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University of Georgia
College of Education
307 River’s Crossing
Athens, GA 30602-7130
706-542-8113
dalridge@uga.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (1997)
Pennsylvania State University (Education: History of Education)

M.Ed. (1992)
Winthrop University (History and Social Science Education)

B.A. (1987)
Winthrop College (History)

POSITIONS HELD

University of Georgia (1997-present)

Associate Professor, Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, College of Education (2005-Present)

Affiliate Associate Professor, Institute for African American Studies (2006-Present)

Associate Professor, Social Foundations of Education (1997-2005)

Co-Director, Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies (2002-present)

Assistant Professor, Social Foundations of Education (1997-2003)

Pennsylvania State University (1993-1997)

Instructor, Department of African and African American Studies (1995-1997)

Teaching Assistant, Department of Educational Policy Studies (1993-1996)

AREAS OF SCHOLARSHIP

African American Educational and Intellectual History

African American Studies

Social Foundations of Education

Civil Rights Studies

The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, in press, forthcoming 2007.

EDITED VOLUMES
Guest editor, “Hip-Hop in History,” with James B. Stewart, Journal of African American History 90, no.2, (Summer 2005), 226-252.

Section editor, “The History of African American Education,” with V.P. Franklin, Linda Tillman executive editor, Handbook of African American Education (Thousand Oaks, CA,: Sage Publishers, in press).

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
The Hip-Hop Mind: An Intellectual History of the Social Consciousness of a Generation (Prospectus under contract with University of Wisconsin Press, in progress).

New Directions in Hip-Hop Studies, with James B. Stewart (Association for the Study of African American Life and History Press, in progress).

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Of Victorianism, Civilizationism, and Progressivism: The Educational Ideas of Anna Julia Cooper and W.E.B. Du Bois, 1892-1940,” History of Education Quarterly 47, no. 4 (in press).

“The Social Ideas of African American Educators and the African American Intellectual Tradition.” In The Handbook of African American Education, edited by Linda Tillman (Thousand Oaks, CA,: Sage Publishers, in press).

“The Limits of Master Narratives in History Textbooks: An Analysis of Representations of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Teachers College Record 108, no.4, (2006): 662-686.

“From Civil Rights to Hip-Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas,” Journal of African American History 90, no. 2, (Summer 2005): 226-252.

“Hip-Hop in History: Past, Present, and Future,” with James B. Stewart, Journal of African

American History (formerly the Journal of Negro History) 90, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 190-195.

“The Dilemmas, Challenges, and Duality of an African American Educational Historian.”

Educational Researcher 32, no. 9 (2003): 25-34.

“W.E.B. Du Bois: Race Man, Teacher, and Scholar.” In They Led by Teaching: Influential Educators, edited bySherry Field and M. Berson, 102-114. Indianapolis: Phi Delta Pi Publications, 2003.

“Black Violence and Crime in the 21st Century: A Socio-Historical Structural Analysis,” with Maurice C. Daniels, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 4, no. 2/3/4, (2001): 27-43.

“Redefining and Refining Scholarship for the Academy: Standing on the Shoulders of Our Elders and Giving Credence to African American Voice and Agency. In Retaining African-American Faculty, Administrators, and Students at Predominately White Universities: A Tale of Multiple Competing Paradigms, edited by Lee Jones (Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing, 2001), 193-206.

“Guiding Philosophical Principles for a Du Boisian-Based African-American Educational Model,” Journal of Negro Education 68, no. 2 (1999): 182-199.

“Conceptualizing a Du Boisian Philosophy of Education: Toward a Model for African American Education. Educational Theory 49, no. 3 (1999): 359-379.

“Revisiting the Los Angeles Riots: Classroom Reflections from a Du Boisian Perspective,” The Educational Forum 63, no. 2 (1999), 160-165.
“Going Public: The Imperative of Public Education in the 21st Century,” with Carl D. Glickman. In Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development and Practice, edited by Ann Lieberman and L. Miller,12-22. New York: Teachers College Press, 2001.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ESSAYS
“W.E.B. Du Bois in Georgia.” The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2004. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-905&hl=y

“Atlanta Compromise.” The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2004. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2554

“American Philosophies of Education.” Encyclopedia of American Studies. vol. 2, 67-72. Washington, D.C.: Grolier Publishing., 2001.

“Carter G. Woodson.” Encyclopedia of American Studies. vol. 4, 358-359. Washington, D.C.: Grolier Publishing, 2001.

