BRENDA GAYLE PLUMMER

5111 Humanities Building University of Wisconsin 455 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 (608) 263 1845

______February 2014

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., History, Cornell University, 1981. Areas of concentration: Afro-American history; Caribbean history; U. S. foreign relations.

Dissertation: “Black and White in the Caribbean: Haitian-American Relations, 1902-1934.”

M. A., Teachers College, Columbia University, 1973.

Other graduate study: Vanderbilt University, 1973-75; University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1969-70.

B. A., Antioch College, 1969.

EMPLOYMENT:

Professor, Departments of History, and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 1994 to date.

Associate Professor, Departments of History, and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991-1994.

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota, 1987-1990. Adjunct, Department of Afro-American and African Studies, University of Minnesota, 1987-1990.

2 Plummer February 2012 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota, 1981-1987. Adjunct, Department of Afro-American and African Studies, University of Minnesota, 1987-1990.

Acting assistant professor, Carleton College, Spring 1983.

Lecturer and research fellow, Black Studies Department, and Center for Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1979-81.

Instructor, Department of History, Fisk University, 1973-75.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:

American Historical Association, 1997 Wesley-Logan Prize for Rising Wind: Black Americans and U. S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Myrna Bernath Prize for Rising Wind: Black Americans and U. S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

PUBLICATIONS:

Books: (in order of publication)

In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974 (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988, University of North Carolina Press (2003)

Electronic edition, Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945- 1988, NetLibrary and the University of North Carolina Press.

Rising Wind: Black Americans and U. S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

Haiti and the United States (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1992).

Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988).

3 Plummer February 2012 Articles and book chapters:

“Race and the Cold War,” pp. 503-521 in Richard Immerman and Petra Goode, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2013).

“Building U.S. Hegemony in the Caribbean,” chapter 28 in Stephen Palmié and Francisco Scarano, eds., The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples (University of Chicago, 2011)

Contributor, Marcus Garvey Papers Project, vol. XI, The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910- 1920 (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011).

“African Americans in the International Imaginary: Gerald Horne’s Progressive Vision,” Journal of African American History, 96 (Spring 2011): 221-230.

“Restaurant Citizens to the Barricades!” American Quarterly (2008): 23- 31.

“Peace Was the Glue: Europe and African American Freedom,” Souls 10 (2:2008), 103-122.

“The Changing Face of Diplomatic History: A Literature Review,” History Teacher 38 (May 2005): 385-400.

“On Cedric Robinson and Black Marxism: A View from the US Academy,” Race & Class 47 (2:2005): 111-114.

“Introduction,” in Brenda G. Plummer, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988, University of North Carolina Press (2003).

“Brown Babies: Race, Gender, and Policy in the Postwar Era,” in Brenda G. Plummer, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988, University of North Carolina Press (2003).

“Firmin and Martí at the Intersection of Pan-Americanism and Pan-Africanism,” in Jeffrey Belnap and Raul Fernandez, eds., José Martí’s “Our America”: From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies (Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 210-227.

“Between Privilege and Opprobrium: The Arabs and Jews in Haiti,” Immigrants & Minorities [UK](16:1 & 2, 1997).

“Castro in Harlem: A Cold War Watershed,” in Allen Hunter, ed., Rethinking the Cold War: Essays on Its Dynamics, Meaning, and Morality (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997). 4 Plummer February 2012

“‘Below the Level of Men’: African-Americans, Race, and the History of U. S. Foreign Relations,” Diplomatic History 20 (Fall 1996): 639-650.

“Concepts of Liberty: Caribbean and Haitian Traditions of Resistance,” in Cary Hector and Hérard Jadotte, eds., Haïti et l’Après-Duvalier: Continuités et Ruptures, vol. 2 (Port-au-Prince: Editions Henri Deschamps, 1991.)

