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SHANNEN DEE WILLIAMS, PH.D University of Tennessee Department of History 915 Volunteer Boulevard – Sixth Floor Dunford Hall Knoxville, TN 37996-4065 Email Address: swill132@utk.edu Office Phone Number: (865)-974-7088 FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION African-American History, 19th and 20th United States History, Black Catholic History, Black Women’s Religious and Political History, African-American Religious History, Civil Rights and Black Power History, Oral History, Black Feminist and Womanist Thought EDUCATION Ph.D African-American and United States History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2013 Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies Dissertation Title: Black Nuns and the Struggle to Desegregate Catholic America after World War I Committee Members: Deborah Gray White (chair), Nancy A Hewitt, Donna Murch, and Rhonda Y Williams M A Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2006 Thesis Title: "Joan was a Good Girl": Rethinking the Politics of Black Female Respectability Through the Lens of the Political Trial of Joan Victoria Bird, 1969-1971 Committee Members: Christina Greene (chair), Brenda Plummer, Craig Werner Tom W Shick Award for Excellence in African-American History, Fall 2005 B.A History, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Agnes Scott College, 2004 Minor: Africana Studies Independent Study Title: “More Than Four Little Girls: An Interpretation of the Assassinations of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley” Advisor: Violet Showers Johnson Michael J Brown Prize, Outstanding Senior Student in History, 2004 Honors Optional Diploma, Craigmont High School, Memphis, TN, 2000 Salutatorian, National Achievement Scholar, Coca-Cola Scholar, AP Scholar ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS University of Tennessee at Knoxville Assistant Professor of United States and African-American History, with Religious Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies Affiliation Fall 2014- Present Undergraduate Courses Taught: African-American History to the Civil War – Fall 2017 African-American History Since the Civil War – Expected Spring 2018 African-American Women’s History – Fall 2014, Fall 2015 African-American Women’s Political Activism –Fall 2017 African-American Religious History – Spring 2015 The History of the Civil Rights Movement – Fall 2015 Senior Seminar: Gender, Sexuality, and the Long Civil Rights Movement – Spring 2016 United States History Since Reconstruction – Expected Spring 2018 Graduate Courses Taught: Graduate Independent Study: African-American Women’s Political Activism - Fall 2014 Classic and Contemporary Readings in African-American History – Spring 2015 M.A and Ph.D Committee Service: Sister John Catherine Kennedy, O.P (ABD Candidate) Nicholas Kovach (Exam Committee 2018) Denise Harris (M.A., 2015) Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Postdoctoral Fellow in African-American Studies in History Department Aug 1, 2013 to July 31, 2014 Course Taught: The History of Black Women in the United States – Spring 2014 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL Lecturer in United States and African-American History Aug 16, 2012 to May 10, 2013 Courses Taught: U.S History to 1877 – Fall 2012, Spring 2013 History of the Civil Rights Movement (undergraduate/graduate level) – Fall 2012 Slavery and the Old South (undergraduate/graduate level) – Spring 2013 Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of History and Political Science Summers 2010 and 2011 Courses Taught: The Long Civil Rights Movement – Summer 2011 19th and 20th-Century African-American Women’s Political Activism – Summer 2010 PUBLICATIONS Book SUBVERSIVE HABITS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK CATHOLIC NUNS IN THE UNITED STATES (manuscript to be submitted to Duke University Press) This book charts the epic journey of black women religious in the United States from their fiercely contested beginnings in the nineteenth-century slave South up to the present day When published, it will be the first historical survey of African-American sisters and the first to examine their efforts in the fight against racial segregation and exclusion in the church and wider American society THE REAL SISTER ACT: AN ORAL HISTORY OF BLACK CATHOLIC SISTERS IN THE UNITED STATES (manuscript in progress) This monograph will feature the oral testimonies of over 50 women of black African descent who entered U.S religious life in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, but whose stories will not figure significantly into Subversive Habits FROM SLAVERY TO THE CLOISTER: THE HIDDEN LIVES AND LABORS OF EX-SLAVE NUNS IN THE UNITED STATES (research in progress) This book will examine the lived experiences of five women of black African descent who successfully made the journey from slavery to religious life in the nineteenth century By