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BIO - Dr. Sharon Harley

African American Studies Department
University of Maryland
2169 LeFrak Hall
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-1158 / 314-9932 · Fax
Email: sharley@aasp.umd.edu

Chair, African American Studies Department
Associate Professor of African American Studies/History and Affiliate Faculty Member,
Women's Studies,
University of Maryland College Park, Maryland

Ph.D., United States History, Howard University

Publications (Selected)

Editor, Sister Circle: Black Women and Work (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002)

""Working For Nothing but for a Living": Black Women in the Underground Economy" in Sister Circle: Black Women and Work (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002)

"The Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Gloria Richardson, The Cambridge Movement, and the Radical Black Activist Tradition" in Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights -- Black Power Movement edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V. P. Franklin (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2001)

"Leisure and Labor: Subversive Acts," The Journal of Labor History (June 1998). A scholarly critique and review essay of "To 'Joy My Freedom: (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)

"Nannie H. Burroughs: `The Black Goddess Liberty'," The Journal of Negro History 81 (1997 [6): 62-71.

"Speaking Up: The Politics of Black Women's Labor History" in Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham and Patricia Romero (Sage Publishers, 1997)

The Timetables of African American History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995). A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection and History Month Club Selection

Awards, Fellowships, and Honors (Selected)

Presentations (Selected)

"The Color Line Revisited: Is Racism Dead?," State Department Speaker Program, Telepress Conference (2002)

"Nannie Helen Burroughs and Gloria Richardson: Empowerment Through the Lives and Work of Two African-American Women," Notre Dame Academy Black History Month Program (2002)

"The Black Family: Between the Civil War and the Era of Civil Rights," Woodrow Wilson Center Seminar Series (2002)

"Women's Movements and Feminist Historiography in Africa and the Diaspora," International Institute in Women's Studies (2001)

"African American Women and the Black Radical Tradition," The Association for the Study of African-American Life and History Conference (September 29, 2001)

"Meanings and Representations of Black Women's Work," Plenary Session, The Association for the Study of African-American Life and History Conference (September 27, 2001)

"'I am a Race Woman': The Politics and Culture of Black Women's Labor Struggles," The Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color Symposium, University of Maryland (June 2001)

"Meeting the Needs of a More Diverse Student Body: The Curriculum Transformation Project," 14th Annual Conference on African Americans in Higher Education (May 30, 2001)

"Dignity and Damnation: Historical Perspectives on Black Women and Work" Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (October 1997) Meanings and Representations of Black Women's Work Symposium, Smithsonian (June 1997)

"`Mojo Working' and Other Tales of Black Working Women: The Politics of Invisibility," The Adrenee Glover Freeman Memorial Lecture, University of South Carolina, October 1997

"A Place for Us: Black Women and the Politics of Leadership," Millersville University (1998) University of Delaware (1996)

Grants (Selected)

2004: International Bellagio Study and Conference Grant, The Rockefeller Foundation (conference title: "The Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women: A Comparative Study")

2002- Present: $425, 000, Collaborative Grant, The Ford Foundation, The Center for African-American Women's Labor Studies and Women of Color Research Seminar (held jointly with UMCP's Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity and Department of Women's Studies)

2000-2002: $100,000- Planning Grant, The Ford Foundation, The Center for African-American Women's Labor Studies

1999-Present: $250,000- Grant, The Ford Foundation, Women of Color Project

Fall 1995-Present: $250,000 - Grant, The Ford Foundation for an intercollegiate, multidisciplinary research seminar on the "Representations and Meanings of Black Women's Work"- 20 participants from the University of Maryland, UM Law School, American University Law School, Howard University, George Mason, Coppin State College, Morgan State University, Smithsonian Institution.

Fall 1993- Present: $61,000 annually, The Prince George's County Public School System - A two (2) graduate level course sequence in Afro-American History and Culture and Multiculturalism for 40 teachers and administrators.

Editorial Board and Review Activities

Teaching and Advising

Courses Taught:
Classic Readings in African American Studies
Diversity in Oneness: The Making of African-American Communities
Black Culture in the United
Introduction to Afro-American Studies
Black Women in America
Women and Work
Directed Readings in Afro-American Studies
Seminar in Afro-American Studies

Service and Affiliations

Community Service (Selected):

2002 Member, Prince George's County Public School's Minority Achievement Task Force
1999 Member (Governor Parris Glendening's appointee), Task Force to Study the History and Legacy of Slavery in Maryland
1997-Present Member, Maryland Humanities Council

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