TIMOTHY PATRICK McCARTHY Lecturer on History and Literature and on Public Policy Director, Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program Carr Center for Human Rights Policy | Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street | Box 40 | Cambridge, MA 02138 617-384-9023 (office) | 617-504-6548 (cell) [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D., History, Columbia University, 2006. Dissertation: “Culture of Dissent: American Abolitionism and the Ordeal of Equality” Faculty Chair: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History M.Phil., History, Columbia University, 1997. Orals Fields: U.S. History; African-American History; Law, Literature & Culture Certificate of Completion, Feminist Pedagogy Workshop, Columbia University, 1997. M.A., History, Columbia University, 1996. Master’s Thesis: “When Slaves Became Citizens: Public Education and Reconstruction Politics at the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention” A.B. cum laude, History and Literature, Harvard College, 1993. Senior Honors Thesis: “Antebellum America’s Missing Link: Mulattohood and Social ‘In-Betweenness’ in the Early Black Novel, 1853-1862” Advisors: Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature David Herbert Donald, Charles Warren Professor of American History EXPERTISE American History and Literature, Culture and Politics Social Movements, Protest Literature, and Radicalism Slavery and Abolition in the Modern World Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Communications and Leadership Human Rights Studies EMPLOYMENT 2012-present Korea National Diplomatic Academy, Seoul, Korea Visiting Professor of Communications and Leadership (Winter Term) 2005-present Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Lecturer on History and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2005-present) Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (2006-present) Core Faculty and Director, Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (2011-present) Resident Faculty Affiliate, Quincy House, Harvard College (2010-present) Core Faculty and Director, Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (2009-11) Faculty Affiliate in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2008-present) Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2005-06) Senior Resident Tutor, Quincy House, Harvard College (2005-10) Member, Committee on Instruction in History and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2005-present) Non-Resident Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, Harvard University (2005-06) 2003-2005

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of the American South Field Research Coordinator, Long Civil Rights Movement Project (Phase One on School Desegregation), Southern Oral History Program (2004-05) 2001-present Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities, Dorchester, MA Academic Director (2002-03; 2005-11) and Professor of History (2001-03; 2005-present) 1998-2003

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Tutor in History and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (1998-2003) Co-Chair, Committee on Instruction in History and Literature (2001-03) Tutor in Religion, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2002-03) Tutor in Afro-American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Spring 2000) Resident Tutor, Quincy House, Harvard College (1999-2003) Non-Resident Tutor, Quincy House, Harvard College (1998-99) 1995-present Columbia University and Barnard College, New York, NY Instructor of History, Barnard Pre-College Program (Summer 2005-07) Instructor of English and History, Columbia University (1997-99) Teaching Assistant in African-American Studies, Columbia University (Fall 1996) Teaching Assistant in History, Barnard College (Spring 1996) Teaching Assistant in History, Columbia University (Fall 1995) Doctoral Research Assistant and Founding Managing Editor, Race & Reason, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University (1994-97) PUBLICATIONS

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Books Bonds of Empathy: Cultural Abolitionism and the Pursuit of American Equality (work-inprogress). Resistance in Words: The Global Literature of Protest (3 volumes; Gale, 2014). Lead Editor. Perpetual Criticism: Interviews with Matt Bieber (New Press, 2013). Stonewall’s Children: A Modern Story of Liberation, Loss, and Love (New Press, 2013). The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the People’s Historian (New Press, 2012). Editor. Foreword by Noam Chomsky. Afterword by Alice Walker. Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism (New Press, 2010). Co-Editor with John McMillian. Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (New Press, 2006). Co-Editor with John Stauffer. Foreword by Michael Fellman. Afterword by Martin Duberman. The Radical Reader: A Documentary Anthology of the American Radical Tradition (New Press, 2003; Tenth Anniversary Revised Edition, 2013). Co-Editor with John McMillian. Foreword by Eric Foner. Articles & Book Chapters “Slavery,” in Dwight McBride and Mark Anthony Neal, eds. Keywords for AfricanAmerican Studies (SUNY Press, 2013). “Beyond ‘America’s First Gay President’: Reimagining Queer Politics in the Age of Obama,” Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, September-October 2012. “The People’s Historian,” Introduction to The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the People’s Historian (New Press, 2012). “Protest Nation,” Introduction to McCarthy and McMillian, eds. Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism (New Press, 2010). “The ‘Hope’ Stage is Over,” Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, March-April 2010. “Finding His Roots: Barack Obama and the 1960s,” for “A Special Forum on the 2008 Election,” in The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, Volume 2, Number 1, June 2009, 72-73. “Introduction: A Special Issue on Race, Radicalism, and Historical Memory” (with Zoe Trodd), Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2009, ix-xii.

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“An Interview with Suzy Post,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2009, 145-174. “Is Barack Obama the Real Deal?” Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, September 2008. “Introduction,” in Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Stauffer, eds. Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (New Press, 2006), 1-17. “’To Plead Our Own Cause’: Black Print Culture and the Origins of American Abolitionism,” in Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Stauffer, eds. Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (New Press, 2006), 114-144. “A Test of Faith: Black Church Burnings and America’s Enduring Crucible of ‘Race’,” Souls 8:1 (Winter 2006): 28-40. “Why I Write,” in Jim Downs, ed. Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change (Routledge, 2005), 27-38. “In My Brother’s House: White Scholars and the Future of Black Studies,” Souls 6:3-4 (Fall 2004): 55-65. “The Mason-Dixon Line,” Encyclopedia of American Studies (Grolier, 2001). “Marvin Gaye,” Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, vol. 1 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1998), 311-313. “Pearl Bailey” and “Pete Maravich,” Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, vol. 2 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), 47-50, 601-603. “Francis L. Cardozo” and “Robert C. DeLarge,” American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1998). “Legalizing Anxiety: Plessy, Passing, and the Conundrum of ‘Race’ in American Culture,” Race and Reason 3 (1996-1997): 20-25. “A Radical Eye: Herbert Aptheker’s Legacy of Antiracism,” Race and Reason 2 (19951996): 18-22. Reviews Review of (with John McMillian), Journal of American History 90:4 (March 2004): 1557-1558. Review of Of One Blood: American Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality, by Paul Goodman, for In These Times (September 20, 1998), 22-23.

