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She relocated to Virginia where she founded and ran her own traditional African dance company for 15 years. Ofosuwa taught African and African American history through the arts to audiences of all ages by conducting research and depicting the findings in original African dance ballets. She traveled to Africa periodically to learn and authenticate her work. Ofosuwa returned to college and obtained a B. A. degree in African Studies from Virginia State University. Her current goals are to study African history on the graduate level at Howard University. Her particular interests include the Senegambia region of West Africa and the West Sahel region of Africa. Ultimately, Ofosuwa plans to earn her Ph.D. in African history and join the professoriate.</p> <p><b>Diane Anderson</b> is originally from Baltimore, Maryland and has lived in Washington, DC for the past twenty-two years. She earned her B. A. from the University of the District of Columbia. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Public History and upon completion she intends to begin a career as a public historian, working as a museum professional, archivist or preservationist. These are professions which would afford her the opportunity to make history accessible and useful to the general public. Her goal is to create a community service project that involves teaching youth to research their family history by conducting oral history interviews with relatives. The purpose would be to provide a context from which they can understand themselves and others, instill a sense of identity and build self-esteem.</p> <p><b>Takeya N. Anthony</b> is a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, who is now a first year Ph.D. student in the history program. She received her B.A. and M.A. from North Carolina Central University. She plans to study Africa and the African Diaspora toward becoming a college professor.</p> <p><b>Benjamin Baker</b> is pursuing a Ph.D. in history with an emphasis on the African Diaspora. Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Baker has traveled extensively and lived in several different countries. He is the author of two books and has taught on the college/university level for the past four years.</p> <p><b>Lisa V. Betty</b>, from Boston, Massachusetts, attended The George Washington University as an undergraduate, where she received her B. A. in History with minors in Africana Studies and Sociology in the spring of 2008. She is currently a Master s student in African Diaspora history. At Howard, she will focus on the historical developments of American political and cultural identities, as well as explore the concept of race and identity in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, and Brazil. Her career goals are to earn a Ph. D. in history and teach in higher education. <p><b>Shanaee Bodrick</b> is a first year Public History graduate student from Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her B. A. in History with a minor in Philosophy from Virginia State University. At Howard, she will focus on Public History. Her future career coals involve working in an archival setting to uncover and separate the boundaries as well as the benefits of digitizing. She may also explore working in a museum or government setting.</p> <p><b>Miranda Booker-Perry</b> was born and raised in New Rochelle. She earned her B.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1999) and her Master's degree in history from Howard University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the field of U.S. History with minors in the African Diaspora and public history. She works in the Textual Services Division at the National Archives in Washington, DC. Her research interests are: 19th and 20th century African American History, social movements, black women's history, and African Diasporic history. Miranda had an article published in the Summer 2010 issue of the National Archives <i>Prologue</i> journal on her dissertation topic, "The Ex-Slave Pension Movement." She is married to Chrisp Perry IV, originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p> <p><b>Kimberly D. Brown</b> was born in Montgomery, Alabama, the cradle of the civil rights movement. She received both her B.S. and M.A. degrees from Florida A & M University. She is pursuing the Ph.D. in history with an emphasis on African American women.</p> <p><b>Dean Bryson</b> earned his BA in Africana Studies and Music from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is pursuing a Master s in History with a concentration on the African Diaspora. Dean is very interest in the history of people of African descent and how they are connected to each other and to the rest of the world. He plans on using his education from Howard to prepare him to be an effective and critical historian and educator. At present he is serving as the Residence Hall Staff Assistant for the Leadership Institute. In the future, Dean would like to improve people s understanding of self-worth, serve inner-city youth, and improve educational opportunities especially, but not exclusively for black men.</p> <p><b>Jocelyn Cole</b> joined the Department of History as a first year Ph.D. student in the Fall 2009. A native of Nashville, TN, she attended Fisk University for her undergraduate studies. Her major field is African Diaspora and her first minor field is Public History. She is particularly interested in Black nationalist, independence, and resistance movements of the 20th century. Post-graduation, she aspires as a cultural analyst, professor, and author.