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I've been debating if I should buy a tablet. In fact, I've even considered scrapping my old desktop PC and going with a tablet instead. After some amount of research, I found that I just couldn't completely convince myself that this was the right way to go. So, I've decided on an interim solution! I've purchased a Logitech bluetooth travel KB to pair with my Galaxy SII LTE smartphone.
Sounds like a crazy idea, but with Quick Office on the phone, I have just about all I need to travel with. The phone handles my email/social media connections and the new keyboard means I can even use it for writing up articles when I'm covering conferences and events.
Now, I'm not going to compare a smartphone with a tablet, but really, if it can handle all the basics for me, why not put it to the test? Testin it will be just what I will be doing this weekend at a conference in North Carolina.
I've included a video review of the keyboard below, but I want to be sure I tip you to the fact that even though Logitech makes an iPhone/iPad version and an Android version of this keyboard, the Apple version works just fine on my Android. I'm not sure why Logitech is trying to market two different versions since this is BlueTooth. That bit of knowledge is only important because if you want to buy this KB retail, the iPad/iPhone version seems easier to find.
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Henrico's annual King celebration planned
The 27th annual celebration honoring the birthday and life achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be held Jan. 21 at Henrico High School, 302 Azalea Avenue, beginning at 11:30 a.m. The program will include music, awards, scholarships and special presentations. The theme this year is "The Movement Through The Eyes Of A Child," and the featured speaker will be Ruby Shuttlesworth Bester, the daughter of the late Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. He was a noted activist in the Civil Rights movement from Birmingham, Ala., whose church and home were bombed during the early 1960s.
Rev. Shuttlesworth was the keynote speaker at one of the annual celebrations several years ago and spoke at the same venue.
Prior to the celebration, the annual Youth Summit will be held at the same location Jan. 19. Registration will begin at 9:15 a. m. followed by breakfast for all pre-registered attendees. The break-out sessions will focus on the theme G.A.N.Gs. (Going Against Negative Groups). Prizes for attendees will conclude that program.
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Below is my complete Better Business Bureau complaint,
so you know the whole story.
COMPLAINT ACTIVITY REPORT Case # 91065218 Better
Business Bureau of Metropolitan Dallas, Inc.
Business Info: Ashley Furniture Home Store, Frisco, TX
Consumer's Original Complaint Please HELP ME!! I
purchased a whole leather living room set from ASHLEY
HOME STORE IN FRISCO on February 19, 2007. I also
purchased the 5 year warranty. It was delivered to me
on March 5th 2007. What I have is a leather reclining
sofa, reclining leather love seat and leather rocker
recliner, all the same brand & material.
We have had no problems until this past week. Our
furniture is PEELING, yes peeling. The salesman
assured me that it was 100% leather wherever our
bodies touched. I wasn't aware that genuine leather
was supposed to PEEL, it just flakes off. It looks
horrible and it's only 9 months old!par Yesterday I
called the insurance people and they basically told me
that 'peeling' was specifically not covered, although
stabbing with a knife was. So if I stab my couch
'accidentally' they will fix it for free for 5 years
but since it is DEFECTIVE and PEELING it is not
I then called the Ashley Home Store where I purchased
the furniture and asked to speak to the manager, they
asked why and I explained my problem to them. They
then said that I would have to let a customer service
person know and they would take care of my problem. I
went through the whole speech with the customer
service lady and she explained that they would be
happy to come and look at my defective furniture and
see what, if anything, needed to be done about it. I
was very upset and asked if I could just get my money
back (since it's already paid in full) or exchange it
for some other type of REAL LEATHER furniture in their
store. They then told me that they would 'repair' any
defective furniture or replace the cushion for up to
one year then after that I am on my own. They said
that peeling leather is not uncommon.par I have had
another leather couch (which I still own) and it has
never peeled, and my children were small back then and
jumped all over the couch!
PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS, I just want to get my money
back and go someplace that sells REAL LEATHER
FURNITURE and will back their warranty if it is
defective! THANKS SO MUCH
Product: Sonoma Brown Reclining Sofa Item#4660388
Sonoma Brown Reclining Loveseat Item#4660325 $622.40
Sonoma Brown Rocker Recliner Item#4660325 $369.33
5 Year Premier Warranty $79.00
Sales Tax $158.36
Delivery $199.99
Customer ID#MAXWJ54513
Sales #02197070019
Purchase Date Feb 19, 2007
Delivery Date March 9, 2007
Sales Rep#HD93430
Problem first seen Jan 1 2008
Consumer's Desired Resolution: I shopped many
furniture stores and decided on Ashley because of the
customer service. Since I was told when I purchased
this furniture that it was real leather, I assumed it
was real leather. When my hard earned money was spent
on that, I was hoping to keep it for many years and I
expected it to hold up and look nice the entire time
like my other furniture has. Since the customer
service person said that they wouldn't let me exchange
it for another brand that was 100% leather, and I
requested a refund and they denied that. I would
rather not hassle with it any longer and be able to
get my money back and purchase REAL LEATHER furniture
elsewhere as soon as possible so I can enjoy what I
have and not be embarassed to show people my cheap
imitation leather furniture. I would like a 100%
refund as soon as this can be resolved, I do not want
it 'repaired'
Today is January 11th, the Ashley Technician just left
my house. He immediately saw the problem and then
started PEELING back more of the leather. Now there is
a huge 2-3 inch spot that is totally peeled away. He
was VERY friendly and very insightful. He told me that
he could replace the one cushion and the other 8 or so
spots that are peeling he could 'paint' them when he
repaired the cushion. He said that my PAINT was
PEELING off of my leather. I wasn't aware that leather
was painted. When I showed him other pieces of leather
furniture that I own that haven't ever peeled (but
show wear) he let me know that furniture isn't made
the same way it used to be. He said that in the past
things had better quality and held up better.