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Review of The Second Battle for New Orleans: The Hundred Year Struggle to Integrate the Schools, by Liva Baker, for Columbia Magazine (Fall 1997), 38. Review of Iron in Her Soul: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left, by Helen C. Camp, for Columbia Magazine (Summer 1996), 43. Essays and Editorials “The People’s Historian,” The Daily Beast, August 24, 2012. “Honoring Manning,” The Nation, April 4, 2011. [part of a special on-line tribute to the late Dr. Manning Marable] “Let Us Be The Peacemakers,” The Nation, September 20, 2010. “Gay Republicans Rising,” The Daily Beast, August 29, 2010. “America’s Radical Roots,” The Nation, May 13, 2010. “Obama’s Cautious Gay Strategy,” The Daily Beast, April 18, 2010. “The Man and the Movement,” Harvard Crimson, October 5, 2009. “Barack Obama: America’s First Gay President?” The Huffington Post, October 2009. “The Tenacity of Hope,” The Voice, November 2008. “A People’s President,” Folha, November 5, 2008. “Finding Faith in Family,” Harvard Crimson, September 26, 2008. “Why Is It Still So Hard to Come Out at Harvard?” The Voice, March 2008. “Homos, Hypocrites, and Haters,” The Nation, September 4, 2007. “Summers of Our Discontent,” Harvard Crimson and History News Network, Feb 28, 2006. “Fair Harvard?” Harvard Crimson, Jan 31, 2002. “Why Hoxby is Wrong” (with Brad Epps and Tom Jehn), Harvard Crimson, Oct 25, 2001. “Unfair Harvard,” The Nation, May 14, 2001. “A Tale of Two Campaigns,” Harvard Crimson, Oct 29, 1999. “Of Past and Future Glory” (with Christopher Cappozzola), Boston Globe, May 26, 1997.

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“Keeping the ‘Call of Service’,” Harvard Crimson, Dec 12, 1994. Staff Columnist, “Truth to Power,” Columbia Daily Spectator, 1994-1997. Interviews “How America Can Avoid Ending Up Like the Roman Empire,” Huffington Post, May 24, 2012. “On Obama, the GOP, and Life as a Second-Class Citizen,” Huffington Post, October 25, 2011. “Compass to Compassion: Interview with Tim McCarthy,” Union Theological Seminary, October 11-12, 2011. “What Would You Die For?: A Conversation with Tim McCarthy” The Citizen, March 11, 2010. “Gay Rights Will Mean New Struggles,” Big Think, August 2009. “Could Twitter Spark a Revolution?” Big Think, August 2009. “Obama Has Spent Almost No Political Capitol on the Gay Community,” Big Think, August 2009. “What We Can Learn From Tupac,” Big Think, August 2009. “Same Sex Marriage Isn’t Everything,” Big Think, August 2009. “Forty Years After Stonewall,” Big Think, August 2009. “Is the Gay Rights Movement Moving,” Big Think, August 2009. COURSES The Arts of Communication (Lecture/Practicum, Korea National Diplomatic Academy, 2012-present) The Arts of Communication (Lecture/Practicum, Executive Education Program, Harvard Kennedy School, 2011-present) The Arts of Communication (Lecture/Practicum, Harvard Kennedy School, 2006-present) American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac (Lecture co-taught with Professor John Stauffer, Harvard College, 2002-03, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011) American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac (On-Line Distance Education Course taught with Professor John Stauffer, Harvard School of Continuing Education, 2006-11) Stories of Slavery and Freedom (Seminar, Harvard College, 2006-present)

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Policy Analysis Exercise (Supervised Research and Writing, Harvard Kennedy School, 2010-present) Sophomore Honors Tutorial in History and Literature (Tutorial, Harvard College, 1999-2003, 2005-07, Spring 2009, Spring 2010) Junior Honors Tutorial on American Race Relations (Tutorial, Harvard College, 2006-07) Senior Honors Thesis Tutorial (Supervised Research/Writing, Harvard College, 1998-2003, 2005-present) Humanities Curriculum Development for the Cambridge Public Schools (Independent Study, Harvard College/Harvard Graduate School of Education, Spring 2007) Political Speechmaking and the Language of American Democracy (Freshman Seminar, Harvard College, Spring 2007) Queer Culture from Stonewall to Gay Marriage (Conference Course, Harvard College, Spring 2006) Gender, Militarization, and Non-Violence (Independent Study, Harvard College, Fall 2006) Persuasion and Performance: Political Speechmaking and the Language of American Democracy (Seminar, Barnard College Summer Program, Summer 2005-07) American History 101: Freedom Stories (Seminar, Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities, Codman Square Health Center, 2001-03, 2005-present) Junior Honors Tutorial on American Dissent (Tutorial, Harvard College, 2000-01) Junior Honors Tutorial on Blacks and American Communism (Tutorial, Harvard College, Spring 2000) Junior Honors Tutorial on Black Culture and Consciousness (Tutorial, Harvard College, Spring 1999) Junior Honors Tutorial on Puritanism and Its Discontents (Tutorial, Harvard College, Spring 1999) Junior Honors Tutorial on Revolution and Reform (Tutorial, Harvard College, Fall 1998) Representations: The Politics and Poetics of “American” Identity (Seminar co-taught with Professor Robert Hanning, Columbia University, Fall 1997, Spring 1999) Introduction to African-American Studies (Teaching Assistant for Lecture taught by Professor Manning Marable, Columbia University, Fall 1996) American Civilization since the Civil War (Teaching Assistant for Lecture taught by Professor Rosalind Rosenberg, Barnard College, Spring 1996) The American Radical Tradition (Teaching Assistant for Lecture taught by Professor Eric Foner, Columbia University, Fall 1995) CAPSTONE PROJECTS * Each year, I serve as advisor to undergraduate and graduate students doing original research for Senior Honors Theses (Harvard College), Policy Analysis Exercises (Kennedy School), and the Traub-Dicker Fellowships (Carr Center) 2011-2012 Molly O’Donnell, “’What Is It?’: The ‘Freak’ in Nineteenth Century American Culture” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College)

