Curriculum Vita. Cheryll Ann Cody. Office : Department of History Phone 713/ M.A. Department of History, University of Minnesota, March 1977

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1 Curriculum Vita Cheryll Ann Cody Office : Department of History Phone 713/ West Loop Campus cheryll.cody@hccs.edu Houston Community College 5601 West Loop South Houston, Texas Education: Ph.D. Department of History, University of Minnesota, August 1982 Thesis: Slave Demography and Family Formation: A Community Study of the Ball Family Plantations, M.A. Department of History, University of Minnesota, March 1977 B.A. College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, June 1974 magna cum laude in History and Literature Honor s Thesis: Literary Censorship in the Novels of Theodore Dreiser: A Comparison of Sister Carrie and The Genius Additional course and program work Graduate work in Geography, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1996 Spring credit hours completed to receive college teaching accreditation in Geography Newberry Library Summer Institute in Family and Community History, Summer, 1977 Professional Experience: Professor, Department of History, Houston Community College, Fall 2015 Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of History, SW College, Houston Community College, Spring 2003 to Spring 2015 Professor, Department of History, SW College, Houston Community College, Spring 2000 through Fall 2002 Adjunct Instructor, Department of History, SW College, Houston Community College, Spring 1995 through Fall 1999 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Houston, Spring 1988 through Spring 1994 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Florida, Fall 1982 through Spring 1987 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, Spring, 1985 Instructor, Department of History, University of Minnesota, Fall 1981 Spring 1982 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Summer 1980 Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, Department of History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Fall 1975 through Spring 1981, Publications: (refereed articles) Cycles of Work and Cycles of Childbearing: Seasonality in Women s Lives on Low Country Plantations, in Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, editors, More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996)

2 Cheryll Ann Cody Page 2 Publications: (refereed articles) Sale and Separation: Four Crisis for Enslaved Women on the Ball Plantations, in Larry Hudson, editor, Working Towards Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1995) Kin and Community among the Good Hope People after Emancipation, Ethnohistory vol 41 no 1 (winter 1994): There Was No Absalom on the Ball Plantations, Slave Naming Practices in the South Carolina Low Country, American Historical Review 92:3 (June, 1987): Naming, Kinship and Estate Dispersal: Notes on Slave Family Life on a South Carolina Plantation, 1786 to 1833, The William and Mary Quarterly 3 rd series 39: 1 (January 1982): A Note on Changing Patterns of Slave Fertility in the South Carolina Rice District, , Southern Studies vol 16 (Winter, 1977): (non-refereed articles and invited essays) Slave Marriages, in Randall M. Miller and John David Smith, editors, Dictionary of Afro- American Slavery, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988), pp Painful Though It Might Be, Inheritance Practices and Slave Families on the Ball Plantations, Paper 86-3 Working Papers of The Social History Workshop, Department of History, University of Minnesota, (republications) There Was No Absalom on the Ball Plantations, Slave Naming Practices in the South Carolina Low Country, American Historical Review 92:3 June, 1987): in Gad Heuman and James Walvin, editors, The Slavery Reader, (London and New York: Routledge, 2003). Naming, Kinship and Estate Dispersal: Notes on Slave Family Life on a South Carolina Plantation, 1786 to 1833, The William and Mary Quarterly 3 rd series 39: 1 (January 1982): in Nancy Cott, editor, History of Women in America, (Westport, CT: Meckler, 1991). Naming, Kinship and Estate Dispersal: Notes on Slave Family Life on a South Carolina Plantation, 1786 to 1833, The William and Mary Quarterly 3 rd series 39: 1 (January 1982): in Darlene Clark Hine, editor, Black Women in American History, vol 1 (New York: Carlson Publishing, 1990). There Was No Absalom on the Ball Plantations, Slave Naming Practices in the South Carolina Low Country, American Historical Review 92:3 (June, 1987): in Paul Finkelman, editor, Articles on Slavery, vol 8 The Slave Community: Family, Gender, and Culture, (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989). A Note on Changing Patterns of Slave Fertility in the South Carolina Rice District, , Southern Studies vol 16 (Winter, 1977): in Paul Finkelman, Articles on Slavery vol 15 Medicine, Nutrition, Demography, and Slavery, (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989).

