MICHELLE CRAIG McDONALD
RichardStocktonCollegeDepartment of History
101Vera King Farris Drive
Galloway, NJ 08250
Office: (609) 626-3529 / 1810 Rittenhouse Square #1411
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania19103
Home: (215) 545-1167
Cell (267) 250-3203
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EDUCATION: / Ph.D., History, University of Michigan, 2005 (directed by David J. Hancock)
“From Cultivation to Cup: Caribbean Coffee and the North American Economy, 1765-1820”
M.A., History, University of Michigan, 2000
M.A., Liberal Arts, St. John’sCollegeAnnapolis, 1997
M.A., Museum Studies/American Studies, GeorgeWashingtonUniversity, 1994
B.A., History, U.C.L.A. (minor: business administration, cum laude), 1991
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: / Richard Stockton College, Associate Professor of History, 2011-present
Richard Stockton College, Program Coordinator, 2012-2014
Richard Stockton College, Faculty Administrative Fellow, 2013-14
Richard Stockton College, Assistant Professor of History, 2006-2011
Also a member of Africana Studies, Latin American Caribbean Studies and American Studies.
Courses taught: HIST 2128: Atlantic History, 1492-1888 (introductory survey); HIST 2152: America to 1789 (lower division lecture course); HIST 2153: U.S. History 1789 to 1865 (lower division lecture course); HIST 2177: New Jersey History through Historic Places (lower division public history seminar); HIST 3605: Comparative Slavery and Emancipation (upper division seminar); HIST 4655: Advanced Seminar in History—Power (upper division senior seminar); HIST 4657: Advanced Seminar in History—Nature (upper division senior seminar); GAH 1293: Presenting the Past: History beyond the Classroom (general studies/public history seminar); HIST 4690: Historical Methods (upper division senior seminar); HIST 4691: Thesis Writing (upper division senior seminar), AMST 5005: Teaching History through Historic Places—Defining Nation and Citizenship, AMST 5013: Museum Studies—Special Topics “Marching from Washington to Atlantic City and Beyond: Civil Rights Activists in New Jersey”
HarvardBusinessSchool, Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2006
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor, 1998-2000 Outstanding Instructor Award, 2000
St. Peter’s College, Oxford University, Graduate Student Instructor, Summer 1999, 2000
WORK IN PROGRESS: / Caffeine Dependence: Coffee and Commerce in Early America, book manuscript under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
“Consuming with a Conscience: The Free Produce Movement in Early America,” in Joseph Tohill and Louis Hyman (eds.), Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism in North American History (Toronto: Between the Lines Publishers, forthcoming spring 2014).
Curriculum Developer and Project Coordinator, “It Happened here in New Jersey,” series, part of the 350th State Commemoration, New Jersey Historical Commission, 2013-2014. Responsible for assisting in recruiting a teacher advisory committee, and researching and writing 52 classroom activities on state history spanning the seventeenth through twenty-first century.
BOOKS: / Public Drinking in the Early Modern World: Voices from the Tavern, with David J. Hancock (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011).
CHAPTERS: / “Why Americans Drink Coffee: The Boston Tea Party to Brazilian Slavery,” with Steven Topik in Robert Thurston, Jonathan Morris, and Shawn Steiman (eds.), Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry(Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013).
● Winner of the Gourmand Book Award for World History, 2013.
“Consumption in the Transatlantic World,” in Frank Trentmann (ed.) Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012; paperback 2013).
“Americanizing Coffee: Remaking a Consumer Culture,” with Steven Topik, in Frank Trentmann and Alexander Nützenadel (eds.), Food and Globalisation (Berg Publishers, 2008).
“The Chance of the Moment: Coffee and the New West Indies Commodities Trade,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 62:3 (July 2005): 441-472.
“The World in a Grain of Sand: Archival Research in Dominica,” Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 5:1 (October 2004, online).
“Grounds for Debate?: The Place of the Caribbean Provisions Trade in Philadelphia’s Prerevolutionary Economy,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128:2 (April 2004): 149-177.
REVIEW ESSAYS: / John Styles and Amanda Vickery, eds., Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (New Haven: Yale, 2006), Dell Upton, Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American City (New Haven: Yale, 2008) and Reginald Horsman, Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008) for theJournal of the Early Republic 30:1(Spring 2010):159-166.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS: / “Coffeehouses,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Social History, Lynn Dumenil and Paul Boyer, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
“Coffee,” for the Oxford Atlantic Online Bibliography, Oxford University Press, series ed. Trevor Bernard. Available online at: (online winter 2011).