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Daniel Rotman, “Transgression” (Documentary Film on Transgender Asylum Seekers; Traub-Dicker Fellowship, Harvard Kennedy School) David Dodge, “Messaging in LGBT Ballot Campaigns: Winning the Hearts and Minds of Voters Through Persuasive Media” (Policy Analysis Exercise/Traub-Dicker Fellowship, Harvard Kennedy School) Winner of the Carr Center Prize for Best Human Rights PAE 2010-2011 Bekah Ross, “Pioneer, Prophet, and Pariah: Henry Highland Garnet and the Politics of Abolition” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) Tommy Tseng, “Winning Hearts and Minds: Chinese Americans for Full LGBT Equality in Los Angeles County” (Policy Analysis Exercise/Traub-Dicker Fellowship, Harvard Kennedy School) Sarah Bouchat, “Standing in the Way of Control: Technologies of Civil Society in Southeast Asia” (Policy Analysis Exercise/Traub-Dicker Fellowship, Harvard Kennedy School) Matt Bieber, “The Role of Labor Brokers in the U.S. Human Trafficking Supply Chain” (Policy Analysis Exercise, Harvard Kennedy School) Richmond Blake and Rafaela Zuidema, “Protecting Vulnerable LGBT Populations: An Opportunity for U.S. Global Leadership” (Policy Analysis Exercise, Harvard Kennedy School) Winner of the Carr Center Prize for Best Human Rights PAE 2009-2010 Martabel Wasserman, “ACT UP New York: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Crisis, 19871993” (Senior Honors Thesis, Women, Gender, and Sexuality/Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard College) Winner of the Eugene R. Cummings Prize for Best Thesis in LGBT Studies Josh Archambault and Birgit Waidmann, “Enhancing Counter-Trafficking Efforts: Diagnosing the Labor and Sex Trafficking Nexus” (Policy Analysis Exercise, Harvard Kennedy School) Winner of the Carr Center Prize for Best Human Rights PAE 2008-2009 Emily Owens, “’Are You Sisters?’: Motherhood, Sisterhood, and the Impossible Black Lesbian Subject” (Senior Honors Thesis, Women, Gender, and Sexuality/African and African-American Studies, Harvard College) Winner of the Andrew Ramroop Prize in African and African-American Studies

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Paul Gregory Nauert, “’A Hard Glory’: Discovering the Contemporary Catholic Worker Movement’s Alternative Logic of Modernity” (Senior Honors Thesis, Social Studies, Harvard College) Winner of the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis 2007-2008 Andrew Malone, “Singing Through Stereotype: The Public Images of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, 1945-1960” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) Nominated for the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis 2006-2007 Jeffrey Rakover, “Dissent and Despair: The Representational Interventions of Paul Monette’s Borrowed Time and David Wajnarowicz’s Close to the Knives” (Senior Honors Thesis, Special Concentration on American Identities, Harvard College) 2005-2006 Lisa Kennelly, “Searching for Sylvia Plath” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) Casey Hinkle, “American Literature and the Emergence of a Civil Rights Aesthetic, 1952-1963” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) Nominated for the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis Matthew Amato, “Shades of Red, White, and Blue: Film’s Representation of America in the 1930s” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) Nominated for the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis 2002-2003 Johanna Paretzky, “Bridges to Freedom: The Interreligious Leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” (Senior Honors Thesis, Comparative Study of Religion, Harvard College) Nominated for the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis Michael O’Neill, “Calls to Consciousness: Integrating James Baldwin and Malcolm X” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature/African-American Studies, Harvard College) Winner of the Dorothy Lee Hicks Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis in AfricanAmerican Literature Sachin Shivaram, “Welfare Reform and the 1988 Family Support Act: The Politics of Racial Attitudes and Gender Norms” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature/ African-American Studies, Harvard College) 2001-2002

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Trevor S. Cox, “Edward Bates, the Civil War, and the Legal Mind of the Lincoln Administration” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) Winner of the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis Katharine Douglas, “Refashioning ‘Persons Unknown’: The Ritual of Lynching in the Age of Jim Crow” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) Nominated for the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis Chartey Quarcoo, “Power to the People: Ideology, Representation, and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature/African-American Studies, Harvard College) Winner of the Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis in African-American Life and Culture 2000-2001 Emily Griffin, “’That Peculiar Institution’: The Smith School, Abolition, and Education in Antebellum Boston” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) 1999-2000 Jeremy Salfen, “Voices and Visions: Poetry, Performance, and the San Francisco Renaissance” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) Nominated for the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis Lauren Wetzler, “Democracy on Trial: The Boston School Committee and Desegregation, 1963-1976” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) Nominated for the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis Jessie Amberg, “Imagining a National Pastime: Ring Lardner and the Rise of Baseball Literature, 1903-1933” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) 1998-1999 Jeffrey Gleason, “’Bone of Its Bone and Blood of Its Blood’: John Boyle O’Reilly, The Pilot, and the Changing Notion of American Citizenship in Boston, 1873-1890” (Senior Honors Thesis, History and Literature, Harvard College) AWARDS FOR TEACHING & ADVISING Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Harvard Kennedy School, 2010, 2011, 2012 Class of 2009 Special Commendation for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard Kennedy School, 2009 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis Advising, Harvard University, 2002, 2009 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and Educators, 11th Edition, 2008 Derek Bok Center Certificate for Distinction in Teaching*, Harvard University, 2006-12 *ranking of 4.5 or higher out of 5 for every undergraduate course taught since 2005-06