</p> <p><b>Alhaji Conteh</b>, from San Jose, California, attended San Diego State University as an undergraduate, where he received his B.A. in African Studies with a minor in history. He earned a Master's degree from Temple University in African American Studies. He has not yet decided if he will focus on U.S. or African Diasporic history, which are his major areas of interest. He is especially focused on the history of black nationalist movements in the U.S. as well as the growth and development of Pan Africanism throughout the world. His research may be on Booker T. Washington's association with the National Negro Business League and how this can be better categorized as black nationalist than accomodationist. He is also interested in exploring African and Caribbean migration to the U.S. and how these groups have interacted with African Americans. He plans to receive his Ph.D. and become professor of history, hopefully at an HBCU.</p> <p><b>Princess L. Craig</b> is pursuing a PhD in African Diaspora with a minor field in Public History. She is interested in the global interconnectedness of representative intellectual and political genealogies from the Black Power movement that emerged from the civil rights movement (nineteenth century and forward). Through her research, she seeks to engage a new generation of students in what she deems an imperative dialogue about the quintessential figures that contributed to the global civil rights and Black Power movements. She believes that re-collecting, re-visiting, and re-presenting these intersecting genealogies could-re-inspire and re-engage a new generation in local, national, and global politics. Consequently, her research interests are both historical and political. Born and raise in Statesboro, Georgia, Princess graduated from Howard University in 2009, where she earned a BA in Audio Production with a minor in African American Studies. She subsequently earned an MA in Inner City Studies from the Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern Illinois University in 2011. As a committed life-long student, aspiring lecturer, professor, and oral historian, Princess is actively seeking available opportunities that will nourish her academic and professional aims. Encouraged by the words of her mentor, Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr, Princess is determined to take what she has learned into the other parts of the world and then re-inscribe those lessons in ways that will improve humanity. </p> <p><b>Jude Daceus</b>, a Ph.D. student in history, earlier attended Monmouth University in New Jersey. He is vitally interested in the history of the Caribbean and its relation to the United States. His thesis is likely to be related to the Haitian revolution and its impact outside Haiti, in the Caribbean, Latin America, the U.S., and the colonial powers. He hopes to eventually teach in a university.</p> <p><b>Adrienne Dunn</b>, from Raleigh, North Carolina, attended North Carolina A & T University, graduating with a B.A. in history in 2008. She also attended North Carolina Central University and received a Master s degree in history in 2010. She is interested in nineteenth century African American and U.S. history. She wrote her thesis on Charles N. Hunter, a black educator and race leader in North Carolina. Her doctoral work may focus on some aspect of race relations in the post Reconstruction era, such as the 1879 migration from North Carolina to Indiana. After completing her Ph.D. in history, she would like to teach U.S. history.</p> <p><b>Jennifer Erdman</b>, from Chruchville, Maryland, received her B.S. from Stevenson University and her M.A. from Morgan State University in Baltimore. She is particularly concerned with the role of Africans and African Americans in the Cold War. She is currently teaching U.S. survey courses at Stevenson University in Baltimore and Harford Community College.</p> <p><b>Steven Ford</b> is a native of the great state of Texas with a B.A. in history from Morehouse College. While at Howard University, Mr. Ford intends to further his understanding of Public History. After finishing a Master's and a Doctorate in this field, he intend to go back to his hometown and become the director of the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum.</p> <p><b>Brett Fraser</b>, a native of Redding, California, graduated Magna Cum Laude after three years at California State University, Sacramento. At that point, he took a gap year during which he traveled first to Europe and then to Salvador, Brazil where he volunteered at an orphanage. Brett entered the Ph. D. history program at Howard University in the Fall of 2011. His major field is U. S. history and he is most interested in researching the African-American fight for agency, specifically during the Civil Rights Movement. While he is interested in this subject for academic reasons, he also plans to use it for practical application. By understanding how positive change was achieved in the past he hopes to apply this knowledge by starting a non-profit organization that aims to change negative perceptions of minority communities by providing positive examples through the promotion of educational equality and opportunity.