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H. ROBERT BAKER ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
A. EDUCATION
Ph. D. (History) University of California, Los Angeles, 2004. Dissertation: “The Rescue of Joshua Glover: Lawyers, Popular Constitutionalism, and the Fugitive Slave Law in Wisconsin,” Joyce Appleby: Chair; Joan Waugh and Karen Orren, readers.
M.A. (Interdisciplinary Studies: Law/History/Sociology), University of Manitoba, Canada 1996. Thesis: “Law Transplanted, Justice Invented: Sources of Law for the Hudson’s Bay Company in Rupert’s Land, 1670-1870,” DeLloyd J. Guth: Chair (Law); Jennifer Brown (History); Russell Smandych (Sociology), readers.
B.A. (History), Pomona College, Claremont, CA., 1995. Graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
B. ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Georgia State University, Associate Professor, Department of History. Fall 2012—Present.
Georgia State University, Assistant Professor, Department of History. Fall 2006—Spring 2012.
Marquette University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History. Fall 2004—Spring 2006.
Roosevelt University, Instructor, School of Liberal Studies. Fall 2003—Summer 2004.
C. SCHOLARSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. Books
Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012.
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The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War. Athens: The Ohio University Press, 2006. Paperback edition: 2007.
2. Articles, peer reviewed
“Magna Carta and the American Political Imagination: Two Instances of Habeas Corpus Vindicated,” Frontiers of Law in China, 11 (July 2016): 215-235.
“A Better Story in Prigg v. Pennsylvania?” Journal of Supreme Court History 39 (July 2014): 169-89.
“The Fugitive Slave Clause and Antebellum Constitutionalism.” Law and History Review 30 (November 2012): 1133-1174.
“The Supreme Court Confronts History: or, Habeas Corpus Redivivus.” Common-Place v. 8, no. 4 (July 2008). http://common-place.org/vol-08/no-04/talk/
“Digging Through the Lynde Family Papers.” Milwaukee History: The Magazine of the Milwaukee County Historical Society 26 (Spring-Summer 2003): 8-11.
“Creating Order in the Wilderness: Transplanting the English Law to Rupert’s Land.” Law and History Review 17 (Summer 1999): 209-246.
2b. Articles, pedagogy
“The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,” Essential Civil War Curriculum, Center for Civil War Studies, Virginia Tech, 2017.
“Personal Liberty Laws,” Essential Civil War Curriculum, Center for Civil War Studies, Virginia Tech, 2017.
“The Birth of a Nation, Nat Turner, and Slave Trials: A Teaching Moment for Social Studies Teachers,” Social Education 81, no. 1 (2017): 6-9. [not peer reviewed.]
“Magna Carta: It’s All about the Fishweirs,” Insights: Perspectives on Law and Society, American Bar Association 15 (Fall 2014): 28. [not peer reviewed.]
3. BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Susanna L. Blumenthal, Law and the Modern Mind (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016). Reviewed for American Historical Review, forthcoming.
Review of Adam Rothman, Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2015). Reviewed for Nineteenth-Century History, 17 (September 2016): 351-53.
Review of Christian G. Samito, Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). Reviewed for Civil War Book Review Online Spring 2016: 2-4. H. Robert Baker V.3
Review of Erik J. Chaput, The People’s Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2014). Reviewed for The American Historical Review, 119 (October 2014): 1270-71.
Review of Dana Elizabeth Weiner. Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870 (De Kalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013). Reviewed for Ohio Valley History (2014).
Review of Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition, by Justin Buckley Dyer (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Reviewed for The Journal of American History, 100 (September 2013): 520.
Review of Freedom’s Conditions on the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands in the Age of Emancipation, ed. Tony Freyer and Lyndsay Campbell (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2011). Reviewed for the Journal of Southern History, 79 (August 2013): 706-7.
Review of Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial, by Steven Lubet (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010). Reviewed for Annals of Iowa 70 (Summer 2011): 267-69.
Review of Emancipation’s Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest, by Leslie A. Schwalm (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Reviewed for Law and History Review 29, issue 2 (2011): 652-54.
Review of Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia’s Criminal Justice System (Charlotte: University of Virginia Press, 2010). Reviewed for The American Historical Review 115 (December 2010): 1476-77.