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Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize (Nominee), Harvard University, 2007 Dean’s Letter of Commendation for Teaching Excellence*, School of Continuing Education, Harvard University, 2006-12 *each term the course has been offered John Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling*, Harvard University, 2003 (Finalist, 2008) *given to one or more faculty members each year Aloian-Beal Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Life, Harvard University, 2003 Levenson Prize for Outstanding Teaching (Nominee), Harvard University, 2000-03, 2007, 2009 Student Rating of “Excellence”* (4.5 or higher out of 5.0) for American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac, Committee on Undergraduate Education, Harvard University, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011 *each term the course has been offered Stephen Botein Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University, 2000 (Nominee, 1998, 1999, 2001-03, 2005-12) President’s Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching, Columbia University (Finalist, 1997; Nominee, 1997-99) FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS Gill Foundation Grant ($100,000), 2011-12 *funding for Face Value study of the root causes of anti-LGBT stigma Kniep Lecture in the Humanities, Pacific University, 2011 Special Commendation for Outstanding Leadership on LGBT Issues, Cambridge City Council, 2010 Ford Foundation Research Grant on “Youth, Sexuality, and Rights” ($1.1M), 2010-13 *three-year funding for Face Value study of the root causes of anti-LGBT stigma David Bohnett Foundation Grant ($10,000), 2011 *funding for Gay Rights as Human Rights Conference at Harvard Kennedy School Phillips Brooks House Association Advocate Award, Harvard University, 2010 Nicholas Papadopoulos Lecture, Harvard University, 2009 Open Gate Foundation Grant ($5,000), Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, 2009 *funded first-ever Gay Rights as Human Rights Conference at Harvard Kennedy School Research Associate, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, 2008-09 Humble Servant Award (for outstanding service in helping to rebuild Southern black churches burned by arson), National Coalition for Burned Churches, 2007 Who’s Who in Cambridge, 8th Edition, 2007 Charles Warren Center Fellowship for Studies in American History, Seminar on “Politics and Social Movements,” Harvard University, 2007-08 Open Gate Foundation Grant ($5000), Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, 2005-06 *funded the first-ever LGBT Film Series at the Harvard Film Archive Hiett Prize for the Humanities (Finalist), Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 2004 Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003-05 Frederick B. Artz Summer Research Fellowship, Oberlin College Archives, 2000 Black History Workshop, University of Houston, 2000

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Charlotte B. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship (Finalist), 1999 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1998 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Columbia University, 1997-99 J. Bartlett Brebner Travelling Fellowship, Columbia University, 1997 & 1998 President’s and Provost’s Student Initiative Grant*, Columbia University, 1997 *funded the first-ever graduate student conference in the History Department National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Fellowship, 1994 Research Fellowship in African-American Studies, Columbia University, 1994-97 Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship for postgraduate study in Southern Africa, 1993-94 [declined] Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs, 1993-94 [declined] Harvard Foundation Director’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Intercultural Life and Race Relations, Harvard University, 1993 Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Leadership*, Radcliffe College, 1993 *first-ever male recipient Aloian-Beal Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Leadership, Quincy House, Harvard College, 1993 Special Commendation for “Going Above and Beyond the Call of Duty,” Roberts/ Maynard Neighborhood Council, 1993 Ford Foundation Senior Thesis Research Fellowship, Harvard University, 1992 Harvard College Research Program Scholarship, Harvard University, 1992 Jay Vanderpool Memorial Prize for Outstanding Leadership and Public Service, Harvard University, 1992 Varsity “H” in Men’s Basketball, Harvard University, 1992 Samuel Abramson Research Fellowship for Junior Scholars, Harvard University, 1991 Harvard College Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Harvard University, 1989-93 SPEECHES & PRESENTATIONS I’ve given hundreds of public presentations during the last decade, including conference papers and lectures; talks at local high schools, colleges, community organizations, and prisons; political rallies; book promotion for The Radical Reader, Prophets of Protest, Protest Nation, and The Indispensable Zinn; and media interviews with NPR, BBC, CBC, Air America, Bloomberg Radio, Radio Free Europe, PBS, Al Jazeera, Big Think, and a variety of radio, web, and television programs. The following only includes conference papers, invited talks, and public lectures or readings: “On Progress, and Struggle” (guest preacher), Morning Prayers, The Memorial Church, Harvard University, November 2012. “On Religion and Politics” (keynote speaker), Theological Opportunities Program, University Lutheran Church, Cambridge, MA, October 2012. “Will America Ever Be America Again?: Politics and Culture in the Age of Obama” (keynote speaker), Harvard Clubs of Central and Northern Ohio, October 2012.