BOOK AND ESSAY REVIEWS
With Larry L. Rowley, review of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis. Journal of African American Men 6 no. 3, (2001): 85.

“Civil Rights or Hip Hop,” review of The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop by Todd Boyd. Journal of African American History (2003).

CREATIVE SCHOLARLY PROJECTS/PUBLICATIONS (with Maurice C. Daniels)

Donald L. Hollowell: American Hero. 55 min.  Footsoldier Project Documentaries.(in press).

Hamilton E. Holmes: The Legacy Continues. 55 min. Footsoldier Project Documentaries,2003.

A Tribute to Donald L. Hollowell: Twentieth Century Freedom Fighter. 15 min. Foot Soldier Project Documentaries. 2002.

Footsoldier for Equal Justice: Horace T. Ward and the Desegregation of the University of Georgia. Part 1. 55 min. Foot Soldier Project Documentaries. 2000.

Footsoldier for Equal Justice: Horace T. Ward and the Desegregation of the University of Georgia. Part 2. 55 min. Foot Soldier Project Documentaries. 2001.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate Courses

Introduction to African American Studies (Penn State)

The School in U.S. Society

The Hip-Hop Mind: History, Ideology, and Pedagogy (split level with grad)

Graduate Courses

The Hip-Hop Mind: History, Ideology, and Pedagogy (split level with undergrad)

Education, Schooling, and the Civil Rights Movement

The W.E.B. Du Bois Seminar

Historiography and Historical Methods in Education

Oral History Methods in the Social Sciences

History of U.S. Education before 1865

History of U.S. Education after 1865

Qualitative Research Traditions

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

Carl D. Glickman Faculty Fellow Award, University of Georgia (2005).

Top 10 Outstanding and Rising Scholars Recognition, Black Issues in Higher Education (2005).

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Award for Service to Education, Athens, GA (2005).

Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Lecturer, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (2004-2005).

2004 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Education, University of Georgia (2004).

Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Lecturer, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (2003-2004).

National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2001).

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University (Summer 2000).

Outstanding Writing Award, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Awarded for 1999 essay in Educational Theory (2000).

KEYNOTE SPEECHES, LECTURES, AND TALKS

“‘Ideas Have Consequences,’: Race and Civil Rights in the Administrations of Ronald Wilson Reagan and George H.W. Bush.” Morehouse College. Atlanta, Georgia, June 14, 2006. “Hip Hop and the African American Intellectual Tradition.” Woman’s Studies Course on Hip-Hop. Georgia State College May 2006.

“Introduction Speech,” Charter Lecture Series on Martin Luther King, Jr. by historian Taylor Branch. University of Georgia, March 2006.

“W.E.B. Du Bois and the Education of the Hip-Hop Generation.” South Carolina Department of Education. Columbia, South Carolina, March 2006.

“An Intellectual History of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Educational Thought: Implications for Contemporary Education. Pennsylvania State University, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University Park, PA, October 26, 2005.

“Understanding and Educating the Hip-Hop Generation,” UGA School of Social Work, 7th Annual African American Families Conference, Black School of Social Work, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, April 21, 2005.

“The Niagara Movement.” U.S. Department of Agriculture, Black History Month Program Athens, Georgia, February 15, 2005.          

“The Niagara Movement.” African American Cultural Center, Black History Month Program, University of Georgia, February 8, 2005.

“Remembering the Past, Moving Forward.” Fortieth Anniversary Commemoration of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Auburn Avenue Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta, Georgia, August 24, 2004.

“The Life, Humanity, and Revolutionary Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Service, University of Georgia Chapel, January 23, 2002.

“W.E.B. Du Bois: A Message for the 21st Century.” Clark Atlanta University 34th Annual Writers Workshop, Clark/Atlanta University, Atlanta Georgia, April 2003.

“The Idea of the Talented Tenth.” Wolfpack Productions, First Fridays of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2000.

“The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois.” W.E.B. Du Bois Center for African-American Research, Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1999.

EDITORSHIPS

Section editor, 2006-present, Handbook of African American Education, Sage Publishers.

Associate Editor, 2003-Present, Journal of African American History (formerly Journal of Negro History

Guest Editor, 2003-Present, Journal of African American History.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Journal of Educational Foundations
Journal of the Professoriate
Journal of Culture and Its Transmission in the African World
Teaching History: A Journal of Methods

SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
National Council for Black Studies
History of Education Society
Southern Historical Association
Organization of American Historians

“Retrospect and Prospect: Conceptualizing a Vision for the Study African American Intellectual History and the History of Ideas in the Journal of African American History. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2006.

