CATHERINE HIGGS

University of Tennessee Phone: (865) 974-7095 Department of History Fax: (865) 974-3915 2646 Dunford Hall (6th floor) Email: chiggs@utk.edu 915 Volunteer Boulevard Knoxville, TN 37996 USA EDUCATION PhD 1993 Yale University, Modern African History (with distinction) MPhil 1987 Yale University, History MA 1985 Yale University, History BA (Hons) 1984 Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada, History (first class)

Languages French (speaking, reading, writing), Portuguese (speaking, reading), Spanish (reading), Afrikaans (reading), some Xhosa and Zulu PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2013- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Professor of History 1995-2013 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Assistant to Associate Professor of History 1994-1995 University of Nebraska at Kearney, Assistant Professor of History 1991-1994 Visiting Instructor and Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Rollins College,

Winter Park, FL

Teaching Fields Africa, South Africa, British and Portuguese Colonialism, Religious History, Women’s History, World History Administrative Experience (University of Tennessee) 2014-2015 Interim Chair of Africana Studies (August 1, 2014-January 31, 2015) 2011- Vice Chair, Africana Studies Program 2007-2010 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History (Jan. 2007-Dec. 2010) 2006-2007 Chair, Graduate Program Committee, Department of History 2003-2005 Chair, Graduate Program Committee, Department of History GRANTS AND AWARDS National and International Grants 2012-2013 National Humanities Center John E. Sawyer Fellowship, endowed by the Andrew W.

Mellon Foundation 2007-2011 Research grant (by nomination and invitation; European foundation requests

anonymity), 2011, 2009-2010, 2008, 2007 2005-2006 American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship (spring 2006) 2004 Luso-American Foundation grant, National Library of Portugal, Lisbon (summer 2004) 1998-2002 The Rockefeller Foundation, grant to support “Black Women in the Old World and the

New,” a conference at the University of Tennessee, September 16-18, 1999, and the publication of Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas (2002)

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University Competitive Grants 2012 Faculty Development Leave (sabbatical), UT-Knoxville (spring) 2011 US Department of Education Arabic and Arab Culture Infusion Stipend, awarded by UT-

Knoxville 2011 Professional Development Award, UT-Knoxville 2008, 2009 Award for New Research, Scholarly, and Creative Projects in the Arts and Humanities, UT-Knoxville 2005 Faculty Development Leave (sabbatical), UT-Knoxville (fall) 2005 SARIF grant (for travel to South Africa), UT-Knoxville (fall) 2003, 2002 Professional Development Award, UT-Knoxville 1999 Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration and Student Affairs, grant to support

the conference “Black Women in the Old World and the New,” UT-Knoxville 1998 Professional Development Award, UT-Knoxville 1992-1993 Rollins College Professional Development Award Graduate Fellowships 1987-1988 Marty Memorial Scholarship (Awarded to distinguished graduates by Queen’s University

for dissertation research in South Africa) 1986-1988 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship PUBLICATIONS (published and forthcoming) * Indicates a peer-reviewed publication 2016* “The Global South: Africa.” In The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism, edited by

Bernice Kaczynski. Oxford: Oxford University Press (under contract and forthcoming). 7,500 words submitted on March 29, 2014; revisions submitted July 27, 2014.

2016* Cocoa, Chocolate, and Africa. Ohio Short Histories of Africa. Athens: Ohio University

Press (under contract). 30,000 words due to the press on March 31, 2015. 2014a* "Happiness and Work: Portuguese Peasants, British Laborers, African Contract Workers,

and the Case of São Tomé and Príncipe, 1901-1909." International Labor and Working Class History 86 (Fall). Special issue on African Labor Histories, edited by Franco Barchiesi and Stefano Belluci.

2014b “Henry Woodd Nevinson: Part VI—The Islands of Doom (1906) from Harper’s Monthly

Magazine.” Introduced by Catherine Higgs. In Colonial Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism, edited by Anya Schiffrin. 33-39. New York: New Press, 2014.

2012a* “The Cabra Dominican Sisters and the ‘Open Schools’ Movement in Apartheid South

Africa.” With Margaret Kelly, OP. International Studies in Catholic Education 4 1 (March): 4-15.

2012b* Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press.

