Curriculum Vita Fall 2017
JENIFER L. BARCLAY, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4010
(509) 335-7973 [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 2011
United States History
Subfields: African American, U.S. Women/Gender, West Africa/Gender
Dissertation: “‘Cripples All! Or, the Mark of Slavery’: Disability and Race in
Antebellum America, 1820-1860” – defended with written and oral distinction
M.A. University of Akron, 2006
United States History
Subfields: U.S. Women/Gender, Modern India, World
Certificate: Gender Conflict
Master’s Option Papers:
“Lucy Craft Laney, Black Education, and the Politics of Racial Uplift:
Defining Black Female Progressivism, 1860-1890”
“The ‘Tragic Mulatta’ and Performances of Race and Gender: The Struggle for Black
Female Subjectivity in the Life and Dance of Josephine Baker”
B.A. Slippery Rock University, 2004
History, Magna cum laude
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2017-present Associate Editor, Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal
2014-present Assistant Professor, Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies (CCGRS)
Washington State University
2013-2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies (CCGRS)
Washington State University
2012-2013 Visiting College Lecturer, Department of History
The University of Akron
2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies, Department of History
Case Western Reserve University
2009-2011 Pre-doctoral Fellow in African American Studies, Carter G. Woodson Institute
University of Virginia
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2007-2009 Editorial Assistant, Enslaved Women: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood
Press, 2012). Winner of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
2013 Outstanding Reference Source Award
2006-2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History
Michigan State University
2004-2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History
The University of Akron
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (under contract
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, expected 2018).
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED COLLECTIONS
“Disability, Race, and Gender on the Antebellum Stage” in Catherine Kudlick, Kim Nielsen, and
Michael Rembis, eds., The Oxford Handbook on Disability History (New York: Oxford
University Press, in production).
“Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability, and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery” in
Jennifer Byrnes and Jennifer Muller, eds. Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability:
Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives (New York: Springer Publishing
Company, 2017).
“Bad Breeders and Monstrosities: Racializing Childlessness and Congenital Disabilities in
Slavery and Freedom,” special volume of Slavery & Abolition 38, Iss. 2 (2017): 287-302.
“Mothering the ‘Useless’: Black Motherhood, Disability, and Slavery.” Sandy Magana and Liat
Ben Moshe, guest eds., Women, Gender, and Families of Color 2, No. 2 (Fall 2014): 115-140.
“The Greatest Degree of Perfection: Disability and the Construction of Race in American Slave
Law” in Rhondda Thomas and Angela Naimou, eds., “Locating African American Literature,”
South Carolina Review 46, No. 2 (Spring 2014): 27-43.
“Coming Full Circle: Harriet Jacobs and the Crafts in Civil War and Reconstruction-Era
Savannah,” Leslie Harris and Daina Ramey Berry, eds., Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014).
IN PROGRESS PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Pity and Privilege: Race and the Rhetoric of Disability from Ida B. Wells to Dylann Roof” in
progress to submit to Disability Studies Quarterly.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Mental Illness,” World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, Merrill Smith,
ed. (Westport, Conn.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2015).
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“Slaves with Disabilities,” World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia,
Merrill Smith, ed. (Westport, Conn.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2015).
“Disabled Revolutionary War Veterans,” World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life
Encyclopedia, Merrill Smith, ed. (Westport, Conn.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2015).
“Health, Disabilities and Soundness,” Enslaved Women: An Encyclopedia,
Daina Ramey Berry, ed. (Westport, Conn.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2012).
“Historiography,” Enslaved Women: An Encyclopedia, Daina Ramey Berry, ed. (Westport,
Conn.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2012).
“Gender Conventions,” Enslaved Women: An Encyclopedia, Daina Ramey Berry, ed. (Westport,
Conn.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2012).
“Elderly Slaves,” Enslaved Women: An Encyclopedia, Daina Ramey Berry, ed. (Westport,
Conn.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2012).