Review of Slavery and the Supreme Court 1825-1861, by Earl Maltz (Lawrence, Kn.: University Press of Kansas, 2009). Reviewed for Civil War Book Review Online (Summer 2010): 1-4.
Review of The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution, by Eric Slauter (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Reviewed for The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 134 (April 2010): 189-90.
Review of American Sovereigns: The People and America’s Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War, by Christian G. Fritz (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Reviewed for Western Legal History, 21 (Summer/Fall 2008): 237-39.
Review of The Supreme Court: An Essential History, by Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, and N.E.H. Hull (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007). Reviewed for the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39 (Winter 2009): 438-40.
Review of McCulloch v. Maryland, by Mark R. Killenbeck (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006). Reviewed for H-Law, 2007.
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Review of The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861, by Mark Weitz (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005). Reviewed for H-CivWar, 2006.
Review of Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism, by Stuart Streichler (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005). Reviewed for H- CivWar, 2006.
4. Research Fellowships and Grants
Reacting Endeavor High Impact Challenge Grant. Reacting to the Past Consortium and Endeavor Foundation. With Laura Carruth, Brennan Collins, Marni Davis, Jared Poley and Jeffrey R. Young, 2016. $7500. National Endowment for the Humanities, “Courting Liberty: Slavery and Equality under the Constitution.” Summer Institute for School Teachers, July 10-23, 2016. $140,000. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) grant for hybridization of HIST 2110. Provost’s Office, Georgia State University. Co-written with Jeffrey R. Young. 2013. $40,000 Short-Term Research Fellowship, Newberry Library, 2010. $1,600 William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, Research Grant, 2009-10. $10,700 Research Initiation Grant, College of Arts And Sciences, Georgia State University, 2009. $8,406 Summer Research Grant, Department of History, Georgia State University, 2008. $10,800 Littleton-Griswold Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2005. $500 Dissertation Research Grant, UCLA, 1999. 5-Year Fellowship in the Department of History, UCLA, 1996. J. William Fulbright Scholarship, 1995.
5. Honors and Awards
Dale Somers Award from the Georgia State University History Department (2013). Awarded for Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution.
Gambrinus Prize from the Milwaukee County Historical Society (2007). Awarded for The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War.
Dale Somers Award from the Georgia State University History Department (2008). Awarded for The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War.
Graduate Student Prize, Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies, awarded to conference paper “English Law and Native Custom: Governing the Eighteenth Century Fur Trade,” 1999.
6. Presentations and Panels
“Magna Carta and the American Political Imagination,” The Past, Present and Future of the Rule of Law: Magna Carta, the 800th Anniversary, Renmin Law School, Beijing, China, September 5, 2015.
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Invited panelist, “Magna Carta: Symbol of Freedom under Law,” Leon Jaworski Public Program, American Bar Association, Washington D.C., April 30, 2015.
“Georgia’s Experience with Magna Carta,” in Magna Carta Symposium, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, March 30, 2015.
Commenter on panel “Kidnapped into Slavery: The Reverse Underground Railroad,” Louisiana History Association Annual Meeting, Lafayette, LA, March 6, 2015.
“Was the Constitution Proslavery?” paper presented at St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN, October 30, 2014.
“Prigg v. Pennsylvania,” Book talk delivered in the McGowan Theater at the National Archives, Washington D.C., December 10, 2012. Streamed live and recorded on UStream. 11,000 views at present. http://flashtest-branches-www.watershed.ustream.tv/recorded/27631771
Invited Participant, “The Freedom Project: Undergraduate Conversations Inspired by the Sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation,” Sponsored by the Mellon Fund, Marquette University, October 10, 2012.
“Better Stories: Constitutional Law and the Constitution’s History in Antebellum America,” paper presented at the 35th annual Porter Fortune Jr. Conference, sponsored by the Center for Civil War Research and the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, October 14, 2010.
“Ambivalent Abolitionists and Calls for Secession in the Pre-Civil War North,” paper presented at the Filson Historical Society Conference “Secessions: From the Revolution to the Civil War,” Louisville, Kentucky, October 23, 2010.
“The Prigg Fallacy: The Use of Constitutional History to Legitimate Constitutional Law.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Dallas, TX, November 2009.