First paperback edition, 2013. (230 p. + xvi)

Reviewed in: African Affairs, vol. 113, no. 450 (2014); Enterprise and Society, vol. 15, no. 1 (2014); International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 46, no. 2 (2013);

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Journal of African History, vol. 54, no. 2 (2013); H-net.org/reviews (H-Luso Africa, August 2013); London Review of Books, vol. 35 no. 7 (April 11, 2013); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (January 2013); Library Journal (November 2012); Book News (October 2012); Book List (August 1, 2012).

2011a* “Silence, Disobedience, and African Catholic Sisters in Apartheid South Africa.” African

Studies Review 54 2 (September): 1-22. 2011b “Jabavu, Davidson Don Tengo” and “Jabavu, John Tengo.” In The Dictionary of African

Biography, edited by Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press.

2008* “Embracing Activism in Apartheid South Africa: The Sisters of Mercy in Bophuthatswana,

1974-1994.” With Jean N. Evans, RSM. The Catholic Historical Review 94 3 (July): 500-521.

2004a* “Zenzele: African Women’s Self-Help Organizations in South Africa, 1927-1998.” African

Studies Review 47 3 (December): 119-141. 2004b “Drugs, Sex and HIV/Aids in Contemporary South Africa.” African Studies Review 47 2

(September): 124-130. 2002a* Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas, edited by Catherine Higgs,

Barbara A. Moss and Earline Rae Ferguson. Athens: Ohio University Press. (331 p. + xxiii) Reviewed in: International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 38, no. 1 (2005):

132-134; African Studies Review, vol. 46, no. 3 (2003): 193-194. 2002b* “Helping Ourselves: Black Women and Grassroots Activism in Segregated South Africa,

1922-1952.” In Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas, edited by Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss and Earline Rae Ferguson. 59-72. Athens: Ohio University Press.

2002c* “Introduction.” With Barbara A. Moss. In Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and

the Americas, edited by Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss and Earline Rae Ferguson. xiii-xxiii. Athens: Ohio University Press.

2001 “A Christian, Civilized Man: D.D.T. Jabavu of South Africa.” In Agency and Action in

Colonial Africa: Essays for John Flint, edited by Chris Youé and Tim Stapleton. 100-125. New York: Palgrave.

2000 “Travel with a Purpose: A South African at Tuskegee, 1913." The Journal of African

Travel-Writing 8/9: 126-132. 1998 “Full Circle: Sol Plaatje, Anton Lembede, Mamphela Ramphele and the Struggle for Civil

Rights in South Africa.” Canadian Journal of African Studies 32 2: 380-389.

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1997* The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D.D.T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885-1959. Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town & Johannesburg: David Philip; University of the Western Cape: Mayibuye Books. (276 p. + xiii)

Reviewed in: Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, vol. 70, no. 1 (2000); American Historical Review vol. 104, no. 1 (1999) International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 31, no. 3 (1998); African History, vol. 39 (1998); Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), vol. 68, no. 3 (1998); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (July 1997); African Studies Quarterly (online [1997]); Mail and Guardian (South Africa), May 1-8, 1997.

Book Reviews (published and forthcoming) 2014a A Journey from Tete to Zumbo (Uma Viagem de Tete ao Zumbo) by Albino Manoel

Pacheco, edited and translated by Malyn Newitt. Choice (September). 2014b Where the Negroes are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy J.

Sparks. Choice (June). 2014c Apartheid on a Black Isle: Removal and Resistance in Alexandra, South Africa by Dawne

Y. Curry. American Historical Review (April). 2013 Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 by

Elizabeth A. Foster. Choice (September). 2012a The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968-1977 by Daniel R.

Magaziner. Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 13 3-4 (October). 2012b The Boers in Angola, 1928-1975 by Nicol Stassen. Choice (October). 2012c “Founding Father: John Langalibalele Dube.” Review of First President: John

Langalibalele Dube by Heather Hughes. H-net.org/reviews (September). 2012d Women’s Roles in Sub-Saharan Africa by Toyin Falola and Nana Akua Amponsah. Choice

(August). 2012e Making African Christianity: Africans Re-imagining Their Faith in Colonial Southern Africa

by Robert J. Houle. Choice (May). 2011 The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the

Atlantic World by Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta. Choice (October). 2010a The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa by Bertrand Taithe. Choice

(October). 2010b In Africa’s Forest and Jungle: Six Years among the Yorubas by Richard Henry Stone,

edited and with an introduction by Betty Finklea Florey. Choice (August). 2010c Guardian of the Light: Denis Hurley: Renewing the Church, Opposing Apartheid by Paddy

Kearney. Catholic Historical Review 96 2 (April): 407-408 2009 Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and A Biography by Clifton Crais

and Pamela Scully. Choice (June). 2008a Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa edited by Henri Médard and Shane

Doyle. Canadian Journal of History 43 3 (Winter): 583-585. 2008b Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal,

1853-1913 by Cheikh Anta Babou. Choice (August). 2007a African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus by Rachel Holmes. Choice

(December). 2007b Mandela: A Critical Life by Tom Lodge. Choice (October). 2007c Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa by Padraig

O’Malley. History: Reviews of New Books 36 1 (Fall): 31.

