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Books: 5

Book Chapters: 7

Professional Publications (Peer Reviewed): 42

Pending Publications (Peer Reviewed): 2

Grant Work Publications: 1 monograph

Book Reviews: 14

Professional Papers: 27

Yearbook Articles: 3

Newspaper Articles: 24

Selected Grant Work: 5

FYI:

Latest article:

“Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Race, Rhetoric, and Reality in Southern Populism,” The Historian, Vol. 65, No. 6.

Other work: (selected):

Florida Council of the Humanities, Lee County Black History Society Grant, $28,000, Lead Scholar and a grant originator, 2002-2003.

DAR grant of $10,000 to fund an American history major at FGCU in perpetuity, 2002 (I was the sole grant organizer).

Koreshan Unity Foundation grant, $10,000 (placed two student interns at the Foundation for 14 months with pay; I was the sole grant recipient and administrator), 2001-2002.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Collier County Public Schools, $58,000 (I was the Lead Scholar; produced the NEH book, The Harmony Project: Resource Guide for Educators), 2000-2001.

Florida Council for the Humanities, Lee County Black History Society, $12,000. (I was the Lead Scholar and a grant originator; grant produced the AHistorical Guided Tour of Dunbar.@), 1999-2000.

Editorial Service: Too numerous to list

FYI:

Most of this work embraces scholarly journals, national works, and publishing houses and academic presses.

Teaching Awards:

Finalist for the Senior Faculty Scholarship Award, 2002/2003, Florida Gulf Coast University.

Runner up, Senior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, 2001/2002, Florida Gulf Coast University.

Received the Distinguished Alumni Educator Award, 2000/2001 from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (my undergraduate institution of about 8,000 students).

Runner up, Professor of the Year Award, 1999/2000, Florida Gulf Coast University.

Winner of the State of Florida Teaching Incentive Pay Award (TIP Award) for the 1998/99 AY. This prestigious award by the State of Florida measured my teaching and scholarly performance over a three-year period and included recognition for my teaching excellence and productivity and a $5,000 raise to my base pay.

Winner of the University of South Florida Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1996/97 AY.

Graduating Class Student Service Award, University of South Florida at Ft. Myers, 1995.

Outstanding Educator Award, Columbia College, Orlando Campus, 1985.

Selected Professional Honors and Achievements:

Won the Florida Historical Society's prestigious Arthur W. Thompson Award for the best scholarly article on Florida history for "Race and Civil War in South Florida" (Florida Historical Quarterly).

President, Florida Conference of Historians, 1999-2000.

Appointed by the Florida Secretary of State to the Florida Historical Marker Council in Tallahassee for the 2000/2002 term.

Special award from the Lee County Black History Society for my pioneering research and scholarship on blacks in Southwest Florida, 2003..

Certified as an expert witness in the State of Florida: Matters of historical significance and historical preservation.

Created and funded with community support the Dr. Irvin D.S. Winsboro History Prize Award fund at FGCU. The fund, maintained at over $2,000, has been used to pay the tuition of needy minority students majoring in history.

Selected to edit the 2000/2001 Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians.

Arranged for and then hosted the 1999 Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting in Ft. Myers.

Selected by the president of Florida Gulf Coast University to sit on the FGCU Presidential Advisory Council.

Founding member of the Arts and Sciences graduate faculty at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Served as the research historian for the City of Fort Myers' monument to the black soldiers (the 2nd USCT) who served at the Battle of Fort Myers during the Civil War. The City project grew from my extensive research at the National Archives and scholarly publications documenting the USCT service at Fort Myers (a subject undocumented until I uncovered and published this information). The City of Fort Myers dedicated the 8-foot, $78,000 monument at Centennial Park on Veterans' Day 1998. I served as one of the featured co-speakers for the dedication, which drew state and national coverage.

Selected, while a professor at the University of South Florida, to create and shepherd through the Florida Board of Regents and the State University System, and to implement, the new History Program at Florida Gulf Coast University. In this capacity, I created from the ground floor the nation's newest state university History Program, including my creating and coordinating all aspects of Catalogue courses, requirements, and resources needs.

Served as the first History Program Director at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Travel:

Traveled to 74 countries and regions around the world, including extensive travel in North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Americas, the Far East, China and East Asia, Russia, India, and virtually all of Europe.

Countries I have visited

Selected Courses Taught in Recent Years

Upper-Level:

African-American History to 1865 (new course development)

African-American History since 1865 (new course development)

African History to 1850 (new course development)

African History since 1850 (new course development)

The Africans (new course development; distance learning)

Early Florida History (new course development)

Modern Florida History (new course development)

Southwest Florida History (new course development; new Florida State University System course)

U.S. History, 1877-1929 (new course development)

U.S. History, 1929 to Present (new course development)

The Civil War (new course development; distance learning)

The Americas (new course development; distance learning)

Directed Readings in Modern U.S. History, 1-3 credits (new course development; distance learning)

Independent Study for Secondary Teachers, 1-3 credits (teacher recertification; on-campus and distance learning)

Directed Readings in African-American History 1-4 (new course development; distance learning)

Directed Readings in African History 1-4 (new course development; distance learning)

Directed Readings in Women's History 1-4 (new course development; distance learning)

Theory of History (new course development)

Senior Seminar in History (new course development)

Pro-Seminar in History (new course development)

Lower-Level:

U.S. History to 1865

U.S. History since 1865

Western Civilizations, Parts I and II