Director of Teaching American History Programs/Media Producer, American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research Interests
History education; digital media; public history; African-American social and cultural history
Teaching
Approaches to Public History (NYU, spring 2011)
Selected Print and Multimedia Publications
The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
Executive Producer, HERB: Social History for Every Classroom (herb.ashp.cuny.edu)
Supervising Editor, Who Built America: Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, 3rd edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007)
Co-editor, “The Uses of the Folk” thematic issue, Radical History Review 84 (Fall 2002).
Entries on Porgy and Porgy and Bess in Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Routledge, 2004).
Review of Seneca Village (http://projects.ilt.columbia.edu/seneca/start.html) in Journal of Multimedia History.
Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/) in Journal of American History 88 (December 2001).
With Karl Hagstrom Miller and John Spencer, The Hard Hat Riots of 1970
At American Social History Project:
The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum American Life and Culture
History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web
The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO, http://metro.org) will offer three workshops in June and July 2011 aimed at serving the professional development needs of archivists, librarians, and collection managers who work with audiovisual and file-based collections.
On June 1, AVPS experts will lead “Managing File-Based Collections for Small Institutions” – introducing digital collection caretakers to utilities and processes that will help them perform routine archival tasks in the file-based domain. On June 16, “Using Metadata for Audiovisual Collection Management” will address how, with legacy and digital audiovisual materials, the array of technical, relational, administrative, rights, and preservation related metadata fields present a great deal of utility in the management, distribution, and monitoring of materials. On July 12, “Processing Audiovisual and Video Collections” will focus on core knowledge and skills needed to process audio and video materials for planning, budgeting, cataloging, access, grant applications, and long term storage. Details and registration for these workshops can be found on METRO’s calendar at http://metro.org.