turning critical attention to the experiences of enslaved women owned by the Catholic Church in North America, this project seeks to join a growing body of scholarship that centers black voices in Atlantic world history and black women in church history Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles “‘You Could Do the Irish Jig, But Anything African Was Taboo:’ Black Nuns, Contested Memories, and the 20th-Century Struggle to Desegregate U.S Religious Life” in the Journal of African American History, 102, no (Spring 2017): 125-56 “Forgotten Habits, Lost Vocations: Black Nuns, Contested Memories, and the 19th Century Struggle to Desegregate U.S Religious Life” in Journal of African American History, 101 (Summer 2016): 231-260 “Subversive Images and Forgotten Truths: A Selected Visual History of Black Women Religious” and “The Color of Christ’s Brides” in American Catholic Studies, 127 (Fall 2016): 14-21 and 93-103 “The Global Catholic Church and the Radical Possibilities of #BlackLivesMatter,” Journal of Africana Religions, Vol 3, No (2015): 503-515 Book Reviews Review of The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B Tyson (online edition of America Magazine: The Jesuit Review on April 26, 2017; print edition on May 29, 2017) Review of Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda S Manigault-Bryant, Journal of African American History, 101 (Fall 2016): 577-580 Review of Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP, by Yvonne Ryan, Journal of Southern History, LXXXI (May 2015): 511-12 Encyclopedia Articles “The Sisters of Loretto,” “Sister Patricia Haley, SCN,” and “Father Mary Simon (Vincent) Smith,” in The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016 “Free African Americans” and “Slavery” in Encyclopedia of U.S Political History Vol Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010 “Rosa Parks” in Encyclopedia of U.S Political History Vol Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010 Online Articles and Other Publications “Congratulations Georgetown Now It’s Time to Own Up to the Racist History of the Catholic Church.” The History News Network, September 18, 2016 “Why I Study Women Religious,” American Catholic Studies Newsletter 42 (Fall 2015): 17, 22 “Dear Hollywood: It’s Time to Start Making Films about Real Black Catholic Nuns,” Religion Dispatches, June 10, 2015 Reprinted on Patheos on June 19, 2015 and ForHarriet.com on June 16, 2015 “The Church Is Not Yet Dead,” Interviewed by John Slattery, Daily Theology, May 5, 2015 Reprinted in the July 2015 Newsletter of the National Black Catholic Congress “Dear U.S Catholic Theologians: The Lives of Black Women and Girls Always Matter,” Patheos, December 12, 2014 *Reprinted on ForHarriet.com on December 13, 2014 *Prompted correction to the U.S Catholic Theologians’ Statement on Police Violence, which initially omitted black women and girls as victims and opponents of state Violence “What Must Never Be Forgotten,” United States Catholic Conference of Bishops Blog, August 25, 2014 *Reprinted in USCCB Rebuilding the Bridge: Reflections online in November 2014 Co-authored with Simone Campbell, S.S.S., Adrienne Alexander, and Rev Joseph Nangle, O.F.M Waking Up to God in Our Midst: Reflections for Advent 2014 Washington, D.C.: Pax Christi, 2014 “‘Influential’ Ugandan Nun Shines Light on Sacred Tradition of Black Catholic Women,” Patheos Catholic Channel, May 14, 2014 “Celebrating Unsung Black Catholic Women in U.S History,” U.S Catholic Magazine Blog, February 24, 2014 “Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music’s Mother Abbess,” Religion Dispatches, December 17, 2013 Reprinted on People of Color in European Art History on December 19, 2013 “Segregated Sisterhoods and the Mercurial Politics of Racial Truth-Telling,” The Feminist Wire, October 24, 2013 Editorial Assistant, The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony, vol 5, Their Place Inside the Body-Politic, 1887 to 1895, ed Ann D Gordon New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009 AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS 2017 2016-19 March 2016 July 2015 May 2013 2011 2010 2008 2007 2005 2004 2004 2003 2002 2001-4 2000-4 Honorable Mention in the category of Best Essay Originating with a Scholarly Magazine, Catholic Press Association for “Subversive Images and Forgotten Truths” Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer (Appointed to 3-Year Term) Inaugural Woman-to-Woman Honoree for Outstanding Community Leadership and Service, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., Nu Zeta Alumnae Chapter Author of the Month, The National Black Catholic Congress Professor of the Year, Award given by the Black Affairs Council and the Black Graduate Student Association at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Huggins-Quarles Award, Organization of American Historians John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award, American Catholic Historical Association