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2007d A Burning Hunger: One Family's Struggle against Apartheid by Lynda Schuster. International Journal of African Historical Studies 40 1: 170-171.

2006a Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business by Lowell J. Satre. African Studies Review 49 3 (December): 91-92.

2006b Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid by Belinda Bozzoli. International Journal of African Historical Studies 39 1: 189-190.

2004a Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identities in the Unstable World of South-Central Africa, 1750-1920 by Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman. Choice (December).

2004b Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present by Frederick Cooper. Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 42 2 (July): 281-282.

2004c African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries edited by James Fairhead et al. Choice (June).

2004d Apartheid’s Festival: Contesting South Africa’s National Pasts by Leslie Witz. International Journal of African Historical Studies 37 2: 369-370.

2004e Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century by George Brooks. Choice (February).

2003a Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914 by William Gervase Clarence-Smith. International Journal of African Historical Studies 36 2: 482-483.

2003b Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa: Southern Gabon, ca. 1850-1940 by Christopher Gray. Choice (February).

2003c Reflections in Prison: Voices from the South African Liberation Struggle edited by Mac Maharaj. Choice (January).

2002a Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c. 1780-1867) by Timothy J. Stapleton. International Journal of African Historical Studies 35 1: 679-680.

2002b The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics since 1910 by Loren Kruger. International Journal of African Studies 35 2: 492-493

2002c Historical Dictionary of Zimbabwe, 3rd edition, edited by Steven C. Rubert and R. Kent Rasmussen. Choice (March).

2001 Alfred B. Xuma: African, American, South African by Steven Gish. International Journal of African Historical Studies 34 2: 452-453

2000a Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan: A Social History of the Ciskei, 1945-1959 by Anne Kelk Mager. African Studies Review 43 3 (December): 161-162.

2000b South Africa: A Narrative History by Frank Welsh. International Journal of African Historical Studies 33 1: 187-188.

1999a South Africa’s Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960 by Les Switzer. International Journal of African Historical Studies 32 3: 194-196.

1999b Liberals against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953-68 by Randolph Vigne. American Historical Review 104 1 (April): 690-691.

1996 Against the Tide: Whites in the Struggle against Apartheid by Joshua N. Lazerson. International Journal of African Historical Studies 29 3.

1994 Power and Resistance in an African Society: The Ciskei Xhosa and the Making of South Africa by Les Switzer. Labour/Le Travail 35 (Fall).

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WORK IN PROGRESS Book “Sisters for Justice: Religion and Political Transformation in Apartheid South Africa” examines the decision of Catholic religious sisters to integrate their schools in 1976 (in contravention of segregationist apartheid law), and the subsequent activism that flowed from that decision. The book is a case study of citizen participation—albeit self-consciously religious citizens—in the transition to democracy. INVITED LECTURES, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND COMMENTARIES Invited Lectures and Papers 2014 Invited Lecture: “Chocolate, Slavery, and the Humanitarian Impulse in Colonial Africa.”

Fordham University, New York City, April 10. 2013 Invited Lectures: “Sisters for Justice: Catholic Activism in Apartheid South Africa.”

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, March 18; also presented at North Carolina State University, Raleigh on March 26.

2013 Invited Paper: “Quiet Disobedience: Rethinking Catholic Education in Apartheid South Africa.” Working Group in Feminism and History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 15.

2009 Invited Lecture: “‘Our prayers ascend to God’: African Women Religious and the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa.” Samuel Shannon Distinguished Lecture, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, March 18.

2003 Invited Lecture: “African History and African Histories: Dialogues between the Academy and the Classroom,” lecture to the Organization of History Teachers, American Historical Association, 117th Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 3.

Conference Papers and Commentaries 2014 Panelist, “Labor Reporting.” Conference on “Journalism, Human Rights and Social

Change.” School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, October 17. 2013 “‘Practical Christian Witness to Social Justice’: Integrating Catholic Schools in Apartheid

South Africa.” American Catholic Historical Association, at the 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, January 4.

