Curriculum Vitae Thomas L. Bynum 615-898-2760 (office) thomas.bynum@mtsu.edu Education: Ph.D., Georgia State University Graduation Date: December 2007 Dissertation: Our Fight Is For Right! : NAACP Youth Councils and College Chapters Crusade for Civil Rights, 1936-1965. Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Jacqueline A. Rouse Teaching Mentor: Dr. Glenn T. Eskew Major Fields: 20 th century African American History (emphasis on women activism, the NAACP youth movement, and the modern civil rights movement) and the American South Minor Fields: South African History and Modern British Imperial History M.A., Clark Atlanta University, 1995 Thesis: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Historical Images of African American Womanhood Advisors: Dr. Janice Sumler-Edmond Dr. Keith Baird Major Field: African American History Minor Field: Modern African History B.S., Barton College, 1993 Major: Social Studies Minor: Religion and Philosophy Teaching Experience: Middle Tennessee State University, ; Assistant Professor Present Youth Movements since the 1930s, History 3020 African American History before 1865, History 2040 African American History since 1865, History 2050 The Modern Civil Rights Movement, History 3020 Introduction to African American Studies, AAS 2100 Reading Seminar in the Modern Civil Rights and Black Power movements, Hist. 6104/7104 Research Seminar in the Modern Civil Rights and Black Power movements, Hist. 6105/7105 Bynum 1
Middle Tennessee State University, Geier Dissertation Fellow Spring 2007 Black Youth Activism and the Civil Rights Movement, History 3030 Fall 2003- Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; Instructor Spring 2006 United States History, History 2110 African American History, 1140 Summer 1999- Georgia Military College, Atlanta, Georgia; Assistant Professor Fall 1999 United States History 1492-1865, History 121 United States History 1865-present, History 122 World History 1500-present, History 102 Fall 1996- Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia; Adjunct Professor Spring 2006 World History Topical Approaches, History 111 and 112 Fall 1996- Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia; Adjunct Professor United States History, History 205 Fall 1995- Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta, Georgia; Instructor Summer 2002 United States History 1492-1865, History 2111 United States History 1865-present, History 2112 Publications: Spring 2012- Spring 2010- Fall 2009- Bynum, Thomas L. Review of Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country, printed in The Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History. Bynum, Thomas L. Review of Long Is the Way and Hard: One Hundred Years of the NAACP, printed in the Journal of African American History. Bynum, Tommy L. Review of Becoming King, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of a National Leader, printed in The Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History, April 2010. Bynum, Thomas L. We Must March Forward! : Juanita Jackson and the Origins of the NAACP s National Youth Movement Journal of African American History, Vol. 94. No. 4 Special Issue: Documenting the NAACP s First Century, (Fall 2009), pp. 487-508. Bynum, Tommy L. and Tara White. The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee, in Tennessee Electronic History Reader, ed. Amy Sayward. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press. Forthcoming Publications: Spring 2013- NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936-1965. University of Tennessee Press. Bynum 2
Fall 2013- Spring 2013- Old Guard verses New Guard: Young Turks, Black Power and the NAACP to be submitted to the Journal of African American History Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America. By Victoria W. Wolcott. Politics and Culture in Modern America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Reviewed by Bynum, Thomas L. To be published by the Journal of Southern History. Professional Experience: Fall 2012- Recruiter, Middle Tennessee State Minority Dissertation Fellowship at the Compact for Faculty Diversity 19 th Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Atlanta, GA Fall 2011- Spring 2010- Present Fall 2004- Spring 2005 Fall 2000- Spring 2003 Fall 2002- Spring 2001- Recruiter, Middle Tennessee State Minority Dissertation Fellowship at the Compact for Faculty Diversity 18 th Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Tampa, FL Judge, Tennessee History Day, sponsored by the Tennessee Historical Society in Nashville, TN Recruiter, Middle