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African American political culture with an emphasis on gender. US History, African-American History, African-American Women's History

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US History, African-American History, Slavery; Reparations

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Education (vocational, high-school counseling, Affirmative Action, and student aid); Poverty; Welfare reform (job training and program evaluation); Families (marriage, divorce, same-sex marriage, and nonmarital births); Child abuse/child welfare; Preschool and Head Start; Race and ethnicity.

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urban education and reform, reforming mathematics instruction in the K-5 classroom; professional development for teachers.

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Writings and representations, both verbal and visual, of people of African descent in the English-speaking world during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. Transatlantic literature and culture in general during the same period in the English-speaking world.

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Sexuality, Gender, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Labor, history, queer politics, citizenship, race, racism, homosexuality, public policy, GLBT issues, reproductive justice, desegregation of higher education, African Americans, prostitution, sex work, Louisiana, death penalty, Maryland, baby boomers.

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Theory; Gender, Work and Family; Comparative

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Racial theory; Intersectional theory; Black feminist theory; Sociology of knowledge

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The intersections of race and gender; African-American women and families; work, family, and poverty. She is currently conducting a research project studying single mothers in rural southern communities.

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string theory, physics education, supersymmetry, science and technology and global economic development,

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Afro-American history, black culture, women's history and women and work.

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Multicultural Counseling
Group Counseling
Professional Orientation to School Counseling
Clinical Supervision

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The connections between history and literature; the material past; the nature of history, literary history, and architectural history.

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Media criticism; popular American culture and aesthetics with a special focus on family, gender and race; Harry Potter and American culture.

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History of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction. Southern History. The American South. Slavery and Emanciation. Transition from Slavery to Freedom in the United States. African Americans in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Dr. Roy's research focuses on the involvement of low-income men (fathers) in jobs, intimate relationships, parenting, and family residences. He also examines how poor families in diverse urban communities create social capital for their children.

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History of the American Eugenics Movement; Involuntary Sterilization; Curriculum Policy; Higher education curriculum ; Higher education teaching improvement; Webcam.

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Food and Foodways, Material Culture, African American Studies

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Psyche Williams-Forson's expertise ranges from cultural studies, to the study of material culture, in particular food and interior home furnishings. Her research area also includes womens studies along with social and cultural history of the U.S. in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Her recent work mines a range of sources to consider the ways black women use certain foods to arrive at degrees of self-definition and self-reliance. Armed with this knowledge we can understand how foods are rooted in complex relationships that can be fraught with both racism and agency. Her new research explores issues of class and entrepreneurship in African American material culture from the late 19th century to the present.

She is the recipient of several fellowships including a Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship from the Maryland Historical Society (2006), Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005), Francis Lewis Fellowship in Womens Studies from the Virginia Historical Society (2003), and a Winterthur Library Research Fellowship (1996). She is also the curator of Still Cookin by the Fireside, an online text and photo exhibition on the history of African American cookery for the Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Still Cookin By the Fireside: African Americans in Food Service
Psyche Williams-Forson, American Studies Dept.

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1102 Holzapfel Hall
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
B.A., English/African American Studies, Women's Studies, University of Virginia
Ph.D., American Studies, University of Maryland College Park
M.A., American Studies, cert. in Women's Studies, University of Maryland College Park

Publication(s):
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture - African American Foodways
Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food