Philip F. Rubio, Ph.D. Office Phone: 336-285-4460 Email: (campus) pfrubio@ncat.edu PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Professor (effective July 1, 2013) 2007-present Courses taught: U.S. History Since 1932-Present; Selected Topics in African American History; The Civil Rights Movement; The Contemporary World; History of the New South; History of African American Culture; U.S. History From 1492-1877; U.S. History Since 1877; The World Since 1945. Division of University Studies (2007-2010) and Department of History (2010-present). North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Greensboro, North Carolina. Visiting Assistant Professor, 2006-2007 Visiting Lecturer, Summer II, 2006 Undergraduate Mentor, Fall 2005-Spring 2006 Courses taught: Latin American History-The Colonial Period; History of the Caribbean; World Societies; Recent U.S. History. Department of History. North Carolina Central University. Durham, North Carolina. Courses taught: History of the Civil Rights Movement. Department of History. North Carolina State University. Raleigh, North Carolina. Mentor to undergraduate senior thesis program applicants. Co-planner, 2006 North Carolina History Undergraduate Thesis Writers Conference, hosted by Duke University Department of History. Durham, North Carolina. Research Assistant, Assistant to Professor Timothy Tyson. Center for Documentary Studies 2005-2006 at Duke University. Teaching Fellow, Courses taught: Civil Rights and Labor Struggles; Introduction to Oral and Adjunct Instructor, History; Black and Labor Oral History; Black Labor History 2003-2007 Fieldwork. Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Visiting Lecturer, Courses taught: United States History to 1865; Fall 2001-Fall 2004 United States History since 1865; Latin American History-The Colonial Period; Latin American History-the National Period. North Carolina Central University. Teaching Assistant, Courses assisted: The Civil Rights Movement, Professor Charles M. 2002; 2006 Payne; Introduction to African and African American Studies, Professor Thavolia Glymph; Modern Latin America, Professor Jocelyn Olcott; Family and Class in American History, Professor Karin Shapiro. Duke University. EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION
Ph.D., 2006 Department of History, Duke University. Graduated May 14, 2006. Dissertation successfully defended March 22, 2006. Foreign language examination passed in Spanish, October, 2000. African and African American Studies Certificate earned. Preliminary examinations passed and dissertation prospectus approved, September 20, 2002: There s Always Work at the Post Office : African Americans Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality at the United States Post Office, 1940-1971. Major fields: Twentieth-Century United States History; African American History. Minor fields: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Latin American History; Caribbean History with emphasis on Cuba and African Diaspora; United States Labor History. Dissertation committee: Professor Charles M. Payne (Advisor), Professor Barry Gaspar, Professor Raymond Gavins, Professor Thavolia Glymph. M.A., 1998 B.A., 1996 History, Summa cum Laude, North Carolina Central University. Major: American History; Minor: African-American History. Master's thesis: The Roots of the Affirmative Action Struggle, 1933-1981: Black Protest, White Privilege, and the American Working Class. Thesis committee: Professor Freddie L. Parker (Advisor), Professor Beverly Washington Jones, Professor Percy E. Murray. Liberal Studies, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont. Major: History. Advisers: Professor Daniel Noel and Professor Richard Hathaway. Culminating Study: `Ashe and the Power of Soul in Religion and the Arts: African Roots of Aesthetic and Spiritual Fusion in the Americas. PUBLICATIONS Books Rubio, Philip F. A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.. There s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Articles. Al Rubio and the 1930s Student Sit-In Campaign against Jim Crow in Champaign, Illinois. Journal of Illinois History 12, no. 4 (Winter 2009): 250-278.. Who Divided the Church? : African American Postal Workers Fight Segregation in the Postal Unions, 1939-1962. Journal of African American History 94, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 172-199.. Black Labor, Race, and Citizenship Struggles at the U.S. Post Office from the Civil War to the Progressive Era. Convergence Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Issue One (Summer 2010): 75-84.. Though he had a white face he was a negro in heart : Examining the White Men
Convicted of Supporting the 1822 Denmark Vesey Slave Insurrection Conspiracy. South Carolina Historical Magazine 113, no. 1 (January 2012, published in August 2012): 50-67. Book Reviews. Book review. William P. Jones. The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013. American Historical Review, forthcoming 2014.. Book review. Paul Frymer. Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Social Service Review 82, no. 4 (December 2008): 752-755.. Book review. Gary W. Gallagher. Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians Vol. 17 (April 2009): 173-177.. Book review. David Hamilton Golland. Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. American Historical Review, 117, no. 2 (April 2012): 558-559.. Book review. Steve Martinot. The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. Journal of Social History 38, no. 4 (June 2005): 1140-142.. Book review. David J. McCreery. The Sweat of Their Brow: A History of Work in Latin America. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. South Eastern Latin Americanist 55, nos. 3, 4 (Winter/Spring, 2002): 90-93.. Book review. Denton L. Watson, ed. The Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr., Vols. 3 and 4. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. Journal of Southern History 78, no. 3 (August 2012): 764-766. PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES ATTENDED June 5-7, 2014 Paper accepted for annual Working Class Studies Association How Class Works conference at State University of New York-Stony Brook, "Neither Snow nor Rain: From the 1970 Postal Strike to Today's Fight Over the Future of the U.S. Postal Service." February 12, 2014 April 2, 2013 February 16, 2013 Scheduled to deliver talk at North Carolina Museum of History: "There's Always Work at the Post Office," Raleigh, NC. Delivered annual W.T. Gibbs lecture, "There's Always Work at the Post Office," North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. Triangle African American History Colloquium, "Interpreting Black Politics: Seventh Annual New Perspectives on African American and Culture Perspective," Chapel Hill, NC.