I also told him of the extended warranty that I
purchased that was good for 5 years, but did NOT cover
peeling leather. I told him that didn't understand why
it didn't cover that and why the manufacturer only
covered peeling leather for one year. If it peels, it
should be replaced or refunded no matter how long you
have had it!
I expressed how unsatisfied that I was with the
product and asked if I could just get a refund and
purchase quality furniture from a business that stood
behind their product. He replied no, that Ashley
doesn't give refunds anymore. I asked him if he had
ANY Ashley Furniture in his home, he replied NO MAAM,
I WOULDN'T HAVE ANY OF THAT FURNITURE IN MY HOME. When
I asked why, he said that it wasn't good quality. That
is pretty sad when your own employee says that about
your products! I need to get this resolved, as I don't
want a couch with an orange circle on it in my family
After hearing the technicians advice and knowledge it
made me wonder why anyone does business with Ashley
Furniture. I know one thing, I will not be back. They
need to have higher standards and make sure their
customers are HAPPY, then they would have a great
referrals and repeat customers.
: I thought about it and after the ASHLEY FURNITURE
repairman told me that he would NOT have ASHLEY
FURNITURE in his own home because it had POOR QUALITY,
the more infuriated I am that they won't refund my
money. There are NUMEROUS reports online of other
people with the same problem with ASHLEY FURNITURE as
well. They don't stand behind their products and just
want to 'patch' the problem instead of make their so
called 'customers' happy. I wonder if the manager of
the Frisco store would be ok with me bringing my
PEELING FAKE LEATHER couch to the entrance of his
store, and sat on it with my children and passed out
flyers with my receipt (that shows the date of
purchase to prove it's less than a year old and a
piece of ***) along with photos of all of the peeling
leather on numerous places on my couch to potential
new victims? Maybe that would open their eyes and at
the same time SHOW PEOPLE WHAT POOR QUALITY ASHLEY
2/13/08 I received a small package at my doorstep and
when I opened it, there was a piece of pleather wadded
up in a bag. I'm assuming this is the piece they will
attempt to 'repair'.
I called A OK Repair group as soon as they opened to
let them know that I got the piece and to coordinate
the repair, since I've already missed work twice and
will miss again Monday for the RIP to be repaired, I
would like to have the other piece fixed at the same
time. They told me it shouldn't be a problem, that
they could fix it, but to call my warranty program and
let them know to add it to the 'work order'.
I then called the warranty company and explained
everything. They then told me that they couldn't do
that, they were two seperate companies and all they
handle is the rips, not the peeling leather. I then
asked WHO I was supposed to contact to get this
resolved, and they replied for me to call the A OK
Repair group.
I hate getting the run-around, but it seems that is
all I have had lately regarding this mess. I would
like a COMPLETE REFUND, this is RIDICULOUS!
Feb 18, 2008 Well, today yet another run around story!
AMAZING! The tech from A OK repair group came, as
promised. This is the THIRD time so far I have had to
*** of work for this horrible piece of furniture,
and yet the saga continues. He said he COULD NOT
repair the peeling leather (which I assumed he would)
then started taking pictures of the rip in the seam.
He said he could not repair it so he would need to
order a replacement part (IMAGINE THAT!) and as soon
as it came in, I could make yet ANOTHER appointment to
get that section of the piece of JUNK FURNITURE fixed.
SO, now I will have a MINIMUM of FOUR times I must
leave my job for ASHLEY FURNITURE TO ATTEMPT to repair
their defective furniture. My job is on the line now,
I can't imagine what it will be like when I tell them
I need to *** at LEAST two more times for this!
THAN TWO MONTHS? I sure don't.
AGAIN, I BEG, I NEED MY MONEY BACK ASAP to end this
horror story and get my life back. My husband has
called TOM from the FRISCO store and left THREE
MESSAGES NOW and he has yet to return any calls,
IMAGINE THAT! This is totally ridiculous and horrible
customer service and I tell AND SHOW everyone I know
my furniture and tell them the horrible way I have
been treated, all of the run around I have had and let
them decide for themselves where they want to shop!