2011a “Liberation before Education: Black Consciousness and Open Schools in Apartheid South Africa.” African Studies Association, 54th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 19.

2011b “Conscience, Courage, and Activism: Catholic Sisters in Apartheid South Africa, 1968-1976.” Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Amherst, MA, June 11.

2009 Convener and Chair: “Christianity and Confrontation in Segregated South Africa: Gender, Theology and Protest.” Panel for the African Studies Association, 52nd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 21. Paper: “Silence and Disobedience: African Catholic Sisters in Apartheid South Africa.”

2008 Panel organizer: “Christianity, Confrontation and Consciousness in Apartheid South Africa” for the Northeast Workshop on Southern Africa, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 17. Paper: “Silence, Apartheid and the Montebello Dominican Sisters in Natal, South Africa.”

2006a "British Workers, Portuguese Peasants, and African Laborers." African Studies Association, 49th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 16.

2006b “Faith, Politics and the Sisters of Mercy in Apartheid South Africa.” Conference on “Religions and Politics.” Institute of Historical Research, University of London, July 5.

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2005 “Catholic Nuns and Anti-Apartheid Activism in South Africa.” African Studies Association, 48th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 18.

2004 Convener and Chair: “Labor and Nationalism in Portuguese West Africa, 1900-1975.” Panel for the African Studies Association, 47th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November. Paper: “Bittersweet: The British, the Portuguese, and Cocoa in São Tomé, 1901-1917.”

2002a Chair: “Accumulation, Business and Colonial Policies.” Panel for the African Studies Association, 45th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 6. Paper: “Chocolate Slavery?: São Toméan Cocoa, the Cadburys and Standard News.”

2002b “Class, Ethnicity, Nationalism and African Women’s Self-Help Organizations in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 1927-1990.” Twelfth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Storrs, CT, June 7.

2001 Convener and Chair: “Faith, Politics and Resistance in Southern Africa, 1905-1990.” Panel for the African Studies Association, 44th Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, November 18. Paper: “African Nuns and the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa.”

1999 Conference Convener and Presenter: “A Brief History of South Africa’s Zenzele Movement.” Black Women in the Old World and the New, a conference at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, September 16-18.

1998 “Helping Ourselves: Black Women and Grassroots Activism in Segregated South Africa.” African Studies Association, 41st Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, October 31.

1997 Convener and Chair: “Recognizing the Power of African Women.” Panel for the African Studies Association, 40th Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, November 16. Paper: “Zenzele: The African Women’s Self-Improvement Association (South Africa).”

1996 “Xhosa, Mfengu, African: Politics and Identity in the Early Twentieth Century Eastern Cape (South Africa).” African Studies Association, 39th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 24.

1995 Commentator: “Gender in Southern African Social Struggles and Negotiations: Labor, Taxes, and Property in South Africa and Zimbabwe, 1840s-1990s.” African Studies Association, 38th Annual Meeting, Orlando, November 4.

1993a Convener and Chair: “The Struggle for Authority in Southern Africa in the 20th Century.” African Studies Association, 36th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, December 6. Paper: “Who Speaks for Black South Africans?: The All African Convention, 1935-1948.”

1993b “‘What Methodism Has Done for the Natives’: D.D.T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1903-1957.” Talk presented to the University of Florida Center for African Studies’ Baraza (seminar), January 28; Paper presented to the Yale University Southern African Research Program seminar, March 24.

1991 Commentator: “Women’s Writing and the Politics of South Africa: The Ambiguous Role of Nadine Gordimer” by Thelma Ravell-Pinto. Southern African Research Program seminar, Yale University, March 27, 1991.

AWARDS and PRIZES 2012 Quest Scholar (May 18, 2012), UT-Knoxville 2012 Gift from Thomas E. Jenkins, BA, to the UT-Knoxville History Enrichment Fund in honor of

Catherine Higgs (October) 2009 Leroy P. Graf Award for Faculty Excellence, Department of History, UT-Knoxville 2001-2002 Visiting Fellow in History, Yale University 1984 The Medal in History, Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada

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Teaching Awards 2004 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, UT-Knoxville 2000 Nominated and included in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers: The Best Teachers in

America Selected by the Best Students, January 2000. Teaching Nominations 2005 Nominated for a UT-Knoxville National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award 2004 Nominated by the Department of History, UT-Knoxville, for a College of Arts and