</p> <p><b>Myra Houser</b>, a woman of many hometowns, entered the Ph.D. program in January 2010. She previously earned a B.A. from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and an M.A., in comparative history from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is interested in the interactions of people, particularly lawyers, in anti-apartheid movements and wants to learn more about how the South African struggle taught people in nearly each continent methods with which to advanced their own civil and legal rights. After writing a master s thesis on Washington, D.C.-based Gay McDougall and the Southern African Project of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, she hopes to expand upon their topic while writing her dissertation, unless of course she finds another topic equally fascinating! After graduation, she would like to become a professor at a small teaching college or community college.</p> <p><b>Marcia Headley</b> is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History. Her dissertation, provisionally entitled "Imaging Haiti: Perceptions of Haiti in the Atlantic World, 1791-1875," seeks to examine the impact of the Haitian Revolution and Independence on the Atlantic World, namely by looking at the changing discourse shaped by perceptions of Haiti within the British West Indies from 1791-1875. Mrs. Headley has been fortunate to have received funding from the Graduate School at Howard University from 2004-2009, and then was granted the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) award in 2009. Marcia is originally from Canada and Trinidad & Tobago. She received her B.A. in History and later a Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations from the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad. She is married to Mark, and they have one son, Evan.</p> <p><b>Anton House</b>, from Racine, Wisconsin, is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Parkside, with a B. A. in History and two minors in Political Science and Ethnic Studies. A member of the Phi Alpha Theta national honor society for history, he enjoys books about leading figures in black francophone history. What ideologies shaped their views and policies? How can their histories reinforce a positive cultural identity for African American youth.</p> <p><b>Myra Houser</b>, a woman of many hometowns, entered the Ph.D. program in January 2010. She previously earned a B.A. from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and an M.A. in comparative history from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is interested in the interactions of people, particularly lawyers, in anti-apartheid movements and wants to learn more about how the southern African struggle taught people on neraly each continent methods with which to advance their own civil and legal rights. After writing a master's thesis on Washington, D.C.-based Gay McDougall and the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, she hopes to expand upon this topic while writing her dissertation, unless of course she finds another topic equally fascinating ! After graduation, she would like to become professor at a small teaching or community college.</p> <p><b>George Kintiba</b> is a 2009 graduate from the Howard Divinity School. He was born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, and grew up in Brussels, Belgium. In his early education, he earned a B.A. in philosophy and a Master's degree (The Pontifical Urbaniana University), with a continuing interest in the history of religion and how this has shaped human relations.</p> <p><b>Ashley Jordan</b> is a native of Mansfield, Ohio. As an undergrad student at Kent State University she was a member of the Ronald McNair Scholar s program. In the spring of 2008, she graduated with a B.A. in History with a minor in Political Science. After graduation, she accepted a position as a Community Organizer through Ameri-Corps. In 2009, she enrolled as Master s student in the Department of History at Howard University. She completed her Master s in Public History last May. To date she is a new entrant into the Ph.D. program. She is a recipient of the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Fellowship through the National Park Service. Upon the completion of her Ph.D. Ashley would like to return to her home state and work as a Curator for the Ohio Historical Society.</p> <p><b>Peggy Lewis</b> is a native of Washington. She attended DC public schools and did her undergraduate work at Trinity College here in DC with a degree in English. She spend 19 years as a broadcast journalist mostly in television in Miami. She has worked in politics and public relations. She is pursuing an Ph.D in African American History. She is interested in researching the impact of broadcasting on the Civil Rights Movement.</p> <p><b>Ka'Mal McClarin</b>, from Raleigh, North Carolina, earned a B.A. at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Master's at North Carolina Central University. He is interested in such topics as U.S. Progressive Era, the women's club movement of the 1890s, civil rights, labor, and public history. His specific research interest will be on some aspect of gender, race, and work during the Progressive Era. He hopes to eventually do research and teach at a university.</p> <p><b>Erica Metcalfe</b>, is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She earned both a B. A. in Africology and a Master s in History at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her research interests include twentieth century African American history, African American youth history, and the history of black Milwaukee. She is a first year Ph. D. student and hopes eventually to enter the professoriate.