Co-Author for “The Black Atlantic in the Revolutionary Age”, “Creolization” and “Emancipation” with Roderick A. McDonald, Oxford Atlantic Online Bibliography, Oxford University Press, series ed. Trevor Bernard. Available online at: (online summer 2010).
“Rwanda and the Thousand Hills Coffee Co.: Breaking New Grounds,” with Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School Case Study, No. 9-807-004 (June 2006): 1-26.
“The Real Juan Valdez: Opportunities and Impoverishment in Global Coffee,” with Geoffrey Jones, HarvardBusinessSchool Case Study, No. 9-806-041 (November 2005): 1-23.
REVIEWS:
REVIEWS
CONT.: / Matthew McCarthy, “Privateering, Piracy, and British Policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830,” Business History Review (forthcoming, Spring 2015).
Jennifer Anderson, “Mahogany: The Cost of Luxury in Early America,” Business History Review 88:2 (forthcoming, Summer 2014).
Nicolas Canny and Philip Morgan (eds.), “The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850,” Business History Review 86:2(June 2012): 364-66.
James Fichter, “So Great a Profit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism,” Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 11:2.5(March 2011): online at
Alison Games, “The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660,” Business History Review 83:4 (Winter 2009): 879-882.
Ann Smart Martin, “Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia,” Business History Review83:2 (Summer 2009): 386-388.
Sheryllyne Haggerty, “The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760-1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 132:1(Jan. 2008): 100-101.
Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank (eds.), “From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000,” Enterprise and Society 8:2 (June 2007): 431-433.
Brian Cowan, “The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse,” Business
History Review 81: 1 (Spring 2007): 191-194.
Peter Coclanis (ed.), “The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel,” Business History Review 80:4 (Winter 2006): 780-783.
Stephen J. Hornsby, “British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America,” Journal of the Early Republic 25:4 (Winter 2005): 681-684.
Verene Shepherd (ed.), “Slavery without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society Since the 17th Century,” Slavery & Abolition 25:1 (Spring 2004): 157-159.
Verene Shepherd (ed.), “Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom: Perspectives from the Caribbean, Africa, and the African Diaspora,” Journal of Social History 38:2(Winter 2004): 532-534.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
GRANTS (cont.): / New Jersey Council for the Humanities, “Marching from Atlantic City to Washington, D.C.: Civil Rights Activism in New Jersey,” exhibition collaboration with the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey ($13,082.50).
Richard Stockton College 2020 Initiative, “Created Equal: Civil Rights in New Jersey,” to support creation an exhibition in partnership with the African American Heritage Museum of South Jersey ($13,190).
New Jersey Council for the Humanities, “Face-to-Face: Community Conversations,” selected as a host site for a film screening/discussion event for “Freedom Riders,” a PBS documentary about Civil Rights activism (Oct. 2013), and for “The Abolitionists,” a PBS documentary about the campaign to end slavery (Oct. 2014).
New Jersey Council for the Humanities, ($3,000 mini-grant for “Teaching New Jersey History through Historic Places,” a hybrid college course and public program series conducted with six local museums and historic sites; an additional $7,130 was contributed as a matching grant from Batsto Village Citizens Committee, Inc. in 2010/11 and was renewed for 2011/12), 2011.
NEH Landmarks in American History and Culture, “Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia’s Place in Early America” workshop series for junior college faculty;Author and Program Co-Director.
- 2011 (for two one-week workshops): $142,975.00
- 2010 (for two one-week workshops): $139,409.00
- 2008 (for two one-week workshops): $88,072.00
K. Austin Kerr Prize for the best paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference by a new scholar, 2006.
Semi-Finalist for the Hermann E. Kross Prize for the best dissertation in business history
awarded by the Business History Conference, 2006.
First Prize, Colonial Dames of Michigan Essay Prize, 2000, 2001.
FELLOWSHIPS: / Sabbatical Leave, Richard Stockton College, academic year 2014-15.
Faculty Administrative Fellowship, Richard Stockton College, 2013-14.
Provost Opportunity Award (to support international travel), 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.
Research and Professional Development Grant (academic year), Richard Stockton College, Spring 2014.
NEH Summer Stipend, “Consuming with a Conscious: The Free Produce Movement in Early America,” Summer 2012.
