Lawrie Balfour
University of Virginia Department of Politics
Academic Positions Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, 2011- Visiting Professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, May 2012 Associate Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, 2005-2011 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Associate Professor for Distinguished Teaching, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2008-09 Assistant Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, 2001-2005 Assistant Professor of Politics, Babson College, 1998-2001 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Spring-Fall 1997 Lecturer, Princeton University, Fall 1996
Education Princeton University: Ph.D., Politics (June 1996). M.A., Politics (January 1993) Harvard Divinity School: M.T.S. (June 1989) Princeton University: A.B. summa cum laude, Independent Concentration in Politics and Ethics (June 1987)
Publications
Books
Democracy’s Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. Du Bois (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Part of “Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities,” series edited by Cathy Cohen and Frederick Harris. * Chapter 6 to be reprinted in A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois, ed. Nick Bromell (forthcoming from University of Kentucky Press).
The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001).
Articles in refereed journals and book chapters
“Ida B. Wells and ‘Color Line Justice’: Rethinking Reparations in Feminist Terms,” Perspectives on Politics 13 (September 2015): 680-96.
“Unthinking Racial Realism: A Future for Reparations?” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 11 (Spring 2014): 43-56.
"What Babo Saw: Benito Cereno and 'the World We Live In,'" in A Political Companion to Herman Melville, ed. Jason Frank (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2014), 259-80.
"Darkwater's Democratic Vision," Political Theory 38 (August 2010): 537-63.
“Act and Fact: Slavery Reparations as a Democratic Politics of Reconciliation,” in The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies, ed. Will Kymlicka and Bashir Bashir (Oxford University Press, 2008), 94-113.
“Reparations after Identity Politics,” Political Theory 33 (December 2005): 786-811.
“Representative Women: Slavery, Citizenship, and Feminist Theory in Du Bois’s ‘Damnation of Women,’” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 20 (Summer 2005): 127-48.
“Vexed Genealogy: Octavia Butler and Political Memories of Slavery,” in Democracy’s Literature: Politics and Fiction in America, edited by Patrick Deneen and Joseph Romance (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), 171-90.
“Unreconstructed Democracy: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Case for Reparations,” American Political Science Review 97 (February 2003): 33-44.
“Finding the Words: Baldwin, Race Consciousness, and Democratic Theory,” in James Baldwin Now, edited by Dwight McBride (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 75-99.
“The Appeal of Innocence: Baldwin, Walzer, and the Bounds of Social Criticism,” The Review of Politics 61 (Summer 1999): 373-401.
“‘A Most Disagreeable Mirror’: Race Consciousness as Double Consciousness,” Political Theory 26 (June 1998): 346-69. * To be reprinted in A Political Companion to James Baldwin, ed. Susan McWilliams (forthcoming from University of Kentucky Press).
Reviews, symposia, and miscellaneous publications
Review of Political Peoplehood: The Role of Values, Interests, and Identities by Rogers M. Smith, The Review of Politics 79 (Winter 2017).
“Toni Morrison,” in Fifty Key Feminist Thinkers, ed. Lori Marso (Routledge 2016).
“Feminist Reconstructions, Critical Race Interventions: The Presence of the Past and the Future of Political Theories of Race and Gender,” Introductory essay for Critical Exchange with Heath Fogg Davis, Jemima Repo, Falguni Sheth, and Shatema Threadcraft, Contemporary Political Theory 15 (February 2016): 80-86.
“Reading Publius with Melville and Morrison,” in “Political Imagination and the Problem of Founding: The Work of Jason Frank,” Polity 47:4 (October 2015): 550-57.
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“James Baldwin’s Democracy…and Ours,” commissioned by New York Council for the Humanities for the “Reading & Discussion Program” on Baldwin: http://humanitiesny.org/our-work/programs/reading-discussion/james-baldwins-america/ (2015).
“Reproducing Du Bois and Other Crazy Ideas,” in William Pope.L, Showing Up to Withhold, ed. Karen Reimer (Chicago: Renaissance Society and University of Chicago Press, 2014).