</p> <p><b>Ronald Noel</b> is a Trinidadian who attended The University of West Indies (UWI) and while there earned the degrees of B.A. (Honors) in History and Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) in History. At the UWI, postgraduate studies were skewed toward an interest in life histories, Pan-Africanism and Diaspora studies. These interests resulted in the production of a revisionist and pioneering study on the Pan-Africanist Henry Sylvestre-Williams. At Howard, it is anticipated that scholarly activities will focus on the state of turmoil on the African continent and the apparently estranged relationships amongst and between Africa's descendants in the Diaspora. Perhaps this is a euphemism to muster the courage to speak of the dependency syndrome with the aim of finding and implementing practical solutions on and off the continent. This of course is an effort which will seek to evolve synergistic relationships between the African continent and its social partners to restore progressive conditions identified in key words such as order, functionality, design and concept, integration and racial pride amongst the most original people in the world. Furthermore, to implement this agenda a strong emphasis will be placed on rural development projects that will utilize the Participatory Social Learning Process while drawing on the African people's rich historical past. The anticipated learning outcome is that this nation of people will move in greater numbers towards economic self sufficiency, institutional development and political originality as leaders effectively release their people from the golden handshake of colonialism. This is not a romantic projection. It is the way forward to establish a Pan-African community for the welfare of a divided family.</p> <p><b>Deshawn Preston</b> was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his B.A.in history from Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama. During his years at Oakwood, DeShawn participated in various organizations and played on the basketball team. Already in high school, DeShawn gained an interest in African American history which he now hopes to deepen through completing a Master s degree and, later, a Ph.D. He plans to give back to the community in any way that he can.</p> <p><b>Tiffany Reid</b> was born of West Indian parents in Poughkeepsie, New York. She graduated with a B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, combining this with a history minor with a focus on the African diaspora. She is now interested in researching Black Nationalism globally and how movements in specific areas resonated with and provided impetus to movements in other countries in the 1960s and 1970s. She is interested also in studying the impact that voluntary immigrants had on the movements in the U. S. and African American identity formation. Her career goals center on the professoriate or government administration.</p> <p><b>Pedro R. Rivera</b> was born in Dominican Republic and came to New York in 1994. He attended City College of New York and earned a B.A. degree in history with a special concentration on Africa and the Diaspora, which he finished in 2005. His research topics include an inquiry into the life and works of Carlos Cooks, as well as other imposing Afro-Dominicans who resisted U.S. imperialism from the 1910s to the 1960s. Part of his goal is to challenge the persisting notion that the Dominican peoples have built a society and constructed their identities around racist and anti-black attitudes. He hopes to become a professor, publish in both English and Spanish and empower Dominicans and other diasporic peoples.</p> <p><b>Ashley Robertson-Muforza</b>, daughter of John Muforza and Diane Robertson Reed, was raised in Oxford, North Carolina and graduated from J.F. Webb High School in 2004. She then attended Bowie State University on full academic scholarship and graduated with honors. Ashley is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. In 2008, Ashley entered Temple University and finished with a Master of Arts in African American Studies in 2010. As a Ph.D. candidate in Howard s history program, Ashley s research will be focused on the African Diaspora and African History. Her research focus will include Garveyism and Cameroon s independence movement. In the future, she hopes to become a professor.</p> <p><b>Chandra Powell</b>, born in Durham, North Carolina, earned both B.A and M.A degrees from North Carolina Central University. As a Ph. D. student, she is majoring in the African Diaspora, with minor in U.S. history. Her research focuses on the role of black women in the Diaspora liberation struggles. Her career goal is to work in a public history job.</p> <p><b>Craig Schiffert</b> has a master's degree in Afro-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a Ph.D. candidate, his main focus is on African American culture in the twentieth century. He is interested in how African Americans have used the arts as a means of political expression/protest/activism. After growing up in Nutley, New Jersey, he attended college in Connecticut and Virginia and then worked in New York City for a number of years as a magazine editor.