VITA For RUSSELL BENJAMIN Born: 1 July 1963 Lamar, South Carolina Citizenship: U.S.A. RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 2520 W. Leland Avenue Apt. B-5 Chicago, Illinois 773 769 3410 EDUCATION Ph.D. in Political Science (December 1996) University of Florida. Fields of Study: American Politics, Race and Politics, State and Local Government, Public Policy, Political Behavior, Intergovernmental Relations, and Political Gerontology. Dissertation: "Black Entrepreneurs and the Politics of Economic Development." Graduate Certificate in Gerontology (1992) University of Florida. M.A. in Political Science (1991) University of Florida. Thesis: "Politics and the Aging in Indian River County, Florida." B.A. in Political Science (1985) University of South Carolina. Certificate in South Carolina Studies. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Frank C. Erwin Centennial Visiting Professorship at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (Summer 2008). University of Texas at Austin. Support for research while at the University of Texas. Visiting Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (Spring 2008). University of Texas at Austin. Course taught: Minority Economic Development Policy. 1 Associate Professor in Political Science (Fall 2005-). Northeastern Illinois University. Classes taught: American Government; Minority Politics in the U.S.; The Politics of Poverty; The Politics of Minority Economic Development; State Government and Politics; African American Politics and Social Change; Seminar in American Policy-Making Process; Foundations of Africans in the Diaspora. Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Studies (2001-2003). University of Missouri. Conducting research on colonialism and on black business development. Teaching in Black Studies Program. Assistant Professor in Political Science (Fall 1997-Spring 2005). Northeastern Illinois University. Classes taught: American Government; Urban Politics; Minority Politics in the U.S.; The Politics of Poverty; The Politics of Minority Economic Development; State Government and Politics; African American Politics and Social Change; and Poverty, Racism, and Sexism in Urban Politics. Instructor for Minorities and Change (Spring 1997). University of Florida. Instructor for Cultural Diversity in the U.S. (1996-1997). University of Florida. Visiting Assistant Professor (1995-1996). East Carolina University. Duties: teaching State and Local Government, and, American National Government. Serving as General College Advisor. PUBLICATIONS Eternal Colonialism. Russell Benjamin and Gregory O. Hall (eds). 2010. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. “Introduction.” With Gregory O. Hall. 2010. In Eternal Colonialism, Russell Benjamin and Gregory O. Hall (eds). Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. “The American Internal Colonial Environment.” 2010. In Eternal Colonialism, Russell Benjamin and Gregory O. Hall (eds). Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. “Conclusion.” With Gregory O. Hall. 2010. In Eternal Colonialism, Russell Benjamin and Gregory O. Hall (eds). Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. “Cleveland, Stephen Grover (1837-1908).” With Paul Easterling. 2010. Entry in The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press). Julius E. Thompson, James L. Conyers, and Nancy J. Dawson, editors. “Fifteenth Amendment.” 2010. Entry in The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press). Julius E. Thompson, James L. Conyers, and Nancy J. Dawson, editors. 2 "Aging and Politics: The Case of Indian River County, Florida." 1995. The Political Chronicle 7: 8-16. FORTHCOMING African Americans and Recent U.S. Policies Toward the Caribbean: Haiti, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Forthcoming with Caribbean Studies Press. “Layle Lane.” 2014. Entry in African American National Biography Online. (Oxford University Press.) Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editors-in-chief. Sprague, Jeb. 2012. Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti. (Monthly Review Press). Forthcoming book review in New Political Science. WORKS IN PROGRESS The Politics of Black Commerce: Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, Florida. Book manuscript. “Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Haitian Economic `Development’.” Manuscript in preparation for submission to a refereed academic journal. “African American Consumer Politics as a Form of Resistance.” Manuscript in preparation for submission to a refereed academic journal. BOOKS REVIEWED Conrad, Cecilia A., John Whitehead, Patrick Mason, and James Stewart (eds). 2005. African Americans in the U.S. Economy (Rowman & Littlefield). Reviewed in The Journal of Race and Policy 2 (2006): 91-94. Watson, Alan D. 2005. African Americans in Early North Carolina: A Documentary History (N.C. Office of Archives and History).Reviewed in The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians 14 (2006): 118-121. Nussbaum, Martha C. 1997. Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (Harvard University Press). Reviewed in National Association of Student Affairs Professionals Journal 4 (2001): 65-66. 3 EDITORIAL WORK Manuscript reviewer for Race, Gender, and Class. 2009. Manuscript reviewer for Understanding American Government. 2008. Belmont, California: Thomson/Wadsworth. Eleventh Edition. Manuscript reviewer for Journal of Politics. Manuscript Reviewer for Southeastern Political Review. Editor for Annual Editions: State and Local Government. 1997. Guilford, Ct: The Dushkin Publishing Group. Eighth edition. Editor for Annual Editions: State and Local Government. 1995. Guilford, Ct: The Dushkin Publishing Group. Seventh edition. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Problems With American-led Industrial ‘Development’ in Haiti.” Upcoming paper presentation at the 2014 Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Merida, Mexico, May 26-30. “Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Haitian Economic `Development’.” Paper presented at the 2013 Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Grand Anse, Grenada, June 3-7. “American ‘Development’ of Haiti After the 2010 Earthquake.” Paper presented at the 2nd NEIU African and African American Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, April 11, 2013. “Wal-Mart and the Congressional Black Caucus: Mutual Interests?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Oak Brook, Illinois, March 13-16, 2013. “Black Medical Students, Fidel Castro, and American Politics.” Paper presented at the Black Faculty Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, March 8, 2012. “U.S. Blacks and Caribbean Development.” Paper presented at the 2011 Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Willemstad, Curacao, May 30-June 3. “Internal Colonialism and Black Political Support for Black Business Development.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 16-19, 2011. 4 “African American Responsible Tourism? African Americans and Travel to the Caribbean.” Paper presented at the 2010 Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, St. Peter, Barbados, May 24-28. “Equal to White Men? African American Male Sex Tourism in the Caribbean.” Paper presented at the 2009 Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Kingston, Jamaica, June 1-5. “We Are Family? Marketing the Caribbean to African American Tourists.” Paper presented at the 2008 Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, San Andres Island, Colombia, May 26-30. “Race and the 2008 Presidential Election: Policy Implications for African Americans.” Presentation at the Voting Analysis in Mathematics and Politics: Interdisciplinary Research and Education Seminar, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, April 4, 2008. “Black Business, Black Nation?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Chicago, Illinois, March 19-22, 2008. “Black Cruising: African Americans in the Caribbean.” Paper presentation at the 2007 Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, May 28-June 1. “John Conyers, Cynthia McKinney, and the War on Terror.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, San Francisco, California, March 21-25, 2007. “Black Politics: Friend or Foe of Neocolonialism?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22-25, 2006. “Black Business Development Within the Venue of American Internal Colonialism.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22-25, 2006. “Black Consumerism as a Part of Black Politics.” Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 13-16, 2005. “Generosity or Propaganda Ploy? Political Fallout From Fidel Castro’s Extension of Medical School Scholarships to Black Americans.” Paper presented at the 2005 Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 30-June 4. “Black Consumer Politics in Florida as Part of the National Black Political Culture.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Washington, D.C., March 23-26, 2005. 5 “The Politics of Black Consumerism.” Presented at the 2004 Annual Fellows Meeting of the Florida Education Fund, Tampa, Florida, November 5-7. “The Black American-Cuban American Conflict in Miniature: The Elian Gonzalez Affair.”