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“The Life and Legacy of Howard Zinn: A Conversation with Martin Duberman,” Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC, October 2012. “The Difference Between Moments and Movements” (keynote speaker), FACE AIDS Annual Student Conference, Northeastern University, September 2012. “Neighbor’s Keepers” (faculty keynote), HKS Serves Day, Harvard Kennedy School, August 2012. “Protest Nation: America’s Radical Roots” (guest speaker), Harvard Club of Boston, August 2012. “Aspirational Communities: Utopia, Dystopia, and the ‘Living History’ of American Protest” (keynote speaker), Summer Forum for Inquiry and Exchange, New Harmony, Indiana, July 2012. “The Paradox of Progress: Stigma and the Struggle for LGBTQ Equality” (brown bag speaker), Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, July 2012. “Does Gay Marriage Matter?: President Obama’s ‘Evolution’ and the Politics of the 2012 Election” (keynote speaker), Harvard Kennedy School New England Alumni Association Annual Dinner, June 2012. “History of Grassroots Activism in New York City” (featured panelist), Museum of the City of New York, June 2012. “Spin and Spectacle: The Changing Role of Media in Politics” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of Oregon, May 2012. “A Conversation with Tom Hayden and Richard Parker” (moderator), Quincy House, Harvard College, May 2012. “8: A Conversation on Proposition 8 and the Struggle for Marriage Equality” (postperformance talk back), Oberon Theater, Cambridge, MA, April 2012. “Home to Harlem: Witnessing Manning’s Vision” (moderator and panelist), Manning Marable Memorial Conference, Columbia University, April 2012. “A New Vision of Freedom” (plenary moderator), Manning Marable Memorial Conference, Columbia University, April 2012. “Protest Nation: Tea Parties, Occupations, and the Soul of America” (faculty speaker), Visitas Thinks Big, Harvard University, April 2012. “Walking in Darkness” (guest preacher), Morning Prayers, The Memorial Church, Harvard University, April 2012.

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“Histories of Violence: Towards Truth and Reconciliation” (plenary speaker), One State Conference, Harvard Kennedy School, March 2012. “The Role of Media in Politics” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of Puerto Rico, February 2012. “Defying Expectations” (faculty keynote speaker), Mid-Year Graduation Ceremony, Harvard University, December 2011. “Laughing to Keep From Crying: The Role of Humor in Cultural Transformation” (featured speaker), Yes Lab, New York University, December 2011. “Stonewall’s Children: A Short History of the Modern LGBT Movement” (guest lecturer), The New School, December 2011. “Poets, Prophets, and Picturemakers: Frederick Douglass and the Culture of Abolition” (invited guest lecturer), The Collegiate School, New York, NY, December 2011. “Count Them One by One: A Conversation with Judge Gordon Martin, Jr.” (host), The Activist’s Studio, Harvard Kennedy School, November 2011. “Protest: Why We Hate It, Why We Need It” (keynote speaker), Social Justice Month, Bryant University, November 2011. “The Occupy Movement: Is There A Common Denominator?” (guest speaker), ALANA/Progressive Caucus Faculty Speaker Series, Harvard Kennedy School, November 2011. “The Role of Media in Politics” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of Cape Cod, November 2011. “Law, Politics, Culture: LGBT Rights and the Paradox of Progress” (guest speaker), Boston University School of Law, October 2011. “Pleading Our Own Cause: Media, Messaging, and Mobilization” (keynote speaker), Compass to Compassion U.N. Convening, Union Theological Seminary, October 2011. “Human Rights and Social Movements” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of Princeton, October 2011. “In Search of Empathy: Social Movements and the Struggle for Equality,” Kniep Lecture in the Humanities, Pacific University, October 2011. “Acting Locally” (faculty keynote), HKS Serves Day, Harvard Kennedy School, August 2011.

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“Catherine Opie’s Empty and Full” (gallery talk), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, June 2011. “Heeding the Call of Service” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of Phoenix, June 2011. “Changing Hearts and Minds: The Cultural Work of LGBT Acceptance” (panelist) eQualityThinking Virtual Convention, March 2011. “The Fires This Time: Black Church Burnings in Contemporary America” (host and panelist), Harvard Kennedy School, March 2011. “Moral Leadership: Values, Voices, and Visions” (keynote speaker), Public Policy and Leadership Conference, Harvard Kennedy School, February 2011. “Of One Blood” (guest preacher), Morning Prayers, The Memorial Church, Harvard University, February 2011. “Bending the Arc of Justice: Black History and the American Radical Tradition” (host and moderator), Harvard Kennedy School, February 2011. “Our Bondage, Our Freedom: The Modern History of Slavery and Abolition” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of Santa Barbara, January 2011. “Renewing Democracy: A Conversation with Paul Loeb,” WGBH Cambridge Forum, September 2010. “Let Us Be The Peacemakers” (guest preacher), Morning Prayers, The Memorial Church, Harvard University, September 2010. “On Human Rights and the Humanities” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of West Virginia, April 2010. “The Tenacity of Hope: Race, Politics and the Meaning of Barack Obama” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of San Diego, February 2010. “The Tenacity of Hope: Race, Politics, and the Meaning of Barack Obama” (featured plenary speaker), Saturday of Symposia, Harvard Club of Boston, December 2009. “A Conversation with Max Blumenthal” (moderator), Quincy House, Harvard College, December 2009. “Frederick Douglass and the Aesthetics of Abolitionism” (guest lecturer), The Collegiate School, New York, NY, November 2009. “The Day My God Died: Film Screening and Discussion with Anuradha Koirala” (moderator), Harvard Kennedy School, October 2009.

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“A Conversation with Ashley Judd” (moderator), Quincy House, Harvard College, October 2009. “Gay Marriage and the Law” (featured panelist), Public Interest Law Conference, Harvard Law School, October 2009. “Interview with Timothy Patrick McCarthy,” Big Think, August 2009. “The LGBT Movement: Past, Present, and Future” (guest lecturer), Humanity in Action, Fordham School of Law, New York, NY, July 2009. “Heeding the Call of Service” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of St. Louis, June 2009. “The Spirit of Resilience” (commencement address), Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities Graduation, Codman Square Health Center, Dorchester, MA, June 2009. “Stonewall’s Children: Life, Loss, and Love after Liberation,” Nicholas Papadopoulos Lecture, Harvard Kennedy School, April 2009. “Teaching History, Changing Society” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of Long Island, April 2009. “A Conversation with David Plouffe” (moderator), Institute of Politics, Harvard University, April 2009. “Angels in America at Fifteen: A Retrospective” (moderator), American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, April 2009. “The Long History of Slavery and Abolition” (keynote speaker), Conference on “Destination Freedom: A Learning Approach to Ending Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery,” Artists for Humanity Epicenter, Boston, MA, April 2009. “Was the Obama Campaign a Social Movement?” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of Broward County, March 2009. “A Conversation with Tom Hayden” (moderator), Institute of Politics, Harvard University, March 2009. “Is America a Post-Racial Nation?: Race, Politics, and the 2008 Election” (moderator), Quincy House, Harvard University, February 2009. “A Black History Month Conversation” (panelist), Macy’s Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA, February 2009. “The Tenacity of Hope: Race, Politics, and the Meaning of Barack Obama” (keynote speaker), Harvard Club of Cincinnati, February 2009.

