Outside
Member, Department of History Evaluation Team, California
State University,
Fresno,
April, 2001
Member,
Nominating Committee, Western Historical Association, 2000-
Member,
Editorial Advisory Board, Culturewise:
Research Journal of the National Council for Arts & Culture
(Nigeria) 1999-
Chair,
Nominating Committee, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast
Branch, 1999-2000
Member,
Ray Allen Billington Book Prize
Committee, Organization of American Historians, 1999-2000
Member,
Board of Directors, Urban History Association, 1998-2000
Member,
Program Committee, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical
Association, San Diego, California, 1998
Panelist/Reviewer,
National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington,
D.C., (all divisions),
1979
Member,
Advisory Board, Southern Conference of Afro-American Studies,
Inc., 1981-
Member,
Editorial Advisory Board, Research Journal of the Nigerian
National Council for Arts & Culture, 1998-
Mentor
for Kenneth Harlan, University
of Oregon PhD.
candidate in History supported by a fellowship from the Western
Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) through
its Compact for Faculty Diversity Program, 1996-1999
Member,
W. Turrentine Jackson Award Committee, Pacific Coast
Branch, American Historical Association, June 1996-
Member,
Sara Jackson Award Committee, Western History Association,
1993-1996
Committee
Chair, 1995-1996
Member,
History, Philosophy, Religious Studies Review Panel, Ford
Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities Program,
National Research Council, Washington, D.C., March, 1996
Member,
Program Committee, Western Historical Association Annual Meeting,
St. Paul, Minnesota,
1997
Editorial
Board, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 1993-2000
Editorial
Board, Western Historical Quarterly, 1993-1996
Reviewer,
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1992
Member,
Program Committee, Western Historical Association Annual Meeting,
New Haven, Connecticut
(Yale University),
1992
Editorial
Board, Oral History Review, 1985-1991
Member,
Endowment Committee, The Journal
of Negro History, 1983-85
Member,
Program Committee for the 1983 Meeting of the Association
for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
Project
Evaluator, "Oral History Project on the Great Migration,
1915-1940," Association for the Study of Afro-American
Life and History project funded by the National Endowment
for the Humanities, 1981-1984
Unpublished
Manuscript Reviews for:
California History, Texas Western Press, Washington State University
Press, University of California Press, University of Oklahoma
Press, University of Nebraska Press, Pacific Historical Review,
University of Washington Press, Pacific Northwest Quarterly,
Oregon Historical Quarterly, University of North Carolina
Press, D.C. Heath and Company, University Press of Kansas,
St. Martin's Press, Journal of American History, Oral History
Review, Umoja: A Scholarly Journal of Black Studies, The Griot: Journal of the Southern Conference of Afro American
Studies, Nevada Historical Quarterly, Western Historical Quarterly,
University Press of Colorado, Journal of American