Drusilla Dunjee Houston Memorial Award for Best Graduate Essay in History, Association of Black Women Historians “Memphis State Eight” Best (First Place) Paper Prize, 9th Annual Graduate Conference in African-American History, University of Memphis Tom W Shick Award for Excellence in the Study of African-American History, UWMadison, Dept of Afro-American Studies Michael J Brown History Prize, Awarded to Outstanding Senior Student in History, Agnes Scott College Phi Beta Kappa, Elected to Beta Chapter of Georgia, Agnes Scott College Mortar Board National Collegiate Honor Society, Agnes Scott College Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society, Agnes Scott College Charles A Dana Scholar, Agnes Scott College National Merit-Achievement Scholarship, NMSC Foundation, Inc FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2017-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 Henry Luce Research Fellow, Catholicism and the Common Good Colloquium at Duquesne University Haines-Morris Grant, UTK College Arts & Sciences, to Fund 3rd Annual FlemingMorrow Distinguished Lecture in African-American History in Spring 2018 Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library SARIF Foreign Travel Grant, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Postdoctoral Fellowship in African-American Studies, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University Consortium for Faculty Diversity Pre-/Postdoctoral Fellowship in History and Africana Studies, Luther College (Declined) Visiting Scholar, The Benjamin L Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis 2011-12 2011 2011 2010-11 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2008 2009-10 2006-7 Charlotte W Newcombe Doctoral Fellowship for Religion and Ethics, Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Erskine A Peters Dissertation Fellowship, University of Notre Dame (Declined) Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (Declined) Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Graduate Research Fellowship, Rutgers University Albert J Beveridge Research Grant, American Historical Association Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism Research Travel Grant, University of Notre Dame Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship, Maryland Historical Society Dorothy Mohler Research Grant, Catholic University of America Andrew W Mellon Foundation Research Grant, Rutgers Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Award, Rutgers History Department Ralph J Bunch Fellowship, Rutgers University Ralph J Bunche Fellowship, Rutgers University UNIVERSITY SERVICE Spring 2016 Faculty Reviewer of 2016-17 Yates Dissertation Completion Fellowship Applications for UTK Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Spring 2016 Submitted Successful Proposal for the UTK Humanities Center’s Distinguished Visiting Scholars Project, Which Brought Dr Barbara D Savage of the University of Pennsylvania to Campus to Deliver a Public Lecture on April 18, 2016 Fall 2015 UTK Commission for Black People Spring 2015- Faculty Advisor for UTK Black Student Union Spring 2015- Faculty Advisor for UTK Women of Promise, Student Affiliate of the National Association for Colored Women Clubs, Inc DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Fall 2017Fall 2017Spring 2017 Spring 2017 Spring 2016 Fall 2015- Speaker’s Committee, Lead Organizer and Coordinator of the 3rd Annual FlemingMorrow Distinguished Lecture in African-American History to be delivered by Dr Thavolia Glymph of Duke University on March 1, 2018 Undergraduate Committee Selection Committee, Inaugural John H Morrow, Jr Award for Excellence in Military History Co-Organizer of the 2nd Annual Fleming-Morrow Distinguished Lecture in AfricanAmerican History Delivered by Dr Chad L Williams of Brandeis University on February 23, 2017 Selection Committee, Inaugural Cynthia Griggs Fleming Award for Excellence in African-American History Co-founder and administrator of the UTK #BlackHistoryMatters Film and Discussion Series (Partnered with UTK Chancellor’s Honors Program) F 2015- S.16 Speakers’ Committee, Lead Organizer and Coordinator of the Inaugural Fleming-Morrow Distinguished Lecture in African-American History Delivered by Dr Tomiko Brown-Nagin of Harvard University on March 10, 2016 F 2015-S.16 Head’s Advisory Committee, Elected Position Spring 2015- Co-Founder and administrator of the Fleming-Morrow Endowment in AfricanAmerican History through the UT Foundation, which will provide annual funding for a distinguished lecture series in African-American history and two student awards in African-American and military history Raised $23,073 for endowment to date Fall 2014 Gave brief presentation to UTK History Department Graduate Committee on recruiting students from underrepresented groups on October 29, 2014 Sum 2014 Submitted successful proposals for five new courses (four undergraduate and one graduate) in African-American History prior to my