JULIA ERIN WOOD ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE STATION, TX 77843-4236 [email protected]

EDUCATION

Yale University, New Haven, CT PhD, History and African American Studies, May 2011

Dissertation Title: Freedom is Indivisible: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Cold War Politics, and International Liberation Movements Dissertation Directors: Glenda Gilmore and Jonathan Holloway Description: My dissertation is the first transnational history analyzing SNCC, its relationship with international liberation struggles, and the place of Cold War politics in defining domestic civil rights from 1960 through the early 1970s. An intellectual, political, and social history, it contends that SNCC demanded social change within and beyond the borders of the United States, and that a better understanding of SNCC furthers the internationalization of U.S. history, and a new retelling of the Black freedom struggle. Approved with Distinction.

Fields of study and advisors: Political and Social United States History Since 1865 (Glenda Gilmore) The 20th Century Black Freedom Struggle (Jonathan Holloway) 20th Century Pan-Africanism and African Nationalism ()

MPhil, History and African American Studies, 2006 MA, History and African American Studies, 2004

Stanford University, Stanford, CA BA, History and Feminist Studies, 1998 Highest Honors, Senior Thesis: Growing Alienation and Rising Consciousness: Northern White Women’s Shifting Conceptions of their Position within the Southern Civil Rights Struggle, 1965

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Texas A&M University, July 2011 – present Visiting Instructor, African American History, 1865 to the Present, Connecticut College, Spring 2010 Instructor, Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Decolonization, 1940-1975, , Fall 2008 Teaching Fellow, African American History: Emancipation to the Present (with Jonathan Holloway), Yale University, Spring 2006 Teaching Fellow, The Cold War (with John Gaddis), Yale University, Fall 2005 Julia Erin Wood Curriculum Vitae 2 of 4

Teaching Fellow, Women, Race, Gender, and Sexuality (with Hazel Carby), Yale University, Spring 2005 Teaching Fellow, New York Mambo: Microcosm of Black Creativity (with Robert F. Thompson), Yale University, Fall 2004

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

Distinction, PhD Dissertation, Yale University, 2011 Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize, PhD Dissertation, Yale University, 2011 Stephen Vella Prize, PhD Dissertation, Yale University, 2011 Dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, 2007-2008 University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 2006-2007 John F. Enders Fellowship, Yale University, 2006 Highest Honors, Senior Thesis, , 1998 Honor Scholar-Athlete, Stanford University, 1994-1998

RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant. Professor Jonathan Holloway, Yale University, 2009-2010 Editorial Assistant and Copyeditor. Jonathan Scott Holloway and Ben Keppel, Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century (Notre Dame, IN: Press, 2007) Research Assistant and Writer. Clayborne Carson, Tenisha Armstrong, Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, and Kieran Taylor, eds. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959 – December 1960 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) Copyeditor. Ralph J. Bunche, with Jonathan Scott Holloway, ed., A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership (New York and London: New York University Press, 2005) Research Assistant. Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, and Gary B. Nash, African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom: Volume II: Since 1865 (New York: Pearson Longman, 2005) Research Assistant. Professor Glenda Gilmore, Yale University, 2002-2004 Copyeditor. Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard, eds. A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Warner Books, Inc., 2002) Research Assistant and Copyeditor. Clayborne Carson, Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, Virginia Shadron, and Kieran Taylor, eds. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957 – December 1958 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) Research Assistant and Copyeditor. Clayborne Carson, ed. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1998) Research Assistant, Documentary Editor, Writer, Audio Collection Manager. Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project, Stanford University, 1998-2002

Julia Erin Wood Curriculum Vitae 3 of 4

PUBLICATIONS

Julia Erin Wood, Review of Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2008) edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr. and Orville Vernon Burton, in The North Carolina Historical Review 86:4 (October 2009): 467-468 Julia Erin Wood, “SNCC in Alabama,” Encyclopedia of Alabama (Auburn University: Alabama Humanities Foundation, http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org), 2008 Julia Erin Wood, Review of Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007) by Wesley C. Hogan, in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 105:3 (Summer 2007): 557-558

TEACHING INTERESTS

U.S. History Since 1865; Post-Emancipation African American History; Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Decolonization; The Long Civil Rights Movement; 20th Century U.S. Social Movements; Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in the 20th Century United States; 20th Century Pan-Africanism; Transnational Social Movements; Post-1885 African History; Transnational U.S. History

CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND INVITED LECTURES

“‘Blazing a Freedom Trail’: The Year of Africa and the Creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).” Paper to be presented as a panelist for: “1960, Fifty Years On: A Roundtable Discussion,” at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 2010 “Remapping the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.” Presentation for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Summer Seminar, “Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship,” New Haven, CT, July 2009 “‘Blazing a Freedom Trail’: African Decolonization, America’s International Image, and the Creation of SNCC.” Paper presented at the speaker series, “‘Endeavors’: Perspectives on Black Life and Culture,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, November 2008 “From Civil Rights to Human Rights: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Indivisible Struggle.” Paper presented at the conference, “A Single Struggle: The Global Convergence of Civil and Human Rights,” Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL, May 2008 “From Civil Rights to Human Rights: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Indivisible Struggle.” Paper presented at the Third Annual Scholars in Critical Race Studies Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, March 2008 “To Bridge the Gap”: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Activists (SNCC) Visit Africa, 1964.” Paper presented at the Graduate Association of African American History Ninth Annual Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, September 2007 Conference Panel Chair. “(Un)Hidden Transcripts: Reflections on Black Transnational Agency,” Pan-Africanisms: The Work of Diaspora Within and Without the Academy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2006 Guest Speaker, KIPP Bayview Academy (middle school), San Francisco, CA, 2004 and 2006 Julia Erin Wood Curriculum Vitae 4 of 4

Keynote Speaker, Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, Gaston Day School, Gastonia, NC, 2001

SERVICE

Graduate Affiliate, Calhoun College, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2009-2010 Judge, New Haven History Day, New Haven, CT, 2007 Student-Faculty Department Liaison, African American Studies, Yale University, 2002-2003 Tutor, Amistad Academy (middle school), New Haven, CT, 2002-2003 Tutor, East Palo Alto Charter School (elementary school), East Palo Alto, CA, 1997-1998 Intern, Freedom Summer ’96 (political organizing against CA Proposition 209), The Feminist Majority, CA, 1996

LANGUAGES

German (reading knowledge); Spanish (reading knowledge)

MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association American Studies Association Association for the Study of African American Life and History Organization of American Historians Southern Historical Association