Dr. Michelle R Scott

Professor · Tenured

Department of Africana Studies Department of History Language, Literacy and Culture

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Research interests

late 19th & 20th-century United States history, African American history, women’s history, black entertainment culture, and civil rights and social justice movements

Education

  • Ph D, US History — Cornell University (2002)
    The Realm of a Blues Empress: Blues Culture and Bessie Smith in Black Chattanooga 1880-1923
  • MA, History — Cornell University (2000)
  • BA, History — Stanford University (1996)

Presentations

  • Trends in Undergraduate African American Historical Research 2013 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference · ASALH · Oral Presentation Michelle R Scott (Coordinator/Organizer), G. Derek Musgrove (Coordinator/Organizer)
  • “Maryland and the Civil Rights Movement Struggles” 2013 Maryland Historical Society Teacher Institute · Maryland Historical Society · Lecture
  • “A Disgraceful Affair”: Racial Violence, Civil Rights, and Black Vaudeville Theater in the Nadir” 2013 Historiography and African American Intellectual History,Africana Studies and Research Center Spring Symposium · Cornell University · Lecture
  • "The Reconstruction Amendments,” 2013 Social Studies Symposium, · Baltimore City Schools · Lecture
  • A Shift in the Sound of Soul: Popular Music in the Black Power Era,” 2013 The Civil Rights Movement in Music and Media: A Panel Discussion · UMBC Dresher Center · Oral Presentation
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Experience 2013 Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Postdoctoral Retreat · Mellon Foundation/Social Science Research Council · Oral Presentation

Grants and Contracts

  • Smithsonian Senior Fellowship 2014 Smithsonian Institution, National Musuem of American History · Fellowship · Funded