Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland Department of History (MC 198) Email: etoddbre@uic.edu 913 University Hall Phone: (312) 996-3141 601 South Morgan Street Fax: (312) 996-6367 Chicago, Illinois 60607-7109 EDUCATION University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Ph.D. in History, 2010 Dissertation: To Reshape and Redefine Our World : African American Political Organizing for Education in Chicago, 1968-1988 M.A. in History, 2005 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA B.A. with distinction in History, magna cum laude, 2004 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS United States Urban and Social History; African American History; History of Education; Education Policy and Reform; Race and Inequality; Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies; Comparative Colonialism and Decolonization. ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2012-Present Assistant Professor of History Governors State University, University Park, IL, 2011-2012 Assistant Professor of History Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2010-2011 Mellon ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2009 Instructor, Comparative Race Studies Program, History Department PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS Book Manuscript: A Political Education: Race, Politics, and Education in Post-Civil Rights Chicago. Revised dissertation manuscript. Articles: Barbara Sizemore: A Lifetime of Struggle for Urban School Reform. Article in preparation for submission to the Journal of African American History, February 2013. More than an Urban Crisis : Black Educators and Public Service Employment in the Post-Industrial City. Article in preparation for submission to the Journal of Urban History. Chapter in Edited Volume: Invisible Legacy: the Desegregation and Re-Segregation of Chicago Public Schools, Co-Authored with Dionne Danns, for Being on the Wrong Side of History: Critical Readings on Race and Re- Segregation, Ed. Judith Brooks-Buck. Submitted for review June 2012.
PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland, 2 Impact of School Policy and Neighborhood Change on Desegregation and Re-Segregation in Chicago, Presenter, Organization of Educational Historians Annual Conference. Chicago, IL, October 2012. Black Teachers, Public Service Employment, and Urban Middle-Class Politics, Presenter and Session Organizer, Re-Thinking Desegregation American Education Research Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC, April 2012. School Desegregation in America s Most Segregated City, American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD, 22 October 2011. South Meets North Symposium: The Shaping of a New Narrative of the Civil Rights Movement, Discussant, Center for African American History, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL, 6 May 2011. Forum on African Americans, Education, and the Chicago School System, Invited Speaker, Facts of Blackness in Chicago. Northwestern University Department of African American Studies Speakers Series 2011. Evanston, IL, 20 April 2011. Reform Within the System: The Woodlawn Experimental Schools Project and Community Control in Chicago Presenter and Session Organizer, Post-World War II Black Education Organizing American Education Research Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, 12 April 2011. A Lesson in Racial Politics: The Evolution of School Reform in Chicago, Colloquium, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL, 2 March 2011. Teaching Student Activism: Education and Civil Rights in Chicago, Freedom For All, Teacher Seminar Series, McCormick Foundation Civics Program. Chicago, IL, 5 February 2011. Black Politics and Educational Organizing in Post-Civil Rights Chicago, Presenter, and Session Organizer, Politics and Policy in the Post-Civil Rights City, American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, 8 January 2011. Integration Now, Integration Tomorrow, Integration : The Chicago Urban League and the Continued Push for School Integration, History of Education Society Annual Meeting. Cambridge, MA, 5 November 2010. Reform Within the System: The Development of Community Control in Chicago and The Woodlawn Experimental Schools Project. Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL, 13 May 2010. Respondent for the paper: Extreme Makeovers in a Chicago High School? Transforming At-Risk Youth into Young Latino Professionals Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL, 8 October 2009. African American Activism and Education in Chicago: Civil Rights and Beyond Race Studies Grant Symposium, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL, 23 May 2009. Correcting Historical Erasure: Margaret Garner in Secondary and Collegiate Classrooms and Curriculum Margaret Garner in context, A Community Conversation: Human Rights and Slavery s Legacy. Chicago Foundation for Women. Roosevelt University. Chicago, IL, 7 October 2008.
Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland, 3 To Reshape and Redefine Our World: African Americans Organizing For Education, 1968-2004. Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop. University of Chicago. Chicago, IL, 8 May 2008. From Activists to Elected Officials: Political Authority in 1970s Washington, D.C. and Sources for African American History. Talk for library staff. University of Chicago. Regenstein Library, Chicago, IL. 21 February 2006. Havana, Cuba: Race in the Special Period. University Scholars. University of Pennsylvania. ARCH building, Philadelphia, PA. 21 November 2003. The Shelf Life of a Segregated Institution: The History of the Wabash Avenue YMCA, 1910-1940. Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program. University of Pennsylvania. Office of the Vice Provost for University Life, Philadelphia, PA. 11 November 2003. Black-Jewish Relations, Interactions on the Left, and the Social, Economic, and Political Orientation of Blacks and Jews in Chicago. Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program. University of Pennsylvania. Office of the Vice Provost for University Life, Philadelphia, PA. 24 March 2003. HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship, 2010-2011 Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2009-2010 University of Chicago John Hope Franklin Endowment Grant, 2008 Social Science Research Council Predoctoral Research Development Grants, 2005-2007 University of Chicago Collegiate Scholars Prestigious Faculty Award, 2006 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship, 2004-2007 Trustees Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2004-2009 Honorary Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies, 2004-2005 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, 2002-2004 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Illinois at Chicago Fall 2012 Modern America: From Industrialization to Globalization Spring 2013 Re-Thinking the Urban Crisis (Graduate Course) Governors State University, University Park, IL Spring 2012 American Urban History Spring 2012 U.S. History II Spring 2012 Foundations of Social Justice Fall 2011 U.S. History I Fall 2011 World History: Concepts and Interpretations University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Spring 2009 Spring 2007 Fall 2005 Race and Public Education Since Brown v. Board Colonizations III (Teaching Intern) The Peopling of America 1900-Present (Teaching Assistant) University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Fall 2008 African American History to 1877
Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland, 4 Other Teaching: Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Chicago Urban Education Institute, 2007-2010 Coordinated professional development courses and workshops for Chicago K-12 teachers on topics related to critical history and urban education in Chicago. Course topics include: Black Chicago, Segregation, Civil Rights, Hip-Hop and Youth Culture University of Chicago Charter High School Woodlawn Campus, Chicago, IL, 2006-2010 Instructor and College Counselor, Co-taught course: Civics and Argument/Debate. Developed precollegiate curricula and counseled students through the college application process. University of Chicago Collegiate Scholars Program, 2005-2009 Coordinated and instructed college preparation, application, and transition courses and workshops for Chicago Public Schools students; with focus on developing writing and communication skills. ACADEMIC SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE General Education Task Force, Governors State University, Fall 2011-Present Serve as a representative for the College of Arts and Sciences on a University-wide task force to revamp general education requirements in preparation for Governors State s admission of freshmen students. Committee to Create a New History Major, Governors State University, 2011-2012 Review, revise, and add courses; curriculum mapping and administrative preparation for a new History major in the College of Arts and Sciences; Includes digital humanities and civic engagement focus Journal of Social History, Submission Reviewer, 2011. American Education Research Association, Submission Reviewer, Division F: History of Education, 2011 The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) History Department Representative, 2008-2010 Worked with Dean of Students, developed professionalization programming, and advised underrepresented minority graduate students in a National Science Foundation sponsored program. College Programming Office, Workshop Facilitator, 2007-2008 Facilitated workshops for undergraduate and graduate students; Topics included: critical reading, notetaking skills, and discussions of identity and diversity. Collegiate Mentoring Program, Mentor to undergraduate students, 2006-2008 Office of Minority Student Affairs, Workshop Facilitator, 2007 Facilitated discussions for undergraduates on topics related to race, ethnicity, and LBGTQ issues; including: Visibility and Marginalization and EthnoRacial Identity on Campus and in the Community. Minority Graduate Student Association Treasurer 2005-2006, Co-Chair for annual academic conference 2006, member 2004-2009 Race-ing the Academy Conference, Co-Chair, 2006 Planned and coordinated an interdisciplinary conference on race and racial ideologies. University of Chicago/Kenwood Academy Program of Academic Exploration, Group Leader, 2005-2006 Facilitated research program for Chicago Public Schools students; presented work at 2005 Feminism and Hip Hop Conference and the 2005 annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference.
Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland, 5 Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC), Research Assistant, 2006. Researched gender and sexual politics in the Black Power Movement for Dr. Tracye Matthews, Associate Director of the CSRPC. Citywide Black Feminist Reading Group, Chicago, IL, Co-Organizer, 2006-2007 Organized monthly reading group to discuss scholarly and popular texts, films, and other media related to Black feminist theory, practice, and activism. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Research Assistant, 2002-2004 Researched African American religion and politics for Dr. Barbara Savage and researched the impact of desegregation in urban Puerto Rican communities for Dr. Madeleine López. COMMUNITY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENTS Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Chicago Urban Education Institute, 2007-Present Work on a committee to produce and organize professional development resources and courses for K-12 teachers and students on topics related to urban education and critical history in Chicago. Metropolitan Tenants Organization, 2006-Present Sit on Board of Directors, volunteer, and organize initiatives to improve the lives of renters in Chicago, preserve affordable housing, and decrease residential displacement. Mayor s Condominium Conversion Task Force, City of Chicago, 2008-2011 Assessed the impact of condominium development and conversion on city residents and created policies to address problems associated with the loss of affordable rental housing American Historical Association American Studies Association History of Education Society American Education Research Association PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS