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Investing in the Legacy: Living Narratives of University of Florida’s Black Alumni

Where: University Of Florida African American Studies, UF Association of Black Alumni, All conference papers located at http://www.professorevans.net/Conference_Presentations.html

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“Investing in the Legacy: Living Narratives of University of Florida’s Black Alumni”
34 minutes

At the 2009 Black Alumni Weekend Welcome Reception, Dr. Stephanie Evans discussed the importance of oral history to educational institutions and to Black communities. She highlighted published and online resources on Black history at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, and in the state of Florida—especially the Sam Proctor Oral History Program http://www.history.ufl.edu/oral/, UF Special Collections http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/default.htm, and the African American Studies Program http://www.clas.ufl.edu/afam/. The lecture ends with a facilitated small group discussion about past experiences of UF African American Alumni. Handout and resource links available at www.professorevans.com.

Video features Linda Jackson, Dr. Leland Patouillet, Joel Buchanan, and Alicia Antone. Full schedule of UF Association of Black Alumni Weekend activities located online at http://www.ufalumni.ufl.edu/sig/aba/blackalumniweekend/schedule/.

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Conferences and Lectures

Where: University Of Florida African American Studies, All conference papers located at http://www.professorevans.net/Conference_Presentations.html

INVITED LECTURES

2009 "Assessing Graduate Training in Africana Studies: Creating Community as the Interdiscipline Expands." Forty Years at Vassar College: Africana Identities in the Diaspora, 40th Anniversary Commemorative Conference. Poughkeepsie, NY. April 17-19.

2008 “Soweto Gospel Choir ." Phillips Performing Arts Center. Gainesville, FL. November 28.

2008 "The History & Impact of Black Women in Higher Education: Reflecting on Intellectual History." Association of Black Women in Higher Education. Princeton University. October 10.

2008 "The Life and Legacy of Fanny Jackson Coppin." Annual Convocation Lecture. Coppin State University. September 26.

2008 “Cultural Identity and Community Engagement: Service, Partnership, or Community Building?" Annual Service Convocation Lecture. Berea College, KY. May 1.

2008 “Race, Gender, and Public Higher Education in Florida. Matheson Museum. Gainesville, FL. April 22.

2008 “Coalition Music: Reflections of Sweet Honey in the Rock ." Phillips Performing Arts Center. Gainesville, FL. February 15.

2008 “Race and Gender in Higher Education--The Power of Diversity." Sieman's Power Generation Company. Orlando, FL. February 15.

2008 “Phenomenal Women in Higher Education." Black History Month Program. Colorado State University, CO. February 8.

2008 “Un-covering the College Achievement Gap ." Education Writers Association Regional Seminar. Tennessean Newspaper/Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN. February 1.

2007 "Black Women in the Ivory Tower: Cultural Identity and Early Doctoral Dissertations."
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign African American Studies and Research
Program & History Department. Urbana, IL. March 29.

2004 "Fire as the Muse: Black Women's Educational Attainment and Intellectual Legacy in Higher Education." Peanut Butter and Gender Lecture Series. Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies co-sponsors. Also gave four guest lectures to Political Science, Women’s Studies, Literature, and Black Studies classes. Berea College, KY. November 10-12.

2002 “Black Women as Educational Leaders: A History of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement.” Colloquium and Diversity Seminar. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. November 30.

2002 “Black Women as Educational Leaders: Models for Dissolution of ‘Town / Gown’ Divisions in Community Development Work.” Curriculum Development Seminar Lecture Series: “Addressing Diversity Issues in City and Regional Planning.” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. November 29.

2002 **"Living Legacies: Black Women, Education, and Public Service. An historical analysis of the presence, oppression, contribution, and creative resistance of Black women in American education." "The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Presents" - Lecture Series. Co-Sponsored by Brown University's Sarah Doyle Women's Center, Africana Studies, and the Swearer Center for Public Service. Rhode Island Foundation. Providence, RI. November 12.



NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

** = invited

2009 "IJAS Editor Session: Africana Studies at the Graduate Level: A Twenty-First Century Perspective." National Council for Black Studies (NCBS). Atlanta, GA. March 19-21.

