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Kara Miles Turner, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Administration

Education
Ph.D. in American History, Duke University, Spring 2001
M.A. in American History, Duke University, Spring 1995
B.A. in Political Science and Africana Studies, Rutgers University, Spring 1992

Professional Experience
Assistant Dean for Administration, College of Liberal Arts, Morgan State University, 2002-present
Assistant to the Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education, Virginia State University, 2001-2002
Assistant Professor of History, Virginia State University, 2000-2002
Instructor of History, Virginia State University, 1996-2000

Research Expertise
20th Century U.S. History, African American History, Civil Rights Movement, Virginia History

Recent Publications

• Review of Luther P. Jackson and a Life for Civil Rights, Michael Dennis, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 112 (2004).
• “Both Victors And Victims: Prince Edward County, Virginia, the NAACP, and Brown” Virginia Law Review 90 (2004): 1667-1691.
• “’Liberating Lifescripts’: Prince Edward County, Virginia and the Roots of Brown v. Board” chapter in From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy, ed. Peter Lau (NC: Duke University Press, 2004).
• “’Getting it Straight’: the Black Educational Struggle and Prince Edward County,” Journal of Negro Education 72 (2003): 217-229.
• Review of Editor for Justice: The Life of Louis I. Jaffe, Alexander S. Leidholdt, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 110 (2002): 418-419.

Recent Professional Activities

• Holmes Prize Committee, Southern Historical Association. (2005)
• Executive Board Member, Maryland Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education, American Council on Education Office. (Summer 04-present)
• Grant Reviewer, Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education Grants. (Fall 2003, Fall 2004)
• State of Maryland Co-Chair, Southern Historical Association Membership Committee. (Spring 2003-present)
• Grant Reviewer, Department of Education Teaching American History Grants. (Summer 2002)
• Advisory Board, They Closed Their Schools, Mercy Seat Films. (Spring 2001-present)

Recent Presentations

• Conference Paper, “Shattering the Myths of Brown v. Board of Education: Rooting Current Efforts toward Educational Equality in the Historical Context,” National Social Studies Conference, Baltimore, MD (November 2004)
• Lecture, “Prince Edward County and Brown: Roots and Reaction,” 10th Annual Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (July 2004)
• Lecture, “ Before Rosa there was Barbara, before Woolworth’s there was Moton: Antecedents of the 1951 Prince Edward County School Boycott,” Symposium: “Before and After Brown in Virginia,” Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA, and Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA (April 2004)
• Conference Paper, “Closing the Door of Opportunity: Brown v. Board’s Impact on Black School Children in Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1959-1964,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (March 2004)
• Lecture, “The Forgotten Ones: Brown v. Board and Prince Edward County, Virginia,” Black History Month Program, Bureau of Financial Crimes Enforcement, Department of the Treasury, McLean, VA (February 2004)
• Lecture, “Both Victors And Victims: Prince Edward County, Virginia, the NAACP, and Brown,” Fifty Years of Brown v. Board of Education, University of Virginia School of Law, (February 2004)
• Lecture, “Liberating Lifescripts: Prince Edward County, VA and the Roots of Brown v. Board,” Banner Lecture Series, Virginia Historical Society, (February 2004)

Grants/ Awards/ Honors:

• Nominee, HBCU Faculty Award, BC Powders Corporation (Spring 2002)
• Finalist for Pauline Maier Dissertation Prize in History, The Historical Society (Spring 2002)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Historically Black Colleges and Universities Faculty Graduate Study Program Grant. (Fall 1999-Spring 2000)
• Duke University Endowment Fellowship in History. (Fall 1992-Spring 1996 )

Professional Memberships:

• American Association of University Women
• Association of Black Women Historians
• Organization of American Historians
• Southern Historical Association