February 9, 2013 October 12, 2012 April 21, 2012 February 27, 2011 November 10-12, 2010 November 6, 2010 October 2, 2010 April 15-16, 2010 March 20, 2010 October 2, 2009 April 12, 2008 October 4, 2007 Center for Global Initiatives at UNC-Chapel Hill, "Music and the Global American South," Chapel Hill, NC. Duke University John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute: "Unfinished Journey: Writing American History with William H. Chafe, 40 Years at Duke, Durham. Conference attendance and participation: The Changing Face of the American South: Demographic Shifts and Migrations. Global American South series, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. There s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Justice. Lecture, panel, forum, and awards ceremony. Hayti Heritage Center. Durham, North Carolina. W.E.B. Du Bois Black Reconstruction in America: 75 th Anniversary Symposium. The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institite. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. There s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality. Smithsonian Institution National Postal Museum lecture and slide presentation, Washington, D.C. Civil Rights and Black Power in the 1960s Postal Unions. Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 95 th Annual Convention, Raleigh, North Carolina. Conference attendance and participation: 50 th Anniversary Conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, Attendance at African Diaspora Studies Symposium, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, Organized panel: Black Labor and Citizenship Struggles in the Americas during the 19th and 20th centuries. Paper: Black Labor and Citizenship Struggles at the U.S. Post Office: Civil War to Progressive Era. Association for the Study of African American Life and History 94 th Annual Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio. Black Women and Militant Labor Activism in the 1960s Post Office and Postal Unions. New Perspectives on African-American History and Culture conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Who Divided the Church? : Black Postal Workers Fight White Supremacy in American Postal Unions. Association for the Study of African American Life and History 92 nd Annual Convention, Charlotte, North Carolina.
February 15, 2007 April 22, 2006 September 30, 2004 March 26, 2004 April 28, 2002 November 20, 2001 February 24, 2001 April 1, 2000 April 17, 1999 AWARDS AND GRANTS March 15, 2011 April 2010 How Do We Write Black Oral History? Black History Month presentation and workshop, North Carolina Central University. Who divided the church, but the devil? : Black Postal Workers Challenge White Supremacy in the Postal Unions, 1939-1962. Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Washington, D.C. Grassroots, Lawsuits, and Blue Suits: African American Postal Workers Fight Jim Crow and McCarthyism, 1940-1954. Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Who Is An American?: Negotiating the Dynamics of Difference. Lowell Institute lecture series sponsored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, Simmons College. Boston, Massachusetts. Organized panel: South Carolina Slave Rebellions and Conspiracies in White and Black. Paper: Though he had a white face he was a Negro in Heart : Examining the White Men Convicted of Supporting the Denmark Vesey Slave Rebellion Conspiracy. Southern Labor Studies Conference. Miami Beach, Florida. Affirmative Action: A History. David W. Bishop Lecture Series, Fall lecture and book signing. North Carolina Central University. African American Workers, Military Personnel, and Veterans Challenge Jim Crow, 1940-1949. Blacks in the Diaspora Student Academic Conference. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Black Reconstruction and the Roots of the Affirmative Action Struggle. Blacks in the Diaspora Student Academic Conference. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Reconstruction and the Roots of Affirmative Action. Regional Phi Alpha Theta conference. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Greensboro, North Carolina. Rita Lloyd Moroney Senior Award for Scholarship on Postal History, United States Postal Service, for There s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality. Junior faculty research grant, Division of University Studies. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
February 23, 2010 August 2008 May 2005 May 2005 January 2005 Summer 2003 December 10, 2002 May, 2000 Outstanding College Junior Researcher Award, University Studies. Nominated for Outstanding University Junior Researcher Award, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Junior Faculty Development Research Grants. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. American Historical Association Beveridge Research Grant. 2005-2006 Senior Thesis Mentoring and Summer Research Grant, Graduate School and Department of History, Duke University. Research Service Learning Course Enhancement Grant for Civil Rights and Labor Struggles, Spring 2005, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University. Duke University Graduate School Summer Research Grant to study African American postal worker history in New York City and Washington, D.C. 2002 Outstanding Book Award. Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, Boston, Massachusetts, for A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000. Winner, Mellon Fellowship 2000 Competition. UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Chair, Curriculum Committee, University Studies Division (UNST), North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, 2008-2010. Member, UNST 110 Critical Writing search committee, 2008; Library Committee, 2008; UNST and Liberal Studies (LIBS) Committee for Development of RPT/PTR Guidelines, 2008; UNST 120 Contemporary World search committee, 2010. UNST representative, university Special Events committee, Chancellor Stanley Battle installation, 2008. Member, UNST 120 committee (2007-2012). Member Africana and African-American History, Special Programs (co-chair, including annual Gibbs lecture, 2011), Hospitality, American History Review, A&T history and World History Review committees, 2010-present. History Department representative to College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2010-2013; Graduate Research Council, and Undergraduate Research Council, 2012-present. Member, university committee for writing the history of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University s 125th anniversary celebration, 2011-present. Donation of Philip F. Rubio papers (oral history tapes, CD, transcription, and tapelogs) to Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, March 2011.
Member, Pauli Murray Project committee for public ceremony commemorating Robert Fitzgerald, a black Civil War Union soldier buried in city cemetery, Durham, North Carolina, 2011-present. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association Association for the Study of African American Life and History Organization of American Historians Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society (Epsilon Alpha Chapter, NCCU) Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society (North Carolina Delta Chapter, NCCU) Working Class Studies Association