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“The Future of Marriage Equality” (guest lecturer), David A. Clarke School of Law, Washington, DC, January 2009. “Prop 8 and the Struggle for Equality” (guest speaker), Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School, December 2008. “Ending Slavery: A Conversation with Zoe Trodd and Kevin Bales” (moderator), Harvard University, December 2008. “The Transformation of LGBT Politics” (moderator), Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus 25th Anniversary Weekend, Harvard University, September 2008. “Ourstory: A Guided Tour of Schlesinger Library’s LGBT Holdings” (host), Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus 25th Anniversary Celebration, Harvard University, September 2008. “Finding Faith in Family” (guest preacher), Morning Prayers, The Memorial Church, Harvard University, September 2008. “American Protest Literature Podcast Series,” www.FinalsClub.org, September 2008. [includes 9 original podcasts on topics ranging from “Age of Revolution” and “Slavery and Abolition” to “Gay Liberation” and “Hip Hop.”] “Roundtable Forum on Contemporary Slavery” (discussant), American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, August 2008. “The First Emancipation: The Origins of Abolitionism in the Antebellum North” (guest lecturer), National History Day Summer Institute, Savannah, GA, July 2008. “The Tenacity of Hope” (commencement address), Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities Graduation, Codman Square Health Center, Dorchester, MA, June 2008. “Five Years Ago” (featured speaker), Remarks on the Fifth Anniversary of the American Invasion of Iraq, Harvard University, March 2008. “Unearthing the Underground Railroad” (keynote speaker), Black History Month Commemoration, Plymouth State University, February 2008. “Ending Slavery: A Conversation with Kevin Bales” (moderator), WGBH Cambridge Forum, Cambridge, MA, February 2008. “A Culture of Dissent: Abolitionist Interracialism and the Struggle for Equality” (guest lecturer), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, January 2008. “Communications and the 2008 Presidential Election” (quest speaker), Kiwanis Club, Arlington, MA, December 2007.

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“Rising from Ashes: Reflections on a Decade of Rebuilding Black Churches” (featured speaker), Tenth Anniversary Conference of the National Coalition for Burned Churches, Atlanta, GA, December 2007. “Creating Equality: Literary Abolitionism and the Origins of American Democracy” (paper), Politics and Social Movements Seminar, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, December 2007. “Writing Himself Into Existence: Frederick Douglass and Abolitionist Aesthetics” (guest lecturer), The Collegiate School, New York, NY, November 2007, 2008. “History Lessons: The Racial Politics of Scholarship and Advocacy” (guest speaker), Conference on “Reclaiming and Reframing the Dialogue on Race and Racism,” Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, UC-Berkeley Law School, November 2007. “Pedagogy of the Privileged: Heeding Robert Coles’ Call of Service” (plenary speaker), Symposium on “The Life and Legacy of Robert Coles,” Harvard Kennedy School, October 2007. “LGBT History and Politics: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going?” (guest speaker), LGBT Political Coalition Forum, Harvard University, October 2007. “Literary Abolitionism and the Problem of American Equality” (paper), Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Worcester, MA, July 2007. “The Black Origins of American Abolitionism” (guest speaker), Gilder-Lehrman History Scholars Program, Columbia University, July 2007. “’To Earn One’s Death’: Living and Loving the Humanities” (commencement address), Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities Graduation, Codman Square Health Center, Dorchester, MA, June 2007. “State of The Nation: What Will the Democrats Do? What Should They Do?” (panel with Katrina vanden Heuval, Orlando Patterson, Jonathan Schell, and Richard Parker), Harvard Kennedy School, February 2007. “African-American Literature and the Origin of Human Rights” (keynote speaker), Black History Month, Departments of English and Africana Studies, Arizona State University, February 2007. “Abolitionism and Transcendentalism” (guest lecturer), Welbourne and Eastern Correctional Facilities, Bard College Prison Initiative, Kingston, NY, December 2006. “American Protest Literature in Print and Image” (guest lecturer), DISSENT! Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, December 2006.

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Dramatic reading of Eugene Debs’ “Statement to the Court,” An Evening of American Protest Literature, Old South Meeting House, Boston, MA, November 2006 [available on-line at http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3255]. “Prophets of Protest: Literary Abolitionism and the Aesthetics of Equality” (guest lecture), Department of English, Arizona State University, October 2006 [also available on-line at http://antislavery.eserver.org/news/mccarthyprophets]. “Antislavery Protest Literature in Nineteenth-Century America: Teaching the Untaught” (guest speaker), Interdisciplinary Workshop on Research and Teaching on Slavery, Arizona Humanities Council, Arizona State University, October 2006 [also available online at http://antislavery.eserver.org/news/workshop/]. “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac” (six lectures on “slavery and abolition” from American Protest Literature course at Harvard), Antislavery Literature Project [available on-line at http://www.asu.edu/english/video/harvard]. “Teaching the Literature of Social Protest” (panel with Paul Lauter, Zoe Trodd, and Joe Lockard), Annual Meeting of the American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2006. “From Fanatics to Freedom Fighters: Three Generations of Abolitionist Historiography” (plenary session with Martin Duberman, Michael Fellman, and John Stauffer to mark the publication of Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism), Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Washington, DC, April 2006. “Down (Low) & Out (of the Closet): The Sexual Deceptions of Race and Class” (paper), Seminar on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Humanities Center, Harvard University, December 2005. “American Protest Literature” (plenary session with Paul Lauter, John Stauffer, and Howard Zinn), Annual Meeting of the New England Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, April 2005. “The Literature of History: Using Black Writings to Tell the Story of Abolition” (paper), Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, WA, January 2005. “Why America Needs Third Parties” (Town Hall Forum with David Cobb and Mel King), Harvard University, October 2004. “Beyond Text and Content: Teaching at the Crossroads of History and Literature” (roundtable with Steve Biel and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn), Conference on the Atlantic World, 1492-1888, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, September 2004. “What’s ‘Equality’ Got to Do With It?: Gay Marriage and the Trouble with ‘Normal’” (closing plenary session with Joan Nestle and Katherine Franke), Conference on Playing