“Integration, Desegregation, and the Work of the Past,” in Symposium on Elizabeth Anderson’s The Imperative of Integration, with Elizabeth Anderson, Benjamin Hertzberg, Jack Knight, and Cara Wong. Political Studies Review 12 (September 2014).
“‘John Brown Was Right’: Joel Olson and Offensive Political Theory,” in “The Most Damage I Can Do: Joel Olson in Political Theory, Political Critique, and Political Activism,” with Bruce Baum, Samuel Chambers, George Ciccariello-Maher, Lisa Disch, and Joe Lowndes. New Political Science 36 (May 2014).
Review of In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post- Civil Rights Era, by Richard Iton, Contemporary Political Theory 12 (November 2013).
"Multicultural Democracy Between Past and Future," review essay on The Imperative of Integration, by Elizabeth Anderson, and The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity, by Cristina Beltrán, Political Theory 40 (February 2012).
"Inheriting Du Bois," in "W. E. B. Du Bois as Political Philosopher: A Symposium on New Books by Robert Gooding-Williams and Lawrie Balfour," Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 8 (Fall 2011): 409-16.
Review of Semi-Citizenship in Democratic Politics, by Elizabeth F. Cohen, Perspectives on Politics 8 (December 2010).
"Reparations" and "W. E. B. Du Bois," forthcoming in the Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought.
“Remembering Obama,” invited submission, The Imminent Frame (April 2009): http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/
Review of Moral Images of Freedom: A Future for Critical Theory, by Drucilla Cornell, The Review of Politics 71 (March 2009).
“The Life and Afterlife of Slavery,” in What Should I Read Next? 70 University of Virginia Professors Recommend Readings in History, Politics, Literature, Math, Science, Technology, the Arts, and More, edited by Jessica Feldman and Robert Stilling (University of Virginia Press, 2008).
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“W. E. B. Du Bois,” Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, edited by John H. Moore (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2008).
Review of Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought, by Michael Hanchard, Perspectives on Politics 5 (September 2007).
Review of Democratic Faith, by Patrick J. Deneen, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74 (September 2006).
Review of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity, by Tommie Shelby, Symposia for Race, Gender, and Philosophy (April 2006). https://confab.mit.edu/confluence/display/SGRP/SGRP+Home
“James Baldwin,” Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, and Writing, edited by M. Keith Booker (Greenwood, September 2005).
Review of The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, The Review of Politics (Summer 2003).
“James Baldwin,” Civil Rights in the United States, editors Waldo E. Martin and Patricia Sullivan (Macmillan Reference, 2000).
“Ralph Bunche,” “Ella Baker,” “Angela Davis,” and 15 other biographical entries, Encarta Africana and Perseus Africana Encyclopedia, editors K. Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Microsoft and Perseus Books, 1999).
Review of W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line by Adolph L. Reed Jr., American Political Science Review (December 1998).
Work Under Contract or Review
“Living ‘in the Red’: Time, Debt, and Justice,” in To Shape a New World: The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry (Harvard University Press, forthcoming in 2018).
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom, under contract with Oxford University Press (due October 2018).
“Toni Morrison and Fugitives’ Democracy,” invited essay for African American Political Thought: A Collected History, ed. Melvin Rogers and Jack Turner (under contract with University of Chicago Press).
Fellowships and Academic Honors
Mellon Global South Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities & Global Cultures, University of Virginia (Spring 2016) 4
Sesquicentennial Associate, University of Virginia (Spring 2015; Spring 2012; 2004-05)
Resident Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (Spring 2012; Spring 2007; 2004-05)
Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia (2008, 2005, 2003)
National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship (Spring 2007)
Mead Honored Faculty Fellow, University of Virginia (2005-06)
Nominee, Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (2005)
All-University Teaching Award, University of Virginia (2004)
University Teaching Fellowship, University of Virginia (2003-04)
Co-Winner, Best Paper Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2002)
Non-Resident Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University (1998-2001)
Babson College Board of Research, Summer Research Stipend (2000, 1999, 1998); Course Release (Fall 2000, Spring 1999)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on “The Civil Rights Movement: History and Consequences,” Harvard University (Summer 1999)
Resident Fellow, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Harvard Divinity School (Spring 1998)
Resident Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University (Spring-Fall 1997)
Society of Fellows of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1994-96)
Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Prize Fellow, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University (1993-94)
Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University chapter (1987)
Papers at Recent Professional Conferences and Invited Presentations
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“Reparations and the Carceral Polity,” Justitia Amplificata Annual Conference: “Fracture,” Frankfurt, Germany (July 2017). Previous versions presented at: Resistances: Rethinking the Politics of Reconciliation, Prato, Italy (June 2017); Racial Justice Reform After Obama: Rethinking Goals and Means, University of Virginia Law School (June 2017); Scholars Workshop, Miller Center, University of Virginia (April 2016); Ohio State University Political Theory Workshop (March 2016); Brown Political Philosophy Workshop (February 2016); Minnesota Political Theory Workshop, University of Minnesota (November 2015); American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2015).
