Faculty and Staff Profiles

• Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership - University of Memphis - 2004-present

• Dean's Excellence Award for Excellence in Teaching - College of Education, University of Memphis - 2008

• 1005- Introduction to Education - Florida State University-Tallahassee, FL Teaching Assistant for Dr. Victoria-Maria MacDonald
• History and Foundations of Education (G & U) - University of Memphis - Memphis, TN
• Teaching & Schools in Urban Settings - University of Memphis
• Education, Schooling, & American Society - University of Memphis
• Analysis & Practice of Teaching - University of Memphis

• Research Assistant for Dr. Donald Sutherland - 1990-1992 - University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR -  
• Graduate Assistant for Dr. Victoria-Maria MacDonald - 1999-2000 - Florida State University - Tallahassee, FL -  
• The Life & Work of Sophia Sawyer - ongoing research - 1998 - present -   -  
• Training & field experience for new teacher candidates - ongoing research - 2004 - present -   -  
• Effectiveness of Student Participation in Freshmen Learning Communities - 2007-present - University of Memphis - Memphis, TN -  

• Department - Leadership and Foundations - 2004-present
• Department - Leadership IT Committee - 2005-present
• Department - Foundations Program Coordinator - 2007-present
• College/School - Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant Committee - 2005 - 2007
• College/School - COE Futures Planning Innovation Implementation Team #12 - 2006 - 2008
• College/School - Advising and Student Services Center retreat - Spring 2005
• College/School - Reinventing Teacher Education Initiative Retreat - Spring 2005
• College/School - College of Education Summit - Spring 2005
• College/School - College of Education Summit II - Spring 2006
• College/School - Geier Pre-College Institute for High School students - Summer 2006
• College/School - CREDE Standards Workshop - Spring 2007
• College/School - College of Education Summit III - Spring 2007
• College/School - Teacher Education Program Candidate Interviews - 2004-present
• College/School - Teacher Education Advisory Committee - 2004-present
• College/School - Undergraduate Curriculum Committee - 2008-present
• University - Faculty Senate - Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
• University - Freshman Education Learning Community - 2007-present

• Sophia Sawyer: The Life and Experiences of a Missionary Teacher (Germany: Vdm Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K. 2008). 
• Ilana DeBare, Where Girls Come First: The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Revival of Girls' Schools, Reviewed in Teachers College Record 108, no. 1 (Jan. 2006), 128-130. 
• “‘Creating an Educational Interest’: Sophia Sawyer, Teacher of the Cherokee,” Chapter in Nancy Beadie and Kim Tolley, eds., Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academics in the United States, 1727-1925. (New York: Routledge Falmer 2002). 
•  Ornstein and Levine, Foundations of Education (Houghton Mifflin Co., proposed 10th Edition), Reviewed for publisher October 2006.
• William Owings and Leslie Kaplan, Foundations of American Public Education (Thomson Wadsworth, 2009), Reviewed for publisher, January 2007. 
• "Claude Philippe de Richebourg," Dictionary of Virginia Biography, vol 4 (Richmond: Library of Virginia, projected 2010).

•  “Miss Sophia Sawyer: Founder of the Fayetteville Female Seminary,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 67, no. 2 (Summer 2009).

• * "‘Behold Me and This Great Babylon I have built': The Life and Work of Sophia Sawyer. 19th Century Missionary and Teacher among the Cherokees in Georgia and Arkansas," Paper Presented, Southern History of Education Society Annual Meeting Knoxville, Tennessee March 1999   
• * "Education of Cherokee Children in Mission Schools of Georgia and Tennessee in the 19th Century," Paper Presented, History of Education Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 2000.

•  "No Child Left Behind," Presentation, DeSoto Chapter of the Mississippi Federation of Democratic Women, Southaven, MS, 6 July 2005.

• *“Sophia Sawyer and the Fayetteville Female Seminary: A Mount Holyoke on The Arkansas Frontier,” Paper Accepted, Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas, September 2006. 
• "Joseph Emerson and the Byfield Female Seminary (1816-1833)," Paper Presented, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 2006.  
• * "Sophia Sawyer and the Fayetteville Female Seminary: A Mount Holyoke on the Arkansas Frontier," Paper accepted, History of Education Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2005.  
• “History is a Living Ghost: Intricate Webs of Relationship between Cherokees, Whites and Slaves in NW Arkansas: From the ‘Trail of Tears’ to the Civil War,” with Patrick Pynes (Northern Arizona Univ), Paper Presented, Western Association of Women’s Historians, Annual Conference, San Diego, California, May 2007.
• *“How to Improve School Social Climate for Students in Public Schools,” Paper Accepted, American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, October 2007.  
• *”Sophia Sawyer: Fayetteville’s Yankee Spinster School Marm,” Paper Accepted, Arkansas Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, March 2008. 
• *“’A Great Advancement in Athletics for Girls and Women’?: The 1922 Women’s Games and the Resulting Restrictions on Female Sports Competition,” with Peter Castelow,  Paper accepted, North American Society for Sport History, Annual Convention, Lake Placid, NY, May 2008  
• "The Teacher Education Program at the University of Memphis and the Real World of Teaching," Rawls Dormitory, University of Memphis, 25 March 2009. 

• LEAD 7006/8006 - History of American Education - PreK - 12
• LEAD 4000/6000 - Educ., Schooling, & Amer. Society
• ICL 7000 - Analysis & Practice of Teaching

• "Transforming Classrooms through CREDE," University of Memphis, Faculty Research Grant, proposal submitted January 31, 2008.