2008 ** "Women of Color in Academia" panelist and "Balancing Academic Substance with Polished Presentation, or The Finer Pointsof Shameless Self-Promotion", workshop presenter. SREB - Compact for Faculty Diversity. Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. Tampa, FL. October 26-26.

2008 "World House at Morehouse" Live webcast from Morehouse College, University of Florida, India, China, Kenya, and South Africa. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. April 4.

2008 Panel Moderator, "The Future of U.S. Intellectual History: Challenges and Possibilities." OAH. New York City. March 29.

2008 "Swellings in the Sable Sea and Ivory Tower: Applying African American Female Intellectual History to Contemporary Academe." Panelist. "Creating Equilibrium in the Compost Heap: The Contributions of African American Women in U.S. Academies and Society." AERA. New York City. March 25.

2008 ** "Preparing Future Faculty ." Plenary Presentation/ Workshop. National Black Graduate Student Association. Chicago, IL. March 15.

2007 "Anna Julia Cooper in Context: Black women's (Inter)national Academic Identities." University of Paris, Sorbonne. France. March 14.

2007 "Black Women in the Ivory Tower: An Argument for Recognizing an Intellectual Democracy." ABWH: Three New Books in Black Intellectual History: A Discussion of Convergence and Divergence in Academic Lives. Panel with Layli Phillips and Francille Wilson. Comment by Robert Pratt and Lee Jones. October 4.

2007 **"Balancing Academic Substance with Polished Presentation, or The Finer Points
of Shameless Self-Promotion." SREB - Compact for Faculty Diversity. Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. Arlington, VA. October 27.

2007 **"Historical Sisters of the Academy : Using History as a Research and Publishing Tool." Panel presentation and mentoring workshops. Sisters of the Academy Boot Camp. Auburn University, Alabama. August 9-12.

2007 **"Applied Black Studies: Research and Teaching connected to Service." Keynote
address. Temple University, Department of African American Studies, Annual Graduate
Student Spring Conference. "Reconnecting Africana Studies and Community Agency:
Integrating Community, Self, and Scholarship. Philadelphia, PA. April 13-15.

2007 "Comparative Research Collaborations at African and European Partnerships: Tanzania
versus Paris." on panel The World Wide Web: Scholars Unite Through the Power of the Pen and Internet. American Education Research Association. Chicago, IL. April 9-13. Paper
accepted, unable to attend.

2007 "Black Women in the Ivory Tower: Cultural Identity and Intellectual Production in Early
Doctoral Dissertations." panel "Whose American Values? Black, White, Jewish,
Protestant, Male or Female?" OAH Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. March 29-April 1.
Paper accepted, unable to attend.

2006 "Anna Julia Cooper's Personal and Academic (Inter)national Identity" for panel "A Usable Past and the Transnational Turn: Conflict or Congruence?" American Studies Association, Oakland, CA. October 14.
Paper read at panel.

2006 "The State and Future of the Ph.D. in Black Studies: Six Institutional Perspectives." Panel organizer and chair. Association for the Study of African Life and History Conference. Atlanta, GA. September 27-October 1.

In Fall 2005, Dr. Evans conducted a survey of the graduate coordinators at Temple, UMass, Berkeley, Michigan State, Harvard, and Northwestern to inquire about the history and state of doctoral programs in Black Studies. She asked quantitative questions about the makeup of the graduate populations and qualitative questions about the comprehensive examination. The results were published in an article titled "The State and Future of the PhD in Black Studies: Assessing the Role of the Comprehensive Examination" appearing in the Southern Conference on African American Studies' GRIOT (May 2006).

On this panel, department chairs of the programs discussed program origins, where they are at, and where graduate training is going. Over 150 people have earned a Ph.D. in Black Studies and there were about 75 enrolled in 2006--the numbers are increasing. With more programs developing on the horizon, questions emerge about the state of graduate training in Black Studies, especially in light of the fact that no doctoral program in Black Studies yet exists in the South.

2006 "From Dissertation to Book: A Panel for Junior Scholars." Panel organizer and chair. Association for the Study of African Life and History Conference. Atlanta, GA. September 27-October 1.