“Federalism and the Fugitive Slave Act: The Making and Unmaking of Constitutional Nationalism.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Historical Society, Baltimore, MD, June 2008.
“Rescue! How the Unenforceable Fugitive Slave Act led to the Fourteenth Amendment.” Paper presented at the University of Alberta School of Law, Edmonton, AB, August 2007.
“Bashford v. Barstow and the Rule of Law: Judicial and Democratic Values in Antebellum Wisconsin.” Paper presented at annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, MN, March 2007.
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“States’ Rights before the Civil War.” Lecture delivered before the Atlanta Inquiry Club, Atlanta, GA, February 2007.
“The Rescue of Joshua Glover.” Book talk delivered at the Center for Southern Literature, in conjunction with the Atlanta History Center at the Margaret Mitchell House, Atlanta, GA, February 2007. Available online at: http://forum.wgbh.org/afn/forum.php?lecture_id=3445
“By Any Constitutional Means Necessary: Defying the Fugitive Slave Act in Antebellum America.” Pomona College, Claremont, CA, October 2006.
“Liquor Regulation in England and America: a History.” Lecture delivered at Pomona College, Claremont, CA, October 2006.
“Bashford v. Barstow and the Rise of Judicial Supremacy.” Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Baltimore, MD, November 2006.
Panel Chair, “Popular Constitutionalism: a Symposium on The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, by Larry D. Kramer,” Chicago-Kent Law School, Chicago, IL, November 2005.
“The Constitutionalism of the Crowd,” Institute for Constitutional Studies, Seminar on Judicial Review, Washington D.C., June 9-27, 2003. Directed by Gordon Wood, Larry Kramer, and Maeva Marcus.
“English Law and Native Custom: Governing the Eighteenth Century Fur Trade,” Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS), Long Beach, California, March 1998.
“Rewriting the Legal History of the Canadian West,” Canada’s Legal History Conference: Past, Present, and Future, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 1997.
“The Judicature at Red River, 1835-1870,” Learned Societies’ Congress, Canadian Law and Society Session, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, Canada, June 1996.
7. Encyclopedia Entries
“State Court Judges, Nineteenth Century,” and “Kent, James” in American Governance, ed. Stephen Schechter (Gale-Cengage, 2016).
“The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793,” (4200 words) Milestone Documents in African-American History, Milestone Document Reference Series, 4 vols. (Schlager Group, 2010).
“Civil Rights and Civil Liberties,” (4500 words) American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History. Volume Four, 19th Century, ed. Melanie Gustafson. (Facts on File, 2010).
“Voluntary Associations,” (2000 words) Encyclopedia of American Political History, ed. Tim Anderson and Eleanora von Dehse (Greenwood Press, 2010).
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Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, ed. David Tanenhaus, et al. (Thompson- Gale, 2009). Articles authored: Ableman v. Booth (500 words) Article IV (1000 words) Prigg v. Pennsylvania (500 words)
“The Personal Liberty Laws,” Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellions, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2007) 2:371-74.
“Ableman v. Booth (the Sherman Booth Case),” (1000 words) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, Vol. 2, The World of Frederick Douglass, ed. L. Diane Barnes and Paul Finkelman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, 1763-1829, ed. Paul Finkelman, Jan Lewis, Peter Onuf, Jeffrey L. Pasley, J. C. A. Stagg, and Michael Zuckerman (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005). Articles authored: Citizenship (2000 words) Constitution: Eleventh Amendment (300 words) Constitution: Twelfth Amendment (500 words) Market Revolution (1000 words) Sentimentalism (1000 words) Voluntary and Civic Associations (1000 words) Wisconsin Territory (300 words)
8. Memberships in Professional Organizations
American Historical Association American Society for Legal History Organization of American Historians
9. Service for Professional Organizations
American Society for Legal History, Member of Local Arrangements Committee for Annual Conference, 2010-11.
10. Professional Service
Referee for historical journals and academic presses:
Ohio University Press. Kent State University Press University of Chicago Press. University of Georgia Press. Law and History Review. American Nineteenth-Century History. Milwaukee History: the Magazine of the Milwaukee County Historical Society. H. Robert Baker V.8
Annals of Iowa. Louisiana History.
External Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2009.