“The Golden Age of Haitian Tourism: U. S. Influence in Haitian Cultural and Economic Affairs, 1934-1971,” Cimarron 2 (Winter 1990): 49-63.

“Evolution of the Black Foreign Policy Constituency,” TransAfrica Forum 6 (Spring-Summer 1989): 67-81.

“Black Americans and Foreign Affairs: A Reassessment,” Sage Race Relations Abstracts 12 (February 1987):21-31 [with Donald R. Culverson].

“Crisis in the Caribbean: Haitian Migrants and Backyard Imperialism,” Race and Class 26 (No. 4, 1985): 35-43.

“The Metropolitan Connection: Foreign and Semi-Foreign Elites in Haiti, 1900- 1915,” Latin American Research Review 19 (1984): 119-142.

“The Afro-American Response to the Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934,” Phylon 43 (June l982): 125-143.

“Race, Nationality, and Trade in the Caribbean: The Syrians in Haiti, 1903-1934,” International History Review 3 (October 1981): 517-539.

Works in press or accepted for publication:

“Brown Babies: Race, Gender, and Policy in the Postwar Era,” in Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick, eds., Healthy Bodies/Healthy Nation: The Global Realms of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century (forthcoming)

In progress: review essay on two anthologies, Nico Slate, Black Power Beyond Borders, and Philip E. Muehlenbeck, Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War, solicited by the Journal of African American History and scheduled for publication in late 2014.

Works published earlier and reprinted in new editions:

5 Plummer February 2012 “Under the Gun,” (chapter from Haiti and the United States, in Haitian History: New Perspectives, ed. Alyssa G. Sepinwall (New York & London: Routledge, 2013), 241- 55.

“Peace was the Glue,” reprint, The New Black History, ed. Manning Marable (New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2011).

“The Afro-American Response to the Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934,” and “Evolution of the Black Foreign Policy Constituency,” in Michael L. Krenn, ed., Race and Foreign Policy from the Colonial Period to the Present (Levittown, Pa.: Garland Publishing, 1998).

Second reprint of “The Afro-American Response to the Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934,” in Alexa Benson Henderson and Janice Sunler-Edmond, eds., Freedom’s Odyssey: African American History Essays from Phylon (Atlanta: Clark Atlanta University Press, 1999).

“Between Privilege and Opprobrium: The Arabs and Jews in Haiti,” in Ignacio Klich and Jeffrey Lesser, Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America: Images and Realities (London: Frank Cass, 1998).

Book Reviews done for the following publications since 1980:

American Historical Review American Political Science Review The Americas THE ANNALS Contemporary Sociology Diplomatic History International History Review Journal of American Ethnic History Journal of American History Journal of American Studies Journal of Haitian Studies Journal of Southern History Nieuwe West-Indische Gids/ New West Indian Guide Political Science Quarterly Race and Class Revue française d’Histoire d”Outre-Mer Signs Third World Quarterly

Occasional writings, encyclopedia articles, published art works 6 Plummer February 2012

Contributor, Marcus Garvey Papers Project, vol. XI, The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910-1920 (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011). ‘

“Brown v. Board of Education,” short article for The Oxford Companion to United States History, ed. Paul Boyer, et al. (Oxford University Press, 2001).

“Council on African Affairs,” “Liberia,” and “United Nations,” three short articles for the W. E. B. Du Bois Encyclopedia, edited by Gerald Horne and Mary Young, (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2001.

“Civil Rights,” in Carl A. Grant and Gloria Ladson-Billings, eds., Dictionary of Multicultural Education (Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1997)

“Haiti,” in Bruce Jentleson and Gaddis Smith, eds., The Encyclopedia of U. S. Foreign Relations, Oxford University Press, under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations, 1997.

“Ralph Bunche,” pp. 72-73; “Civil Rights,” pp. 94-95; “Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.,” pp. 342-43; “SNCC,” in Sandra Adell, ed., Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture: vol. III, African American Culture (Detroit: Gale, 1996).

