenter and panel organizer. 6 th Southern Conference on Women s History. Southern Association for Women Historians. Athens, GA. June The first thing you have to do is listen SNCC, Women and Insurgency in 1960s Southwest Georgia. Invited presentation, plenary session, 7 th Annual Women s Studies Interdisciplinary Conference. Southeast Women s Studies Association and Valdosta State University. Valdosta, GA.. March Ain t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round: Culture, Community and Commitment in the Albany, Georgia, Civil Rights Movement. 26 th Annual Qualicum Graduate Student History Conference. Qualicum, BC. February Not a Black Thing? African American Women and Feminist Consciousness in the Early Civil Rights Movement. 2 nd Annual University of Memphis Graduate Student Conference in African American History. Memphis, TN. October

4 Not a Black Thing? Feminism and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in Memoir and Memory. 2 nd Annual Southern California Graduate Student History Conference. Riverside, CA. May Not a Black Thing? Feminism and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in Memoir and Memory. Views from the Edge VIII: 8 th Annual University of British Columbia Centre for Research in Women s Studies and Gender Relations Graduate Student Symposium. Vancouver, BC. April Not a Black Thing? Feminism and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in Memoir and Memory. 25 th Annual Qualicum Graduate Student History Conference. Qualicum, BC. February TEACHING EXPERIENCE FALL University of Victoria, Sessional Instructor History 210, US History Survey (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006) Present History 304, 20 th Century US History (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006) History 318, Civil Rights Movement (Spring and Summer 2006, Summer 2007, Spring 2008) History 318, African American History (Spring 2007) Women s Studies 104, Introduction to Women s Studies (Spring 2007) SPRING Malaspina University College, Sessional Instructor. Nanaimo, British Columbia History 324, Topics in American History: The Civil Rights Movement (May June 2006) SPRING Duke University, Teaching Assistant AAAS (African and African American Studies) 198, Black Intellectual History in the SPRING Context of Urban Politics. Instructor: Wahneema Lubiano (Spring 2003) 2005 AAAS 106, Introduction to African American Studies. Instructor: Thavolia Glymph (Fall 2003) History 163, The Civil Rights Movement. Instructor: Charles Payne (Fall 2004) History 111G, Modern America. Instructor: William Chafe (Spring 2005) FALL Guilford College, Adjunct Instructor. Greensboro, North Carolina History 315, The Civil Rights Movement. 4

5 SPRING Duke University, Instructor AAAS 99S, Women in the Freedom Struggle: Organizing the American South FALL University of British Columbia, Teaching Assistant History 332, African American History. Instructor: Paul Krause (Fall 2000 Spring SPRING 2001) 2001 History 237, American History Survey. Instructor: Vitaliy Timofiiv (Fall 1999 Spring 2000) SUMMER University of British Columbia, Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth 1999 (TAG). Completed the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW), a 3 day voluntary intensive training program for Graduate Teaching Assistants. Focused on classroom management, presentation, and grading skills. Following this workshop, TAG invited me to train as an ISW facilitator for the and sessions (declined these offers due to time constraints). RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS Laura Edwards, Associate Professor, Department of History, Duke University. Searched 18 th and 19 th century North and South Carolina newspapers for coverage of debates over changes to the structure of the judicial system Thavolia Glymph, Assistant Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Duke University. Worked with planters papers and plantation records to gather information on southern women s work patterns before and after the Civil War David Cecelski, Lehman Brady Professor, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University. Performed multiple tasks, including research into the development of standardized and high stakes testing in elementary and secondary schools Alan Tully, Dean of Arts, Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of British Columbia. Hired for a project that ultimately had to be postponed Patricia Vertinsky, Chair, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia. 5

6 searches General research assistance for a variety of projects focusing on the history of the body and the history of sport. Primarily responsible for secondary literature and retrievals Daniel Pratt, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia. Performed literature searches for a project on distance learning and medical education. SERVICE AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Duke University Graduate student representative at monthly faculty meetings, Department of History Chair, Graduate Students Association, Department of History. Graduate student representative, Department of History, Graduate Faculty Committee Was a key organizer of the annual Ella Baker Lecture at Duke and North Carolina Central Universities on April 8, featuring the activist, writer and filmmaker Constance Curry Founding member of the Graduate Students Association, Department of African and African American Studies Civil Rights Workshop PRESENT In the summer and fall of 2002, I assisted Charles Payne, Professor and Chair, African and African American Studies, in organizing this network of researchers and teachers from around the North Carolina Triangle and the Triad regions who are interested in scholarship on the twentieth century American civil rights movement. At present I remain the owner and moderator of the workshop listserv, and the group s general contact person. University of British Columbia thirdspace, Co founder and co editor of this peer reviewed online journal of interdisciplinary work by emerging feminist scholars Cross Disciplinary Feminist Research Group Founding member of this research group comprised of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from a range of fields. 6

7 Department of History, graduate student representative to the department and Graduate Committee University Equity Committee: graduate student representative, departmental committee. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Historical Association Canadian Historical Association Coordinating Council for Women in History Organization of American Historians Southern Association for Women Historians Southern Historical Association 7

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