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Susannah Feeney Walker 757-233-8769 (w) 757-248-8982 (h)swalker@vwc.edu Department of History Home:Virginia Wesleyan College 1008 Westover Ave.1584 Wesleyan Drive Apt. 402ANorfolk, VA 23502-5599 Norfolk, VA 23507 Education:
Current Position:Assistant Professor, Department of History, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, Virginia, 2005-present Committee Work at Virginia Wesleyan College: ? Ad Hoc Committee For Curricular Reform, Winter 2009-present? AAUP Executive Committee (membership officer), Fall 2008-present? Social Sciences Division Course Approval Sub-Committee, Fall 2009-present? Educational Programs Commission, 2006-2008 (college curriculum committee; Co-Chair, 2007-08)? Women and Gender Studies Committee, 2005-present? American Studies Committee, 2005-present? Parental Leave Committee, 2007-present? Undergraduate Research Symposium, Social Sciences Division Committee, 2006-2009 Other Professional Experience:? Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2004-2005? Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, 2002-2004? History Instructor: Shady Side Academy, Senior School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2001-2002? Course Instructor and Teaching Assistant: Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1995-2000? Instructor: Academy of Lifelong Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Summer 1998? Reader, AP U.S. History Exam, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, 2007-2008? Historical Consultant: History in Pennsylvania Museums Project, Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Summer, 1996 Courses Taught:? U.S. History Survey: from the Colonial Era to 1877 and from 1877 to the present? 20th Century U.S. History from to 1945 and from 1945? African-American History? Women in American History ? History of Advertising and Consumer Culture? African-American Consumerism? Historiography? Historical Research Methods and Senior History Research Seminar? America in the 1950s? Seminar in U.S. History, 1920 to the Present? Ethnicity in Modern America? History of Virginia? U.S. History Through Film? The Vietnam War? The Arts Programs of the Works Progress Administration? Feminist and Gender Theory Publications: Books:Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975, University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Instructor?s Manual for The African American Experience by Joe William Trotter, Jr. (with Charles Lee), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Journal Articles and Essays in Collected Volumes"Black Dollar Power: Assessing African American Consumerism Since 1945," in Ken Kusmer and Joe Trotter, eds., African American Urban History: The Dynamics of Race, Class and Gender since World War II, University of Chicago Press, 2009, 376-403. "'Independent Livings? or ?No Bed of Roses:? How Race and Class Shaped Beauty Culture as an Occupation for African American Women from the 1920s to the 1960s,? Journal of Women?s History, 20:3 (Fall, 2008) 60-83. "Black is Profitable: The Commodification of the Afro, 1960-1975? Enterprise and Society 1:3 (September 2000) 536-564. Reprinted in Philip Scranton, ed., Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America, Routledge 2001, 254-277. Encyclopedia Entries:?African American Beauty Industry,? ?Beauty Schools,? ?Madam C. J. Walker,? and ?Johnson Products Company,? entries in The Encyclopedia of the American Beauty Industry, edited by Julie Willett, (forthcoming from Greenwood Press). ?Beauty Culture? and ?Madam C. J. Walker? entries in The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, edited by Steven A. Reich, Greenwood Press, 2006. ?Beauticians? entry in The Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, edited by Eric Arnesen, Routledge, 2006. Book Reviews:Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry. By Jason Chambers, American Historical Review, 2008 113:5: 1571. Shopping For Jesus: Faith in Marketing in the USA. Dominic James, ed., The Journal of American Culture, 2008 31(4): 403-404. Irresistible Empire: America?s Advance through 20th-Century Europe. By Victoria de Grazia, The Journal of American Culture, 2006 30(2): 245-247. We, Too, Are Americans: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954. By Megan Taylor Shockley, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 2005 2(3): 135-138. Book Review: Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation. By Julia Kirk Blackwelder, Journal of American Ethnic History, 2004 23(4): 176-177. Book Review, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. By A'Lelia Bundles, The Journal of Southern History, 2003 69:(1): 208-209. Book Review, Stylin": African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. By Shane White and Graham White, Journal of Social History, 1999 32:(2): 483-485. Conferences and Presentations:"?Independent Livings Made?: African American Beauty Culturists as Negotiators of Race, Class, and Gender Identity,? American Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2009, Washington D.C.,November 5-7, 2009 Panel Organizer: ?Murder Most Feminine: Gender, Murder, and the Media in the 19th and 20th Centuries,? 2008 Berkshire Conference in Women?s History, June 12-15, Minneapolis, Minnesota. ? Paper delivered for panel: ?The Lonely Hearts Murderers: Martha Beck and Media Depictions of the 'Criminally Desperate' Single Woman in mid-20th Century America.? ?Which Woman Uses Raveen? They All Do! ?African American Beauty Culture and the Paradox of Integrationist Consumerism in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1970,? Western Association of Women?s Historians Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference, University of San Diego, May 3-6, 2007. Panel Chair: ?Prescriptive Popular Cultures: Entertainment with a Message,? Berkshire Conference, Claremont, California, June 2005.??The Beauty Industry is Ours?? Consumer Citizenship and Economic Nationalism in African American Commercial Beauty Culture, 1920-1970.? Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November, 2004. "From Having a Dream to Wearing a Dashiki: The Impact of Shifting Strategies and Ideologies on the Aesthetics of the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s,? Conference: ?Sixties Style and Substance?, McCord Museum, Montreal, November 2003. "'Color It Black, Baby, But By All Means Color It:' Commercial Beauty Culture and the Politics of Appearance for African American Women in the Black Power Era," Canadian Association of American Studies Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, October, 2003. "Bad Hair Days: The Rise and Fall of the Afro as a Symbol of Black Female Rebellion," Bad Girls Lecture Series, Women's Studies Department and the Women's Center, University of Prince Edward Island, October 2002. ??Everyone Admires the Woman Who Has Beautiful Hair:? African American Women?s Beauty Culture in the 1920s and 1930s.? Black History Workshop: ?Women in the Making of the Black World,? University of Houston, March 2001. ?Why Hair is Political: What Women?s Beauty Culture Can Tell Us About Race, Class, and Gender in the Twentieth Century United States.? Emerging Scholars Series: Conversations About History,? Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, February 2000. "Hair and Integration: Women and Beauty Culture in the Civil Rights Era." Graduate Conference in History, Memphis, October 1999. "Black is Profitable: The Commodification of the Afro, 1960-1975." Conference on "Beauty and Business," Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington Delaware, March 1999. Fellowships, Awards, Grants, and Other Honors:Faculty Summer Development Grant, Virginia Wesleyan College, ?Lonely Hearts Murderers? project, Summer 2007. Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on ?African American Struggles for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century,? at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, Summer 2006. Teaching Fellows Travel Grant, University of Prince Edward Island, Fall 2004. New Scholars Grant, University of Prince Edward Island, Summer 2003. Dissertation Nominee, Carnegie Mellon University Department of History, 2002 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), 2001/2002. Dissertation Writing Grant, Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy CAUSE), Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Spring, 2001. Research Grant, Hagley Museum and Library for Business History, Wilmington Delaware, Spring 1999. |
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