“Haiti, Occupation (1915-1934),” pp. 221-23; “Moton Commission, Haiti,” pp. 351-52; “Union Patriotique, Haiti,” pp. 551-52; “President’s Commission on Conditions in Haiti (1930) Forbes Commission,” pp. 436-37; “Public Opinion and the Haitian Occupation,” pp. 440-42, in Benjamin R. Beede, ed., The War of 1898 and U. S. Interventions 1898-1934, Garland Press, 1994.

Cover photograph for dust jacket and paper edition of George Lipsitz, Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990)

EVALUATION, CONSULTING AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:

Promotion and tenure reviews since 1996 for:

Brandeis University, Department of History Carnegie Mellon University, Department of History Columbia University, Department of History Cornell University, Department of History Emory University, Department of History Florida International University, Department of History 7 Plummer February 2012 George Mason University, Department of History Lake Forest College, Department of English New York University, Department of History Pennsylvania State University, Department of History State University of New York, Stonybrook, Department of History University of California, Santa Barbara, Black Studies Department University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Department of Afro-American Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies Program University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of History Washington University, Department of History

Prize committees:

Member, Richard Leopold Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians, 2010 to the present Member, graduate student essay competition prize committee, Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, 2008. Member, Graebner Prize Committee, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations , 2008.

Editorial boards:

Member, Advisory Editorial Board for American Quarterly, beginning April 2008. Member, Editorial board, Journal of Haitian Studies since 2007 Member, advisory board, Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture: volume III, African American Culture project, ed. Sandra Adell (Detroit: Gale, 1996) Associate editor, Signs, at University of Minnesota, November 1990-September 1992.

Manuscripts reviewed for:

The American Historical Review, Cambridge University Press; Diaspora Paradigms Publication Committee, Department of History, Michigan State University; Diplomatic History, Indiana University Press; International History Review, Journal of American History; Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs; Journal of the Early Republic; Journal of Haitian Studies; Journal of Southern History; Journal of Women’s History; Left History (Canada); Louisiana State University Press; The Edwin Mellen Press; Pacific Historical Review; Palgrave Macmillan; Political Science Quarterly; Princeton University Press; Radical History Review; Rowman & Littlefield; Signs; St. Martin’s Press; Stanford University Press; Technology and Culture; Temple University Press; University of North Carolina Press, University of Pennsylvania Press; Wadabagei; Wayne State University Press.

8 Plummer February 2012 Advisory and Review Committees

Consultant for WGBH Boston’s Mellon Foundation-sponsored Media Library and Archive catalog project, August-November 2013.Grant proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation, April 2010. Historical consultant, Lucasfilms, May 2008. U. S. Department of State, Historical Advisory Committee, 2001-2005. Member, program review committee, Afro-American Studies Program, University of Iowa, 1996. Knight Foundation Consultant, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. A pro- gram to provide resources for the incorporation into the College of faculty of color, 1990-91. Curricular consultant, “Caribbean Connections: Classroom Resources for Secondary Schools,” a project of the Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean, and the Network of Educators’ Committees on Central America, 1989.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Chair, panel on “Legacies of William Appleman Williams,” William Appleman Williams Conference on the 50th Anniversary of The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, Madison, Wisconsin, October 9, 2009.

Commentator, American Historical Association annual meeting, Seattle, January 2005.

Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Lecturer for The Journal of African American History, 2003-2004.

Chair and commentator, panel on African Americans and the Meanings of Freedom during the Early Cold War, American Historical Association, Chicago January 5, 2003.

Chair and commentator, “African American Internationalism: War, Diaspora, and the Politics of Race, 1917-1937,” American Studies Association, Houston, Nov. 17, 2002. Consultation for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, December 1997.

Member, Revision Project, New York State College Proficiency Examination in Afro-American History, 1977.

