Charles H. Ford, Ph.D. Associate Professor, History
Norfolk
State University
700 Park
Avenue Norfolk, VA 23504
(757)
823-8865 (work); (757) 852-4455 (home)
(757)
823-2512 (fax)
chford7@mail.com
Education: Ph.D., History,
1992, Vanderbilt University.
Dissertation: Hannah More: A Critical Biography.
Director: James
Epstein.
M.A., History, 1988,
Vanderbilt University.
B.A., History, 1985,
University of Pittsburgh.
Employment: Norfolk State
University, Norfolk, VA
2000-Present,
Associate Professor of History
1992-2000, Assistant
Professor of History
Edinboro University
of Pennsylvania
1/92 – 5/92,
Instructor of History
Vanderbilt University
1987-1990, Teaching
Fellow
Courses Taught: History of World Civilizations,
Parts I-II
American History,
Parts I-II
Introduction to the
Social Sciences
Caribbean and Latin
American History
Latin America: The
Colonial Period
Slavery in the
Atlantic Basin
Women in the
Caribbean, 1620-1838
The African Diaspora with
Special Emphasis on Cuba
Topics in Non-Western
History (graduate readings course)
Approaches to
Critical Analysis in Interdisciplinary Studies
Publication: Hannah More: A Critical Biography (New
York: Peter Lang, 1996)
Conference Papers: “How Perceptions of the Slave Trade
Changed Over Time”
Middle States African
Studies Association, West Virginia State University, 24 March 2000.
“How African Gods
Became Catholic Saints Revisited: The Various Natures of Syncretism in
Afro-Cuban Santeria”
Twenty-Fourth Annual
Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Panama City, Panama, 27 May
1999.
“’Their Design of
Rising’: Slave Resistance in Anglophone America during the 1730s”
National Association
of African American Studies,
Houston, Texas, 13 February 1998.
“The Early Public Career of Thomas Tooke, 1819-29”
Carolinas Symposium on British Studies,
Augusta, Georgia, 3 October 1997.
“Lord Goring as Ideal: Tradition over Modernity in
Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband”,
Leeds Center for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds,
England, UK, 14 July 1997.
“Hannah More and Feminism”
History Symposium, Norfolk State University, 21
November 1996.
“Hannah More and the Blagdon Controversy, 1798-1803”
Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, 15 October
1994.
New England Historical Association, 23 October 1994.
Professional
Development: Horace Mann
School, Teaching World History Seminar,
31 July-11 August 2000.
Rust College, Administrative
Academy for Faculty,
18-30 July 1999.
University of Virginia, The Chesapeake Regional
Scholars Summer Seminar in African American Studies, 14 June-2 July 1998.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Workshop
on Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Culture and Civilization, 2-13 June
1997.
University of Michigan, National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Seminar, Construction of the “New Woman” and the “New Man” in
the 1890s, 9 June-
2 August 1996.
Academic Service: Reviewer, Teaching American History
Grants Review,
U.S. Department of
Education, 13-17 August 2001.
Reviewer, American Fellowships Panel, American
Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 3-5 March 2000; 2-4
March 2001.
Reader, Educational
Testing Service, Advanced Placement European History, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1998,
1999, 2000, 2001.
Advisor, History Club
of Norfolk State University,
1992-Present.
Chair, Assessment
Committee, History Department, Norfolk State University, 1998-Present.
Representative,
Faculty Senate, History Department, Norfolk State University, 1994-1998.
Community Service: Member, Board of Trustees, Tidewater
AIDS Crisis Taskforce (TACT), August 1994-January 2001.
President, Board of
Trustees, Tidewater AIDS Crisis
Taskforce (TACT),
January 1997-January 1999.
Professional Memberships: American Historical Association
Caribbean Studies
Association
Southern Historical
Association
New England
Historical Association
Middle States African
Studies Association
American Association
of University Professors
Computer Competencies: WordPerfect and Microsoft Word
Microsoft Windows
Excell/Access
Spreadsheet/database
Microsoft PowerPoint
Digital image
scanning
Internet utilities
and HTML editing
Current References: Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander,
Associate Professor, History Department
Norfolk State
University
700 Park Avenue
Norfolk, VA 23504
clnewby-alexander@nsu.edu
Dr. James Epstein,
Professor, History
Vanderbilt University
History Department
Nashville, TN 37235
Dr. Thomas L. Long,
Associate Professor, English
Thomas Nelson
Community College
PO Box 9407 Hampton, VA
23670
longt@visi.net
James Spivey,
Executive Director, Tidewater AIDS Crisis Taskforce
9229 Granby Street, 2nd
Floor
Norfolk, VA
23503