Dr. Melinda Chateauvert

Courses

AASP 400:  Directed Readings in African American Studies

AASP 411: Black Resistance Movements

AASD 441: Science and Technology in the Black Community

AASP 314: The Civil Rights Movement

Biography

Melinda Chateauvert is Undergraduate Studies Director in the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland at College Park where she teaches courses on political movement organizing, the Civil Rights Movement, Gender Sexuality and the Black Family, and public policy and the African American Community. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Women's Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the George Washington University.

She has also worked as Research Director of the Pay Discrimination Institute, a non-profit legal defense fund for race- and sex-based pay equity litigation, and served as an expert historical investigator and witness for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on cases involving racial discrimination in higher education. She earned a Ph.D. in United States History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. Her book, "Marching Together": Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, published by the University of Illinois Press has been widely adopted in women's studies, labor history and African American studies courses in the U.S. Her article, "Using Historical and Sociological Evidence in Affirmative Action Litigation," appeared in Combating Racial Discrimination: Affirmative Action as a Model for Europe? (Cambridge: Berg Publishers, 2000). "A Sister in the Brotherhood: Rosina Corrothers Tucker and the Sleeping Car Porters, 1930-1950," will appear in the Black Women and Work Collective anthology, Sister Circle (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). In addition, she is the Public Affairs Director for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom Foundation, a national political advocacy and lobbying group devoted to expanding freedom of sexual expression among consenting adults. Her two current research projects include a study of the labor and labor consciousness among workers in the commercial sex industry, and an comparative political analysis of various campaigns to change laws regulating sexuality and gender identity. On the latter topic, she has presented papers at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, of which she is a current member.

Publications

BOOKS:

New Social Movements and Sexuality: Papers from the 2004 Sofia Conference of the Socialism and Sexuality Network,, Edited by Melinda Chateauvert, Sofia, Bulgaria: Queer Bulgaria Foundation, 2006 Under consideration for U.S. publication, Haworth Press, Binghamton, New York

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters Common Knowledge, Women's History Series and Labor and Laboring Classes series, University of Illinois Press, 1998

JOURNALS, EDITORSHIPS:

Guest Editor, Special Issue, "Discourses on Race, Sex, and African American Citizenship" Journal of African American History, forthcoming, Spring 2008

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:

"E.D. Nixon" and "The March on Washington [1941]" Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896-President: From the Age of Segregation to the 21 st Century,, Paul Finkelman, Editor in Chief, New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming

"Respectability, Sexuality and Citizenship: Comparing the U.S. Civil Rights and Gay Rights Movements" in New Social Movements and Sexuality: 2004 Papers, 2006

"Victoria Caflin Woodhull," The Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work,, edited by Melissa Hope Ditmore, Phoenix, Ariz.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006

Curriculum Vitae

Melinda Chateauvert