Curriculum Vitae SHARON HARLEY

Home Address: Office Address: 3101 New Mexico Avenue African American Studies Department Unit 234 1117 Taliaferro Hall Washington, DC 20016 University of Maryland (202) 607-4077 College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-1158 phone / (301) 314-9932 fax E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

May 1981 Ph.D., United States History Minor: Latin American/Caribbean History (honors, comprehensive examination) Department of History, Howard University, Washington, DC Dissertation Title: "Black Women in the District of Columbia, 1890-1920: Their Social, Economic and Institutional Activities"

August 1971 M.A.T., Education (Emphasis on the Social Sciences) Antioch College (Washington campus), Yellow Springs, Ohio

May 1970 B.A., History St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana

Summer 1977 Special Training: Quantitative Methods for Historians Newberry Library/University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1988-Present Associate Professor and Chair (1993-2010) of African American Studies/History and Affiliate Faculty Member, Women's Studies and American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (UMD).

Undergraduate Courses Taught: Research Methodologies in African American Studies; Constructions of Manhood and Womanhood in Black Communities; Gender, Racial Identity and Nationality in African Diaspora Communities; Women and Work (cross-listed with Sociology); Black Culture in the United States; Directed Readings: Black Racialized Body; Black Women in the United States (part of the Women's Studies Curriculum); Seminar in Methodology and Theory of Afro-American Studies (interdisciplinary and team-taught); Introduction to Afro-American Studies; Directed and Classic Readings in Afro-American Studies; History of Thought in the African American Tradition (seminar); and Diversity in

Oneness: The Making of African-American Communities (two semester, team-taught honors course)

Graduate Courses Taught: Black Culture in the U.S. and Classic Readings: Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Race in the U.S.

2008-Present Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer

2010 Recipient, The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) prestigious Carter G. Woodson Scholar’s Medallion

Academic Administrative Positions

1992-2010 Chair, African American Studies Department, University of Maryland

1991-1992 Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies, University of Maryland

1981-1984 Director, African American Studies Program, University of Maryland

Editorial Boards/Reviewer/Committees (selected):

2019-Present Editorial Board, Gender and Families (University of Kansas)

2018-Present Editorial Reviewer, Social Problems: The Official Journal of the Society for the Study of Social Problems

2005-2019 Associate Editor/Member, Women, Gender, and Families of Color (University of Illinois)

2015-2019 Chair, Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book and Article Prize Committee – annually awards prizes for the “Best Book and Article in African American Women’s History.”

2006-2008 Member, Editorial Board Committee, OAH's Best American History Essays, Organization of American Historians

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Imagined Reality of Gender Evenness: The Nexus of Race, Gender, and Women’s Work (Book contract: New York, NY: W. W. Norton, under review).

Editor and contributor, Women’s Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007). Recipient, ABWH Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize

Editor and contributor, Sister Circle: Black Women and Work (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002).

The Timetables of African American History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995).Book-of-the-Month Club Selection and History Month Club Selection

Co-editor with Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Andrea Benton Rushing, Women in Africa and the African Diaspora (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1987; reprinted, 1997). Authored a chapter.

Co-editor with Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images (Port Washington, N.Y.; Kennikat Press, 1978; reprinted ed., Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 1997). Senior editor and author of two chapters.

Book Chapters, Articles and Scholarly Essays (selected)

“African American Women and the Nineteenth Amendment” in The 19th Amendment and Women's Access to the Vote Across America Series (National Park Service, 2019)

"I Don't Pay Those Borders No Mind At All:” Audley E. Moore (“Queen “Mother Moore) – Grassroots Global Traveler and Activist-- Reframing Black Nationalist/Pan-Africanist Engagement” in Women and Migrations (NYU/Open Book Publishers: 2018).

“The Solidarity of Humanity: Anna Julia Cooper’s Personal Encounters and Thinking about the Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Oppression" in Woman and Social Movements (academic database), edited by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar (Alexander Press electronic/online publication, 2015) “The Politics of Memory and Place: Reflections of an African American Female Scholar,” Telling Histories: Black Women in the Ivory Tower, edited by Deborah Gray White (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Presented on C-Span Book Talk

“Race Women: Cultural Productions and Radical Labor Politics,” Women’s Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices, edited by Sharon Harley (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007).

“Gloria Richardson,” biographical entry, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Darlene Clark Hine (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005).