official appointment The courses are HIST 376: African-American Women’s History (cross-listed with AFST and WOST), HIST 346: African-American Religious History (cross-listed with AFST), HIST 374: The History of the Civil Rights Movement (cross-listed with AFST and AMST), HIST 300: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the United States (cross-listed with AFST), and HIST 517: Classic and Contemporary Graduate Readings in AfricanAmerican History SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Spring 2017 Spring 2016 Manuscript Reviewer for The Black Scholar Manuscript Reviewer for American Catholic Studies CAMPUS TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS Panelist “Excellence Is Your Greatest Weapon: Rules and Tips for Surviving and Thriving in College,” Presentation at the UTK Black Student Union’s Welcome Back Celebration on September 11, 2017 Panelist, #SayHerName forum sponsored by Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Pi Epsilon Chapter, (September 16, 2015) “Excellence Is Your Greatest Weapon: Rules and Tips for Surviving and Thriving in College,” Presentation at the UTK Black Student Union’s Welcome Back Ice Cream Social on August 20, 2015 “The Real Sister Act: Black Nuns, Contested Memories, and the Limitations of the American Racial Imagination” talk at the UTK Africana Studies Spring Symposium on April 6, 2015 Panelist, Black Politics and State Violence forum sponsored by the UTK Platypus Society, (March 27, 2015) Panelist, Ferguson Verdict: The Misconceptions of Social Media Worldwide at the Annual Black Issues Conference, University of Tennessee, (February 7, 2015) Panelist, UTK NAACP Chapter Forum, “‘What's Happenin:’’ A Currents Events Forum for the Minority College Student,” (October 30, 2014) “Excellence Is Your Greatest Weapon: Rules and Tips for Surviving and Thriving in College,” Presentation for Who’s Who Wednesday in the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH on March 19, 2014 Provided introduction to “Living the Dream: 10 Black Women Activists You Need to Meet” program at Case Western Reserve University for MLK Week Celebration in Cleveland, OH on January 22, 2014 COMMUNITY SERVICE AND OUTREACH Delivered a black history month lecture entitled, “‘You Could Do the Irish Jig, But Anything African Was Taboo:’ Black Nuns, Contested Memories, and the Long Struggle to Desegregate U.S Catholic Female Religious Life,” at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Knoxville, TN on February 24, 2016 Delivered a black history month lecture entitled, “Subversive Habits: The Untold History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” at Speights AME Zion Church in Rockwood, TN on February 21, 2016 Served on the planning committee for the Eighth of August community celebration at Beck Cultural Exchange Center in Knoxville, TN from June to July 2015 Delivered lecture on the civil rights movement for the A.P U.S history class at Austin East High School on April 28, 2015 as a part of the UTK history department’s outreach to Knoxville public high schools Delivered a black history month lecture on the desegregation of the UTK faculty at New Vision Church in West Knoxville on March 7, 2015 Delivered a lecture entitled “Decentering MLK in the History of the Civil Rights Movement” for the 34th Annual UT History Workshop at the East Tennessee Historical Society on March 7, 2015 Served as a judge for the 2014-15 Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizens Essay Scholarship Contest, East Tennessee Regional Competition from December 2014 to January 2015 Delivered a talk entitled, “Harriet Tubman: An American Hero,” at Norwood Elementary School in Knoxville, TN on December 14, 2014 Delivered the introduction to “Living the Dream: 10 Black Women Activists You Need to Meet” program at Memorial Nottingham Branch of the Cleveland Public Library for Women’s History Month, Cleveland, OH, on March 8, 2014 Delivered a talk entitled, “History as Contested Terrain,” for Contemporary Issues: Introduction to Urban Studies course at Frederick Douglass High School, Memphis, TN, on January 14, 2011 CONFERENCES Papers Presented “The Real Sister Act: The Untold Story of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Annual Meeting of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, New Orleans, LA, (October 14, 2016) “On Discovering Barkley Hendricks’s My Black Nun (1964)” and “‘The Future of the Black Nun is Dubious:’ Race, Religion, and the Changing Face of the Catholic Sister in the Twenty-First Century World,” 10th Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious, Santa Clara University, CA, (June 26-29, 2016) “‘Liberation Is Our First Priority:’ Black Nuns, Soul Politics, and the Formation of the National Black Sisters’ Conference,” at the “Nun in the World” Conference at University of Notre Dame, London Centre, (May 8, 2015) “‘You Could Do the Irish Jig, But Anything African Was Taboo’: Catholic Sisters and the Forgotten