2005 "We Note with Much Alarm the Evident Retrogression in This Land": Young Black Scholars and Current Crisis in America. 90th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference. Buffalo, New York. October 5-9.

2005 ** "'This Right to Grow': African American Women's Intellectual Legacy " in "Intellectual History: Pedagogy of a Usable Past" colloquium. Third International Conference on New Directions in Humanities.Competitive panel submission to "History and Theory" List. University of Cambridge, England. August 2-5.

2005 **"Cultural Identity and Community Service-Learning Course Construction." Bonner Foundation Conference. Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Meeting for Civic Engagement Certificate Program. Bonner Foundation, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. January. (Attendee)

2004 "A History of Black Women's Quest for Higher Educational Attainment" on panel, "Women of Color in Higher Education: Past, Present, and Future Scholars." Panel proposal co-editor. American Educational Research Association annual meeting. San Diego, CA. April 12 - 16.

2003 "Living Legacies: Recognizing Black Women's Intellectual Contributions to Philosophies of Experiential Education," on panel "The Theory, Practice, and Politics of Black Women in Higher Education, 1865-1965." 88th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference.$500.00 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Travel Grant awarded. Milwaukee, WI. September 23 - 38.

2003 “Fostering Positive Relationships in a Hostile Environment: Blacks and Latinas - Bad Women Doing Good Work.” on panel, “Latina’s on the Move: Sisters in the Academy.” Brown at Brown: The 1st Annual New England Latino Leadership Conference. Brown University. Providence, RI. February 22.

2002 “Black Women as Theoretical Foremothers of Community, Service, and Learning” on panel, “Feminist Response to the Service Learning Movement.” The Pew Charitable Trusts Campus Compact National Summit: “Realizing the Civic Mission of Higher Education.” Providence, RI. November 7 - 9.

2002 Harvard Hip Hop Archive / Community Activism and Education Roundtable. Cambridge, MA. Invited attendee. September 28.

2002 **"Service-Learning Opportunities at HBCUs" on panel, "The Historical Imperative of Black Institutions and Its Importance to the Civic Engagement Movement in Higher Education" sponsored by National Campus Compact. 8th National HBCU Faculty Development Network Symposium. Norfolk, VA. October 17 - 21.

2002 "Presence, Oppression, Contribution, and Creative Resistance in Black Women's Historical Educational Experiences" on panel, "Black Women and Education: An Historical Overview." 87th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference.Orlando, FL. October 2 - 6.

2001 National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) Annual Conference Attendee. Washington, D.C.

2000 Colloquia participant as National Campus Compact Emerging Scholar. Campus Compact Colloquia on Community Based Learning and Civic Engagement for Women’s Colleges. Whispering Pines. West Greenwich, RI. November 8 - 10.

2000 "African American Educational Leaders and Community Engagement" (poster) 6th Annual Invisible College National Gathering for Service-learning Educators. "Bridging the Gap: Service Learning to Social Justice" (Invisible College now known as Educators for Community Engagement). Georgetown University. Washington D.C. June 22 - 24.

2000 "Speaking from Experience: Cultural Identity on and off Campus" on panel, "Service-Learning: Principles and Practices in a Multicultural Setting" American Association of Higher Education National Conference "To Form a More Perfect Union: Diversity and Learning" Anaheim, CA. March 29 - April 2.

1999 "Activism: The Fundamental Link Between Women's Studies and Service Learning." 20th National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. June 17-20.

1998 "How Solid is the Rock?: Gauging the Historical Accuracy of Schoolhouse Rock" on panel "New Scholars for the New Century: Student Debut Papers on African Americans and the Media." 84th National Communication Association Annual Convention. New York, NY. November 21-24.

1998 National Organization for Women National Conference / Seneca Falls' 150th Anniversary Celebration Rochester, NY. Sponsored attendee, signer of the 1998 NOW Declaration of Sentiments. July 10-19.

1998 "A Cultural Framework for the Study of Sport History and Brazil" panel. VI Congresso Brasileiro De Historia Do Esporte, Lazer E Educacao Fisica. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. December.

 

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