9 Plummer February 2012 PAPERS PRESENTED AND INVITED LECTURES:

“Representative Charles C. Diggs, Jr. and Racial Regimes of Change,” Social Science Historical Association, Chicago, November 23, 2013.

“Charles Diggs, Southern Africa, and the Black Power Moment,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Jacksonville, Florida, October 4, 2013.

“Congressional Leadership and the U.S. Approach to African Affairs: Charles C. Diggs,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, Va., June 22, 2013.

“Race and Class” for Decolonizing U.S. History: The United States and Decolonization at Home and Abroad, panel at the American Historical Association annual meeting, Chicago, January 8, 2012.

“Speaking Truth to Black Power: Historiographies of Black Nationalism and the Left,” History Department, Smith College, Northampton, Mass., April 12, 2011. ‘ “Making Race Invisible: The Dominican Republic and the U.S. Occupation of 1965,” Collegium for Afro-American Research, Université Paris Diderot, April 8, 2011.

“Color, Colorblindness, and the Dominican Crisis of 1965,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Raleigh, NC, October 1, 2010.

“Color, Colorblindness, and the Dominican Crisis of 1965,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, WI, June 25, 2010.

African Americans in the International Imaginary: Gerald Horne’s Progressive Vision,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Cincinnati, October 2, 2009.

“Peace Was the Glue: Europe and African American Freedom,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Birmingham, Al., October 4, 2008

“Peace Was the Glue: Europe and African American Freedom,” Plenary Address, British Association for American Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 27, 2008.

“The Impact of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement on Europe,” Collegium for African American Research. Madrid, Spain, April 19, 2007.

10 Plummer February 2012 "Caveat Emptor: Nigerians, African Americans, and Free Market Society, 1943- 1970,” African Diaspora and the Atlantic World Research Circle, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 21, 2007.

“In the Dawn’s Waning Light: Nigeria and Disunity in the Age of Liberation,” Society for Historians of American Foreign relations, Lawrence, Kansas, June 25, 2006.

“How Does Change Occur?’ CIC Creating Institutional Change Conference,” Madison, Wisconsin, March 31, 2006.

“The Indian Roots of Affirmative Action,” Collegium for African American Research, Tours, France, April 21, 2005.

The Untouchables: Caste, Race, and Nationalism in African American and Indian Cooperation,” Black Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 4, 2005.

“The Future of Radical Scholarship,” Symposium on Cedric J. Robinson’s Radical Thought: Toward Critical Social Theories and Practice, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 6, 2004.

“African Americans and U. S. Foreign Affairs,” African American Community Dialogue, Chicago Council on Foreign relations and the Black United Fund, Chicago, June 16, 2004.

Panel on Current Developments in Diplomatic History, Organization of American Historians, March 27, 2004. [I did not attend—sent paper which was read.]

Ralph Bunche Lecture, “Black Americans and Foreign Affairs,” Brandeis University, March 18, 2004.

Lecture and Panelist, Ralph J. Bunche Symposium marking centenary of Bunche’s birth, UCLA February 20-21, 2004.

“African Americans and the United Nations,” United Nations Organization, Office of the Undersecretary for Public Information, conference on African American Civil Society Leaders, New York, October 7, 2003.

Rice and Race: Foreign and Domestic Policy during the Johnson Years,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., June 7, 2003.

11 Plummer February 2012 “Inter-Ocean: The Legacy of Slavery and International Protest,” Conference on Citizens, Nations, and Cultures: Transatlantic Perspectives, Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, Maastricht, Netherlands, Oct. 18, 2002

“A Message to the World: Black Leaders in the Civil Rights Era and Internationalization,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, Oct. 4, 2002.

“Inter-Ocean: International Protest and the Legacy of Slavery,” for Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange, A Colloquium ion the Socio-Economic Legacy of Slavery (sponsored by the State of California apropos of California Senate Bill 2199 and 1737) University of California Santa Barbara, May 3, 2002.

