Resume

• 2010

  City University of New York

  Manhattan College

  Brooklyn College

  City University of New York City College

  Attached as Historian Consultant to \"College Now\" Program. Developing a college seminar for NYC high school students. Seminar is New York themed (African Diaspora in Dutch and British New York -- 17th - 19th c.)

  City University of New York

• 2008

  Columbia University

  Institute for Research in African American Studies -- devising and teaching courses centered in 18th c. Black Atlantic -- Black Intellectuals

  Liberty and Law

  Black Presence in Colonial New York

  Columbia University

  Montclair State University

  Montclair

  New Jersey

  Introduction to African American Art -- Art History lecture course integrating the history and creative production of people of African descent from 18th - 21st century. Lectured on: painting

  sculpture

  pottery

  decorative arts (particularly the furniture of 19th c. cabinetmaker Thomas Day) and photography. Invited contemporary artist Titus Kaphar to address the class and participate in a Q and A regarding creativity

  making art and artistic influences.

  Adjunct Professor - Art History

  Greater New York City Area

  Upcoming Fall 2016 -- History and visual culture seminar \"The Black Aesthetic: African American Arts and Culture\"\n\nIntellectual history seminar - \"Black Intellectuals the Early Years (18th-19th c.)\" focusing on Enlightenment principles that informed the writings of Diasporic Africans in the English-speaking Atlantic World.

  Part Time Assistant Professor - History - School of Public Engagement

  The New School

  M.A.

  Specialty in Early American art (18th and 19th c.)

  Iconography

  17th c. Dutch. Interest in modern architecture (19th and early 20th c.). Experience in basic handwrought silversmithing and museum level paper conservation. Familiarity with American decorative arts (18th and 19th c.)

  Art History

  Hunter College - Graduate Art History Division

  Columbia University in the City of New York

  Ph.D.

  History

  Barnard College

  Bachelor's Degree

  Double Major: Biology (Zoology) and Art History

• 2006

  Princeton University

  Manhattan College

  Lecturer at the Assistant Professor level (interim hire to replace a senior faculty member)\nHistory (17th + 18th c. English-speaking Atlantic World)

  18th c. English law --> see my Texas Wesleyan Law Review article on Lord Mansfield

  Liberty and Somerset

  2007/2008

  Princeton University

  Manhattan College

  Greater New York City Area

  Revived a course that had not been taught since 2009 -- Introduction to American Art. A survey course approached through both social history and the visual record -- including the growth of photography along with science and art.

  Part Time Assistant Professor - Department of Visual and Performing Arts

  New York

  New York

  Co-editor of The Politics of History: A New Generation of American Historians Writes Back

  (forthcoming

  2019) - a volume honoring the work of Columbia University historian Eric Foner\n\nWinner of a Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts Seminar Fellowship - Academic year 2017-2018. \nTheme for the year: Evidence\nProject proposed: \"Black Bodies - In the Matter of Black Lives: The Zong Case 1783 and the Black Lives Matters Movement\"\n\nI offer courses through the History Department and through the Black Studies Program. Some courses are cross-listed.\nTeaching Academic Year 2017-2018: African Americans and Native Americans: History & Identities - a proprietary course that I proposed and developed offered (debuted Spring 2018)

  African Heritage and the African American Experience

  Racism and the American Legal System.\n\nTeaching Academic year 2016-2017: World Civ. I

  Civil War through the History Department.\nAfrican Heritage and the African American Experience

  Racism and the American Legal System - a proprietary course that I proposed and developed

  Civil Rights.

  Part Time Assistant Professor

  City University of New York City College

  Brooklyn

  New York

  Part-time faculty teaching World History (See my expansive training as an art historian and my Atlantic World training as an historian.) Devised an approach to the course that included teaching students to engage the visual record in history - complete with a Metropolitan Museum of Art project.

  Part Time Assistant Professor - History

  Brooklyn College

  Full time faculty member. Courses taught: U.S. history survey (to 1877)

  Great Issues in American History (imperialism and the problem of creating colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries

  expansion of slavery in the 19th century

  the Red Scare and McCarthyism in the 20th century)

  Declaring Revolution.