History of Racial Segregation and Exclusion in Female Religious Life,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Saint Louis, MO, (April 16, 2015) “Troubling the Waters and Shifting Paradigms: Making the Case for Centering Black Nuns in the Fight for Racial and Educational Justice in Twentieth-Century (Catholic) America,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., (January 3, 2014) “Desegregating the Habit: Portraits of Five Pioneering Black Sisters in Historically-White Congregations in the United States,” Ninth Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious, St Paul, MN, (June 24, 2013) “‘Service First! Service Now! Service Always!’: Black Nuns, Civil Rights, and the Resurrection of Black Catholic Protest after Vatican II,” American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, (January 5, 2013) “‘You Could Do the Irish Jig, But Anything African Was Taboo’: Black Nuns and the Struggle to Desegregate U.S Catholic Sisterhoods after World War II,” American Catholic Historical Association Spring Meeting, New Orleans, LA, (March 23, 2012) “Subversive Habits: Black Nuns and the Struggle to Desegregate Catholic America after World War I,” Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy 2011, Heidelberg University, Germany, (March 21-25, 2011) “‘Nothing Is Too Good for the Youth of Our Race’: Black Nuns and the Struggle for Catholic Education in the Jim Crow South,”125th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, MA, (January 6-9, 2011) “‘Nothing Is Too Good for the Youth of Our Race’: Black Nuns and the Struggle for Catholic Education in the Jim Crow South,” at Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis as a part of the 20102012 “Narratives of Power” Project Seminar, (November 16, 2010) “‘Nothing Is Too Good for the Youth of Our Race’: Black Nuns and the Struggle for Catholic Education in the Jim Crow South,” Eighth Triennial Meeting of the Conference on the History of Women Religious, University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, (June 27-30, 2010) “Black Nuns and the Veiled Struggle to Desegregate the American Catholic Church: Preliminary Thoughts on the Politics of Anonymity in the Jim Crow South,” Eighth Southern Conference on Women’s History, sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians, University of South Carolina at Columbia, (June 4-6,2009) “Black Nuns and the Veiled Struggle to Desegregate the American Catholic Church: Preliminary Thoughts on the Politics of Anonymity in the Jim Crow South,” Institute for Research on Women Graduate Student Forum on Feminist Scholarship, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, (April 3, 2009) “‘To Be Celibate, Black and Committed’: Sister M Martin de Porres Grey, R.S.M and the Formation of the National Black Sisters’ Conference, 1968-1974,” Black Women and the Radical Tradition: A National Conference, City University of New York Graduate Center and Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education, New York, NY, (March 28, 2009) “‘Liberation Is Our First Priority’: Black Nuns, Soul Politics, and the Modern African-American Freedom Struggle,” 101st Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, New York, New York, (March 28-31, 2008) *Part of the Gender and Black Power Politics panel “‘Liberation Is Our First Priority’: Black Nuns, Soul Politics, and the Modern African-American Freedom Struggle,” 10th Annual Women’s History Month Conference at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, (March 7-8, 2008) Conference Theme: Black Power, Black Feminism: Black Women’s Activism and Development of Womanist/Feminist Consciousness in the Black Power Era “‘Liberation Is Our First Priority’: Black Nuns, Soul Politics, and the Modern African-American Freedom Struggle,” 9th Annual Conference of the Graduate Association for African-American History at the University of Memphis, (September 12-14, 2007) *Awarded first place prize Roundtable Participant Panelist on ACHA Presidential Roundtable Discussion entitled, “The Future of Catholic History: What Do Graduate Students Want to Know?” Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, Denver, CO, (January 7, 2017) “The Color of Christ’s Brides” as a part of the “Race and White Supremacy in the Construction of American Catholicism” Roundtable, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, (November 23, 2015) Panel Chair/Commentator Chair and Commentator for “Black Women, Religion, and Resistance in the Formation of Community Network” Panel, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Cincinnati, OH, (Friday, September 29, 2017) 10 Commentator for Political Voices of American Women panel at 30th Annual Warren I Susman Graduate Student History Conference at Rutgers, the State University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, (April 5, 2008) Conference Theme: Sites of Culture, Challenges of Encounter Commentator for “The Radical Other: Sojourner Truth and Revolutionary Feminism,” a paper presentation by Agatha Beins at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis as a part of the 2010-2012 “Narratives of Power” Project Seminar, (October 12, 2010) INVITED TALKS “The Real Sister Act: The Uneasy History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, Donaldson, IN (Scheduled: June 9, 2018) “The Real Sister Act: The Uneasy History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” LCWR Region III Semiannual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (Scheduled: April 17-18, 2018) “The Real Sister Act: The Uneasy History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, IA (Scheduled: March 8, 2018) The Real Sister Act: Black Catholic Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate U.S Religious Life, University of Portland, OR, (Scheduled: November 16, 2017) “The Real Sister Act: The Uneasy History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” LCWR Region IV Semiannual Meeting, Allison Park, PA (October 11, 2017) “The Real Sister Act: The Uneasy History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Dominican Sisters of Peace Motherhouse, Columbus, OH (August 5, 2017) “The Real Sister Act: Black Catholic Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate U.S Religious Life,” Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ (April 4, 2017) “The Real Sister Act: Black Catholic Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate U.S Religious Life,” Barnard College, New York, NY (March 28, 2017) “Subversive Habits: The Forgotten History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Sisters of St Joseph of Brentwood, NY Motherhouse (March 18, 2017) “The Real Sister Act: The Untold Story of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Held in Chapel Auditorium of Mont Marie Rehabilitation Center at the Invitation of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary, the Sisters of St Joseph, and the Sisters of Providence, Holyoke, MA (February 12, 2017) “The Real Sister Act: The Untold Story of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Motherhouse of the Religious Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary, Tarrytown, NY, (November 5, 2016) 11 “The Real Sister Act: Black Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate U.S Catholic Religious Life,” St Francis College, Brooklyn, NY (November 15, 2016) “The Real Sister Act: The Forgotten History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States,” University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO, (September 19, 2016) *OAH Distinguished Lecture “Shattering the Silences: Black Women Religious and the Challenge of History,” Annual Meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), Atlanta, GA, (August 12, 2016) *This talk prompted the LCWR to adopt a resolution to confront and fight racism within the church and society at large “Subversive Habits: The Untold Stories of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Joint Conference of the National Black Sisters’ Conference, National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, National Black Seminarians Association, and the National Association of Black Catholic Deacons, San Diego, CA, (July 25, 2016) “Subversive Habits: The Untold History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Annual Father Augustus Tolton Lecture, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL, (March 1, 2016) “Subversive Habits: The Untold History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, (February 11 and 13, 2016) “Subversive Habits: The Untold History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” University of Notre Dame, Indiana, (February 4, 2016) “Subversive Habits: The Untold History of Black Catholic Sisters in the United States,” Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., (November 16, 2015) “Subversive Habits: The Forgotten History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States” and “Stories of Survival from Black Catholic Women,” Women’s Ordination Worldwide Third International Conference, Philadelphia, PA, (September 18-19, 2015) “Desegregating the Habit: Black Nuns and the Long Struggle to Integrate Catholic Female Religious Life in the U.S Church,” Imago Dei Conference, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA, (January 29, 2015) “Sister Act: An Exploration of the Black Nun,” Texas A& M University, MSC Carter G Woodson Black Awareness Committee, (September 11, 2014) “Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Sisters in United States History” and “Celibacy as a Radical Act of Black Liberation” Workshops at Ninth Archbishop James P Lyke Liturgical Conference, New Orleans, LA, (June 12-15, 2014) “Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Nuns in American History,” Postdoctoral Guest Lecture, Case Western Reserve University Department of History, Cleveland, OH, (April 22, 2014) 12 “Desegregating the Habit: Black Nuns and the Long Struggle to Integrate Female