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Feb 06
the something is happening to me with PEELING LEATHER
Jan 10
Same peeling durablend issue.0 0 Reply
Sep 24, 2015 Thorsby, Alabama
Ditto, ditto, ditto & ditto. I have the same problem with my Ashley (leather????) furniture. Ashley's warranties like so many other manufacturer's warranties of foreign made consumer goods, is not worth the paper it's written on. I have had to learn the hard way that a warranty is only as good as the person or business that you hand your hard earned money to at time of purchase, not the manufacturer.2 0 Reply
Aug 20, 2015
I have the same problem. This furniture is junk!2 0 Reply
Apr 16, 2015
This is my story. Even from the waded up bag. Exactly what they have said to you. Do they have a script they teach these people? Wow....you have no idea how exactly the same our stories are!!1 0 Reply
Apr 16, 2015
Oh my gosh! This is my story. I was even told to stab mine or spill fingernail polish remover on it. After a social media frenzy bcause I was getting nowhere with customer service, they decided to replace all the cushions. The recliners are ripping apart in the same locations. So today I get one of the cushions from UPS. It has to small holes punched in it from the factory. When reclined these holes get larger and rip the furniture. I am working w the BBB and Attorney General. I will never ever purchase another thing. I too wanted a refund but they wont budge.1 0 Reply
Feb 27, 2015 Burleson, Texas
Same here girl!!0 0 Reply
Jan 01, 2015
Same problem peeling sectional
Ashley sent out replacement cover but wanted to charge to put in on. buy the time we received the replacement piece it started peeling some where else
to piss off in ohio Apr 16, 2015
Same story as mine.0 0 Reply
Jul 02, 2014
Did any of you condition your leather furniture to prevent it from cracking/peeling? 99.9% of all real leather furniture needs to be conditioned to prevent that from happening and should be done atleast once a year.1 0 Reply
Dec 30, 2013 Saint John's, Newfoundland And Labrador
This is unbelievable. We bought sofa and recliner at Atlantic Home Furnishing in St. John's, NL. We were told the same thing that part of the furniture was real leather. Our recliner now is not fit to look at. It is just over 15 months old. I returned to Atlantic Home Furnishing in St. John's today to see what can be done. I immediately was told that the warranty is 1 year. They can order the part to be repaired.......but I would have to pay for the repair approximately $150 - $200 myself. If part not available, they would have someone come in and paint the tears. I said "paint". I can patch it up myself with a marker pen.. I don't want a repair job, I want a new chair or a refund. I explained that this is not good enough. I tried to show pictures but they wouldn't even look at them. Immediately the sales person said he could give me the 1-800 number to the manufacturer. I said we were told that this was real leather. They both then said that it is not actually real leather but a mixture. This is totally rediculous. I said we had a leather chesterfield prior to buying this one and it lasted about 15 years....true. It was in perfect condition when we sold it, and we also had children then jumping around. The sales person said yeah but they are not being made the same way today. Well why weren't we told that before we purchased it. We put alot of time in trying to purchase a good product and the sales person was quite confident in his recommendation of... this product. Tt have this happen is totally outrageous. I am in the process of reaching someone at AShley but with all those previous reviews, I can see I am in the same boat. Something has to be done, hence posting my complaint also with the hope that it reaches others. Marion..... St. John's, NL, Canada Show more0 0 Reply
Dec 23, 2013
I have had the exact same problem with my "Genuwine Leather" recliner I bought a year ago. The "leather" is peeling off to reveal a fabric underneath. I am so frustrated with this recliner and having to vacuum my house on a daily basis just to get the flakes. I dont/cant just throw out a $300 recliner, its perfectly new. I cant believe they can advertise lies like this. They wont do anything to fix it, so I might just toss it on their doorstep or maybe get it reupholstered...0 0 Reply
Nov 05, 2013 Orlando, Florida
None of the stores selling this *** leather will refund, repair or do anything to correct the peeling and flaking everyone is experiencing yet they continue selling this junk. Don't blame the stores, blame the real problem which is how the consumers are being screwed over by every store selling this ***. It's time for a class action law suit. I'm going to contact an attorney tomorrow and see what our options are. I'm confident we are going to prevail. I can't believe the stores continue to sell this junk knowing it is defective and falls apart.3 1 Reply
to Joe Green Jun 23, 2014 Marengo, Illinois
My so called leather peeled in three months. A suit sounds good to mee.2 0 Reply
to Theresa Apr 16, 2015
Count me in. Same here.0 0 Reply
to Joe Green Sep 24, 2015
Ashleys manufacturers their own furniture. I went to the source.
After months....I got a refund.
It took going into the store and talking to the VP!
Customer service should have been on their toes when a customer has an issue. They dropped the ball.
Lesson learned though, I will never ever ever again shop there. I will do my homework! Glad it is over.
