Delia MellisAdjunct Associate Professor
dmellis@barnard.edu Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. or by appointment, Lehman 400.
Courses: EDUCATION Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States History, Ph.D. 2008Dissertation: “The Monsters We Defy”: Washington, D.C. in the Red Summer of 1919 Bard College, Languages and Literature, B.A. 1986 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS E.P. Thompson Dissertation Fellowship, 2004-05Mellon Humanities Seminar Participant, CUNY Center for the Humanities, 2004-05 Colonial Dames Dissertation Proposal Award, 2003 CUNY Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2002-03 CUNY Writing Fellowship, 2000-02 Tuition Fellowship, History Department, GSUC-CUNY 1997-1999 TEACHING APPOINTMENTS Barnard College, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Fall 2007 - presentHostos Community College, CUNY, Assistant Professor of History, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Fall 2007 – Spring 2008 Bard College, 2005-present Faculty, Bard Prison Initiative Faculty, Workshop in Language and Thinking Associate, Institute for Writing and Thinking College of Staten Island, CUNY, Graduate Teaching Fellow, History Department, 2002-03 PUBLICATIONS “’Literally Devoured’: Washington, D.C., 1919,” in Leaping into the Fire: Representations of Women in U.S. Race Riots, Studies in the Literary Imagination, vol. 40.2 (Fall 2007), 1-24 Review: Lisa Lindquist Dorr, White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia 1900-1960 (2004) in Journal of the History of Sexuality (October 2005), 465-70 PRESENTATIONS “‘In the Shadow of the Capitol’: The Red Summer Riot in Washington, D.C.,” (forthcoming) Urban History Association Meeting, Houston, TX, 2008 “Race Riots in the U.S.,” Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY, 2006 “’Literally Devoured:’ Women in the Capital’s Race War of 1919,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT, 2003 TEACHING “The U.S. Since 1945” (Bard Prison Initiative) “The Shaping of the Modern City” (Barnard) “U.S. History, Reconstruction to the Present” (Hostos) “U.S. History Through the Civil War” (Hostos) “The World to 1500” (Hostos) “Workshop in Language and Thinking” (Bard) “Writing to Learn” (Bard, IWT) “United States Issues and Ideas” (College of Staten Island) RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Instructor, Center for Anti-violence Education, Brooklyn, NY 1997-presentInstructor, Training Institute for WAC Writing Fellows, CUNY, August 2003 Guide, Big Onion Historical Walking Tours, 1999-2002 Research Assistant, Dr. Colin Palmer, History Department, CUNY Graduate Center, 1997-99 Assistant to Elizabeth M. Fink, Civil Rights Attorney, Brooklyn, 1989-2001 AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association American Studies Association Organization of American Historians Urban History Association Board of Directors, Center for Anti-violence Education |