</p> <p><b>Womai Ignatius Song</b> was born and raised in the West African country of Cameroon. He attended the University of Buea from where he obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees in history. He came to the United States in 2004. He now seeks a Ph.D. at Howard, with African History as his major field and African Diaspora as a minor field. He is particularly interested in the history of conflict resolution in post-19th century Eastern and Southern Africa. His ultimate ambition is researching, teaching, and writing about history in general and African history in particular.</p> <p><b>Latif Tarik</b> is native of Portsmouth, Virigina who graduated from Norfolk State University with a B.A. in political science and a commission in the United States Army. After completing his army service he started his new profession as a certified social studies teacher. Latif completed a M. Ed from Regent University and a M.A. in U.S. history. He now wishes to study revolutionary movements in the African Diaspora and the effects of Islam on African culture. Latif has published peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on Islam and African history. His future plans include teaching, research, and using history as a model for progressive thinking.</p> <p><b>John Tilghman</b> was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his B.A. from Coppin State University in history in the spring of 2005. He is now in the Master's program, majoring in U.S. history. He eventually hopes to earn a Ph.D. in U.S. history and teach in higher education.</p> <p><b>Bartholowew Toe, Sr.</b>, was born in Liberia, West Africa, but has now lived for many years in North Carolina. He did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Master s Degree at North Carolina Central University, with both degrees in history. His specialization was in African and African American History. He is at Howard University to Pursue a Ph.D. in African History.</p> <p><b>Noelle Trent</b> is from Bowie, Maryland, by way of West Chester, Pennsylvania and Boston, Massachussetts. She received her M.A. in Public History from Howard and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in U.S. history.</p> <p><b>Darren Wade</b> comes from Waldorf, Maryland. He attended Bowie State University where he received his B.A. in history in May 2006. He is currently a Master's student with a focus on U.S. history. His more specialized areas are nineteenth and twentieth century U.S., with a concentration on African American political and social history. His career goals are to his Ph.D. in U.S. history, write, and become a history professor.</p> <p><b>Markus Weise</b> a native of Burlington, Vermont, has a B.A. in history and German from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. He was the recipient of a Watson Fellowship for a project entitled  On Your Left! Making and Maintaining Bicycle Culture in Cities. He is now seeking a Ph.D. in history with an emphasis on the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean.</p> <p><b>Brandy Williams</b>, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, graduated from Spring Hill College, a Jesuit college located in Mobile, Alabama. Her major field of history is U.S., with a minor in U.S. since 1877 and Modern Europe. She is passionate about women's history and African American history. She looks forward to researching the connections between the British and American women suffrage movements. Her career goal is to become a professor.</p> <p><b>Jarenda  Ife Williams</b> is a Ph.D. student in African History from Kinston, North Carolina. A graduate of North Carolina Central University, she has B.A. degrees in both history and political science as well as a minor in German from studies at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg, Germany. She earned a M.A. in African History from Howard University in 2007. Her research interests include pre-colonial Africa, African spirituality, gender relationships and women leaders. Jarenda has taught middle school social studies and as an Assistant Professor of History at Saint Augustine s College. She is a member of Phi Alpha Theta and Pi Gamma Mu honor societies. Her goals are to continue a career in academia, publish children s books, and produce historical documentaries and films with her husband.</p> <p><b>Shirlkeymu Winston</b>, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, graduated from North Carolina Central University with an undergraduate degree in history and a concentration in education. She also received her M.A. degree with with North Carolina Central University with a major in history. Currently, she is studying for a Ph.D. in African history with a minor in the African diaspora.</p> <p><b>Sonja N. Woods</b>, born and raised in North Carolina, graduated from a high school in Roxboro, and then from North Carolina Central University, the latter with a B.A. in English Literature (1995) and a M.A. in History (2009). Her history thesis was entitled  Black Israelite Theology from Emergence in the United States to Sedition in South Africa, 1885-1925. Ms. Woods primary area of interest in African history is southern Africa, particularly South Africa and Zimbabwe. She is preparing for a career in academia.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></p> </blockquote> </TD> <TD width="277" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <!--DWLayoutTable--> <tr> <td width="277" height="408" valign="middle"> <div align="center"></div></td> </tr> </table></TD> </TR> </tr> </table></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>