“The Civil Rights Movement: Making Linkages,” Collegium for African- American Research, Cagliari, Italy, March 24, 2001.

“America’s Dilemma: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988,” The Newberry Seminar in the History of American Culture, Newberry Library, Chicago, February 23, 2001.

“Brown Babies: Race, Gender, and Policy in the Postwar Era,” Afro-American Studies Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, January 18, 2001.

Panelist, “James Blue’s The March: Film, Propaganda and International Race Politics,” American Studies Association, Detroit, October 13, 2000.

“African-Americans Confronting International Justice,” 34th Annual Villanova Law Review Symposium, “Critical Race Theory and International Law: Convergence and Divergence,” Villanova University School of Law, October 16, 1999.

“Brown Babies: Race, Gender, and Policy in the Postwar Era,” Conference on Afro-Americans and the Age of American Expansion, 1898-1998, Pennsylvania State University, March 27, 1999.

Panelist, “The Age of American Expansion and the International Dimensions of American Life: Paradigms, Research, and Pedagogy,” Conference on Afro-Americans and the Age of American Expansion, 1898-1998, Pennsylvania State University, March 28, 1999.

Panelist, “New Approaches in the Study of U. S. Foreign Policy,” Organization of American Historians, Indianapolis, April 3, 1998.

12 Plummer February 2012 “African Americans and U. S. Foreign Policy,” Shirley Day-Williams Memorial Lecture, World Affairs Council of San Diego, March 5, 1998.

Panelist, “The Legacy of Slavery: Race and Color,” The Postmodern Caribbean Symposium, Center for Humanities and Arts, The University of Georgia, Jan. 21-23, 1998.

“Black Americans and Foreign Affairs: What’s Next?” University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Afro-American Studies, December 12, 1997.

Panelist, “Blacks on Black Life: A Dialogue with African American Authors and Intellectuals,” University of Illinois at Chicago, Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Blacks and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, July 25, 1997.

Panel member, “The Cold War in the Periphery,” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, D. C., June 20, 1997.

“Race, U. S. Citizenship, and the Right to Bear Arms,” Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, Apr. 17, 1997.

Panel member, “Conversation: Re/Locating W. E. B. Du Bois in American Studies,” American Studies Association, Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 2, 1996.

“Blue Ants and Black Nationalism: Black Americans and Maoism,” Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Charleston, S. C., Oct. 4, 1996.

“Firmin and Martí at the Intersection of Pan-Americanism and Pan-Africanism,” “Our America and the Gilded Age: José Martí’s Chronicles of Imperial Critique,” Conference, University of California, Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, January 27- 28, 1995.

“New Light on UNCIO: Race and Gender at the San Francisco Conference,” American Historical Association, Chicago, Jan. 7, 1995.

“Containment and Quarantine: Haitian-American Relations in Historical Perspective,” Washington University, St. Louis, September 9, 1994.

“From Beyond the Veil: Afro-Americans and Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960,” Washington University, St. Louis, September 8, 1994.

“The Haitian Crisis in Historical Perspective,” Johns Hopkins University- Georgetown University Haiti Study Group, July 14, 1994.

13 Plummer February 2012 “Race War: The Coming Apocalypse: Malcolm X and the International Politics of Color,” State Historical Society of Wisconsin, “Toward a History of the 1960’s” confer- ence, May 1, 1993.

“Mass Organizations and Black Activism in the Early Cold War Era,” Organization of American Historians, Anaheim, California, April 16, 1993.

“Haiti and the United States: A Historical Perspective on a Troubled Relationship,” Fifteenth Annual Merze Tate Seminar in Diplomatic History, Howard University, November 16, 1992.

“After the Truman Doctrine: The Mainstream Restructures the Afro-American Approach to Foreign Affairs, 1947-1954,” Social Science History Association, New Orleans, November 2, 1991.

