Curriculum Vitae

Faculty Name: Tyler DeWayne Moore Work Address: P.O. Box 519; MS 1060 Prairie View, TX 77446 Position Title: Lecturer of History Office Location: 207 Woolfolk Bldg. / Phone: 936-261-2555 / twitter: @MtZionFund / Email:[email protected] Education: Degree and Area of Study Institution Name Degree Date Ph.D., History (African Diaspora, US) University of Mississippi 2018 M.A., Public History Middle Tennessee State University 2010 B.S., Mass Communications Middle Tennessee State University 2001 Teaching Position Title Institution Name Position Dates Experience (Beginning and End) Lecturer Prairie View A&M University Aug 2020 - Assistant Professor of History Bowling Green State University Aug 2019–May 2020 Graduate Instructor University of Mississippi Jan 2014-June 2018 Teaching Assistant University of Mississippi Aug 2010-Dec 2014

Professional Publications: 2021 In press, Old Time Mississippi Fiddle Tunes & the Segregation of Sound (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2021).

2021 In press, “‘Lightning Struck Him’: Walter Rhodes, the Delta’s Crowing Rooster, and the Influence of Accordion on the ,” The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual 6 (2021).

2020 In press, “‘Degrading ‘God’s Acre’: The Alleged Disinterment of Mississippi’s Only African American Secretary of State James D. Lynch,” The Journal of Mississippi History 82:2 (Fall 2020).

2020 “Worth Westinghouse Long Jr.: Creating Dangerously in The Land Where the Blues Began,” Southern Cultures 26:1 (Spring 2020): 54-77.

2020 “Ripped Spike, Tie and Rail from its Moorings’: Racial Reconciliation, Public History, and the ‘Yellow Dog’ of the ,” The Public Historian 42:2 (May 2020): 56-77.

2018 “Revisiting Ralph Lembo: Complicating , the 1920s Race Record Industry, and the Italian American Experience in the Mississippi Delta,” Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal 49:2 (Dec 2018): 153-184. Public History: 2020 Sonny Boy Williamson II Memorial – Tutwiler Cemetery Project, Tutwiler, MS - Online Fundraising via Social Media - $2,000 - Partners: Alan Orlicek & Sonny Boy Blues Society

2019 Charlie Burse Memorial – Rose Hill Cemetery Project, Memphis, TN - Benefit and Social Media - $3,200 - Partners: Arlo Leach and Bill Pichette

2018 Belton Sutherland Memorial – St. John MB Church, Madison County, MS - Online Fundraising via Social Media - $2,500 - Partners: Joe Austin & Pastor Robert Luckett

2017 “” Memorial - Nitta Yuma Cemetery Project, Sharkey County, MS - Online Fundraising via Social Media – $5,000 - Partner: Henry Vick Phelps III & Hollandale Blues Festival 1

2016 Eddie Cusic Memorial– Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, Washington County, MS - Benefit Concert and Social Media - $2,500 - Partners: Hwy 61 Museum, Walnut Street Blues Bar

2016 Mamie Galore Davis Memorial – Lakewood Cemetery Project, Wash. County, MS - Benefit Concert and Social Media - $2,100 - Partners: Delores Franklin & Mayor Erick Simmons

2015 Headstone (replacement) - Hollandale Gardens, Hollandale, MS - MS Blues Foundation Grant, $4,790 - Sponsors: LR Watson and Indianola Blues Society Presentations: 2020 “Telling the Story of Charley Patton: Shared Authority and the Blues” - Paper Presentation, Black Issues Conference, Bowling Green, OH

2019 “The Death of the Myth of the Blues Savant” - Paper Presentation, The Pop Conference, The Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, WA

2018 “The Radical Vision of Worth Long in Black Folklife and The Land Where the Blues Began” Paper presentation, Brooks Forum, St. George Tucker Society, Jackson, MS

2017 “Revisiting Ralph Lembo: Ethnicity, Race, and the Recording Industry” - Paper presentation, The International Conference on the Blues, Cleveland, MS

2011 “‘I’m Gonna Stay Right Here until They Tear This Barrelhouse Down’: Community Activism and Blues Tourism in Mississippi” Paper pres., National Council on Public History, Pensacola, FL Professional Memberships: Society of American Archivists Association for Gravestone Studies The Blues Foundation National Council on Public History

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