Prudence D. Cumberbatch

Education:

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

Books and Publications

"Transnationalism and the Construction of Black Political Identities." Radical History Review 103. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 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: Other Article) 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: Other Article) 2005

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

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

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

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

"'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

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