“‘Working For Nothing but for a Living’: Black Women in the Underground Economy,” in Sister Circle: Black Women and Work, edited by Sharon Harley and the Black Women and Work Collective (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002). Prominently cited

“The Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Gloria Richardson, the Cambridge Movement, and the Radical Black Activist Tradition,” in Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights - Black Power Movement, edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V. P. Franklin (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2001).

“Speaking Up: The Politics of Black Women’s Labor History,” in Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class, ed. by Elizabeth Higginbotham and Patricia Romero (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1997).

“Nannie Helen Burroughs: ‘The Black Goddess of Liberty’,” The Journal of Negro History 81 (1996) 62–71.

“Reclaiming Public Voice and the Study of Black Women’s Work,” in Gender, Families, and Close Relationships: Feminist Research Journeys, edited by Donna L. Sollie and Leigh A. Leslie (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1994).

“When Work is Not Who You Are: The Development of a Working-Class Consciousness among Afro- American Woman,” in Gender, Class, Race and Reform in the Progressive Era, edited by Nancy Schrom Dye and Noralee Frankel (University of Kentucky, 1991). Prominently cited

“For the Good of the Family and Race: Gender, Work, and Domestic Roles in the Black Community, 1880-1930,” Signs Vol. 15, No. 2 (Winter 1990), 336-349. Prominently cited

POST-DOCTORAL ACADEMIC/FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Spring 2016 Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Hutchins Center, Harvard University

Summer 2013 RASA (Faculty Research Award), Graduate School, University of Maryland

2010-2011 Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina

Spring 2008 Sheila Biddle Resident Fellowship, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

2003-2004 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC

Spring 2004 Semester Award, General Research Board, UMD

1986-87 Smithsonian Institution Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution

1986-87 American Fellowship, American Association of University Women

1974-79 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, Howard University

Foundation Grants/External Contracts:

2020 Principal Investigator/Project Director, Mellon Foundation Grant, “Black/African Diaspora Research Seminar” ($500,000)

2006-2007 Principal Investigator/Project Director, Ford Foundation Planning Grant-for the establishment of The Center for African American Women’s Labor Studies ($100,000)

2006 Principal Investigator/Director, “The Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women: A Comparative Study Conference and Study Grant, International Bellagio Center, The Rockefeller Foundation

2002-2006 Principal Investigator/Project Director, Ford Foundation-funded research seminar: “Women of Color and Work” ($425, 000)

1999-2002 Co-Principal Investigator/Project Director, The Ford Foundation-funded research grant for an intercollegiate, multidisciplinary research seminar on the “Representations and Meanings of Black Women’s Work ($250,000)

1993-2001 Founding Director/, AASP/Prince Georges County Multicultural Teacher Training Institute, UMD funded by the Office of the Superintendent, Prince Georges County Public Schools

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (selected)

October 2019 “Black Global Migrations,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Charleston, South Carolina

September 2019 “R-E-S-P-E-C-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y: Black Women’s Studies since ‘Righteous Discontent” Colloquium, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

April 2019 NYU’s Women in Migration II Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

February 2019 Department of Homeland Security, Arlington, Virginia

January 2019 ‘Move, Walk, Run’ But Where?: Re-thinking the African American Migration Narrative,” Maryland National Parks and Planning Commission

May 2018 “Black Women’s Activism: Transforming the Dominant Narrative,” New York Historical Society

April 2018 African American Digital Humanities’ Conversation on “Digital Projects in Labor & Migration” University of Maryland, College Park

June 2017 “Global Travelers: Reframing Black Women’s Political and Cultural Engagement,” NYU’s Women and Migration (s) Academic Conference, Florence, Italy.

November 2017 “Interrogating Presumptions: The Politics of Black Cultural Representations and Radical Resistance,” Harvard/NYU conference “Black Portraiture {s} III”“Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures” Conference, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

June 2015 “A Race Woman’s Representation of Africa and Diaspora Culture: Shirley Graham Du Bois’ ‘Tom Tom’.” Harvard/NYU conference “Black Portraiture {s} II: Imagining the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories,” Florence, Italy

2014 “New Scholarship in Black Women's History Session, 128th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association Washington, D.C, Washington, D.C. (Chair and Commentator) 2014 “Re-Reading Du Bois's Life and Scholarship through a Gendered Lens,” 99th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Memphis, Tennessee,

2013 “Imagined Conversations: Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Gloria Richardson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Salisbury University, Mt. Hood College,

2012 “Gender and Labor,” The Huntington Library and UCLA, Pasadena, CA

2011 “Du Bois and Gender” presentation, 75th Anniversary of W.E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction, Duke University, Durham, NC