Nov 05, 2013 Orlando, Florida
It is not just that store. This defective Chinese fabricated FAKE leather is being sold all over the country by very "reputable" furniture stores and companies, and they are doing nothing about it. There needs to be a national recall and we need to all rally together, and bring a law suit on the sellers of this junk leather that just peels apart. Thousands of people are being screwed over and nothing is being done about, while this product is still being sold everywhere. It's time we take this to the next level and get this problem taken care of before any more people get screwed over like we did.0 0 Reply
Mar 18, 2013
I purchased 2 Ashley reclinig leather chairs with ottomans. They all peeled after 10 mths of sercice. No children in household. The peeling is because they use "BONDED" leather. It's real leather alright, but it's shaved leather. It's real *** and does not hold up, but the sales people tell you it's real leather and they are not lying. Don't buy bonded leather!1 0 Reply
to zoom-zoom Apr 16, 2015
I was lead to believe this is leather.0 0 Reply
Feb 07, 2013
Ashley never sells genuine leather furniture. All their advertised leather is junk. they just dupe people into buying their junk.1 0 Reply
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Johns Hopkins University, 2016
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
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University of Toronto, 2016
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Juli Grigsby, Ph.D.
Cultural Anthropology African Diaspora program
University of Texas at Austin, 2014
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Political Science
Northwestern University, 2015
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University of Pennsylvania, 2013
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Princeton University, 2014
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Duke University, 2014
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University of California-Santa Cruz, 2013
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African American Studies
Temple University, 2014
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AnneMarie Mingo, Ph.D.
Emory University, 2013
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During Dr. Mingo's fellowship year, her book chapter "'They Must Have a Different God than Our God': Towards a Lived Theology of Black Churchwomen during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement" was finalized and sent to press for publication in Color and Transcendence: Contested Post-Racialism and Conflicted Churches in the U.S. and South Africa, edited by R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, and Anthony G. Reddie, University Press of Mississippi. She has also submitted a journal article for review and has two others in progress. She received IRB approval for her next round of research in April 2014 and will now be able to do the work to complete the articles that are in progress. She has written her initial draft of her manuscript proposal and will finalize it for submission later in the year. In the fall she was invited to co-edit a special issue on new narratives of the Civil Rights Movement fifty years later for the Association for the Study of African American History and Life's FIRE!!!: The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies. After a successful call-for-papers, she and her co-editor are now reviewing the submissions and identifying those that will fully go through the peer-review process. As an active member in her primary academic guilds, Dr. Mingo was appointed co-chair of the Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Group for the American Academy of Religion, she also served as the secretary to the Board for the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE). At the annual meeting for the SCE, she presented as the respondent for the Methodist/Wesleyan Ethics Group section on "Holiness in Black & White: Women, Race, and Sanctification." She organized and hosted a regional forum in Atlanta for the Equipping the Saints: Promising Practices of Black Congregations project. She also presented a paper at the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. On Penn State's campus, Dr. Mingo gave the keynote address for the Africana Research Center's Undergraduate Research Exhibition, presented "Seven Habits of Highly Successful African American Studies Programs" to the Department of African American Studies, and spoke as a panelist in the Black Law Students' Association's community summit on "What is the New Black?" Dr. Mingo has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of African American Studies and Women's Studies Department at Penn State University that she will begin fall 2014.
Sasha Turner, Ph.D.
University of Cambridge, UK, 2008
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Michael Woldemariam, Ph.D.
Princeton University, 2011
During Dr. Woldemariam's fellowship year, his article "Battlefield Outcomes and Rebel Cohesion: Lessons from the Eritrean Independence War" was accepted for publication and is currently forthcoming in Terrorism and Political Violence. He currently has two journal articles under review and three more in progress, in addition to co-authoring a lengthy forthcoming peer-reviewed report on governance and conflict in Somalia. He has made substantial progress on his book manuscript on rebel fragmentation in the Horn of Africa and expects to submit it for review at the conclusion of this summer. Dr. Woldemariam also conducted a brief stint of research in the Horn of Africa where he interviewed over 60 informants for his book and other related articles. His research findings were presented at the African Studies Association, Penn State's Department of Political Science, and the Africa Turning Points Colloquium. Dr. Woldemariam will be resuming his duties as an assistant professor of international relations at Boston University in fall 2014.
2013-2014 Affiliate Fellows
Moya Bailey, Ph.D.