Canada Research Chairs Council, appointed to the College of Reviewers, 2011-present.
D. INSTRUCTION
1. Courses Developed & Taught at Georgia State University
HIST 2110: Survey of U.S. History. HIST 3000: Introduction to Historical Studies HIST 4400: History of the American West. HIST 4460: Bills of Rights. [INT] HIST 4470: U.S. Legal and Constitutional History. HIST 4990: Historical Research. HIST 7010: Issues and Interpretations in American History. HIST 8035: U.S. Legal and Constitutional History. [INT] HIST 8890: Special Topics: Slavery and Capitalism. HIST 4470: Founders’ Constitution. [INT]
2. Direction of Ph.D. Students
Dissertation Director:
Joseph Bagley, “Lee v. Macon: Litigation and Desegregation in Alabama,” completed: Fall 2013.
Laurel Koontz, “Bible Translators, Educators, Suffragists, and Cow Lovers: The Smith Women, a Nineteenth-Century Case Study in America about Power, Agency, and Subordination,” completed: Spring 2013.
Jeff Marlin, “The National Rifle Association, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice: Gestation, Birth and Mutual Dependence,” completed: Spring 2013.
Jeff Morrison, “The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,” completed: Summer 2015.
Dissertation Reader:
Rhonda Webb, “Red, White, and Black: The Meaning of Loyalty in Georgia Education,” [College of Education] Completed: Spring 2016.
Katherine Perrotta, “Elizabeth Jennings,” [College of Education] Completed: Fall 2016.
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Mark J. Fleszar, “The Atlantic Legacies of Zephaniah Kingsley: benevolence, Bondage, and Proslavery Fictions in the Age of Emancipation,” completed: June 2013.
Michael Kelley, “‘The American West was Won’: The Emigrant Experience in Texas, 1821- 1836,” completed: Spring 2011.
Julie Humann Anderson, “Reconciling Conflicted Memory: How Native and non-Native Mennesotans Commemorate the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862,” completed: May 2011.
Harry Akoh, “How a Country Treats its own Nationals is No Longer a Matter of Exclusive Domestic Concern: A History of the Alien Tort Statute Litigations in the United States for Human Rights Violations Committed in Africa 1980-2004,” completed: May 2009.
Ph.D. Examination Committees:
Katherine Assante Perrotta [Education]. Major Field: U.S. History; passed: Fall 2015. Rhonda Webb [Education]. Major Field: U.S. History; passed: Fall 2015. Kerri Napoleon [Education]. Major Field: U.S. History; passed: Spring 2015. Zac Peterson. Major Field: U.S. History; expected to take March 2014. Lauren MacIvor Thompson. Major Field: 19th and 20th Century U.S. History; passed October 2012. Joseph Bagley. U.S. Legal and Constitutional History; passed April 2011. Mark J. Fleszar. U.S. Colonial and Early National History; passed April 2011. Jeff Marlin. U.S. Legal and Constitutional History; passed, October 2010. Jeff Morrison. Field: Legal and Constitutional History; passed, Fall 2009 Casey Cater. Field: 19th and 20th Century U.S. History; passed, Spring 2009
3. Direction of M.A. Students
Thesis Director:
Kevin Rhoades, “Hooded Secularism: Exclusion and “100% Americanism’s” Version of Separation of Church and State,” expected completion date March 2015.
Jason Butler, “Slavery and the Constitution,” completed: Fall 2015.
Bill Warhop, “Patriotism and Dissent in Georgia: The atmosphere of support and dissent in World War I,” completed: June 2013.
Kevin Grady, MA; “James A. Mackay, a Biography,” completed: May 2012.
Mark Fleszar, MA (co-chair with Jared Poley); “The Atlantic Mind: Zephaniah Kingsley, Slavery, and the Politics of Race in the Atlantic World,” defended August 2009; Winner of the John M. Matthews Distinguished Thesis Award, history department, Georgia State University, 2009; awarded Andre Michaux Travel and Research Grant from the South Carolina Historical Society, 2009; Invited to submit thesis for the CLAWS/Hines Prize from the College of Charleston.
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Thesis Reader:
Lori Coleman, “Our Whole Future is Bound Up in this Project: The Making of the Buford Dam,” defended November 2008.