“Living ‘in the Red’: Time, Debt, and Justice in King’s Political Thought,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2016). Previous version presented at Radcliffe Institute Workshop on “The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (June 2016).
“Lincoln & the Insufficiency of Equality,” Roundtable on George Kateb’s Lincoln’s Political Thought, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2016).
“‘Hideously Loaded’: James Baldwin & the History of the American Dream,” “James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the American Dream,” Linfield College, Oregon (May 2015). Previous version presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (April 2015).
“‘Color-Line Justice’: Ida B. Wells and the Feminist Case for Reparations,” Yale Political Theory Workshop (March 2015). Previous versions presented at “Sexual Reparations— Panel Discussion,” Law, Identity & Culture Initiative,” Washington University in St. Louis (October 2014); UVA Summer Brown Bag Series (July 2014); Bard College at Simon’s Rock (March 2014); “Does Reparations Have a Future? Rethinking Racial Justice in a ‘Color Blind’ Era,” University of Virginia (March 2013); Political Theory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania (November 2012); Long Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin (January 2012); Mead Lecture in Political Theory, Trinity College (October 2011).
“Fugitives’ Democracy: The Political Worlds of Toni Morrison’s Essays and Fiction,” Second Annual Victor Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture, UCLA (October 2014). Previous versions presented at: Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society, Washington University in St. Louis (October 2014); African American Political Thought: A Collected History, University of Washington (May 2014); Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University (February 2014); Political Theory Colloquium, University of Wisconsin (November 2013); Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (March 2013).
“W.E.B. Du Bois: Politics & the Present-Past,” Conference on Capacity for Collaborative
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Governance: What are the Civic Conditions for Collaborative Governance and How Can We Grow Them? Charlottesville, VA (October 2014)
“Reading Publius with Melville and Morrison,” Roundtable on “Radical Democracy in America: Recent Work by Jason Frank,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (August 2014).
“Provincializing America: Global Reparations, U.S. Democracy,” Workshop on Caste, Race, and Democracy: A Conversation on the Politics of Connection, Comparison, and Concept Formation, Columbia University (September 2013). Previous versions presented at the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop, University of Chicago (October 2012); Association for Political Theory Annual Conference (October 2012); Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (March 2012).
“Integration, Desegregation, and the Work of the Past,” Roundtable on Elizabeth Anderson’s The Imperative of Integration, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (August 2013).
“Offensive Political Theory,” Roundtable on “Joel Olson: His Legacy in Political Theory, Political Critique, and Political Activism,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (March 2013).
“The Future of Reparations?” Presented at “Esclavage, abolition et réparations aux États- Unis: regards croisés sur le passé esclavagiste et le futur des reparations,” Symposium with Eric Foner and Lawrie Balfour, Centre d’études nord-américaines, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (May 2012).
“W. E. B. Du Bois and the Politics of the Present-Past,” Centre d’études nord- américaines, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (May 2012). Revised version presented at Department of Sociology Colloquium, University of Virginia (November 2012).
“Black World, White Nation: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Critical Internationalism,” Centre d’études nord-américaines, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (May 2012).
“Un-thinking Racial Realism: A Future for Reparations?” Workshop on “Race in a ‘Post- Racial Epoch,” University of Chicago (February 2012).
“Reparations: A Democratic Idea?” Public lecture (televised) at Charlottesville City Hall, sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (February 2012).