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  Greater New York City Area

  Manhattan College

• April 24

  8PM EST

  \"As is often the case in Kaphar’s work

  what is unseen

  unspoken

  and not understood is given greater weight

  emphasis

  and voice than what was revealed

  depicted

  or captured in the original genre. Each piece in some way embodies both liminality

  ...

  Kaphar Studio - Kapharstudio.com

  Research

  Higher Education

  Conference Speaking

  American History

  Archives

  Public Speaking

  Teaching

  History and Literature

  African Diaspora

  Academic Libraries

  Art History

  Creating Content

  African American Studies

  Analytical Skills

  History

  Art

  Atlantic History

  Museums

  Editing

  Lecturing

  Book review on \"Mastery

  Slavery & Desire: Thomas Thistlewood\" by Trevor Burnard

  Review of a book about the role of a brutal Caribbean plantation owner in the context of English colonialism.

  Book review on \"Mastery

  Slavery & Desire: Thomas Thistlewood\" by Trevor Burnard

  Explanation and discussion of questions of the law and liberty as diasporic Africans were denied it and fought for it in the context of the courts during the height of the African slave trade in the 18th century.

  \"Liberty and Law in the 18th century Anglo-American Transatlantic\"

  Tribute to the late Manning Marable -- scholar

  writer

  mentor and author of the ground-breaking volume on Malcolm X.

  “Tributes from Dr. Manning Marable’s Students

  ”

  Essay on the development of American painting from the 17th century to the early 19th century.

  \"American Painting to the 1830s\" essay

  Tribute to the late Madeleine L'Engle - author of bestselling book \"A Wrinkle in Time\"

  and mentor.

  \"Writing London

  Writing Worcester County\" in A Circle of Friends: Remembering Madeleine L'Engle

  A brief study of an English court case from 1771-2 involving top English jurist William Murray

  Lord Mansfield and James Somerset an enslaved man of African descent brought to England. Signal case in English and American law.

  Transatlantic Negotiations: Lord Mansfield

  Liberty and Somerset

  Essay regarding ideological concepts of \"liberty\" and \"geography/location\" and practical implementations of the same in relation to court cases in a groundbreaking volume of collected essays re-examining the traditionally accepted history of American abolitionism.

  \"Geographies of Liberty\"

  FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: @drtkhunter\n\n*Historian and Art Historian\n*Co-editor of The Politics of History: A New Generation of American Historians Writes Back (forthcoming

  2019) - a volume honoring the work of Columbia University historian Eric Foner\n*Simon H. Rifkind Center Seminar Fellowship Winner 2017-2018 (CCNY)\n\n ✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹✹\n\n* I am a creative

  self-starter who is always curious and who is intellectually agile. \n* I am a public speaker who has worked with age groups from children to retirees as a result of over 10 years of leading history walking tours of New York City. With a distinct ability to cut through the kind of jargon that alienates an audience

  my presentations are informative

  accessible and amusing; I hold the attention of my audience. \n* I create content that encourages learning

  critical/analytical thinking and ways to apply that knowledge across disciplines.\n* I am a consummate communicator. As a conference presenter

  I have delivered numerous papers.\n* I constantly create new ways of seeing

  new ways of engaging

  new ways of thinking

  and consider outcomes (how and what my audience learns and understands). \n* I am a skilled researcher having researched and written and published many pieces

  including a 350 page work

  essays

  law article

  and letters to the New York Times.\n* I am an expert at writing

  editing

  and providing useful feedback that challenges and supports. \n* Life Coaching expertise fortifies all of my interactions.\n* My background in Zoology was the foundation for the experience I've accrued over the years regarding canines. (I train dogs for individuals & families.) I have studied canine cognition with the well-known Barnard College/Columbia U. psychologist

  Alexandra Horowitz

  researcher in canine cognition.\n* Communicating

  deep listening

  teaching are the leitmotifs that link my wide-ranging skills.

  T.K.

  Montclair State University

  The New School