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Emory University, 2013
During Dr. Bailey's fellowship year, her article, "Homolatent Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture" was published in the journal Palimpsest and was featured on Dean Christopher Long's podcast, Digital Dialogue. Her interview with cultural worker adrienne maree brown appeared in the November issue of the journal, Ada. She also published a piece in the African American studies journal Souls, called "New Terms of Resistance: A response to Zenzele Isoke." Additionally, Dr. Bailey was part of a participatory project recorded in the International Journal of Communication in which she and other scholars theorized the digital public sphere and its impact on politics. She currently has two journal articles under review and two in progress. She has begun work on her manuscript about queer and trans people of color's digital media creations. Bailey was one of the first five researchers to examine the papers of Afrofuturist MacArthur Genius and Nebula award winning author Octavia E. Butler and began planning a 2016 conference to honor Butler's memory. In the fall, Bailey taught Penn State's first iteration of Intro to African American Studies in which students created Wikipedia articles for little known figures and events in Black history. In the spring, From Baartman to Beyoncé: Black Women in Popular Culture culminated with a launch party for a student produced digital magazine that addressed issues relevant to the representation of Black students on Penn State's campus. She also gave several keynote lectures at various institutions including Chatham University, Oberlin College, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to her invited lectures, Dr. Bailey spoke with Penn State faculty, students, and staff about her digital humanities work as part of the campus Digital Humanities Interest Group. Honors student, Andrea Mitchell-Meyer, sought Bailey out to become her research assistant and learned how to use Zotero, Wordpress, Voyant and other digital research tools. Bailey was invited back to the University of Illinois at Chicago to lead a Feminist Digital Humanities Primer workshop for faculty in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, inclusive of faculty from four other departments. Bailey presented her work at the National Women's Studies Association Conference and Critical Ethnic Studies Conference. She accepted a postdoctoral position in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and will be working with the university's Digital Humanities Center, the NULab, beginning in the summer of 2014.
Surya Parekh, Ph.D.
History of Consciousness
University of California-Santa Cruz, 2013
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During Dr. Parekh's fellowship year as Alain Locke Post-doctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department and Rock Ethics Institute and affiliate fellow at the Africana Research Center, he completed one article for review and has two more in progress. He also completed much of the research for his book manuscript on the emergence of cosmopolitanism alongside 18th century discourses of race and gender. Portions of this work were presented in two public lectures at Penn State, at the "Critical Philosophies of Race" conference at the University of Witswatersrand in South Africa, and at the "Alternative Sovereignties" conference at the University of Oregon. In addition to his public presentations, Dr. Parekh gave guest lectures in Professor Robert Bernasconi's "Critical Philosophy of Race" graduate seminar in Philosophy, in Professor Jonathan Eburne's "The Age of Reason" graduate seminar in Comparative Literature, and at the Rock Ethics Institute Fellows Seminar. For the Philosophy department, he taught two courses, "Philosophy, Race, and Diversity" and "Contemporary Philosophy". He also helped develop the Rock Ethics Institute's Critical Philosophy of Race Initiative. He mentored graduate students in the Critical Philosophy of Race Initiative, served as Book Review Editor for the Critical Philosophy of Race journal, and co-organized the 20 Years Since 1994: Reflecting on African Turning Points in South Africa and Rwanda Colloquium with Professor Gabeba Baderoon. Dr. Parekh also participated in events sponsored by the Africana Research Center, including the post-doctoral works in progress and professional development seminars. Dr. Parekh has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship position within the Department of African American Studies, which he will begin in fall 2014.
2012-2013 Fellows
Jessie Dunbar, Ph.D.
Emory University, 2012
Jessie Dunbar completed her B.A. in English at Clark Atlanta University. She received her Master's degree from the University of Georgia, where she completed a thesis entitled, "Tracing the Arc: Representations of Slave Children in History and Literature." Jessie holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Emory University. Her research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century African American literature as well as Diaspora studies. She has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Graduate Research Opportunities Fellowship and the Laney Graduate School Diversity Fellowship. Jessie is revising her dissertation, "Democracy, Diaspora, and Disillusionment: Black Itinerancy and the Propaganda Wars," for publication. Dr. Dunbar has accepted an Assistant Professor of African American/African Diasporic Literature position at University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Jessica Johnson, Ph.D.
University of Maryland-College Park, 2012
Jessica Marie Johnson completed her doctorate in History at the University of Maryland-College Park. Her dissertation explores free women of African descent in the eighteenth-century French Atlantic. Jessica's research interests include African-American and Afro-Atlantic history; women, gender, and sexuality in the African diaspora; slavery and the slave trade; digital feminisms, digital humanities, and new media; and diaspora and race theory. She has been the recipient of a number of awards including a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellowship at Bowdoin College, a Woodrow Wilson Mellon-Mays Dissertation Grant, and a Gilder-Lehrman Institute Research Fellowship. As a postdoctoral fellow with the Africana Research Center and the Richards Civil War Center, she will be revising her dissertation for publication. Dr. Johnson has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of History at Michigan State University. Jessica tweets at @jmjohnsophd and tumbles at Diaspora Hypertext (http://jmjohnso.tumblr.com).
Sabrina Strings, Ph.D.
University of California-San Diego, 2012
Sabrina Strings has a B.A. with High Honors in Psychology from UC Berkeley and an M.A. in Sociology from UC San Diego. She recently received her Ph.D. from UC San Diego. Her research examines the co-construction blackness and whiteness vis à vis the discourse surrounding "racially appropriate" female bodies from the Enlightenment through the early 20th century. Sabrina is a former McNair Scholar and has received several awards for her research from the African and African American Studies Research Center, as well as the Ujima Network. She has served as a UC President's Dissertation Year fellow, and is currently a member of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. Dr. Strings has been awarded the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship (to start July 2013) and will have a joint appointment in the School of Public Health and the Department of Sociology.
