2014 Development Committee. 2013 - 2014 Development Committee Members These dedicated educators play a critical role in the preparation of the Course.

2014 Development Committee

2013 - 2014 Development Committee Members

These dedicated educators play a critical role in the preparation of the Course Description and exam for AP U. S. History. They represent a diversity of knowledge and points of view in their fields and, as a group, are the authority when it comes to making subject-matter decisions in the exam-construction process. The AP Development Committees represent a unique collaboration between high school and college educators.

Committee Co-ChairsKevin Byrne, Gustavus Adolphus College, North Mankato, MinnesotaEdward M. Dickson, Providence Day School, Matthews, North Carolina

Committee MembersJuliana Barr, University of Florida, Gainesville, FloridaJohn Irish, Southlake Carroll High School, Southlake, TexasJessica Millward, University of California, Irvine, CaliforniaJames Sabathne, Hononegah High School, Rockton, Illinois

College Board AdvisorGeri A. Hastings, Catonsville High School, Baltimore, Maryland

Chief ReaderJonathan Chu, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts

Chief Reader-Jonathan Chu• University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts• Areas of Expertise• Professor Chu’s research interests are in American

colonial and legal history, and he teaches courses in those areas as well as the American Revolution.

Jonathan Chu (cont.)• Professional Publications & Contributions• Stumbling towards the Constitution: The Economic Consequences of Freedom

in the Atlantic World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).• "Imagining a World without Tea or Sugar," in America on the World Stage: A

Global Approach to U.S. History, eds. Gary Reichard and Ted Dickson (University of Illinois Press, 2008).

• With Ellen Parisi, Advanced Placement Resource Binder to Accompany America’s History, 7th ed. (Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2007).

• “George Frisbie Hoar and Chinese Exclusion: The Political Construction of Race,” in Faces of Community: Immigrant Massachusetts, 1840-2000, eds. Conrad Wright and Reed Ueda (Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003).

• "Debt and Taxes: Public Finance and Private Economic Behavior in Post-Revolutionary Massachusetts," in Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850, eds. Conrad Wright and Kathyrn Viens, (Northeastern University Press, 1997).

• Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts (Greenwood Press, l985)

College Board Advisor-Geri A. Hastings

Bio: Geri Hastings has been a high school social studies teacher in Baltimore County, MD since 1974, an AP U.S. History teacher since 1983, and Social Studies Department Chairman at Catonsville High School since 1998. The National Council for the Social Studies named her Outstanding Secondary Social Studies Teacher of the Year for 2003-2004 and the Daughters of the American Revolution named her as their Outstanding National U.S. History Teacher of the Year for 2004-2005.

Juliana Barr – University of Florida

Associate Professor Juliana Barr received her M.A. and Ph.D. (1999) in American women’s history from the University of Wisconsin Madison and her B.A. (1988) from the University of Texas at Austin. She joined the University of Florida’s Department of History in 2004 after teaching four years at Rutgers University and one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the William P. Clement Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. She specializes in the history of early America, the Spanish Borderlands, American Indians, and women and gender. Her book, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands 2007. She is currently a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor and is hard at work on a new book, “La Dama Azul (The Lady in Blue): A Southwestern Origin Story for Early America.”

John Irish-Southlake Carroll High School

Short Biography: I was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but spent most of my life in North Texas. I received my B.A. in philosophy and political science from Southern Methodist University and my M.A. in philosophy from the University of Arkansas. I spent several years working on my Ph.D., but decided to abandon that and begin my teaching career. I hope some day to finish my Ph.D. I just recently began another Masters program, with a concentration in Humanities and American Studies, from SMU. I am a season ticket holder for SMU Football & Basketball - Kick 'em Stangs! I've been teaching for over 15 years.

Jessica Millward-University of California

Fields of Interest: African American, African Diaspora, Early America, Gender, SlaveryBio Statement:Dr. Millward is presently working on a book titled, Charity’s Folk: Enslaved Women, Families, and Freedom in pre Civil War Maryland (Race in the Atlantic World series, Athens: University of Georgia Press); as well as a second project titled, Moving Freedom: Citizenship, Migration, and Resettlement in the Afro-Atlantic, 1775-1865. Her research has been supported by the American Association of University Women; the Daughters of the Colonial Wars; the David Library of the American Revolution; the Maryland Historical Society; as well as the Organization of American Historians.

Jessica Millward Publications• Publications:• » “‘That All Her Increase Shall be Free:’ Enslaved Women's Bodies and the

Maryland 1809 Law of Manumission,” Women’s History Review, Vol. 21 No. 3 (July 2012): 363-378.

• » “‘The Relics of Slavery’: Inter-racial Sex and Manumission in the American South,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies Vol 31. 3: 22-30. 2010

• » “Teaching African American History in the Age of Obama,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 27, 2009.

• » “More History Than Myth: African American Women’s History since the Publication of Ar’n’t I a Woman,” Journal of Women’s History Vol. 19 No. 2 (Summer 2007): 161-167. * Recipient of the Association of Black Women’s Historians Letitia Woods Brown Award for best article on African American Women’s History, 2007.

James Sabathne-Hononegah High School

Committee Co-Chair-Kevin Byrne-Gustavus Adolphus College

EducationB.A. Providence College, M.A. and Ph.D Duke University

Areas of Expertise20th-Century U.S., New Deal, U.S. History, U.S. since 1945, and Vietnam War

Interestsathletics, classic cinema, mystery novels, and rock 'n' roll

Edward M. Dickson, Providence Day School

There is a lot of legal history at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, beginning tomorrow, January 3, in Washington, D.C. A search of the on-line program for "law", "legal" and "rights" turned up these 28 panels, plus three "poster sessions."

The Civil War and Civil Rights in a Global PerspectiveEdward M. Dickson, Providence Day School