“Castro in Harlem: A Cold War Watershed,” Rethinking the Cold War: A Conference in Memory of William Appleman Williams, October 18-20, 1991, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 18, 1991.

“Black Americans and Foreign Policy: A Reassessment,” Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, October 21, 1990.

“The Cultural Impact of Tourism on Haiti and on U. S.-Haitian Relations,” Research Conference on Haiti in Comparative Perspective, Consortium of New York University and Columbia University in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, February 9, 1990.

“Les Antécédents de la Révolution: La France and La Haïti,” Colloque International du Bicentenaire de la Révolution Française, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, December 8, 1989.

“Concepts of Liberty in Caribbean Traditions of Resistance,” Symposium on the Haitian Revolution: Its Repercussions in the Americas, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, April 21, 1989.

“Beyond Ethnic Politics: Issue Mobility, Identity, and the Afro-American Foreign Policy Audience,” a paper for the Social Science Research Council Workshop on Foreign Policy Studies, Annapolis, Maryland, October 1988.

“Race and Culture Contacts Among Nonwhites in the United States: The Black and Latin Connection,” Organization of American Historians, Reno, Nevada, March 25, 1988.

14 Plummer February 2012 “Race and Culture Contacts in the U. S.: The Black Latin Connection,” Conference on Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Societies,” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, December 4, 1987.

“Political Process and the Development of Afro-American Involvement in Foreign Affairs, 1937-1968,” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Atlanta, April 23, 1987 (with Donald Culverson).

“Muffled Voices: An Ideological Profile of Black American Ministers and Consuls During the Republican Zenith, 1869-1912,” Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Washington, D. C., October 20,1984, and Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, April 19, 1985.

“Bonds of Brotherhood: Black American Support for Haitian Liberation,” Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Baltimore, 1982.

“The Afro-American Emigration Movement to Haiti in the 1820s,” Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Philadelphia, 1977.

RESEARCH GRANTS:

L&S Chair Research Fellowship granted Spring 2013 for Spring 2014. Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2007-2008 Sabbatical Leave, Spring 2008 Ethnic Studies Reading Circle, Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, University of Wisconsin System (with Cindy I-feng Chen), Spring 2007 Kellett Mid-Career Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001-2006 Internationalizing The Study Of Race: Campus-Based Reading Seminar funded by the University of Wisconsin System Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Spring 2002. Research grant, Rockefeller Archive Center, 1999-2000 Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 1999-2000 Research grant, University of Wisconsin System, Institute on Race and Ethnicity, 1997-98. Rockefeller Archive Center Travel Grant, 1997. Grant-in-Aid, University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, 1997. Grant-in-Aid, University of Wisconsin Graduate School, 1996. University of Wisconsin, Hilldale Award for faculty-student research, 1996-97. University of Wisconsin, Vilas Trust, Vilas Associateship, 1994-95, 1995-96. Grant-in-Aid, University of Wisconsin Graduate School, 1994 (not accepted). 15 Plummer February 2012 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture-NEH, Scholars-in-Residence Program, Fellowship, Spring 1994. Grant-in-Aid, University of Wisconsin Graduate School, 1993. Grant-in-Aid, University of Wisconsin Graduate School, 1991. University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, McMillan Travel Fund grant, 1989. Social Science Research Council, Advanced Research Fellowship in Foreign Policy Studies, 1987-89. University of Minnesota, Single Quarter Leave, for Spring 1987. University of Minnesota, Graduate School, Grant in Aid of Research, Spring 1986. University of California, Los Angeles, Institute of American Cultures, Post-doc- toral Fellowship, 1983-84. University of Minnesota, Graduate School, Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 1983. University of Minnesota, Graduate School, Grant in Aid of Research, 1982. University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Black Studies, Dissertation Fellowship, 1979-80. Dorothy Danforth Compton Foundation Fellowship, 1979-80.

INSTRUCTIONAL GRANTS:

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Information Technology, IN TIME grant for multimedia instructional development, 1997.

