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Positions
Professor of History, Howard University, 2003-
Chair, Department of History, HU, 2005-
Assoc. Prof. of History, University of Florida, 2000-2002.
Director, African American Studies, UFL, 2000-2002.
Assoc. Prof. of History, Columbia University, 1997- 2000.
Assist.Prof. of History, Columbia University, 1993-1997.
Education
Ph.D. Stanford University, History, January, 1994.
B.A. Marquette University, December 1984.
Fellowships
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minority Scholars, 1995-1996.
Carter G. Woodson Institute Fellowship, 1991-1993.
Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship, 1990-1991.
Patricia Harris Fellowship, 1985-1988.
Honors
1998 James A. Rawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians for the best work on race relations
history in the United States.
Ralph Metcalf Mini-Chair, Marquette University, April 1997.
Scholar-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1995-1996.
Selected Publications
Editor, Carter G. Woodson's Appeal, Washington, D.C.: The ASALH Press, forthcoming 2008.
Editor, The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson. Washington, D. C.: The ASALH Press, 2005.
Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Black Psyche, 1880-1996. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1997.
“Postwar Pluralism, Brown v Board of Education and the Origins of Multiculturalism." Journal of American
History June 2004.
"The Politics of Pathology." Journal of Policy History 8 (Winter 1996): 81-105.
"Justifying Equality." Educational Foundations 10 (Summer 1996): 47-68..
"Jobs Matter," A Review of When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor by William J.
Wilson. The African American Review 32 (Fall 1998): 493-495.
"Cognitive Conceit: An Essay Review of The Bell Curve." Social Policy 25 (Winter 1994): 1-10.

Won the Organization of American Historians' 1998 James Rawley Prize for the best book on Race Relations

ASALH's republication of Carter G. Woodson's The-Mis-Education of the Negro, 2005
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