Marcia Walker-McWilliams Curriculum Vitae Assistant Professor of History Prairie View A&M University Division of Social Work, Political and Behavioral Sciences P.O. Box 519, MS 2203 Prairie View, TX 77446 (936) 261-3219 mawalker-mcwilliams@pvamu.edu EDUCATION The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL PhD, American History, June 2012 Dissertation: Faith in the Struggle: Rev. Addie Wyatt and the Fight for Labor, Civil Rights and Women s Rights Fields: African American History, 20 th Century U.S. History, Atlantic World MA, American History, June 2007 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL B.S. Ed, Social Policy, June 2006 Secondary Major: African American Studies, with honors American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Semester Abroad, Autumn 2005 Courses: Psychology of Women in the Arab World, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of the Arab World, Religion in the Arab World, Arabic I RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS African American History, Atlantic World History, African Diaspora, Women s History, race, labor and gender, 20 th Century U.S. Urban and Social History, Public History ACADEMIC POSITIONS Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX Assistant Professor of History, 2015 - present University of Houston, Houston, TX Visiting Scholar, African American Studies Program, 2013-2015 1
Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX Adjunct Instructor, History Department, 2012-2013 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Lecturer and Teaching Assistant, The Social Sciences Collegiate Division, 2008-2011 SUMMARY OF COURSES TAUGHT U.S. History to 1876 U.S. History since 1876 U.S. 1492-1837 World Civilization to 1500 Introduction to African American Studies (online) African American History and Biography (online) Modern African American History since 1945 PUBLICATIONS Books Walker-McWilliams, Marcia. Reverend Addie Wyatt Project. Forthcoming, University of Illinois Press, 2016. Articles Walker-McWilliams, Marcia. Black Intellectuals on Trial: Debating Race, Community and Responsibility. Africana Studies: A Review of Social Science Research Vol. 6., Transaction Publishers (Spring 2015). Reviews and Entries Walker-McWilliams, Marcia. Review of The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkins Bates in Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society (Spring 2015). Walker, Marcia. Wyatt, Addie. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, April 2014. PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES Guest Lecturer, Framing the Spiritual Life of a Social Justice Activist Women s History Month Lecture, African American Studies Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2015 Invited Panelist, Ferguson: The Aftermath, African American Studies and the Center for Diversity & Inclusion, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2015 Invited Panelist, Shifting Race in the 21 st Century, Intercultural Student Services, University of Houston Clear Lake, Clear Lake, TX, 2015 2
Presenter, A New Era for Labor? The Promises and Perils of the Fast Food Workers Strike Movement, African American Studies Program Symposium on Labor, Economics and Discrimination, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2015. Invited Speaker, Unfinished Revolutions: Black Struggles for Political and Economic Empowerment in the Post-Civil Rights Era, African American Library at the Gregory School, Houston, TX, 2014 Presenter, Our Labor Movement was the Civil Rights Movement: Rev. Addie Wyatt and the United Packinghouse Workers of America, 99 th Annual Association for the Study of Afro- American Life and History Convention, Memphis, TN, 2014. Presenter, Challenges from within: CBTU, CLUW and organized labor in the 1970s, Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2014. Invited Speaker, African American Women: Celebrating Women of Character, Courage and Commitment, 2014 Library Women s History Month Program, John B. Coleman Library of Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX, 2014. Guest Lecturer, Rethinking Black Women s Activism in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Women s History Month Speaker, African American Studies Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2014. Invited Panelist, Faculty of Color Panel: Career Paths and Navigating Tenure, GradUCon, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2014. Presenter, To Be Black, Christian and Feminist: Rev. Addie Wyatt, the Women s Movement and the Formation of a Progressive Faith Politic, Newberry Library Scholl Center Seminar on Women and Gender, Chicago, IL, 2012 Presenter, Preaching the Feminist Gospel? Witnessing and Framing Black Christian Feminism through the Life of Rev. Addie Wyatt, American Historical Association 125 th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2011 Invited Speaker, Researching and Writing Black Women s Lives, Patricia Liddell Researchers Women s Month Celebration, Chicago, IL, 2010 Presenter, For the Union Makes Us Strong: Addie Wyatt, Women and the American Labor Movement, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 10 th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women s and Gender History, Urbana, IL, 2009 Presenter, A Powerful Force for Change: Addie Wyatt and the Struggle for Labor, Civil Rights and Women s Rights, University of California Los Angeles, 19 th Annual Thinking Gender Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2009 3
Presenter, Black Intellectuals in the Post-Civil Rights Era and the Question of Social Engagement, Brown University Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Providence, RI, 2007 Presenter, Race, Values and the Debate over Reparations, Leadership Alliance National Symposium, Danvers, MA, 2005 Presenter, Race and Class: The Effects of Background on the Experiences of African American Students at Northwestern, Northwestern University 9 th Annual Graduate and Professional Student Research Conference, Evanston, IL, 2005 FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS Faculty Development Grant, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Houston, 2014 Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2011-2012 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2011-2012 (declined) University of Chicago Trustee Fellowship, 2006-2011 Diversifying Faculty in Illinois Fellowship, 2007-2011 Travel Grant, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago, 2010 Freehling Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Chicago, 2009 Ruth Murray Essay Prize for Best Graduate Essay, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago, 2008 Lerone Bennett Jr. Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University, 2006 Donald S. Perkins Scholarship, Northwestern University, 2006 Alfred W. Chase Memorial Scholarship, Northwestern University, 2005-2006 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Historical Association Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Guest Curator, Chicago Public Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, 2012-2013 Served as guest curator for a year-long exhibit, Faith in the Struggle on the life of Rev. Addie Wyatt and her influence in the city of Chicago, the labor movement and the women s movement. My work included exhibit design, selection of documents and photographs for exhibition, and creation of interpretive text panels. Archival Assistant, Harsh Archival Processing Program, Chicago Public Library, 2011 Inventoried, sorted, processed and drafted finding aids for important archival collections housed at the Chicago Public Library s Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American 4
History and Culture. Collections processed include the Papers of Rep. Charles Hayes, the Lucy Smith Collier Papers, and the Horace Cayton Papers. Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, University of Chicago, 2008-2011 Worked with the Dean of Students of the Graduate Division of Social Sciences to provide mentoring, professionalization programming and advisory support to under-represented and minority graduate students in the History Department and across the Social Sciences division. Archival Intern, Mapping the Stacks, University of Chicago, 2007-2010 Inventoried, sorted, processed and drafted finding aids for archival collections housed at the Chicago Public Library s Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Culture, funded by a Mellon Foundation Grant for a digital humanities project, Mapping the Stacks. Collections processed include the Robert Abbot and John Sengstacke Papers, Rev. Addie Wyatt and Rev. Claude Wyatt Papers, and the Chicago SNCC History Project Archives. Project Assistant, Collegiate Scholars Program, University of Chicago, 2006-2007 Authored and secured small grants for the Collegiate Scholars Program (>$15,000), interviewed prospective Collegiate Scholars and performed general office duties. 5