Sciences Convocation Faculty Teaching Award 2004 Nominated for a UT-Knoxville National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award 2001 Nominated by the Department of History, UT-Knoxville, for a College of Arts and

Sciences Convocation Faculty Teaching Award 2001 Nominated for a UT-Knoxville National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award TEACHING RECORD Undergraduate courses African History, HIST 371 (part one), 600-1500 C.E., (fall 1998, fall 2003, fall 2007, fall 2011) African History, HIST 372 (part two), 1400-2000 C.E., (mini-term 2000, spring 2001, mini-term 2001,

fall 2002, fall 2004, spring 2007, fall 2010, fall 2013) History of South Africa, HIST 381 (spring 2000, fall 2002, fall 2006, spring 2011) Historical Issues: Film, Fiction and African History, HIST 373 (spring 2001) History of World Civilizations, HIST 262 (spring 1999, spring 2003, spring 2005, spring 2010, fall 2011,

fall 2013, spring 2015) History of World Slavery, UNIV HON 348 (spring 1999) Independent Study: South Africa, HIST 493 (summer 2011, summer 2013, spring 2014) Introduction to African Studies, AFST 236 [212] (fall 1998, spring 2004) Introduction to African Studies, AFST 235 (spring 1999, fall 2004) Research Seminar on African Studies, AFST 431 (fall 2003) Senior Research Seminar on Twentieth Century South Africa, HIST 499 (spring 2014) Studies in African History, HIST 469 (spring 2015) Graduate courses Independent Study, HIST 593: African History (fall 2010, fall 2011) Teaching World History, HIST 511 (spring 2008, fall 2011, spring 2014) Topics in African History, HIST 563 (fall 2009, fall 2014) Topics in History: African History, HIST 580 (fall 1999, spring 2005) SCHOLARLY SERVICE Tenure, Grant Application, and Dissertation Reviews 2012-2013 Chair, American Catholic Historical Association Junior Faculty Research Grant Committee

(fall 2012-fall 2013) 2009 Review of tenure and promotion application, Department of History, College of William

and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (August) 2009 Letter of evaluation requested by foundation for MacArthur Fellowship nominee

(August). 2008 External reviewer for PhD dissertation in English Studies at the School of Literary

Studies, Media and Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, (March).

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2006 Review of applications for the American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2007-2008 (December 2006).

Manuscript Reviews 2013 South African Historical Journal 2012 African Studies Review 2011 Journal of Religious History (Australia) 2005 Ohio University Press 2004 Houghton Mifflin 2003 Fordham University History Series on the Second World War 2000 McGraw Hill Press Online Database Review 2012 Choice/Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and R.R. Bowker. Peer

reviewer for the African History, Languages, and Literatures section of its Resources for College Libraries (August)

COMMITTEE WORK (University of Tennessee) College of Arts and Sciences 2014-2015 Interim Chair of Africana Studies, August 1, 2014-January 31, 2015 2014 Editor, Africana Studies newsletter (fall) 2013-2014 Member, Africana Studies Curriculum Committee (Southern Association of Colleges and

Schools [SACS] Compliance Assist for BA and Graduate Certificate) 2013-2014 Coordinator, Arts & Sciences Advising for Africana Studies 2013 Chair, Africana Studies Lecturer Search (fall) 2013 Mentor, Africana Studies Lecturer Dr. Josh Schendel (fall) 2013- Member, Africana Studies Advisory Committee 2012, 2013 Africana Studies Graduate Certificate, design and College approval 2012, 2013 Interim Chair of Africana Studies, July 13-August 12, 2012; August 1-20, 2013 2011- Vice Chair, Africana Studies Program 2011- Member, Dissertation Committee of Luciana Prestes Bean, MFLL (Spanish) 2006-2012 Member, Africana Studies Advisory Committee (August 2006-August 2012) 2011-2012 Member, Dean’s Advisory Council 2009-2010 Member, Africana Studies Search Committee (college-wide search for four cross-listed

faculty positions in Arts & Sciences and Africana Studies, 450 applications received) 2006-2008 Adviser, College of Arts and Sciences Advising Center 2004-2005 Adviser, College of Arts and Sciences Advising Center 2002-2005 Member, Africana Studies Advisory Committee 2002-2003 Adviser (auxiliary), African Students Association 1998-2001 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee 1998-2000 Adviser (auxiliary), African Students Association 1997-2000 Adviser, College of Arts and Sciences Advising Center 1995-2000 Member, Africana Studies Advisory Committee Department of History 2014-2015 Editor, History Department Newsletter 2014-2015 Member, Head’s Advisory Committee (HAC) 2014 Chair, Tenure Review Committee for Dr. Charles Sanft (spring-fall)