Association of Caribbean Historians LanguageTranslation Grant (a joint project of the History Department, Languages and Culture Studies Department, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies Minor), Richard Stockton College Research and Professional Development Grant, Summer 2011; extended Spring 2012.
NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Winterthur Museum and Library, Spring/Summer, 2008.
Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Spring 2008.
Summer Research and Professional Development Grant, Stockton College, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012.
Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Business School, 2005-06.
Rackham Humanities Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2003-04.
Atlantic World Seminar Research Grant, Harvard University, September 2003.
Center for European Studies Research and Travel Grant, University of Michigan, August 2003.
Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2003.
Fulbright Fellowship, Jamaica, U.S. Department of State, 2002.
Barra Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, McNeilCenter for Early American Studies, 2001-2002.
Mellon Candidacy Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2000-01, and Regent’s Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1998-2000.
SELECT PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS:
PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
PRESENTATIONS (cont.) / Commenter, “Philadelphia and the Economics of Place in Early America,” Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 2014.
Presenter, “Sea Change: Nautical Networks of the Early Atlantic World,” Fifteenth Annual Program in Early American Economy and Society Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October 2014.
Chair, “Opportunities and Outcomes--Reflections on Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia’s Place in Early America (Roundtable),” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, PA, July 2014.
Presenter, “Operating Under Suspicion: The French Atlantic Commercial Networks of Dutilh & Wachsmuth,” Omohundo Institute for Early American History and Culture Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2014.
Presenter, “All Roads Lead to New Jersey: Teaching U.S. History through the Garden State,” New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference, Brookdale Community College, NJ, June 2014.
Presenter, “Best Practices in Statewide Commemorations: The New Jersey 350th,” National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA, March 2014.
Chair, “Corporate Raiders,” Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 2014.
Presenter: “The Materiality of Anti-Slavery: The Origins of the Free Produce Movement in Philadelphia,” On the Anvil of Labor History in the Revolutionary Era: Billy G. Smith and Fellow ArtisansConference, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, PA, November 2013.
Chair: “Mitigating Risk, Making the Sale,” Program in Early American Economy and Society Annual Conference, “Ligaments: Everyday Connections of Colonial Economies, Philadelphia, PA, October 2013.
Chair: “Recasting Early American Historical Narrative,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Conference, St. Lois, MO, July 2013.
Chair and Commenter: “Geographies of the Caribbean,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2012.
Chair and Commenter: “Smugglers and Thieves,” Capitalism by Lamplight Conference, Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, June 2012.
Chair: “The Political Economy of City Building,” Business History Conference, Philadelphia, PA March 2012.
Presenter: “Sustenance: A Comment,” Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, October 2011.
Co-Chair: “Roundtable: Revolution to Republic, a NEH Landmarks Workshop,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, PA, July 2011.
Chair: “Atlantic Circulations,” Society of Early Americanists Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2011.
Presenter: “Pierre Stephen Chazotte and the East Florida Coffee Land Association,” Association of Caribbean Historians, Bridgetown, Barbados, May 2010.
Presenter: “Transatlantic Consumption: Using Economic Patterns to Reveal Taste and Buyer Behavior,” The Future of Economic History, co-sponsored by Stanford University and Montana State University. Big Sky, Montana, October 2009.
Discussant: “Artifacts, Organizations and Institutions: Circulation, Preservation and Management of Embedded Corporate Resources” and Chair: “A Drink Up: Beverages and Consumer Choice,” Business History Conference, Milan, Italy, June 2009.
Presenter: “A Choice of Suppliers: Saint Domingue’s Impact on United States’ Trade, 1783-1805,” Association of Caribbean Historians, St. François, Guadeloupe, May 2009.
Presenter: “Calculating Coffee’s Creole Economy,” Program in Early Economy and Society Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2008.
Presenter: “Americanizing Coffee: Advertising Place and Taste in the Early Republic,” Omohundro Institute Colloquium, Williamsburg, VA, September 2008.
Chair: “Revolutionary Relations: The Saint-Dominguan Influence on Early American Policy,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Philadelphia, PA, July 2008.
Presenter: “Why do Americans Drink Coffee: The Boston Tea Party or Brazilian Slavery” (with Stephen Topik) Brazilian Studies Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 2008.
Presenter: “From Imperial to National Commodity: How Coffee’s Identity Was Repackaged,” Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction, Washington, DC, February 2008.
Chair: “Piracy and Smuggling in the Atlantic World,” East-Central Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Galloway, New Jersey, November 2007.