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the Field: The Politics and History of Gender and Sexuality, Columbia University, April 2004. “Racial Migrations: Abolitionism and Autobiography in Nineteenth Century America” (paper), Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Hartford, CT, October 2003. “Publishing in Black Studies” (panel) and “Rethinking Black Studies” (closing plenary), Tenth Anniversary Conference of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, October 2003. “On the Humanities and Being Humane” (commencement address), Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities Graduation, Codman Square Health Center, Dorchester, MA, June 2003. “Reconstructing America: The Case for Reparations” (panel), Conference on Diversity and the Law, Harvard Law School, April 2003. “Millennial Vistas in Antebellum America: Walt Whitman and John Brown” (guest lecturer with John Stauffer), Harvard Club of Boston, April 2003. “American Abolitionism and the Ordeal of Integration” (paper), Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Memphis, TN, April 2003. “What Have We Learned from Past Social Movements?” (opening plenary speaker), Second Annual COOL Student Summit, Miami-Dade Community College, February 2003. “Is Voting Enough?: Redefining Politics in an Age of Apathy” (panelist), Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School, February 2003. “Unfair Harvard: Notes from the Living Wage Campaign” (roundtable with Brad Epps, Tom Jehn, and Greg Halpern), Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Houston, TX, November 2002. “The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-present” (guest lecturer), Civil Rights Project Summer Institute, Harvard University, June 2002. “Protest Nation: Documenting America’s Radical Tradition” (panelist), Graduate Student Conference on History and Activism, Columbia University, April 2002. “Why Peace? Why Now?” (Town Hall Forum with E. Roger Owen, Brian Palmer, and Cornel West), Harvard Law School, November 2001. “Moral Choices and the Good Life” (keynote speaker), Volunteer Program Annual Banquet, Bowdoin College, April 2001.

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“Optics, Objectivity, and Oppression: The Historian’s Craft and Other Disciplinary Dilemmas” (guest lecturer), Harvard University Extension School, April 2001. “American Print Media and the Politics of Race” (guest lecturer), Emerson College School of Journalism, January 2001. “Education and Activism: The Case of Students Against Sweatshops” (roundtable with Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Andrew Ross, and Eileen Boris), Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Detroit, MI, October 2000. “A Culture of Dissent: Abolitionist Print Culture and the Origins of Racial Equality” (paper), Claim to Social Resources Workshop, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, September 2000; Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, October 1998. “Exception or Exemplar?: John Brown and American Abolitionism” (paper), John Brown 2000 Conference, Harpers Ferry, WV, May 2000. “Towards a Reconsideration of the Origins of American Abolitionism” (paper), Black History Workshop, University of Houston, March 2000; Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Lexington, KY, July 1999. “Literary Abolitionism and the Cause of Freedom” (guest lecturer), Victorian Society of New England, Boston, MA, March 2000. “’To Plead Our Own Cause’: Freedom, Black Print Culture, and the Origins of Abolitionism” (guest lecturer), Department of History, Queens College-CUNY, December 1997; (paper), Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, CA, April 1997. “American Dreams, American Realities” (commencement address), Guilderland High School Graduation, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY, June 1997. “Slavery and Abolition in the United States” (guest lecturer), Department of History, Seton Hall University, December 1996. “Passing Judgment: Plessy, Jim Crow, and the Property of Whiteness” (paper), Centennial Conference on Plessy v. Ferguson, Howard University, November 1996; Graduate Student Conference on “Passing,” Columbia University, October 1996; Graduate Student Conference on Freedom in American History, Columbia University, October 1996. “Legalizing Cultural Anxieties: Plessy, Race, and Literary Representations of ‘Passing’ in James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” (paper), Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies, Florida A&M University, February 1996; Graduate Student Conference on “The Negro Problem, 1895-1995,” Princeton University, April 1995.

