Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM
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National Park Service ASALH 2011 Forum
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Moderator:
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Alan Spears
National Park Conservation Association
http://www.npca.org/
Alan Spears joined the National Parks Conservation Association
(NPCA) in May of 1999, as an intern for the Enhancing Cultural
Diversity program. During the next four years, Alan managed
the National Parks Community Partners Program, a
community-based effort designed to better connect people from
diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to their local and regional
national parks.
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John W. Franklin
National Museum of African American History and Culture
http://nmaahc.si.edu/
John W. Franklin, the Director of Partnerships and International
Programs at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African
American History and Culture, has worked on African American,
African, and African Diaspora programs for the past 24 years at
the Smithsonian.
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Kate Clifford Larson
Simmons College
http://www.simmons.edu/
Kate Clifford Larson, PhD., is an historian and leading Harriet
Tubman scholar and the author of Bound For the Promised
Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
(Ballantine/One World, 2004). With degrees from Simmons
College and Northeastern University, and a doctorate in history
from the University of New Hampshire, Larson specializes in 19th
and 20th century U.S. Women’s and African American History.
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Robert Stanton
Department of the Interior
http://www.doi.gov/index.cfm
Robert G. Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service,
is a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of
the Interior in Washington, D.C. Prior to assuming this position,
Mr. Stanton served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy
and Program Management in the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget.
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Barbara Tagger
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/index.htm
Barbara Tagger serves as a historian in the Division of
Interpretation and Education of the National Park Service
Southeast Region office located in Atlanta, Georgia. She is
currently on a special detail duty assignment with the
Department of Natural Resources, Maryland Park Service, and is
acting as the interim project manager for the Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad State Park Initiative.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 from 5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
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Hip Hop, Gender, and Social Consciousness
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MODERATOR and PANELIST:
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Mark Anthony Neal
Duke University
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University of Missouri-Columbia
Treva Lindsey is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender
Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research and
teaching interests include African American women’s history,
black popular culture, black feminism(s), critical race and gender
theory, and African diaspora studies. She has published in The
Journal of Pan-African Studies, Souls, and African and Black
Diaspora. She is also the recipient of several awards and
fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Social
Science Research Council, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
and the National Women’s Studies Association. She is currently
working on a manuscript entitled Re-Imagining Modernity: New
Negro Womanhood in the Nation’s Capital as well as conducting
research for a project about contemporary African American
womanhood and hip hop soul.
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9th Wonder of Little Brother
Check out his site!
Born Patrick Denard Douthit in Winston-Salem, NC, 9th Wonder
is a Grammy Award Winning Producer, DJ, College Lecturer, and
Social Activist. Since his introduction to hip-hop in 1982, 9th has
been immersed in the music and culture of the art form, while
gaining experience in music theory throughout middle and high
school. 9th attended North Carolina Central University, where he
decided to pursue a career in music. He, along with Phonte
Colerman and Thomas Jones (Rapper Big Pooh), formed the hip-
hop trio Little Brother in 1998. The group released the critically
acclaimed album “The Listening”, which received 4 mics in
Source Magazine.
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Friday, October 7, 2011 at 4:00 PM
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Black Women Before, During and After the Civil War
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Darlene Clark Hine
Northwestern University
Darlene Clark Hine's Webpage.
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Deborah Gray White
Rutgers University
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Thavolia Glymph
Duke University
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Tiffany Gill
University of Texas at Austin
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Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 4:00 PM
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The Legacy of the Civil War
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Leon Litwack
University of California Berkeley, Emeritus
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COMMENTATORS:
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Chair, Shawn Alexander
University of Kansas
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Thomas Holt
University of Chicago
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David Blight
Yale University
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