“W.E.B. Du Bois, ‘Strong Man Leadership,’ and the Construction of the Talented Tenth Idea.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of Southern Historical Association. Atlanta, Georgia, November 2005.

“From Civil Rights to Hip-Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Buffalo, New York, October 2005.

“From Civil Rights to Hip-Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of National Council for Black Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005.

“From Civil Rights to Hip-Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of College Language Association. University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia, April 2005.

“Hamilton E. Holmes: The Legacy Continues.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri, November 2004.

“The Dilemmas, Challenges, and Duality of an African American Educational Historian.” Paper presented at the Dean’s Diversity Committee Lecture Series. University of Georgia College of Education, Athens, Georgia, March 2004.

“W.E.B. Du Bois and the Education of Black Folk.” Paper presented at the Sixtieth Annual Family Institute Conference: Mis-Education of the Negro. Morehouse College Department of Sociology, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004.

“Revisiting ‘Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?”: W.E.B. Du Bois and the School Dichotomy Paradox.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 2003.

“Hip Hop as a Social Movement and Radical Pedagogy of Resistance.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Orlando, Florida., October, 2004

“Victorianism, Civilizationism, and Progressivism in the Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1895-1920.” Paper presented at the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October, 2004.

“The Educational Ideas of Anna Julia Cooper and W.E.B. Du Bois, 1892-1940.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October, 2002.

“W.E.B. Du Bois and the Separate and Integrated School Dichotomy Paradox. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2002.

“High Stakes Testing and the Education of African-Americans in Georgia: An Historical Policy Analysis,” with Jessica DeCuir. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2002.

“Ideas and Representations of Martin Luther King, Jr. in High School History Textbooks. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Washington, DC., April 2001.

“Black Education and a History of the Present.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2000.

“The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois for Contemporary Higher Education at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century,” with Larry L. Rowley. Paper     presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association Montreal, Canada, April 1999.

“W.E.B. Du Bois and the History of Curriculum.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, California, April 1998.

“Answering the Call: Towards a Du Boisian Curricular Model of Education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada, April 1999.

“Retrospect and Prospect: Voucher Possibilities for African American Youth. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council for Black Studies, Washington, DC., April 1996.

“Conceptualizing an Afrocentric Approach to School Administration.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council for Black Studies, Washington, DC., April 1996.

“An Afrocentric Approach to School Leadership. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Alliance of Black School Educators, Detroit, Michigan.

“Towards an Optimal Curriculum for African-American Youth: The Educational Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois from 1930-1934. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the History of Education Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1995

“Separatist and Inclusionist Thought of African-American Philosophers during the 1930s.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1995.

“The Role of the Office of Postsecondary Education in Systemic Reform: Possibilities for the Future. Paper presented at the U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., August 1994.

RECENT COMMUNITY OUTREACH

“Free Your Spirit, Free Your Mind: A Message to the Civil Rights and Hip Hop Generations.” Lecture. Juneteenth Celebration, Mount Prospect Baptist Church, Rock Hill, South Carolina, June 2006.

“Hip Hop and Youth.” Gentlemen on the Move Youth Mentoring Program. Panelist. University of Georgia, April 2005.

“Brown v. Board of Education.” Gwinnett Campus Black History Month Program. University of Georgia, Gwinett, Georgia, February, 2004.

“The Souls of Black Folk.” Lecture and Discussion. African American Cultural Center’s Black History Month Program. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February 2004.

“The American Civil Rights Movement.” Lecture and Discussion. Black’s Mill Elementary School, Dawson, Georgia, December 2004.

GRANTS

National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, University of Georgia, 2001-2002.
$50,000.00

College of Education Summer Grant, University of Georgia, 2003.
$5,000.00

College of Education Summer Grant, University of Georgia, 1998.
$5,000.00

Office of the Associate Provost for Research, University of Georgia, Spring 2002.
$10,000.00

Office of the President, University of Georgia, Spring 2002.
$5,000.00

Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Grant Participant, University of Georgia, August 1998-  2001.
Approximately $5,000.00

Office of the Vice-President for Research Grant, University of Georgia, January 2000.
$3,500.00

Technology Grant, Georgia Department of Education, 1999.
$2,000.00

College of Education Summer Grant, University of Georgia, 1999.
$4,100.00

College of Education Summer Grant, University of Georgia, 1998.
$3,200.00

Sarah H. Moss Fellowship Grant, University of Georgia, 1998.
$7,500.00

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