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2014 Member, US History Opportunity Search Committee (spring) 2013-2014 Editor, History Department Newsletter 2013 Peer Review of Teaching Evaluator for Dr. J.P. Dessel and Dr. Laura Nenzi (fall) 2011 Member, Head’s Advisory Committee (fall) 2011 Chair, Tenure Review Committee for Dr. Chad Black (spring-fall) 2011 Member, Graduate Program Committee (fall) 2010 Member, Chinese History Opportunity Search Committee (fall) 2009-2010 Convener, Grant Writing Workshop for Graduate Students (as Director of Graduate

Studies) 2007-2010 Director of Graduate Studies in History (January 2007-December 2010) 2006-2010 Member, Graduate Admissions Committee 2006-2007 Chair, Graduate Program Committee 2005 Member, Tenure Review Committee for Dr. George White (fall) 2004-2005 Member, Modern European Search Committee 2004 Contributor (as Graduate Program Chair), Ten-Year (external) Program Review of

Department of History (fall) 2004 Chair, Tenure Review Committee for Dr. Michael Kulikowski (spring-fall) 2003-2005 Chair, Graduate Program Committee 2003-2004 Member, Graduate Admissions Committee 2002-2005 Member, Graduate Program Committee 2002-2003 Member, Undergraduate Awards Committee 1999-2000 Member, Head’s Advisory Committee 1998-2000 Member, Graduate Program Committee 1998-1999 Editor, Department of History Newsletter 1998-1999 Member, Environmental History Search Committee 1996-1999 Member, Undergraduate Awards Committee OTHER PROFESSIONAL WORK 1992-2010 Yale University African Studies Summer Institute. Continuing Education Program for

Elementary and High School Teachers, sponsored by the Yale Council on African Studies and the U.S. Department of Education Instructor, July 2010. Lead Instructor: July 2005, July 2002, July 2001, July 1999, July 1997, July 1996, July 1992

2002-2003 Member, Development Committee, College Board/Educational Testing Service Advanced Placement Program for World History

2001-2002 Saint Ann’s School, 129 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201. September 2001-June 2002. Phone: (718) 522-1660. Taught European and World history to grades 8 and 9, and South African history to grade 12 (while on unpaid leave of absence from the University of Tennessee)

1994-1995 The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY, Consultant for African Dissertation Internship Awards Program

1990-1991 The Rockefeller Foundation, Program Coordinator, African Dissertation Internship Awards Program (February 1990-August 1991)

UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 2014 Judge, East Tennessee History Day, a District Contest of National History Day, sponsored

by the Department of History, UT-Knoxville and the East Tennessee Historical Society, March 7

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2013 Hosted Africana Studies reception for Dr. Mathayo Ndomondo, visiting professor of musicology from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and 2013 African Studies Association visiting presidential fellow, UT-Knoxville, November 15

2013 Interview with Imani Chatman for Communications 100 presentation on South Africa, UT-Knoxville, October 1

2012 “1976 in South Africa,” guest lecture for Dr. Karin Shapiro, History 280.1 (History of South Africa), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, November 8

2011 Discussion co-leader, at the invitation of Prof. Elizabeth Howell, of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for the First Year Studies “Life of the Mind” series, UT-Knoxville, August 15

2011, 2009 Judge, East Tennessee History Day, a District Contest of National History Day, sponsored by the Department of History, UT-Knoxville and the East Tennessee Historical Society, March 7, 2011; March 2, 2009

2008 Judge, East Tennessee History Day, A District Contest of National History Day, sponsored by the Department of History, UT-Knoxville and the East Tennessee Historical Society, March 3

2008 “Faith, Activism, and Catholic Women Religious in Apartheid South Africa,” lecture for the Department of History’s 30th Annual Workshop for Teachers of Social Studies, UT-Knoxville, March 1

2007 Arranged and introduced lecture by Todd Cleveland of the University of Virginia’s Carter Woodson Institute: “Digging Deeper: ‘Blood Diamonds’ and Diamond-Related Violence in Colonial Angola, 1919-1975,” UT-Knoxville, November 8