William Sturkey, Ph.D.
African-American History
Ohio State University, 2012
William Sturkey received his Ph.D. in History at The Ohio State University where he is finishing a dissertation titled "The Heritage of Hub City: The Struggle for Opportunity in the New South." Through the lens of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a classic town of the New South, William's project explores the racial struggle for opportunity across a century of American life between Emancipation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. William received his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 where he wrote "Houses of Liberty," which won the Mississippi Historical Association's Glover Moore Prize. He has also written articles published or forthcoming in the Journal of African American History and the Journal of Mississippi History and been supported by numerous grants and fellowships. At Penn State, William will revise his dissertation manuscript for publication and begin working on his next project, a social and cultural history of Northern black life, amusement, and vice in the decades before World War II. Dr. Sturkey has accepted a two-year post-doctoral position in the History Department at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (http://history.unc.edu/people/lecturers-and-post-doctoral-fellows/william-sturkey/) and his first book "To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools" is available for purchase here.
2011-2012 Fellows
Michael Kehinde, Ph.D.
Durham University, UK, 2010
Michael Kehinde has degrees from University of Ibadan, Nigeria and Durham University in the United Kingdom. He recently completed a Ph.D. in Politics at Durham University researching the implications of colonial boundaries in West Africa as a fellow of SEPHIS. His current research focuses on the significance of trans-border ethnicity for regional integration in West Africa. Michael had previously taught political science at Lagos State University in Nigeria and African politics at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. He is an alumnus of the Global South Workshop of the Graduate Institute of International Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland as well as a graduate fellow of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India. Michael's research and teaching interests include African politics and development, borderland studies and migration.
Crystal Sanders, Ph.D.
Northwestern University, 2011
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Dr. Sanders is a twentieth century United States historian with a particular interest in the African American freedom struggle in the U.S. South. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her doctoral dissertation, which was entitled, "To Be Free of Fear: Black Women's Fight for Freedom Through the Child Development Group of Mississippi." In the book project, she considers how the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM), a federal Head Start program for low-income preschoolers, produced a political battle between poor black mothers and grandmothers and white southern congressmen. Between 1965 and 1968, Mississippi's black working-class participants collaborated with the federal government to seek bottom-up change in the most repressive state in the country. They moved beyond teaching shapes and colors to challenge the state's closed political system and white supremacist ideology. Black women who had previously worked as sharecroppers and domestics now had significantly higher salaries as preschool teachers in jobs that provided them with the financial freedom to vote and send their children to previously all-white schools. Their challenge antagonized a white power structure, at both the local and state levels, that was unaccustomed to financially independent and assertive blacks. It provoked opposition that significantly diminished the transformative possibilities of Head Start and other War on Poverty programs.
2011-2012 Affiliate Fellows
Luvell Anderson, Jr., Ph.D.
Rutgers, 2011
Luvell Anderson is the first Alain Locke Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Pennsylvania State University. He received his BA in philosophy from University of Missouri at St. Louis and has recently completed his PhD in philosophy at Rutgers University. He specializes in philosophy of language and critical philosophy of race and has published articles on racial slurs. Luvell is currently working on a co-edited volume on the Philosophy of Race. He is also working with the Implicit Bias and Philosophy International Research Project, developing research that looks at the propriety of reappropriating racial humor and racist slurs to combat implicit bias. Dr. Anderson has accepted an assistant professor of Philosophy position at the University of Memphis.
Papori Bora, Ph.D.
Feminist Studies
University of Minnesota, 2011
Papori Bora is a Post-Doctoral Scholar in the Department of Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She completed her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies with a minor in Development Studies and Social Change from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research engages with the interweaving themes of postcolonial and transnational feminist studies, South Asian historiography, feminist political theory, law and citizenship and human rights to examine questions of the political from a feminist perspective. Her recent work titled "Between the Human, the Citizen and the Tribal: Reading Feminist Politics in India's Northeast" has been published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her current research is focused on two broad themes. First, she has been interested in developing a critical engagement between the concepts of performativity and postcoloniality, through which to articulate the limits of citizenship and representative democracy as ways of belonging and accounting for difference in the post-colonial nation-state. Second, she has been working on a book on the intellectual and political history of India's "Northeast," which traces the political history that has ensued from the British colonial strategy of separating the region, politically and administratively, from the rest of colonial India, through the Inner Line regulation that created the categories of the "governed" and the "ungovernable," and how the specters of these categories haunt the functioning of post-colonial citizenship in the region. Dr. Bora has accepted a tenure-track position at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
Eugene Walton, Ph.D.
Political Science
Duke University, 2011
Eugene Walton completed his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Political Science at Duke University and is a graduate fellow at The Center for the Study of Race Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Science (REGSS). His research focuses on international security, armed non-state actors, and the politics of identity. His dissertation is entitled, "Armed Non-State Actors and International Crises: Rebel Group Mobilization and Crisis Violence". It is a quantitative analysis that features the collection of an original data set, and assesses the influence of armed rebellion on interstate violence. Dr. Walton has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at The Pennsylvania State University through the Department of Political Science.