Tennessee State Minority Dissertation Fellowship, The Compact for Faculty Diversity 17 th Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Arlington, VA Advisor, Sankofa-The Movement, Middle Tennessee State University, Advisor, Morehouse College Amnesty International, Atlanta GA Advisor, Morehouse College JOBA, Atlanta GA Book Reviewer, St. Martins and Bedford Press Book Reviewer, Longman Publishing Company Fellowships, Grants, and Honors: Spring 2010- Letter of Recognition for Teaching and Service from the Office of Vice President for Student Affairs and Vice Provost for Enrollment and Academic Services, Middle Tennessee State University, Spring 2009- Spring 2009- Letter of Recognition for Teaching and Service from the Office of Vice President for Student Affairs and Vice Provost for Enrollment and Academic Services, Middle Tennessee State University, Building Bridges and Eradicating Barriers: How Mentoring Relationships Increase Minority Students Enrollment and Retention, Grant from Office of Bynum 3
Institutional Equity and Compliance, Middle Tennessee State University, Spring 2007 Spring 2007 Southern Regional Education Board Scholars Program Dissertation Award, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA Fellow, The Compact for Faculty Diversity 14 th Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, Georgia Middle Tennessee State University Geier Dissertation Fellowship, Southern Regional Education Board Doctoral Scholar, Atlanta GA Fellow, The Compact for Faculty Diversity 13 th Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA Summer 2006- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow, Harvard University Civil Rights Institute, Cambridge, MA Fall 2003- Spring 2006 Fall 1995- Georgia State University Teaching Assistantship, Atlanta GA Clark Atlanta University All American Scholar Award, Atlanta GA August 1994- Clark Atlanta University Graduate Research Assistantship, Atlanta GA July 1995 January- May1995 Emory and Atlanta University Center AIDS Research Project Graduate Research Assistant, Atlanta, GA Panels, Papers and Presentations: Fall 2011- Presented More Than A Hamburger and A Cup of Coffee : NAACP Youth and the Black Freedom Movement at Southern Historical Association in Baltimore, Maryland Panelist, Is It Legal Forum sponsored by University Collegiate 100 at Middle Tennessee State University, Presented I Got A Home Over Yonder : The Christian Church and the Black Freedom Movement at Lake Providence Missionary Baptist Church, Nashville, TN Panelist, Graduate School Information Workshop sponsored by Sankofa The Movement at Middle Tennessee State University, Bynum 4
Spring 2009- Fall 2008- Spring 2008- Spring 2005- Fall 2004- Elizabeth Fall 2003- Presented Great Men and Women in Black History for Boys to Men Mentoring Workshop at Lake Providence Missionary Baptist Church, Nashville, TN Panelist, Educational Retention Forum sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University NAACP Chapter, Moderator, Jena Six Forum sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University NAACP Chapter, Moderator, Lost Episodes of Holocaust History, Middle Tennessee State University Holocaust Studies Conference, Presented Juanita Jackson and the Origins of a National Youth Movement within the NAACP: The Youth Councils Lead the Way at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Atlanta, Georgia Moderator, Black History Symposium for Association for Georgia State University Historians (AGSUH), Atlanta, GA Presented Blacks and Reconstruction in Georgia; Guest Lecturer for Dr. Evans American Literature Class, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA Presented Origins of Jim Crow Practices in Georgia; Guest Lecturer for Dr. Elizabeth Evans American Literature Class, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, Georgia Summer 2002- Presented Life, Liberty and Pursuit of God; Guest Speaker for Youth Day Program, Mount Welcome Baptist Church, Decatur, Georgia Spring 2001- Fall 2001- Presented The Role of the Black Church in the Twentieth Century; Guest Speaker for Black History Forum hosted by the African American Student Association, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA Presented Blacks and the Failure of Reconstruction; Guest Lecturer for Dr. Elizabeth Evans American Literature Class, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA Professional Associations: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History National Council of Black Studies Southern Historical Association Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated Bynum 5