Prudence Cumberbatch

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University - 2001 (American Studies)

Books and Publications

"How 'Race Neutral' Policy Failed." Against the Current 186, January-February. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2017

Review of Until There is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman, by Jennifer Scanlon (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016). (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2017

"The Role of Baltimore's Young People in Struggle for Racial Equality." Lesson plan for high school/undergraduate history course, Oxford African American Studies Center. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2016

Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi, by Tiyi M. Morris. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2015. Journal of Southern History. Forthcoming 2016. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2016

Cumberbatch, Prudence, and Nicole Trujillo-Pagan. "Hashtag Activism and Why #BlackLivesMatter In (and To) the Classroom." Radical Teacher 106. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016

"Baltimore: From Frederick Douglass to The Wire." Oxford African American Studies Center. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014

"Transnationalism and the Construction of Black Political Identities." Radical History Review 103. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009

"What 'the Cause' Needs Is a 'Brainy and Energetic Woman:' A Study of Female Charismatic Leadership in Baltimore." Want to Start a Revolution: Women in the Black Revolt. Eds. Jeanne Theoharis, Dayo Gore and Komozi Woodard. New York University Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009

"Carl Murphy." African American National Biography. Eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2008

"African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896-1936." Book review, The Long Island Historical Journal 17.1-2, Fall 2004/Spring 2005. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2005

"Baltimore." Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. Ed. Steven A. Reich. Greenwood Milestones of African American History, three volumes. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2005

"Intraracial Class Conflict." Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. Ed. Steven A. Reich. Greenwood Milestones of African American History, three volumes. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2005

"Ira De A. Reid." Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. Ed. Steven A. Reich. Greenwood Milestones of African American History, three volumes. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2005

"Kweisi Mfume." African American Lives. Eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2004

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

CUNY Diversity Grant. Co-PI with Professor Swapna Banerjee, 2016-2017. (Grants and Fellowships) 2016

CUNY Diversity Grant, co-principal investigator with Professor Jeanne Theoharis, 2007-08. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008

Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Research in African and African American Studies, Harvard University. 2004-05. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities. 2004-05. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004

Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities. Spring. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

Discussant, "Working for the Family, Working for Ourselves," Black Women's Stories of Labor and Family from the 1900s to the 2000s" Annual Conference, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, September 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021

Panel Chair and Discussant, "Activism in the Aftermath, Rebuilding and Reforming, Participatory Democracy in Action: Southern Black Women Educational Activists and Community Institution Builders in the Urban South, 1890s to 2010s" Annual Conference, Organization of American Historians, April 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021

"The Campaign for Baltimore: Black Women and the Politics of Race, Gender and Class." Organization of American Historians. Philadelphia, PA, April 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019

"We do not beg for civil rights:" The Fighting Spirit of Lillie Carroll Jackson, Juanita Jackson Mitchell and the Baltimore NAACP. Reginald Lewis Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, February 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

Panel participant, "State of Africana & Latinx Studies: Current & Future Directions." 50th Anniversary Commemoration 1969-2019. Department of Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies. October 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

"Women and Martin Luther King Jr." Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, February 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018

Co-convener, Race, Gender and the Contradictions of Capitalism, University of California, San Diego, January 18-19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018

Roundtable, "Black Women's Labor: Economics, Culture and Politics." Organization of American Historians, New Orleans, April 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017

"Uncovering the Antecedents of 'Colorblind' Public Policy - a discussion of Karen R. Miller's Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit." New York University, March 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016

Keynote Address, "Dr. Lillie Carroll Jackson: The Heart of Civil Rights and the Champion of Her People." In the Footsteps of Dr. Lillie Carroll Jackson: Her Work/Our Work - A Civil Rights Symposium to Commemorate the Opening of the Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum. Morgan State University, April 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016

Panel Chair and Discussant, "Confronting the Silence of the Archive: Black Women's Labor: Economics, Culture and Politics." Association for the Study of African American Life and History. October 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016