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PUBLIC & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Board of Directors, Free the Slaves, 2011-present; Acting Board Chair, 2012 Convener and Co-Host (with Ian Lekus), “Global Queer Series,” Harvard Kennedy School, 2011-present Convener and Host, “The Activist’s Studio,” Harvard Kennedy School, 2010-present Public Humanities Scholar, MIT/Underground Railway Theater, 2010-present Board of Directors, Harvey Milk Foundation, 2010-present Convener and Co-Host (with Rose Styron), “The Activist’s Studio: The Art and Politics of Human Rights,” Harvard Kennedy School, Spring 2010 Co-Chair (with Christina Bain), Regional Working Group on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2009-present Lecture Series Organizer, “ACT-UP New York, 1987-1993” Exhibition, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Fall 2009 Chair, Annual “Gay Rights as Human Rights” Conference, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2009-present. Advisory Board Member and Lead Academic Investigator, Face Value, 2009-present Board of Directors, Lee Academy Pilot School, Dorchester, MA, 2008-11 National LGBT Leadership Council, Obama for America Campaign, 2007-08 Editorial Board, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 2006-present Lecture Series Consultant, DISSENT! Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 2006-07 Speakers Bureau Trainer, National Mental Health Awareness Campaign, 2006 Board of Directors, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, 2006-present Peer Reviewer, Journal of American History, 2006-present Editorial Board, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Culture, Politics, and Society, Columbia University, 2005-present Advisory Board, Antislavery Literature Project (http://antislavery.eserver.org), Arizona State University, 2005-present Founding Curator, Harvard LGBT Film Series, Harvard Film Archive, 2005-06 Manuscript Reviewer, Oxford University Press, W. W. Norton, Bedford/St. Martin’s, Yale University Press, 2004-present Director/Producer, “A Radical Reading” (dramatic production), The Flea Theater, NYC, April 2004; Bryant University, Providence, RI, 2004, 2005 & 2009 Founding Director, Alternative Spring Break Church Rebuilding Trip, APPLES, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003-05 Church Rebuilding Task Force, National Coalition for Burned Churches, 2003-12 Founding Director, Alternative Spring Break Church Rebuilding Trip, Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard University, 2000-present Director, Alternative Spring Break Church Rebuilding Trip, Community Impact, Columbia University, 1997-99 Campus Coordinator, Americorps/VISTA Volunteers, Community Impact, Columbia University, 1994-98 Central Coordinator, House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) Program, Harvard College and Cambridge Public Schools, 1992-93 Director, After-School Programs, Roberts/Maynard Elementary School, Cambridge, MA, 1990-93

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Room 13 Peer Advisor, Harvard College, 1990-93 Big Brother/Big Sister Program, 1990-present Leader and Steering Committee, First-Year Urban Program, Harvard College, 1989-93 UNIVERSITY SERVICE Harvard University Advisory Board, Office of BGLTQ Student Life, Harvard College, 2012-present Committee Member, Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1993 Twentieth Reunion, 2012-13 Vice President for College Alumni Affairs, Executive Committee Member, Harvard Alumni Association, 2010-13 Founding Member, LGBT Faculty and Staff Group, 2006-present; Co-Chair, 2010-12 Dean’s Working Group on BGLTQ Student Life, Harvard College, 2010-11 Member, Thomas Temple Hoopes Senior Thesis Prize Committee, Harvard University, 2010 Faculty Advisor, Policy Analysis Exercise, MPP Program, Harvard Kennedy School, 2009-present Student-Faculty Diversity Committee, Harvard Kennedy School, 2009-present Evaluation Committee Chair, Traub-Dicker-HKS Summer Research Fellowship, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 2009-present Evaluation Committee Member, Visiting Fellowship, Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 2009-present Programming Co-Chair, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus 25th Anniversary Celebration, 2007-2008 Committee Member, Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1993 Fifteenth Reunion, 2007-08 Faculty Grant Proposal Evaluator, Harvard College Research Program, 2005-present Senior Resident Tutor, Quincy House, 2005-10; Resident Tutor in History and Literature; Race Relations, BGLTS, Fellowship & Public Service Advisor, 1999-2003, 2005-10 Planning Committee, Inaugural Robert Coles “Call to Service” Lecture, 2006-07 Host Committee, Annual PBHA Auction, 2005-present Co-Chair, Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1993 Tenth Reunion, 2002-03 Advisor, Ford Foundation Race, Culture, and Diversity Initiative, 2002-03 Founding Member, Faculty Committee for a Living Wage, 2001-02 Selection Committee, Stride Rite Public Service Fellowship, 2001-03, 2005-present Faculty Mentor, Mellon/Mays Minority Undergraduate Mentorship Program, 2001-03, 2006-present Co-Chair, Committee on Instruction in History and Literature, 2001-03; COI Member, 2000-2003, 2005-present Faculty Advisor, Harvard Blues Society, 1999-2001; BlackCAST, Grad Pledge, Amnesty International, Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), Boston Area Students Involved in the Community (BASIC), Progressive Student Alliance, 2001-03; Building on Diversity (BOND), Harvard LGBT Coalition, 2005-08; Queer Students and Allies (QSA), Gay, Lesbian or Whatever (G.L.O.W.), Harvard College Democrats, Perspective Magazine, Harvard College Free the Slaves, On Harvard Time, 2008-present

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Board of Freshman Advisors, 1998-2003, 2005-07 Class Report Chair and Committee Member, Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1993 Fifth Reunion, 1997-98 Board of Directors, Harvard Alumni Association, 1998-present Member, Recent Graduates and Classes and Reunions Committees, Harvard Alumni Association, 1993-2009 Secretary, Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1993 (lifetime appointment); Association of Harvard College Class Secretaries and Treasurers, 1993-present; Executive Committee Member, 2001-present; Secretary, 2007-09; President, 2009-11; Past President, 2011-13 Columbia University Advisory Board, Columbia Community Outreach, 1997-98 Program Coordinator, Education Success/Learn and Serve America Grant, 1996-98 Vice-Chair, Faculty Committee on Academics and Public Service, 1996-98 Advisor, Barnard Students Helping Prisoners; Columbia Urban Experience, 1996-98 Director, Alternative Spring Break Church Rebuilding Program, 1997-99 Faculty Committee for a Fair Contract, 1996-97 Planning Committee Chair, Graduate Student Conference on Freedom in American History, 1995-96 REFERENCES Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Mail Code 2527, New York, NY 10027; [email protected] Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Chair, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University, Barker Center for the Humanities, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; [email protected] John Stauffer, Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Chair, American Civilization Program, Harvard University, Barker Center for the Humanities, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; [email protected] Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, and Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Dean of Harvard College, University Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138; [email protected] Richard Parker, Senior Lecturer on Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Box 113, Cambridge, MA 02138; [email protected] Gene Corbin, Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Public Service, University Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138; [email protected]

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