CRYSTAL NICOLE EDDINS 509 East Circle Drive, Room 316 East Lansing, MI 48824-1111 Telephone: 517.505.0621 Email: eddinscr@msu.edu EDUCATION 2017 Dual Major PhD in African American & African Studies and Sociology Dissertation: African Diaspora Collective Action: Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution Doctoral committee: Glenn A. Chambers (co-chair), Aaron M. McCright (cochair), Steven J. Gold, Brendan Mullan, John K. Thornton (external reviewer) 2014 MA in Sociology 2006 BA in Advertising, Specialization in African American History & Culture RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS African Diaspora Studies Historical Sociology Social Movements & Contentious Politics Postcolonial Sociology Digital Humanities Race and Ethnicity Women and Gender Studies 18 th -19 th Century Caribbean FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS External 2017 C. L. R. James Research Fellowship, African American Intellectual History Society 2016 National Science Foundation Sociology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award, $11,999 2016 John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellowship (2 months), Brown University 2016 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention 2015 HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholar Award Internal 2016 Graduate Research Scholarship, MSU Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies 2016 HASTAC Conference Travel Award, MSU College of Arts & Letters 2016 Artis Endowment Fund Award, MSU Department of Sociology
Page 2 of 5 2011, 13, 16 MSU Travel Award, African American & African Studies Graduate Program 2011-16 Graduate Office Fellowship, MSU Department of Sociology 2015 Graduate Research Enhancement Award, MSU Graduate School 2015 TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Graduate Merit Fellowship Honorable Mention, MSU Graduate School, $8,000 2009-12, 14 Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Scholar Award, National Science Foundation and the MSU Graduate School PUBLICATIONS Eddins, Crystal Nicole. 2017. Black Grassroots Activism from the 20 th to 21 st Century. Book Review Essay of Sekou M. Franklin s After the Rebellion: Black Youth, Social Movement Activism, and the Post Civil Rights Generation and Shannon King s Whose Harlem is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era in Social Movement Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2017.1319272. Manuscripts under Review Eddins, Crystal Nicole. Runaways, Repertoires, and Repression: Antecedents to the Haitian Revolution 1766-1791. Manuscripts in Preparation Eddins, Crystal Nicole. Motherhood as Micromobilization: Gendered Marronnage before the Haitian Revolution in preparation for Annual Review of Sociology Ayala, Isabel, Jessica Garcia, Crystal Eddins, and Aaron M. McCright. Whitewashing the Silver Screen: Racial/Ethnic Prejudice within the Movie-Going Public. Other Works Eddins, Crystal Nicole. 2017. Mobilizing Ideas Daily Disruption blog contributions: Walk Together Children! The Charismatic Leadership and Race-Conscious Politics of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Crises of Capital, Populist Politics. Eddins, Crystal Nicole. 2009. Bellegarde, Dantès (1877-1966). BlackPast.org Online Encyclopedia http://www.blackpast.org/?q=gah/bellegarde-dantes-1877-1966, last accessed September 2016. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Motherhood as Micro-mobilization: Gender and Marronnage before the Haitian Revolution, Brown Bag Talk, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, Providence, RI, November 2016 Marronnage as Labor Protest: Rebellion before the Haitian Revolution, Fellows Talk, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence RI, November 2016
Page 3 of 5 African Diaspora Memory Communities: Rituals, Rebels, & the Haitian Revolution, Session Presentation at the 3 rd ISA Forum of Sociology, RC48: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Social Change, Vienna, Austria, July 2016. Seeds of Discontent: Antecedents to the Haitian Revolution, 1750-1791, Presentation at the University of Notre Dame Center for the Study of Social Movements Young Scholars Conference, South Bend, IN, May 2016. Tracking Oppositional Consciousness: Runaways, Revolution, and the Digital Humanities, Digital Blackness Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2016. Runaways, Revolution, and the Digital Humanities: Findings from the Marronnage in Saint Domingue Database, Central Pennsylvania Consortium s Africana Studies Conference: #Envisioning Black Digital Spaces, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, April 2016. Invited Panel Chairperson, Transnational Families, Migration Without Borders Conference,, East Lansing, MI, October 2015. Ritual Antecedents to the Haitian