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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor,Joint appointment in Music, African&Afro-
<br /> American Studies, and American Studies,Brandeis University, 2002-2004
<br /> •Courses: African American Sacred Music Cosmos;Music of the African Diaspora; Works,
<br /> Life and Times of Thomas A. Dorsey
<br /> •Secured grants, coordinated student assistants, carried out budgeting, scheduling, and
<br /> planning for"Lift Every Voice: Black Sacred Music at Brandeis,"series of lectures,
<br /> performances and workshop
<br /> Mary Lou Williams Instructor of Music,Music Department, Duke University,2000-2001
<br /> •Course: African-American Sacred Music
<br /> •Performed grant writing, budgeting, scheduling, and joint planning for Gospel Artist
<br /> Residency, consisting of public concert in the Living Traditions Series and residency events
<br /> featuring twelve-time Grammy award winner Shirley Caesar
<br /> Youth Choir Director,First Baptist Church, Chapel Hill,NC, 2001-2002
<br /> Directed choir; organized parent advisory group; enhanced spiritual and social lives of children
<br /> predominately from underserved minority backgrounds;produced summer musical, church and
<br /> community performances;tripled choir membership.
<br /> Coordinator,Gospel Music Conference,North Carolina Central University,Durham,NC, 1999
<br /> Planned and executed weeklong conference with workshops and concert featuring nationally-
<br /> renowned gospel music artists Richard Smallwood and John P. Kee, in conjunction with NCCU
<br /> faculty.
<br /> Research Assistant,Music Department, Duke University, 1997
<br /> Prepared cross-referenced discography of gospel and other African American music recordings
<br /> held in Duke Music Media Center.
<br /> Music Teacher,Harker School, San Jose, CA, 1992-1993
<br /> Created games, songs and activities,taught music appreciation,theory, singing, and movement
<br /> in daily after-school classes;provided piano accompaniment for auditions, classes, performances
<br /> and assemblies for private international K-8 preparatory school.
<br /> Interim Music Director,Park Victoria Baptist Church, Milpitas, CA, 1989-1992
<br /> Coordinated music for worship and other services;instructed and directed adult and children's
<br /> choirs;provided consultation on worship planning; served as piano accompanist at services,
<br /> weddings, and funerals.
<br /> Music Director,North Valley Christian Fellowship, Milpitas, CA, 1986-1988
<br /> Conducted adult choir and instrumental ensemble;organized and led weekend retreat and
<br /> seminars for music education.
<br /> PUBLICATIONS
<br /> "My Hands, O God, I Offer Thee":Religious Social Consciousness and Cooperative Power in
<br /> the Metropolitan St. Louis Gospel Music Center, 1930-1960,"Ph.D. dissertation, Duke
<br /> University. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Microfilms, 2003.
<br /> "African American Gospel Music,"The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford:
<br /> Oxford University Press, 2001.
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