2010-2011 Fellows
Ikuko Asaka, Ph.D.
History, Gender and Women's History Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
Ikuko Asaka hails from Osaka, Japan. After earning her M.A. in American Studies from Doshisha University, Kyoto, she began her Ph.D. studies at UW-Madison. Her work focuses on transnational African American studies, nineteenth-century U.S., empire and race, and gender and women's history. Ikuko's dissertation is titled "Race across Empire and Republic: Black Migration to Canada and Racial, National, and Gender Formations in Atlantic Context." She is the recipient of a number of fellowships, including OAH La Pietra Dissertation Travel Fellowship in Transnational History and Graduate Scholars Associates Fellowship at UW Institute on Race and Ethnicity. She is also a finalist for Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize for the best graduate student paper presented at American Studies Association. Dr. Asaka has accepted a visiting professorship at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.
Jasmine Cobb, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Jasmine Nichole Cobb recently completed a PhD in Communication & Culture at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on both historical and contemporary representations of race, class, gender and sexuality in visual cultures with published works on sexuality in popular music, Black filmmaking, and race on television. For her book manuscript, Picturing Freedom: Race, Place and Emancipation in the Transatlantic Parlor, she uses nineteenth century media to discuss freedom as a crisis of visual culture that demanded reconfigurations of race and spectatorship. Dr. Cobb has accepted an assistant professor position at the Department of Communication Studies, School of Communications, at Northwestern University.
Ariane Cruz, Ph.D.
African Diaspora Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women Gender and Sexuality
University of California-Berkeley, 2010
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Ariane Cruz received her B.A. from Stanford University with honors in Art Practice (Drawing and Painting) and African American Studies. She received her M.A. from UC Berkeley in African Diaspora Studies. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral fellowship, and the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Sexual Culture Dissertation Grant for her dissertation entitled "Berries Bittersweet: Visual Representations of Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary American Pornography." Her research and teaching interests include images of black female sexuality, black visuality and race and representation. Dr. Cruz has accepted a tenure track assistant professor position in the Department of Women's Studies at Penn State University.
2009-2010 Fellows
Kristina Bobo, ABD
University of North Carolina, 2009
Kristina's work focuses on African American and Southern Literatures. Her dissertation is titled "The American South in the African American Literary Imagination." She was the recipient of several graduate student awards and grants at Chapel Hill, where she also served as the managing editor of Southern Literary Journal. She is co-editor for The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature and has published several essays, including "Language and Linguistic Inadequacy in Thomas Wolfe's O Lost" for the Thomas Wolfe Review. She works for Educational Testing Services in NY.
Antoinette Pressley-Sanon, Ph.D.
African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
Toni's teaching and research interests include Caribbean Literatures, African Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures, African-American Literatures, African Diaspora Studies, Memory Studies, and Black Speculative Fiction. Her dissertation is titled "A Grain of Salt: Remembering the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Benin Republic and Haiti." She is the recipient of a number of fellowships, including a Fulbright IIE for her project titled "The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Oral Tradition" in the Benin Republic, and is now an Assistant Professor at State University of New York - Buffalo.
Cedric Tolliver, Ph.D.
Comparative Literature and Theory
University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Cedric's work focuses on African American and Francophone Literatures. His dissertation, "Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Diasporic Cosmopolitan Culture," argues that African American, Anglophone Caribbean, and Francophone Caribbean writers and intellectuals built through their life and works a diasporic cosmopolitan culture in the wake of World War II. Dr. Tolliver is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston.
2008-2009 Fellows
Tommy Curry, Ph.D.
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 2008
During his fellowship year, Dr. Curry produced ten scholarly essays and placed six of them in peer-reviewed venues such as The Crit, The Pluralist, The APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, and the Journal of Black Studies. In addition, he presented his work at five national conferences, secured four additional invitations for paid speaking engagements, and secured a book contract from Fordham University Press. Dr. Curry ended his year by securing a tenure-track position in the Department of Philosophy (with affiliations in Africana Studies and Gender Studies) at Texas A&M University. He continues to work on several book projects, including a monograph tentatively titled "Nationist Dawn." Dr. Curry is now an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University.
Alyssa Garcia, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
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During her fellowship year, Dr. Garcia conducted fieldwork on Dominicans in the state of Pennsylvania, particularly in the areas of Reading, Lancaster, Allentown, Hazleton, and Philadelphia. The results of this preliminary investigation will be published as a book chapter in an edited volume on Dominican migration in the United States sponsored by the Dominican Studies Institute (City College-CUNY). She produced and submitted two articles to peer review journals: "Situating Race, Navigating Belonging: Mapping Afro-Cuban Identities in the U.S." and "Continuous Moral Economies: The State Regulation of Bodies and Sex-Work in Cuba." She also revised her manuscript and book proposal for "Discourses of Discipline: Sex, the State, and Subjectivity in Cuba." Finally, Dr. Garcia presented her work at several conferences including "Integration, Globalization and Racialization: Theories and Perspectives on Immigration" at The University of Massachusetts Boston's Social Theory Forum, and "Cuba: The Measure of a Revolution, 1959-2009" at Queens University at Kingston, Ontario Canada. Dr. Garcia is now an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African & African American Studies at Penn State University.