"What Babo Saw: Benito Cereno and 'the World We Live In,'" American Political
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Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2011).
"Reparations: A Feminist Idea?" Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law, University of Richmond (March 2011). Revised versions presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (April 2011); Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago (May 2011).
"W. E. B. Du Bois and the Reconstruction of Democratic Theory," Carter G. Woodson 30th Anniversary Symposium, University of Virginia (April 2011).
Invited panelist, roundtable on In the Shadow of Du Bois by Robert Gooding-Williams and Democracy's Reconstruction by Lawrie Balfour, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2010). Comments offered by Rogers Smith, Tommie Shelby, Cristina Beltrán, Jack Turner.
Invited panelist, roundtable on American Prophecy by George Shulman, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2010).
Invited panelist, roundtable on "Sustaining Everyday Democracy: New Interdisciplinary Approaches," American Studies Annual Meeting (November 2009).
"For Examples," roundtable on Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian by Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2009).
"Politics in the Present-Past," Laurance S. Rockefeller Faculty Fellows Seminar, Princeton University (May 2009).
“‘Getting Over It’ and Not Getting By: Public Memory, Reconciliation, and Reparations in the Post-Civil Rights Era,” Conference on Religion and the Civil Rights Movement, Princeton University (April 2009).
“Studying Obama 'after' Race,” Roundtable on “Studying Race after Obama,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (March 2009).
“Resurrecting John Brown: Remembering Emancipation in an Age of Terror,” University of California-San Diego, Lecture Series on “Lincoln’s Legacy” (January 2009). Revised version presented at Columbia University Seminar on Social and Political Thought (March 2009).
“Black World, White Nation: Toward a Post-American Political Theory,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting (October 2008).
“W. E. B. Du Bois and the Politics of Memory,” WISER Distinguished Lecturer, University of Washington (October 2008). 8
"Blue Notes," Roundtable on Eddie Glaude's In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (August 2008).
“Innocence in the Age of Apology: Why James Baldwin Now,” Carleton College (April 2008); Wagner College (October 2008).
“W. E. B. Du Bois in the 21st Century,” Political Theory Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (April 2008).
“Does Black Political Thought Have a Genre?” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (August 2007).
“‘Getting Over It’ and Not Getting By: Slavery and the Reparations Debate,” public lecture at Connecticut College (April 2007).
“W. E. B. Du Bois and the Problems of the 21st Century,” Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (April 2007).
“W. E. B. Du Bois and Critical Race Autobiography,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2006). Revised versions presented at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Murphy Institute, Tulane University (December 2006); and at the Government Department Colloquium, College of William and Mary (April 2007).
“‘Facing the Worst,’” roundtable on “Blacks in Theory, Blacks in Practice,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2006).
“Against Reconciliation?” Political Theory Workshop, Cornell University Department of Government (April 2006); also presented at invitational conference on “The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies,” Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario (April 2006).
“Black World, White Nation: On W. E. B. Du Bois’s Critical Internationalism,” Political Theory Colloquium, Harvard University (December 2005).
“White Nation, Black World: Reading Du Bois’s The Suppression of the African Slave- Trade in 2005,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2005); also presented at the Association for Political Theory Meeting (October 2005).
“Reading Dusk of Dawn: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Practice of Autobiography,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (March 2005).
“Slavery Reparations, Identity Politics, and American Democracy,” invitational conference on “Comparative Perspectives on Race, Nationalism and the Politics of Memory: Poland and the United States,” Warsaw, Poland (March 2005).
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“(Re)Examining Slavery Reparations,” Conference on Public Service and the Law, University of Virginia Law School (February 2005).
“Reparations after Identity Politics,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (September 2004).
“Vexed Genealogy: Octavia Butler and Political Memories of Slavery,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (August 2003).
“‘Naught to Do with the Slaves’: Du Bois, Historical Memory, and the Souls of White Folk,’” “Roundtable on the 100th Anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (August 2003).
“Representative Women: Slavery, Gender, and Citizenship in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois,” Collegium for African American Research, Winchester, England (April 2003). Revised versions presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (March 2004); University of Virginia Political Theory Colloquium (April 2004); Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (April 2005).