3 Cheryll Ann Cody Page 3 Publications: (republications) (continued) Naming, Kinship and Estate Dispersal: Notes on Slave Family Life on a South Carolina Plantation, 1786 to 1833, The William and Mary Quarterly 3 rd series 39: 1 (January 1982): in Michael Gordon, editor, The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective, third edition, (St. Martin s Press, 1983). Conference Papers and Public Lectures: (sole author) Internationalizing the US History Survey Course Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January in Boston, MA. Finding Belle: Women s Education, Marriage and Migrations in the post bellum South, Public Lecture presented for Women s History Month, March 21, 2006 at Houston Community College in Houston, TX. Sale and Separation: Four Crises for Enslaved Women on the Ball Plantations, , Paper presented at the Conference on African-American Work and Culture in the 18 th and 19 th Centuries, April 23 24, 1993, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Age Specific Fertility Rates for Enslaved Populations: A Comparison of Low Country South Carolina and St. Ann s Parish, Jamaica, Paper presented at the IUSSP Conference on the Peopling of the Americas, May 1992, Veracruz, Mexico. Cousin Marriage and Maintaining the Patrimony: Problems in Methods and Application, Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, November 16 19, 1989, in Washington, D.C. Slaves and Freedom in St. Ann s Parish, Jamaica, , Public Lecture delivered at the Library Company of Philadelphia, July 17, 1989 in Philadelphia, PA. Marital Unions and Childbearing on the Ravenal Plantations: A Caribbean pattern in the South Carolina Low Country? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, November 11 13, 1988 in Williamsburg, VA. Gender Differentials in the Education of Freed Blacks: A Comparison of Jefferson County, Arkansas and Falls County, Texas, Paper presented at the Conference on The Women s West sponsored by the Coalition for Western Women s History and the California Humanities Commission, August 13 16, 1987 in San Francisco, CA. Painful Though It Might Be, Inheritance Practices and Slave Families on the Ball Plantations, Paper presented to the Social History Workshop, Department of History, University of Minnesota, February 27, 1986 in Minneapolis, MN. Social Networks and the Slave Marriage Market: Finding a Mate on the Ball Plantations, (Substantive Findings) Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 15-18, 1985 in Minneapolis, MN. Social Networks and the Slave Marriage Market: Finding a Mate on the Ball Plantations, (Methodological Considerations) Paper presented at the Fifth Sunbelt Social Network Conference, February 14 17, 1985 in Palm Beach, FL.

4 Cheryll Ann Cody Page 4 Conference Papers and Public Lectures (sole author) (continued) Patterns and Determinants of Slave Infant and Childhood Mortality in the South Carolina Low Country, , Paper presented at the Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, August 15 18, 1984, Seattle, WA. Tacit Rules and Hidden Structures, Slave Naming Practices on the Ball Family Plantations, paper presented to the Faculty Colloquium, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, April 18, Berkeley, CA. Measures of Fertility and the Stability of Slave Family Life, Paper presented at the Conference on the History of Women sponsored by the Women Historians of the Midwest, April 30 May 2, 1982, St. Paul, MN. Production and Reproduction: Cycles of Labor, Conception and Infant Mortality among South Carolina Slaves, Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Medical Historians of the Midwest, April 1 3, 1981, Minneapolis, MN. Slave Fertility and Family Formation: The Ball Family Slaves, , Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 2 5, 1978 in Columbus, OH. Conference Papers and Public Lectures (co-authored) Cheryll Ann Cody and Anita Tien, The Good Hope People after Emancipation, Paper presented to the Seventy-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, August 13 17, 1986, Honolulu, HA. Fellowships and Awards National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections, Grant # FE , Slave Life in Jamaica s Northern Parishes, , for research at the Jamaica Institute, Kingston, Jamaica, December 1991 to November Limited Grant in Aid, University of Houston, Slave Life in Jamaica s Northern Parishes, , for research at the Jamaican Record Office, Spanishtown and the University of the West Indies, Mona, Libraries, Kingston, Jamaica, December 1991 to August American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant to International Meetings, for travel to the XVII International Congress of Historical Sciences, Madrid, August 1990 to serve as invited commentator at session History and Anthropology. Limited Grant in Aid, University of Houston, Demography, Family, and Labor Regimes: Slaves and Freedmen in St. Ann s Parish, Jamaica, , for research at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 1989 to August Summer Research Fellowship in American History and Culture at The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Demography, Family, and Labor Regimes in St. Ann s Parish, Jamaica, Summer 1989.

5 Cheryll Ann Cody Page 5 Fellowships and Awards (continued) Limited Grant in Aid, University of Houston, Marriage, Family and Inheritance among South Carolina s Planter Elite, , for research at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC, June 1988 to August Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere, from the American Historical Association, A Demographic and Anthropological Study of Marriage, Family and Inheritance among South Carolina s Planter Elite. Summer National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections, Grant # FE , Marriage and Inheritance among South Carolina s Planter Elite, for research at the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC, July 1987 to October National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections, Grant # FE , Good Hope Plantation Slaves after 1859, for research at the Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, AR; the Barker Texas History Center and the Texas State Archives, Austin, TX and the Baylor University Library, Waco, TX, March 1986 to June Faculty Development Grant, Division of Sponsored Research, Graduate School of the University of Florida, Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Special Dissertation Grant for travel to the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC; and the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC, Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Participation in the Newberry Library Institute for the Study of Family and Community History, Summer Service to the Profession Councils and Committees Member, 2015 Julia Ideson Award Committee for Scholarly Research Project completed given by The Friends of the Texas Room, Houston Metropolitan Research Center (term of service June September 2015) Member, 2015 Program Committee for the Organization of American Historians (term of service May 2013 April 2015) Chair, 2014 Numan V. Bartley Award Committee, Southern Historical Association, (February October 2014) Community College Advisor, American History, Atlantic and Pacific American Historical Association, NEH Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges Grant, Robert Townsend Principle Investigator, (Jan 2012 Jan 2015)

