JOINED VPI& SU: 1999

CURRENT PROJECTS:  Presently, I am working on an applied research project using the scholar–activist approach to help develop grassroots leadership in Martinsville and Henry County.   I am also completing a manuscript on scholar-activist research methodology.  Finally, I am developing a manuscript that explains race relations in America and globally utilizing a intersectional and interdisciplinary approach.

EDUCATION:

SELECTED PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Director of Africana Studies, Virginia Tech, Aug. 2003 - Present

Chair, The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Tech, April, 2001-Aug. 2003

Director of Black Studies, Virginia Tech, Fall,1999- Aug. 2001

Director of African/African American Studies, Antioch College, Fall 1998 -Spring 1999

Chair, Sociology Department, The College of Wooster, 1992-1993

Director of Black Studies, The College of Wooster, 1989-1992

CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:

Africana Research Methods
African American Leadership
Africana Theory

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

African American leadership
Africana Research Methods
Africana Theory

SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Assistant editor of The Western Journal of Black Studies 

Co-Editor of the Journal of Black Studies

Editor of The International Journal of Africana Studies

Board Member of the National Council For Black Studies

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

"The Dynamics of Race and Class", Journal of Race and Politicis, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2004).

"The Black Studies Paradigm: The Making of Scholar-Activists" in Afrocentricity and Philosophy edited by James Conyers. African World Press, 2003. 

"African American National Leadership: A Model for Complimentarity" in The Western Journal of Black Studies Vol.25, No. 4, 2001.

"Research Methods in Black Studies" in Africana: An Introduction and Study edited by Leonard L. Bethel. Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co., 1999.

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