Conversation in the Discipline
Holcomb Building
Geneseo College, State University of New York
March 24-26, 2006
Keynote Speakers:
John Dittmer is emeritus professor of history at DePauw University and the author of Local People, which won numerous prestigious awards, including the Herbert Gutman Award, the Lillian Smith Award, the McLemore Prize, and the Bancroft Prize. He is currently working on The Good Doctors: A History of the Medical Committee for Human Rights.
Charles Payne is the Sally Dalton Robinson professor of history, African-American Studies, and sociology, and Director, African and African-American Studies program at Duke University. He is editor and author of several monographs and collections of essays, including Debating the Civil Rights Movement, with Steven Lawson (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998) and I've Got the Light of Freedom. The latter won prizes including the Lillian Smith Book Award and the McLemore Prize.
Judy Richardson was a staff member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the early 1960s, working in the Atlanta headquarters, southwest Georgia , Greenwood , Miss. , Lowndes County , Ala. , and on Julian Bond’s successful first campaign for the Georgia House of Representatives. She went on to co-produce the award-winning documentary series “Eyes on the Prize” and is one of six women editing a collection of personal stories titled “Hands on the Freedom Plow: Women and SNCC.”
Panelists:
Jeanne Theoharis is assistant professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is co-editor of Freedom North and Groundwork. She is author of These Yet to Be United States: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in America since 1945, with Athan Theoharis (Wadsworth, 2002), and Welfare Reform and the Death of Citizenship, with Alejandra Marchevsky (New York University press, forthcoming).
Komozi Woodard is professor of American history, public policy, and Africana Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He is author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 1999) and co-editor of Freedom North and Groundwork.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries is assistant professor of history at Ohio State University. He is currently revising a book manuscript, Freedom Politics: The African American Freedom Struggle in Lowndes County, Alabama. This work has been supported by numerous grants, including the Bankhead Fellowship at the University of Alabama.
Todd Moye is assistant professor of history, North Texas State, former director of the Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project of the National Park Service, and the author of Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986 (University of North Carolina press, 2004).
Robyn Spencer is assistant professor of African and African American Studies and history at Penn State University. Her work revising a manuscript, Repression Breeds Resistance: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, 1966-1982, has been supported with a number of grants and awards, including a post doctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.
Wesley Hogan is assistant professor of history at Virginia State University and author of Many Minds, One Heart: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Dream for a New America (University of North Carolina press, forthcoming).
Emilye Crosby is associate professor of history at Geneseo and author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The African American Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi (University of North Carolina press, 2005).
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