6 Cheryll Ann Cody Page 6 Service to the Profession Councils and Committees (continued) Councilor, Teaching Division, American Historical Association (elected to three year term of service Jan 2010 to Jan 2013) Member, Two Year Task Force, American Historical Association, Aug 2010 June 2012 Member, NEH Site Planning Committee for the George Ranch Historical Park, Richmond, TX Member, 1989 Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Member, 1987 Membership Committee, Southern Association of Women Historians. Conference Session Chair and Commentator Chair, Lessons Learned from the AHA s Bridging Cultures Program, Part 5 Pechakucha 2 Incorporating the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds in the U.S. History Survey Course at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 2 5 in New York, NY. Chair and Commentator at session, What Brain Science Can Teach Us About Our Students at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 3 6, 2013 in New Orleans, LA. Chair and Commentator at session The Future Is Here: Digital Methods in Research and Teaching in History at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 5 8, 2012 in Chicago, Ill. Commentator at session on History of the Family at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, March 28 30, 1991, San Antonio, TX. Invited Commentator at session Anthropology and Social and Cultural History at the XVII International Congress of Historical Sciences, August 26 Sept 2, 1990, Madrid, Spain. Manuscripts Refereed Book length works for the University of South Carolina Press, Bedford St. Martin s Press and Oxford University Press Member, Oxford University College Advisory Board Articles for the Journal of Family History, the William and Mary Quarterly, the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Journal of Sexual History and Louisiana History. Books Reviews The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race & Finding an American Family, by Mark Auslander, in Louisiana History, Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave Trade in the United States after 1808, by Ernest Obadele- Starks, in Louisiana History, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Fall 2010), pp

7 Cheryll Ann Cody Page 7 Service to the Profession Books Reviews (continued) A Maryland Bride in the Deep South-The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond, edited by Kimberly Harrison, in Louisiana History, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Winter 2008), pp On Jordan s Banks: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley, by Darrel E. Bigham, in The Journal of American History, Vol. 93, No. 3 (Dec., 2006), pp Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina, by Emily West, in The Journal of American History, Vol. 91, No. 4 (Mar., 2005), pp Freedom s Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation, by Elizabeth Regosin, in The Journal of American History, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Dec., 2003) pp In the Affairs of the World: Women, Patriarchy, and Power in Colonial South Carolina, by Cara Anzilotti, in The Journal of Southern History, Vol 69, No. 4 (Nov., 2003), pp The Gullah People and Their African Heritage, by William S. Pollitzer, in The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Aug., 2001), pp The Slaves Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas, by Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan, in The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 60, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana. By Ann Patton Malone, in The Journal of American History, Vol. 80. No 2 (Sep., 1993) pp Disfigured Images: Historical Assault on Afro-American Women, by Patricia Morton, in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 76. No. 2 (Summer, 1992), pp Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage, by Dorothy Spruill Redford, in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 4 (Winter 1990), pp When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands, by Patricia Jones-Jackson, in the International Journal of Oral History, Vol. 10 No. 3 (November 1989), pp Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter, by Theodore Rosengarten in the Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jan., 1988), pp Captain Charles Stuart: Anglo-American Abolitionist, by Anthony J. Barker, in Journal of The Early Republic, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Winter, 1987), pp Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island: Growth of a Planter, by Mary R. Bullard, in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century, by Barbara Jeanne Fields, in The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 52, No. 2 (May, 1986), pp

8 Cheryll Ann Cody Page 8 Service to the Profession Book Reviews (continued) North Carolina Planters and Their Children, , by Jane Turner Censer, in the Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 4 (April 1986), pp The Calhoun Family and Thomas Green Clemson, Decline of a Southern Patriarchy, in the Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Jan., 1985), pp Lucy Audubon, A Biography, by Carolyn E. Delatte, in the Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 62,.No. 3 (Jan., 1984), pp Committees and Administration at Houston Community College Member, SACS Self Evaluation, Library Committee Spring 2000 Spring 2002 Member, Southwest College Library Advisory Committee, Spring Member, Southwest College, West Loop Campus Student Success Committee, Fall Member, Southwest College, Department of History Search Committee, Fall, 2002 Member, Southwest College, History Department Search Committee, Summer I 2004 Member, Central College, Department of History Search Committee, Spring 2005 Co-chair, Southwest College, Department of History Search Committee, Fall 2006 Chair, Southwest College, Department of History Search Committee, Summer Fall 2013 (3 positions hired) Associate Chair, Southwest College, Department of History, Geography, Philosophy and World Languages, (term of service Fall 2003 Spring )2011 Assistant Chair, Southwest College, Department of History, Geography and Philosophy, (term of service) Fall Spring 2015) Special Projects at Houston Community College Development of History print and online collection for Southwest College Libraries Spring Outside Reviewer, Hist 1301 Master Course for online instruction, HCCS System, 2006 Ex officio Member of the Early Challenge Middle College Advisory Board,