ALISA Y. HARRISON CURRICULUM VITAE Duke University Department of History (250) 709 9640 Box 90719 ayh@duke.edu Durham, NC 27708 0719 ayh@uvic.ca 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). 2003 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. 2001 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. 1999 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 2001.2006 History Department Graduate Fellowship, Duke University.
Crown Fellowship, Brandeis University (declined). Graduate Fellowship, College of William and Mary (declined). 2001 2005 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. 2005 Conference Travel Grant, Department of History and Graduate School, Duke University. 2004 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. 2003 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. 2001 2003 Graduate Fellowship, University of Georgia (declined). 2001 History Department nominee, Faculty of Arts Teaching Assistant Award, University of British Columbia. Travel Grant, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of British Columbia. 2000 2001 University Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia. 1999 2000 Knigge Millennium Scholarship, University of British Columbia. 1997 1999 Dean s Honour List, University of British Columbia. 1991 1995 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, 1890 1940 (University of Georgia Press, 2003). H South, www.hnet msu.edu, July 12, 2004. 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), www.thirdspace.ca. CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS 2
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 2006. 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 2006. 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 2005. 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 2004. 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 2003. 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 2002. 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 2001. 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 2000. 3
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 2000. 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 2000. 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 2000. TEACHING EXPERIENCE FALL University of Victoria, Sessional Instructor. 2005 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. 2006 History 324, Topics in American History: The Civil Rights Movement (May June 2006) SPRING Duke University, Teaching Assistant. 2003 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. 2004 History 315, The Civil Rights Movement. 4
SPRING Duke University, Instructor. 2004 AAAS 99S, Women in the Freedom Struggle: Organizing the American South FALL University of British Columbia, Teaching Assistant. 1999 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 2000 01 and 2001 02 sessions (declined these offers due to time constraints). RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS 2002 2004 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. 2002 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. 2001 2002 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. 1999 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. 1994 1996 Patricia Vertinsky, Chair, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia. 5
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. 1995 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 2004 2005 Graduate student representative at monthly faculty meetings, Department of History. 2003 2004 Chair, Graduate Students Association, Department of History. Graduate student representative, Department of History, Graduate Faculty Committee. 2004 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. 2003 Founding member of the Graduate Students Association, Department of African and African American Studies. 2002 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 2000 2002 thirdspace, www.thirdspace.ca Co founder and co editor of this peer reviewed online journal of interdisciplinary work by emerging feminist scholars. 2000 2001 Cross Disciplinary Feminist Research Group Founding member of this research group comprised of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from a range of fields. 6
Department of History, graduate student representative to the department and Graduate Committee. 1999 2001 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