Panelist, "Gender, Labor and Politics (A Conversation)." Practices of Black Studies Series. University of California, San Diego, October 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016

"Juanita Jackson Mitchell: Radicalism and Traditionalism in Race Leadership." Association for the Study of African American Life and History. September 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015

"Vigilante Violence and Endangered #dangerousblack kids," The Trayvon Effect, Columbia Teachers College. February 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014

'"I've done a lot of living and a lot of fighting': The Journeys of Lillie May Jackson and Juanita Jackson Mitchell." The Baltimore City History Society, Conference at Morgan State University. May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014

"'Freedom Has a Price Tag:' Lillie May Jackson and Juanita Jackson Mitchell and Choosing the Larger Cause." Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Sept. 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

"Transnationalism in the Classroom: Rethinking African American History Today." The State of African American and African Diaspora Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy and Research Conference, sponsored by the Schomburg Center/CUNY Graduate School. Jan. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

Chair, "Youngblood: Youth, Race, and the Struggle for Civil Rights." 2011 Southern Historical Association. Baltimore, Oct. 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

Chair/Discussant, "Legacies of Leadership and Activism: A Historical View of African American Women and Politics." 15th Annual Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Amherst, Mass., June 10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

"'We Don't Want It All, We Just Want Our Part:' The Legacy of Juanita Jackson Mitchell and Lillie May Carroll Jackson." International Black Power Studies Symposium. Sarah Lawrence College. Bronxville, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

"Responsible Citizenship: A Study of Female Charismatic Leadership in Baltimore, 1935-1950." Organization of American Historians. New York, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

Moderator, "Women and Black Power: Women in the Black Revolt Conference." Brooklyn College. March 5-6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"Re-Mapping the Civil Rights Movement: Baltimore's Black Activists, 1929-1945"; "Teaching and Research." Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College. March 30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2006

"Religion, Race, and Class: Communism and the Black Church in 1930s Baltimore." Organization of American Historians. Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

Chairwoman, "Eric Walrond, the Caribbean, and Black Nationalism." American Studies Association. Oakland, Calif., Oct. 12-15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"She's 'a Real Live Wire': African American Women Leaders in Baltimore's Civil Rights Struggle, 1929-1945." Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College. Sept. 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005

"Working for the Race: The Transformation of the Civil Rights Struggle in Baltimore, 1929-1945." W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Colloquium Series, Harvard University, April 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2005

"Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Leaders at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," Mt. Holyoke College. South Hadley, Mass., March 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Challenging the Image of the 'New Negro': Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association." Mt. Holyoke College. South Hadley, Mass., March 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Dangerous Images: African Americans in Popular Culture." City College (CUNY). New York, November 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2003

"From the Margins to the Center: Women's Leadership in Baltimore's Civil Rights Movement." Southern Association for Women Historians, Sixth Southern Conference on Women's History, June 5-7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003

Professional Leadership

Coordinator, Women's and Gender Studies Program, 2012-2018. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2012

Member, Letitia Woods Brown Prize Committee, Association of Black Women Historians, 2011-12. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012

Member, Letitia Woods Brown Prize Committee, Association of Black Women Historians, 2010-11. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011

Member, Letitia Woods Brown Prize Committee, Association of Black Women Historians, 2009-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010

Member, Letitia Woods Brown Prize Committee, Association of Black Women Historians, 2008-09. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009

Chairwoman, Committee for the Drusilla Dunjee Houston Memorial Scholarship Award, 2007-08. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007

Committee for the Drusilla Dunjee Houston Memorial Scholarship Award, Association of Black Women Historians. 2005-07. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005

Other Professional Activities

Co-editor (with Dayo Gore and Sarah Haley), Black Women's Labor: Economics, Culture and Politics. Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. 2016

Guest Editor/Subject Editor, "Baltimore," Oxford African American Studies Center. 2014