October 2008

“Black Women in the Academy: Achievements and Challenges” sponsored by the Southern Historical Association and televised by C-SPAN, New Orleans, Louisiana

April 2007 “History and Memory of African American ‘Race Women’s’ Radical, Political and Cultural Presence in Europe and Africa,” Seventh Biennial Conference, Collegium for African American Research, Madrid, Spain

June 2005 “Strange Fruit?: Race Women’s Cultural Production and Radical Labor Politics,” the 9th International Women’s Conference, Seoul, Korea

May 2005 “Sexual Entrepreneurs: African American Business Women in the Early Commercial Sex Industry,” Unstudied, Understudied and Underserved Sexual Communities: New Areas for Research, Education and Therapy Conference, The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality – Western Region, San Francisco

April 2005 “Washington Black Communities through the Life and Times of Mary Church Terrell: A Historical Overview,” Howard University Community Association

August 2004 “Strange Fruit? Race Women’s Cultural Production and Radical Labor Politics,” 2004 International Bellagio Conference, “Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color,” Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Lake Como, Italy

March 2004 “Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge, Maryland Civil Rights Movement,” Brown: Before and Beyond Lecture Series, UMD

March 2004 “Gloria Richardson and Cambridge, Maryland: A Post-Brown Struggle for Civil Rights,” The Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland

Feb. 2004 “An American Dilemma: Sixty Years Later,” Ralph J. Bunche Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles

Feb. 2004 “African American Women’s Scholarship,” Provost’s Conversations, “Research on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity at UM: Perspectives on Diversity,” UMD

Nov. 2001 “The Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color,” American Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC

Sept. 2001 “African American Women and the Black Radical Tradition,” The Association for the Study of African-American Life and History Conference, Washington, DC

Sept. 2001 “Meanings and Representations of Black Women's Work,” Plenary Session, The Association for the Study of African-American Life and History Conference, Washington, DC

June 2001 “‘I am a Race Woman’: The Politics and Culture of Black Women’s Labor Struggles,” The Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color Symposium, UMD

Nov. 1997 “Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Civil Rights Movement,” Women and the Civil Rights Movement Conference, Temple University; University of South Carolina (February 1998)

PROFESSIONAL/PUBLIC SERVICE (Selected)

2018-Present Member, African American Studies Department Executive Committee

2018- 2019 Member, Provost-appointed Dean of Library Services Search Committee

2016-2018 Executive Council (elected member), Association for the Study of African American Lifeand History (ASALH) Chair, Publications Committee. Negotiated the contract with the University of Chicago Press to publish ASALH’s Journal of African American History (the leading academic journal in the field)

2016-Present Chair, Mary McLeod Bethune Commission, U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service.

2005-2016 Member, Maryland State Department of Education Task Force and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History (appointed by the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools)

June 2005 Consultant, African American History and Culture Summer Institute, Kent County Public Schools Teaching American History Grant

April 2005 Member, Search Committee for new director of the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture

2004-2014 Member, Expert Panel and Presenter, The Maryland State Department of Education and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture’s pilot curriculum, “The History of African Americans in Maryland and the United States”

2004-2008 Member, Advisory Committee, National Council of Negro Women’s Public Education campaign on “African American Women as They Age”

2004-2008 Member, Advisory Committee, Roundtable on Women’s Health sponsored by the Office of Research on Women, NIH

2004-2009 Occasional presenter, U.S. State Department’s International Information Programs

2002-2014 Member, Maryland Humanities Council’s Speakers Bureau 2002- 2003 Member, Prince George’s County Public School’s Minority Achievement Task Force 2001- 2002 Member, Southern Historical Association Membership Committee 1994- 2002 Member, Maryland Humanities Council Professional Service (selected)

2018-Present Member, ABWH Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Undergraduate Award Committee

2015-Present Member, Advisory Board, Center for Global Migrations, University of Maryland

2015-Present Member, Advisory Board, African American Digital Humanities, University of Maryland

2000-2015 External/Peer Reviewer of Africana/Black Studies /African American Studies departments, programs and centers at various colleges and universities including University of California at Santa Barbara’s Center for Black Studies; St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Ohio State University, UCLA, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

2012-2014 Member, Jameson Prize Committee, American Historical Association (AHA)

2006-2008 Member, Carl Bode Prize Committee, American Studies Association2016-

Present Chair, Mary McLeod Bethune Commission, U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service.