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Information Technology, Web Grant II for Internet instructional development, 1997.

University of Wisconsin, Brittingham Visiting Scholars Program, 1996-97, ex- tended, Fall 1997-98.

University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Letters and Sciences, Faculty Development Program, released time, Fall 1993.

University of Minnesota, Office of Educational Development Programs, Educational Development Project grant, 1987.

University of Minnesota, Kellogg Foundation-Hubert Humphrey Institute, North-South Project, 1985.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Studies Association 16 Plummer February 2012 Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History Collegium for African-American Research Organization of American Historians Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

COURSES TAUGHT TO DATE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON:

History 943: Race and Nationalisms: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives History 227: History of Race and Ethnicity in the United States History 330: Afro-American and African Linkages Afro-American Studies 628: History of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Afro-American Studies 636: Afro-American History Since 1900 Afro-American Studies 671: Topics in Afro-American History: Afro-American Historiography Afro-American Studies 671: Topics in Afro-American History: Afro-Americans in Contemporary Society Afro-American Studies 671: Topics in Afro-American History: W. E. B. Du Bois: Life & Writings History 201: History of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States History 607: America’s Impact on the World: Race, Gender, and Human Rights History 901: Seminar in U. S. History: The Civil Rights Movement History 901: African American History and Historiography History 902: Research Seminar in U. S. History: African-American History History 902: Research Seminar in U. S. History: The Civil Rights Movement History 901: Seminar in U. S. History: 20th Century Afro-American History History 600: Undergraduate Seminar in U. S. History-Topics in U. S.

Graduate advisement: (History Dept., 1996 to date)

Ayanna Drakos, Fall 2013 to date Simon Balto, Fall 2008 to date Athan Biss, Fall 2008 to date Aaron Dowdall, Fall 2010 to date Jeanne Essame, Fall 2010 to date Jarett Fields, September 2005 to May 2010. Holly McGee, Fall 2002 to completion of Ph.D.. Heather Stur, Fall 2003 to completion of Ph.D. Zoe Van Orsdol, admitted to candidacy, withdrew 2009. Carl Nordenberg, History, Fall 2002-Spring 2004. Carla Land, History Department, 2001-2002. Christine Herrea, 1996-97. 17 Plummer February 2012 Patrick Jones, History Department, 1996 to date. M. A. completed, admitted to candidacy May 1998.

Non-instructional services to students since 1996:

Dissertation proposal defense committee member, Department of Theater Arts, Ray Proctor, February 1, 2007. M. A. thesis committee, Deirdre Generette, Afro-American History, May 2010. M.A. thesis committee member, David Rodriguez, History Prelim committee member, Zoe Orsdol Dissertation committee member, John F. Proctor, Theater Department Dissertation committee member, Ruth Latham, School of Education M.A. thesis committee member, John S. Hogue; Prelim committee member, History Department, John Hogue, May 18, 2007; Prospectus defense committee, John Hogue, May 15, 2008 History M.A. thesis committee member, Crystal Moten, Afro-American Studies

M.A. thesis committee member , Shannen Williams, Afro-American Studies M.A. thesis committee member, Okhentojoh Oko, History, Spring 2003 Dissertation committee member, Grace Livingston, Curriculum and Instruction, Spring 2003. Dissertation committee member, James C. Landers, Journalism and Mass Communication, Fall 2000. Dissertation committee member, Kevin Smith, History Department, Fall 1999. Dissertation committee member, David Levine, Educational Policy Studies, Summer 1999. Prelim committee member, James C. Landers, Journalism, Semester II 1997-98. Chair, Prelim committee, Patrick D. Jones, History Department, Semester I, 1997- 98. Prelim committee member, History Department, Hiroshi Kitamura, Semester II, 1997-98.

Prelim committee member, Educational Policy Studies Department, David Fulton, Semester II, 1997-98.