Religious Life in the U.S Catholic Church,” Conversations on Transnational Blackness, Texas A & M University Program in Africana Studies, College Station, TX, (March 24, 2014) “Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Nuns in U.S History,” Black Catholic History Month Speaker, Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, (November 5, 2013) “Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Nuns in U.S History,” Special Guest Lecture in “The Black Catholic Experience” course taught by Dr Chris Pramuk at Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, (October 22, 2013) “Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Sisters in United States History” and “Women in the Black Catholic Freedom Struggle in the United States” Workshops at Eighth Archbishop James P Lyke Liturgical Conference, Tinley Park, IL, (June 21-22, 2013) “Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Sisters in United States History,” Organization of American Historians: New Directions in ALANA History Panel, Milwaukee, WI, (April 19, 2012) “Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Sisters in United States History,” National Civil Rights Museum “Lunch and Learn” Seminar, Memphis, TN, (March 21, 2012) “Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Sisters in United States History,” Theology on Tap by the Diocese of Memphis, TN, (February 20, 2012) “‘You Could Do the Irish Jig, But Anything African Was Taboo’: Black Nuns and the Struggle to Desegregate U.S Catholic Sisterhoods after World War II,” American Catholic Studies Seminar, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, (November 3, 2011) “Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Sisters in United States History,” EDPR 7561: Qualitative Research Methods, University of Memphis, TN, (September 19, 2011) “Black Nuns in the ‘60s and ‘70s: An Untold Story of the Black Freedom Struggle in the U.S Catholic Church,” Black History Month Speaker at Caldwell College in Caldwell, NJ, (February 24, 2010) “Black Nuns in the ‘60s and ‘70s: The Untold Story of the Black Freedom Struggle in the U.S Catholic Church,” Speaker at Dr Martin Luther King, Jr Program at St Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church, Montclair, NJ, (January 17, 2010) MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT MY RESEARCH Andrew Nelson, “Black Sisters a ‘Dangerous Memory’ for the Church,” America, August 17, 2016 Dawn Araujo-Hawkins, “Historians, Educators, Archivists Gather at Conference on the History of Women Religious,” Global Sisters Report, June 28, 2016 13 “Change of Habit: The Struggle of African American Sisters in the United States,” The Los Angeles Tidings, March 10, 2016 “Don’t Start Nuns, Don’t Be Nun,” Baltimore Charm City Radio Podcast: Episode Four, March 4, 2016 “Story of Black Nuns Revealed in ‘Subversive Habits,’” by Cora Jackson-Fossett, Los Angeles Sentinel, March 2, 2016 “A Long Path to a Dream of Being a Nun,” by Clare Ansberry, Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2015 “Catholic News We Missed Last Week while Stalking the Pope,” by Mary E Hunt, Religion Dispatches, October 1, 2015 “Professor Shannen Williams Talks Black Nuns, Racism in the Catholic Church with Jacque Reid,” The Tom Joyner Morning Show, (September 25, 2015) “Black Nuns and Subversive Habits,” Currents: Catholic TV from the Diocese of Brooklyn, (May 28, 2015) “Forthcoming Book Documents History of Black Sisters in the U.S.,” by Dan Stockman, The Global Sister Report by The National Catholic Reporter, May 14, 2015 “The Role of Black Catholic Nuns in Desegregation,” Across the Nation with Bob Dunning, on the “The Catholic Channel” on Sirius XM 129, (June 20, 2011; 2:30-2:45pm CST) “Quiet Revolution: New Research Spotlights Role of Black Catholic Nuns in Desegregation,” by Barbara Bradley, The Commercial Appeal, May 22, 2011 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Academy of Religion American Catholic Historical Association American Historical Association Association for the Study of African-American Life and History Association of Black Women Historians (Lifetime Member) Black Catholic Theological Symposium Conference on the History of Women Religious Organization of American Historians REFERENCES Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, dgw@rci.rutgers.edu, (848)-932-8367 14 Nancy A Hewitt, Professor Emerita of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, nhewitt@rci.rutgers.edu, (848)-932-8252 Cynthia Griggs Fleming, Professor Emerita of History, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, cfleming@utk.edu, (865)-974-5421 Rickey Hall, Vice President for Minority Affairs and Diversity, University of Washington, rickey1@uw.edu, (206)-54302441 Diane Batts Morrow, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, University of Georgia, dbmorrow@uga.edu, (706)-542-5197 Donna Murch, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, dmurch@history.rutgers.edu, (848)-932-8379 15