“Reparations as Reconstruction: Reimagining Slavery, Race, and Citizenship in the 21st Century,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (August 2002).
“The Argument of John Brown,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (August 2001).
“‘A Structure of Memory and Critique’: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Case for Reparations,” Collegium for Afro-American Research, Sardinia, Italy (March 2001).
“Unreconstructed Democracy: W. E. B. Du Bois and the ‘Post-Civil Rights’ Predicament,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (August 2000). Revised versions presented at the Department of Political Science Riker Seminar/Frederick Douglass Institute Seminar, University of Rochester (May 2002); Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (September 2004).
Selected Professional Activities
Editor, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy (2017- )
Editorial Board, Political Research Quarterly (2016-18)
Editorial Board, Politics, Groups & Identities (2012-)
Chair, Best Paper in Political Theory Award Committee, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2016)
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Co-Chair, Division 2: Foundations of Political Theory, 2015 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2014-2015).
Ralph Bunche Book Award Committee, American Political Science Association (2015)
Executive Council Member, Race, Ethnicity & Politics Section, American Political Science Association (2011-13)
Professional Development Committee Chair, Association for Political Theory (2011-13)
Co-Convener (with Nick Bromell [University of Massachusetts] and Chris Castiglia [Penn State]), Democratic Vistas, Interdisciplinary Seminar (primarily literature and political theory), NYU (June 2012). Ongoing participant in the seminar.
Co-Chair, Division 1: Political Thought and Philosophy: Historical Approaches, 2011 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2010-11)
Editorial Board, Journal of Politics (2009-11, 2005-07)
Co-Organizer, Feminist Theory Workshop, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2012).
Fellowship Selection Committee, Political Science, National Endowment for the Humanities (2009)
Political Theory Section Co-Chair, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2008)
APSA Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award Committee (2008)
Book Prize Committee, Race, Ethnicity & Politics Section, APSA (2004-05)
Fellowship Selection Committee, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (2004)
Manuscript Reviewer, Political Theory; American Political Science Review; Signs; Du Bois Review; Perspectives on Politics; Politics, Groups, and Identities; Journal of Politics; Political Studies; The Review of Politics; Polity; Critical Philosophy of Race; Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy; Theoria; Ethics & Global Politics; Political Research Quarterly; Oxford University Press; University of Minnesota Press; University of Chicago Press; University Press of Kansas; Routledge; Cornell University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press; SUNY Press; University of Alabama Press; University of California Press
Selected Service, University of Virginia
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Co-organizer, “Political Thinking at the Margins.” Conference planned in collaboration with Murad Idris and Sandhya Shukla (April 6-7, 2017)
College Promotion & Tenure Committee (2015-17)
Core faculty member, Program in American Studies (2016-)
Faculty Mentor, Graduate Mentoring Institute (2016-17, 2009-11)
Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Search Committee (2015)
Interim Chair, Department of Politics (January 2014-January 2015)
Provost’s Promotion & Tenure Committee (February 2013-December 2014)
Chair, Political Theory Search Committee (2013-14, 2006)
Chair’s Advisory Committee, Department of Politics, (2015-17, 2012-14, 2009-11, 2005- 07)
Ambassador Henry J. Taylor Chair Search Committee (2012-13)
Co-Organizer, “Does Reparations Have a Future? Rethinking Racial Justice in a ‘Color- Blind’ Era.” Symposium planned in collaboration with Deborah McDowell and Kim Forde-Mazrui (March 21-22, 2013)
Director, Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies (2011-13)
Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Selection Committee, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies (2009-11, 2006-8, 2002-04)
Mellon Hiring Initiative Ad Hoc Committee (2011)
Organizer, Political Theory Colloquium, Department of Politics (2010-12)
Graduate Placement Director, Department of Politics (2009-10)
Faculty Mentor, University Teaching Fellows Program (2009-10)
Nominating Committee, College of Arts & Sciences (2005-08)
University Summer Grants Committee (2005-07)
Faculty Consultant, Excellence in Diversity Program (2005-07)
American Politics Search Committee (2005-06) 12
American Studies Search Committee (2003-04)
Mentor, Office of African American Affairs (2002-2007)
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