2007 Judge, East Tennessee History Day, A District Contest of National History Day, sponsored by the Department of History, UT-Knoxville and the East Tennessee Historical Society, March 5

2005 “Africa and Teaching World History,” guest lecture for Dr. Palmira Brummett’s History 511 (Teaching World History), UT-Knoxville, April 11

2005 “Chocolate Slavery: British Humanitarians, Portuguese Planters and Slave Labor in São Tomé, West Africa, 1900-1920,” for the Department of History’s 27th Annual Workshop for Teachers of Social Studies, UT-Knoxville, March 5

2004 “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and Alexander McCall Smith’s Botswana,” lecture for the Life of the Mind series, UT-Knoxville, October 12

2004 “The Xhosa Cattle Killing,” guest lecture for Dr. Rosalind Hackett’s Religious Studies 373 (African Religions), UT-Knoxville, September 7

2004 Moderator for “Equity and Opportunities for Women in Law and Public Policy.” Public lecture by Adrienne Davis on “The Sexual Economy of American Slavery.” Sponsored by the Program in Women’s Studies and the College of Law, UT-Knoxville, April 1

2004 “Colonial Africa,” guest lecture for Dr. Kurt Piehler’s History 262 (World Civilizations), UT-Knoxville, March 17

2003 “Africa in World History,” presentation to the World History Workshop series, Department of History, UT-Knoxville, February 22

2003 Introduction to the film Lumumba, for the Africa Semester at UT-Knoxville, February 11 2003 Moderator, “Influences of African Feminism Inside and Outside of Africa,” Cultures in

Motion: The Africa Connection: International and Interdisciplinary Conference, UT-Knoxville, February 8

2003 Moderator, “Between ‘Colonial Memories’ and ‘Spiritual Exiles,’” Cultures in Motion: The Africa Connection: International and Interdisciplinary Conference, UT-Knoxville, February 7

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2002 Coordinated, advised and aided African Students’ Association in preparation for Africa Week (an annual event), UT-Knoxville, October

2001 “The Second World War in North Africa,” guest lecture for Dr. Kurt Piehler to the Normandy Scholars Seminar, UT-Knoxville, February 23

2001 Coordinator, Department of History Open House for Undergraduates, UT-Knoxville, February 15

2000 “Domestic Violence and African Women in South Africa,” for Sexual Culture and Acquaintance Rape: A Symposium Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at UT-Knoxville, April 14

2000 Lecture on modern South Africa in the Hess Hall guest lecture series, UT-Knoxville, March 27

1999 Interviewer, Admissions Board for the Urban/Multi-cultural Teacher Education Program, College of Education, UT-Knoxville, November

1999 Coordinated, advised and aided African Students’ Association in preparation for Africa Week (an annual event), UT-Knoxville, October.

1999 “Post-Apartheid South Africa,” lecture to the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Forum Committee, Knoxville, May 2

1999 “South Africa, British Imperialism, and World War I,” lecture to senior history students at the Webb School, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 21

1998 Lecture on “South Africa after Nelson Mandela,” for the “History behind the News” series at the O’Connor Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 6

1998 Lecture on “Steven Spielberg’s Movie Amistad in the Context of African History” to the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Forum Committee, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 8

1997 Discussion leader, “African Cultures: Myth and Reality,” The Center for the Study of Multicultural Societies,” UT-Knoxville, October 17

1997 Interviewer, Admissions Board for the Urban/Multi-cultural Teacher Education Program, College of Education, UT-Knoxville, April

1997 Reader and judge, Martin Luther King Day essay contest, sponsored by the Black Cultural Programming Committee, UT-Knoxville, January 20

1996 Interviewer, Admissions Board for the Urban/Multi-cultural Teacher Education Program, College of Education, UT-Knoxville, November

1996 Chair, “A New Historiography and Your Undergraduate Course,” Tennessee Conference of Historians, September 28

1996 Arranged and introduced lecture by Leslie Bessant of Ripon College, “New Songs to an Old Beat: African Music and the Culture of Protest in Zimbabwe, 1950-1990,” UT-Knoxville, March 12

1996 Lecture on “Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa” for the Department of History’s 18th Annual Workshop for Teachers of Social Studies, UT-Knoxville, March 2

1995 Lecture on contemporary South Africa for the “History behind the News” series at the O’Connor Center, Knoxville, October 18

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS African Studies Association American Catholic Historical Association World History Association