Presenter:“Regional Reliance: Caribbean Coffee and the North American Economy,”McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Series, Philadelphia, PA, September 2007.
Comment: “The People, the Mob, or a Few Persons in Power: Reinterpreting the Meaning of the American Revolution,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Worcester, MA, July 2007.
Presenter: “Brand New: The Development of Regional Branding in Caribbean Coffee, 1780-1820,” Association of Caribbean Historians, Kingston, Jamaica, May 2007.
Presenter: “Culture and Consumption: National Drinks and National Identity” (with Steven Topik), The Global Economic History Network, Washington, DC, September 2006.
Presenter: “The Drink of Diplomats: U.S. Coffee Re-Exports in Transatlantic Trade,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Montreal, Canada, July 2006.
Presenter: “By Any Other Name: Caribbean Coffee in the American Imagination,” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Quebec, Canada, June 2006.
Presenter: “Creative Capitalism: Government Intervention in Post-Revolutionary Trade,”Business History Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2006.
Presenter: “Imperial Rivalries: Competition and Globalization in the Early Coffee Industry,” Cities and Empires Conference, Institute for Historical Research, London, England, June 2006.
Presenter: “Drinking Freedom? Coffee and ‘Freedom’ in the Eighteenth and NineteenthCenturies” (with Steven Topik), Food and Globalization Conference, Cambridge, England, June 2006.
Presenter: “Historicizing Commodity Chains: Things, Structures and Systems” Economic History Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 2006.
Presenter: “The Early American Economic Setting” The Book in America Seminar Series, Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006.
Presenter: “Innovative or Illegal? Privateering and Piracy in Philadelphia’s Customs Houses,” Sources and Stories Conference, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 2004.
Presenter: “Contraband Coffee: Smuggling and Other Tricks of Trade,” Program in Early American Economy and Society Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2003.
Presenter: “The Coffeehouse Debates: Provision Traders in Philadelphia’s Protests,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar, Philadelphia, PA, April 2003.
Presenter: “The Coffee Planters from Saint Domingue: Haitian Migration to Jamaica,” Association of Caribbean Historians, San, Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2003.
Presenter: “From Cultivation to Cup: Transatlantic Voyages of British West Indian Coffee,” Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, Maastricht, Holland, October 2002.
Presenter: “Statistical Tables of Secondary Importance: In Defense of Economic History,” University of the West Indies, History Department, Kingston, Jamaica, September 2002.
Presenter: “Eighteenth-Century History in the Public Sphere,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies New Orleans, LA, April 2001.
Co-Chair: “History Research Colloquium,” American Association for State and Local History, Baltimore, MD, September 1999.
Presenter: “Education Theory and Practice for Small Museums,”American Association of Museums, Cleveland, OH, April 1999.
Co-Chair: “Museum Education Roundtable: 8th Annual Research Colloquium,” Visitor Studies Association, Washington, DC, June 1998.
Co-Chair: “Museum Education Roundtable: 7th Annual Research Colloquium,” American Association of Museums, Atlanta, GA, April 1997.
Presenter: “Behind the White House: The Lafayette Square Oral History Project,” Oral History Association, Philadelphia, PA, October 1996.
Presenter: “An Archeological Analysis of Virginia’s Cemetery Architecture,” American Cultural Association, Chicago, IL, October 1994.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: / Editorial Board, New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014-2017.
Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Caribbean Historians, 2010-present (elected through 2016).
Advisory Council, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2011-2013.
Advisory Council, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 2011-present.
Member, Local Organizing Committee, Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 2012.
Chair, Local Organizing Committee, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 2008, 2011 and 2014.
Member, Program Committee, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 2011 and 2014.
External Reviewer, Department of Government and History, Atlantic County Community College,
2013.
Fellowship Reviewer: Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2012.
Fellowship Reviewer: Social Science Humanities and Research Council, Canada, 2011.
Dissertation Fellowship Committee, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 2009.
Co-Program Chair, East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference on “The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” Galloway, NJ, November 2007.
Book/Manuscript Reviewer: Business History Review, Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Diplomatic History, Enterprise and Society, History Compass: Peer-Reviewed Survey Articles from Across the Discipline, Journal of Social History, Journal of the Early Republic,Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Slavery & Abolition, and William and Mary Quarterly.
