Department of Africana Studies,

 Tyson King-Meadows, Ph.D.

Beginning Fall 2013

Dr. Tyson D. King-Meadows is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He is also an affiliate of the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR), an affiliate of the Department of Public Policy, and a Faculty Fellow of the Honors College. He received a B.A. in Political Science from North Carolina Central University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His primary research interests concern African American political behavior and attitudes, identity politics, race and representation, Congress, and elections. His other research interests involve democratization and public attitudes toward democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. King-Meadows has been involved in numerous community service and engagement, professional development, and academic enrichment initiatives, ranging from the Shriver Center Advisory Board, the President’s Commission for Women, and the McNair Scholars Program to the Honors College Advisory Board, the URCAD Committee, and the CAHSS Black Faculty Committee. Dr. King-Meadows has received a number of teaching, service, and research awards, including a fellowship to the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research at Harvard University, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Ghana, West Africa, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for a residency at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, a residency as a Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Africana Studies, a grant from the National Science Foundation, and an American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellowship. He has also served as an Alumni Ambassador of the Fulbright Scholar Program. Dr. King-Meadows is active in the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). He has served as president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) [from 2011 – 2013] and currently serves as its treasurer. Dr. King-Meadows is particularly interested in exploring the impact of black political engagement, civil rights law, identity group politics, and racial representation on the black socioeconomic condition from the latter twentieth century to present day. For example, see the recently released book When the Letter Betrays the Spirit: Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama (Lexington Books, 2011). This book draws from government data, legislative history, Supreme Court decisions, survey results, and the 2006 reauthorization debate to examine how executive and judicial discretion facilitates violations of the Voting Rights Act. While challenging the executive-centered model of leadership on voting rights, this book puts forth a Congress-centered leadership model that would satisfy the goals of the black civil rights movement and give fuller support to the Fifteenth Amendment. His next book (forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press) examines contemporary racial identity politics and the senatorial and gubernatorial candidacies of black federal representatives. Dr. King-Meadows’ next book length project examines the dynamics of racial group identity politics in the public and congressional response to the 2009 nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Dr. King-Meadows is also co-author with Thomas F. Schaller of Devolution and Black State Legislators: Challenges and Choices in the Twenty-first Century (State University of New York Press, 2006).

Coastal Carolina University is excited to host the 81st meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). SECOL 81 will be held March 27-29, 2014 at the Embassy Suites Resort in sunny North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The Southeastern Conference on Linguistics invites submissions for papers for the 81st meeting. Twenty-minute papers and panels of 100 minutes relating to the conference theme of Atlantic Englishes are especially requested. Papers in all areas of language and linguistics are welcome, including papers and panels on the teaching of linguistics.

Abstract should not exceed 500 words, excluding title and references. There may be an additional page for references and examples. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one joint.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically (.pdf or Word document) through EasyAbstracts starting on September 15, 2013. All submissions must be received by 11:49pm (EST) of December 31, 2013.

Abstracts will be subjected to blind review, so author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts. Authors' contact information will be collected through the EasyAbstracts system.

For details about the conference, please visit the website: http://ww2.coastal.edu/secol81

Please direct all inquiries to secol81contact@gmail.com.

Christopher attended the march with her mother. It was fine to have all those women political figures and great to have Evers-Williams address the rally, she said.

But, where, she asked, were the African-American women movement leaders, the thought leaders?

Read the entire article, "At ‘Realize the Dream’ March, Women Speak at Last", at RH Reality Check!