Revolution, 1786, Roundtable Presentation at the XVII International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 2014. Seeds of Discontent: Antecedents to the Haitian Revolution 1750-1791, Panel Presentation at the Association for the Worldwide Study of the African Diaspora 7 th Biennial Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, November 2013. Invited Panelist: Special ASWAD Mentoring Workshop for Graduate Students, All but Dissertation Students, and Junior Faculty, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora 7 th Biennial Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, November 2013. Road to Revolution: Haiti 1750-1791, Panel Presentation at the National Council for Black Studies 37 th Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, March 2013. Road to the Haitian Revolution: 1750-1791, Paper Presentation at the Haiti in a Globalized Frame International Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, February 2013. Respondent and Recorder, Conference on Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, Lyman Briggs College,, East Lansing, MI, May 2012. Invited Panel Chairperson, Late Colonialities and Early Republicanisms: Pluralities of Blackness in the Age of Abolition, Afro-Latin America: Rethinking Identity, Politics & Culture: 27 th Annual Symposium on African American Culture and Philosophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, December 2011. Shared Principles and Directions: African American & African Diaspora Studies, Panel Presentation at the Association for the Worldwide Study of the African Diaspora 6 th Biennial Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2011. Shared Origins and Directions: The African Diaspora Inside African American & African Studies, Panel Presentation at The State of African American and African Diasporic Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy, and Research, City University of New York, NY, January 2011. Gender and Resistance Movements in the French Caribbean, Panel Presentation at the TIAA- CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowship Commemorative Symposium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, April 2010. TEACHING Courses Taught, Olivet College African Diaspora History Gender & Inequality Inequality, Race & Ethnicity
Page 4 of 5 Courses Taught, Introduction to Sociology Teaching Assistant, Family & Society Global Migration Introduction to Sociology National Diversity & Change Social Problems Society and the Individual Sociological Theory Youth & Society WORK EXPERIENCE 2010-17 Graduate Teaching Assistant, MSU Department of Sociology 2016 Instructor, MSU Department of Sociology, East Lansing, MI, July-August 2015-2016 Consultant, MSU Writing Center, East Lansing, MI 2015-2016 Adjunct Instructor, Olivet College Department of Social Sciences, Olivet, MI 2011-12, 15 Selected Coordinator, Graduate Student Orientation, MSU Department of Sociology, July-August 2012, 2015 Graduate Facilitator and Writing Coach, MSU Summer Research Opportunities Program, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, May-July 2008 Graduate Assistant, MSU African American & African Studies Graduate Program ACADEMIC SERVICE Contributing Editor, Mobilizing Ideas Daily Disruptions blog, The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame, 2017. Invited Guest Presenter, Social Work 713: An Africentric Approach to Interpersonal Practice, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, September 2015. Invited Guest Presenter, History 110: Beyond Katrina and Tremé: Black New Orleans in Historical Perspective,, East Lansing, October 2013. Invited Guest Lecturer, Sociology 481: Social Movements and Collective Identities - U.S. Civil Rights Sociological & Global,, East Lansing, September 2013. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Invited Panelist, Black History Panel, Michigan Reformatory, Ionia, MI, April 2017 Invited Keynote Speaker, Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration, African American Cultural Heritage Academy organized by the Huron Valley Association of Black Social Workers at the Parkridge Community Center, Ypsilanti, MI, December 2014. Invited Keynote Speaker, Honorable Paths: The African Diaspora, Education and Community Engagement, Baccalaureate Sunday, Metropolitan Memorial Baptist Church, Ypsilanti, MI, June 2014.
Page 5 of 5 Grant and Programming Consultant, The Haitian Network Group of Detroit, Detroit, MI, April 2011. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society African American Intellectual History Society International Sociological Association National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) Diversity Scholars Network Social Science History Association LANGUAGES Haitian Kreyòl Beginner French Intermediate (Reading) English Native