Prelim committee member, History Department, Thomas J. Mertz, Semester I, 1997-98. Prelim committee member, Latin American Studies Program, Rosita Lucas, Semester II. 1997-98.

Prelim committee, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Grace Livingston, 1996.

18 Plummer February 2012 Departmental service:

Afro-American Studies Department:

Chair, Department of Afro-American Studies, 2010-Sem II 2013 Co-Chair, Department of Afro-American Studies, 2009-2010 Chair, Historian search committee, 2008-2009 Chair, History area group, 1995-96 Member, newsletter committee, 1995-96 Member, History area group. 1994-95 Member, tenure review committee, 1994-95 Member, budget and personnel Committee, 1994-95 Member, History search committee, 1993-94, Semester I. Member, Graduate studies committee, 1993-94, Semester I. Member, curriculum committee, 1993-94, Semester I. Alternate, Faculty Senate, 1992-93. Probationary faculty evaluation committee, 1992-93.

History Department:

Member, Undergraduate Council, 2008-2009 Member, Joint Committee on Teaching Assistants, 2008-2009 Member, Goldberg Committee, 2008-2009 Member, Strategic Hiring Committee, 2008-2009 Member, Enke review committee, 2006 Member, U.S. graduate admissions committee, 2006 Member, pre-modern Japanese history search committee Member, U.S. graduate admissions committee, Spring 2004 Chair, Diversity Committee, 2003-2004, 2004-2005 Member, diaspora search reading committee, Spring 2003 Member, Diversity & Equity Committee, 2002-2003 Member, Internationalizing History, 2003-2004 hosted visit of Professor Piero Gleijeses, Johns Hopkins University. Member, U. S. admissions committee, 2001, 2002, 2003 Member, Graduate Studies Council and Fellowship Committee, 2001-2003 Member, History-Afro-American Studies Bridge Program committee, 2001-2002 Member, Promotion and tenure committee, Kantrowitz, 2001. Member, Masters degree restructuring committee, 2001. Member, Ethnic studies search committee, 2001. Member, Faculty Council, 1995-96, 1996-97. Member, Associate professor review committee, 1995-96 Minority student adviser, 1994-95, 992-93; 1993-94, Semester I. Representative to Faculty Senate, 1994-96. 19 Plummer February 2012 Member, Graduate Studies Council fellowships and grants Committee, 1993-94, Semester I. Member, Brazilianist search committee, 1992-93. Chair, U. S. graduate studies admissions committee, 1992-93. Member, Graduate Studies Council, 1992-93: member, fellowships and grants - subcommittee, 1992-93, Semester I. 20 Plummer February 2012 Graduate School service:

Member, Advanced Opportunity Fellowships selection committee, 1993, 1997.

College of Letters and Science:

Member, Equity Action Committee [Personnel Committee], 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97

University-wide service:

Member, Research Service Grant Committee, Fall 2010 Chair, panel on anthropology and the disciplines, African Diaspora and the Disciplines conference, Univerity of Wisconsn-Madison, March 24, 2006. Organizer, :SNCC: A Movement History,” lecture by Chuck McDew, former chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Participant, Transnational Gender History Workshop, 2004-2005. Member, independent major review committee, Roberto Rivera, Dean of Students Office. Participant, S.E.E.D.E.D. Program, Equity and Diversity Resource Center, 2002- 2005. Participant, Leadership Institute, Equity and Diversity Resource Center, 2002- 2003. Organized University Lecture through Concerts and Lectures program: Stephen G. Hall, W. E. B. Du Bois Scholar, Harvard University, “’To Give a Faithful Account of the Race’: History Writing and the African American Community, 1817-1915,” May 6, 2002. Mentor, Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholars Program, 1993-95. Member, steering committee, Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, 1992-93; Semester I, 1993-94.

State service:

Member, conference organizing committee, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, “Toward a History of the 1960s,” May 1993.