Kathryn Gines, Ph.D.
University of Memphis, 2003
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Professor Gines' primary research and teaching interests lie in Continental philosophy (especially Existentialism and Phenomenology), African American/Africana Philosophy, Black Feminist Philosophy, and Critical Philosophy of Race. She has also taught in African American Studies/African Diaspora Studies. Some of the major figures she writes about and teaches include Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, Anna Julia Cooper and Richard Wright. Professor Gines has published articles on race, assimilation, feminism, intersectionality, and sex and sexuality in contemporary hip-hop. She co-edited an anthology titled "Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy" (SUNY Press, 2010) and is author of "Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question" (Indiana University Press, 2014). Professor Gines is the founding director of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP), the director of Cultivating Underrepresented Students in Philosophy (CUSP), and a founding co-editor of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race (CPR). She is an active member of several professional organizations such as the American Philosophical Association, Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy, Caribbean Philosophical Association, and Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora. Married with four children she has a passion for empowering academics and professionals in the areas of work, life, and wellness balance. The founding director of Work.Life.Wellness.Balance.Bliss, Gines offers workshops on work/life balance, academic balance, home balance, and wellness and self-care balance. She is certified yoga instructor (RYT, 500 with an emphasis on yoga lifestyle teaching).
2007-2008 Fellows
Gabeba Baderoon, Ph.D.
University of Cape Town, 2004
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Gabeba Baderoon is the author of Regarding Muslims: from slavery to post-apartheid (Wits, 2014) and the poetry collections The Dream in the Next Body and A hundred silences. She received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town, and has held fellowships in the African Gender Institute, the Nordic Africa Institute, and the Centre for Contemporary Islam. Baderoon is an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies at Penn State, and an Extraordinary Professor of English at Stellenbosch University. She co-directs the African Feminist Initiative at Penn State with Alicia Decker.
Dayo Mitchell, Ph.D.
University of Virginia, 2005
Academic Advising Director, Undergraduate Advising and Research (UAR)
Stanford University
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Ph.D.
University of Texas at Austin, 2005
Associate Professor of Africana Studies
Brown University
2006-2007 Fellows
Carina Ray, Ph.D.
Cornell University, 2007
Associate Professor of History
Fordham University
Shirley Moody, Ph.D.
University of Maryland, 2006
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Shirley Moody-Turner came to Penn State in 2006 as a post-doctoral fellow in the Africana Research Center before becoming an assistant professor in the department of English in 2007 and most recently, an associate professor of English and African American Studies. Specializing in African American literary and cultural studies, her work advances new perspectives on the interrelationships among folklore, discourses of race and gender, and the politics of African American and American literary and cultural productions. She is most interested in recovering the innovative and resistant literary and ethnographic strategies African Americans have devised in efforts to engage, subvert, challenge, and/or rewrite the existing racialized and gendered protocols informing literary production and cultural representation. Her first monograph took up these concerns in relation to the field of folklore studies, while her second focuses in on African American print cultures. She is the author of Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation (University Press of Mississippi 2013) and co-editor of Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (Indiana UP 2013). She recently signed on as editor of volume VII for the Cambridge University Press multi-volume series, African American Literature in Transition focusing on the years 1900-1910. She serves on the editorial boards for Oxford Bibliographies Online and Resources in American Literary Study and has published and forthcoming articles and book chapters in African American Review, MELUS, MLA Approaches to Teaching Charles W. Chesnutt, Blackwell Companion to African American Literature, Blackwell Companion to American Literature, New Essays on the African American Novel, and Oxford Bibliographies Online. She is co-founder of the Anna Julia Cooper Society, president of the African American Literature and Culture Society, co-organizer of the Celebrating African American Literature conference series, and current director of Graduate Studies for the Department of African American Studies. Her work has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships, including a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a post-doctoral fellowship from Rutgers University, and Institute for Arts and Humanities Individual Faculty Grant, an Africana Research Center Travel Grant and a ational grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her current project, tentatively titled, Privately Printing: Anna Julia Cooper and the Gender Politics of Black Publishing, recovers and critically examines Anna Julia Cooper's innovative engagements with publishing and print cultures, thereby interrogating and expanding the parameters of what counts as African American literary production.
Solsiree del Moral, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, 2006
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Associate Professor of American Studies and Black Studies
Amherst College
2005-2006 Fellows
Erin D. Chapman, Ph.D.
Yale University, 2006
Associate Professor of History
George Washington University
Jason E. Glenn, Ph.D.
Harvard University, 2005
Associate Professor at The Institute for the Medical Humanities
University of Texas, Medical Branch at Galveston


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