Edwin Bevens, “A Sacred People: Roman Identity in the Age of Augustus,” defended August 2010.
Jayna Hoffacker, “Constructing Catholic Citizenship: The Problem of Catholics and American Citizenship in History,” defended May 2010.
M.A. Examination Committees:
Jayna Hoffacker. Field: U.S. Legal and Constitutional History; passed, February 2010. Edwin Bevens. Field: U.S. Legal and Constitutional History; passed, March 2010. Kevin Grady. Field: U.S. Legal and Constitutional History; passed, October 2010.
4. Course Development
Curriculum development:
Pre-Law Concentration for the History Department at Georgia State University. Accepted by the College of Arts & Sciences, April 2009.
Courses proposed and developed at Georgia State University:
HIST 4400: History of the American West. Proposed and developed course for inclusion in the History Department Catalogue, accepted for 2007 Catalogue. HIST 4460: Bills of Rights. Proposed and developed course for inclusion in the History Department Catalogue, accepted for 2007 Catalogue. [INT] HIST 4470: U.S. Legal and Constitutional History. Proposed and developed course for inclusion in the History Department Catalogue, accepted for 2007 Catalogue. HIST 4470: The Founders’ Constitution. Proposed course change for inclusion in the History Department Catalogue, accepted for 2013 Catalogue. HIST 8035: U.S. Legal and Constitutional History. Proposed and developed course for inclusion in the History Department Catalogue, accepted for 2007 Catalogue.
Pedagogical Seminars Attended:
Invited participant: “Hybridization Seminar,” Georgia State University, 2013.
Invited participant: “The Constitutional Convention.” Interdisciplinary Summer Workshop for College Instructors. Sponsored by the Institute for Constitutional History and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Emory University, Atlanta, GA. July, 2008.
Invited participant: “New Approaches to Teaching the Constitution.” Interdisciplinary Summer Workshop for College Instructors. Sponsored by the Institute for Constitutional History and the National Endowment for the Humanities. SUNY Albany, NY. July, 2007. H. Robert Baker V.11
Invited participant. “Writing Across the Curriculum Seminar,” Georgia State University, 2007.
5. Teaching Recognition
Howard L. Willett Award for undergraduate teaching, Roosevelt University, 2004.
6. Pedagogical and Content Consulting Work
Faculty consultant. Teaching American History Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities. Awarded to DeKalb County Schools, Atlanta, GA. 2009-2012.
Lecture: “Citizenship, from the Fourteenth Amendment to Japanese Internment,” Fulton County Social Studies Teachers, Atlanta, GA. Part of a Teaching American History Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, October 2009.
Lecture: “Citizenship in the Early Republic,” Fulton County Social Studies Teachers, Atlanta, GA. Teaching American History Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, January 2009.
E. ACADEMIC SERVICE
1. Department
Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2013-present. Undergraduate Studies Committee (standing), 2006-2009; 2013-present. Graduate Studies Committee (standing), 2009-2013. Advisement Committee (standing), 2006-present. Executive Committee (elected), 2008-2011. Programs and Research Committee (standing), 2009-2011. (acting chair: Fall 2009) Library and Technology Committee (standing), 2007-2010. Freshman Studies Committee (standing), 2006-2009. Chair, Twentieth-Century U.S. Search Committee (ad hoc), 2009-2010. Lecturers Search Committee (ad hoc), 2008-2009. Visiting Lecturer Search Committee, (ad hoc), 2009. Nineteenth-Century U.S. Search Committee (ad hoc) (2007-2008). Visiting Lecturer Search Committee, (ad hoc), 2008.
2. College
Undergraduate Council, 2013-present. Petitions Subcommittee of the Undergraduate Council, 2013-present. Executive Committee (elected), 2010-2012. Secretary of Executive Committee, 2011-2012.
3. University
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4. Community
Governance Board, The Main Street Academy, A Charter School, South Fulton County, Georgia. (2009-2013; 2014-present). President, 2014-present. Member, charter renewal committee, 2013-present. Chair, Academic Performance Committee, 2012-2013. Chair, Principal Search Committee, 2012. Chair, Principal Search Committee, 2009-2010. Chair, Personnel Committee, 2010-2012. Chair, Compliance with Federal, State, and Local Regulations Committee, 2011-2012.