COLLEGE SERVICE:
COLLEGE SERVICE (cont.):
COMMUNITY SERVICE: / Co-Chair, Communications Sub-Committee, Pan-College Task Force on University Status, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, 2014-present.
Richard Stockton College Faculty Senate:
- Vice President, 2013-2015.
- Task Force on University Status, Co-Chair, 2012-2014.
- At-Large Member, 2012-2013.
- Library Committee, Vice-Chair, 2012-2013.
- Curriculum Committee, 2012-2014.
- Assessment Committee, 2013-2014.
- Admissions Committee, 2013-2014.
Richard Stockton College Academic Policy and Review Board, 2011-12.
Chair, “Africana Studies in History and Literature,” The State of Africana Studies in the State of New Jersey: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Activism, Richard Stockton College, Feb. 2014.
Presenter, “Activism in an Atlantic Context,” part of the Tenth Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Symposium featuring Dr. Cornel West, , Richard Stockton College, Oct. 2013.
Presenter, “Black Civil War Soldiers and the Promise of Freedom,” part of the Africana Studies Black History Month Program, “Controversial Issues in the Black Community: The Long Road Toward Freedom, February 2013.
Presenter, “Student Voices Heard Round the World,” Panel Presentation with Stockton College’s Language Arts Faculty and students, on the Association of Caribbean Historians Website Translation Project, Stockton College Day of Scholarship Panel, March 2012.
Presenter, “History and the Publishing Process,” Panel Presentation with Drs. Sharon Musher and Laura Zucconi, Stockton College Day of Scholarship Panel, March 2009.
Co-Faculty Advisor, History Club, 2006-2010 and 2012-present (planned and escorted trips to Williamsburg, VA, Gettysburg, PA, Philadelphia, PA, Wilmington, DE, and Boston, MA).
Search Committees, Richard Stockton College:
- Grants Office, Director Position, 2014.
- Dean of Arts and Humanities, 2014.
- Modern U.S. Visiting Lecturer, 2014.
- Grants Office, Assistant Director Position, 2013
- Pacific Rim/Asian Studies Lecturer, 2011-12 and 2013-14
- Modern U.S. History Assistant Professor, 2006-2007
- Modern Middle East Visiting Lecturer, 2007
“The Routes of Atlantic Trade: Coffee and Commodities in Early America,” Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, September 2010.
“The Haitian Revolution: Its History and Legacy,” Stockton College History Club Series, Pomona, NJ, March 2010 (co-sponsored by the NAACP Student Chapter and the Caribbean Students Association).
“Creating an American Way of Life,” Historic Cold Spring Village Museum Public Lecture Series, Cape May, NJ, April 2009.
“Forced Migration: The Atlantic Slave Trade,” offered as part of a two-day symposium on immigration at Oakcrest High School for students and teachers, April 2009.
“Making Coffee Part of the American Way of Life, 1780-1820,” WinterthurMuseum and Library Lecture Series, Winterthur, DE, December 2008.
“America’s Place in the Atlantic World,” Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia, PA, February 2008.
Faculty Presenter, “Portraits on the Wall: Influential West Indians Past, Present, and Future,” Caribbean Students Association, February 2007.
RELATED EMPLOYMENT: / Education Consultant, 2001-2003, Cliveden, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Philadelphia, PA. Designed school programs on the American Revolution, slavery, and architectural history for Grades 4-8 ( and
Still Photographer, Summer 2002, Jamaican National Folk Singers, Kingston, Jamaica.
Photographer for “The Music of Moore Town,” a UNESCO-funded project on the cultural retention and musical traditions of MooreTown, a Maroon community in Portland Parish, Jamaica.
Project Coordinator, 1998-2001, Arts of Citizenship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Helped develop “Students on Site” local history website (
Education Specialist, 1996-98, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Developed teacher training materials about psychological research and cooperative learning.
Education Director, 1993-96, Decatur House, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC. Oversaw school programs, staff training, exhibition fund-raising, and publicity.
York Historical Society, York, ME, Summer 1993. Elizabeth Perkins Fellowship in Education and Interpretation.
Education Department Internship, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA, 1990-1991. Interpretation of rural agricultural labor in eighteenth-century Virginia.
Student Archeologist, Alexandria Archeology, Alexandria, VA, Summer 1990, 1991.
Nineteenth-century sugar refinery excavation and historic cemetery survey.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: / American Studies Association
Association of Caribbean Historians
Business History Conference
Society for Historians of the Early AmericanRepublic
Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture
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