“Sally Hemings,” Enslaved Women: An Encyclopedia, Daina Ramey Berry, ed. (Westport,
Conn.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2012).
“Race: Comparative History,” Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Bonnie Smith, ed.
(New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
BOOK REVIEWS
Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2016), The Journal of Southern History (forthcoming).
Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Books (forthcoming).
Talitha LeFlouria, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015), Social Service Review, Vol. 90, No. 2
(June 2016)
Watson Jennison, Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Georgia Slavery, 1750-1860 (Lexington:
University Press of Kentucky, 2012), Agricultural History, Vol. 88, No. 1 (Winter 2014).
Emile Piper and David Levinson, One Minute a Free Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the
Struggle for Freedom (Salisbury, Connecticut: Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area,
2010), Journal of African American History, Vol. 98 No. 1 (Winter 2013).
Erskine Clarke, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007),
Journal of African American History, Vol. 93, No. 2 (Spring 2008).
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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Susan Armitage Teaching Award (nominated and voted on by Women’s Studies and
Comparative Ethnic Studies majors and minors), Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and
Race Studies, Washington State University, 2016-17.
College of Arts and Sciences External Mentor Grant (working with Jonathan Metzl, Vanderbilt
University Center for Medicine, Health and Society), Washington State University, 2015-16.
College of Arts and Sciences International Travel Grant, Washington State University, 2015-16.
Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies, Department of History, Case Western Reserve
University, 2011-12
Pre-Doctoral Fellow in African American Studies, Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-
American and African Studies, University of Virginia, 2009-2011
Excellence Award for Externally Funded Graduate Students, Office of the Dean of the Social
Sciences, Michigan State University, 2010-11
The Harry Brown Graduate Fellowship in American History, Department of History, Michigan
State University, 2009-2010
Summer Research Enhancement Award, Department of History, Michigan State University,
2008
Graduate Travel Fellowship, Office of the Dean of Social Sciences and the Graduate School,
Michigan State University, 2008
Graduate Teaching/Research Assistantship, Department of History, Michigan State University,
2006-2009
Summer Support Fellowship, Department of History, Michigan State University, 2007
First Place Paper Prize for “Naked, Savage Woman: Subjectivity in the Life and Dance of
Josephine Baker” delivered at the 1
st
Annual Graduate Gender Symposium, University of Akron,
2006
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Akron, 2004-2006
Dorothy Martin Memorial Scholarship in History, University of Akron, 2004-2006
LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND INTERVIEWS
Panelist, “Mother’s Spots and Monstrosities: Congenital Disabilities and Racial Identity in
American Medicine, Law and Folklore.” Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians.
Hempstead, New York, June 2017.
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Participant, “Disability History in the Mainstream: Incorporating a New Category of Analysis”
roundtable with Steven Noll (Chair), Michael Rembis, Sowande’ Mustakeem, Audra Jennings,
and Jonathan Free. Organization of American Historians. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2017
Panelist, “The Gallaudet of Africa: Andrew Foster and Deaf Education in West Africa.”
Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Richmond, Virginia, October
2016.
Panelist, “‘Bad Breeders’ and ‘Monstrosities’: Racism, Childlessness and Congenital Disabilities
in the Era of American Slavery.” Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) conference on
Comparative Perspectives on Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic
Slave Societies at the University of Reading. Reading, United Kingdom, April 2016.
Invited Speaker, “Laughable Limps, One-Eyed Wenches and Cross Dressing Dwarfs: How
Disability Makes Sense of Blackface Minstrelsy.” Purdue University Disability Studies
Symposium. West LaFayette, Indiana, February 2016.
Radio Interview, “Body Politics: Disability in America,” Backstory with the American History
Guys, a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Aired nationally November 13,
2015: http://backstoryradio.org/shows/body-politics/
Panelist, “From Taboo to Historiography: Considering the Next Chapters in Disability History.”
Organization of American Historians. St. Louis, Missouri, April 2015.
Invited participant, “Differently Abled?: Africanisms, Disability and Power in the Age of
Atlantic Slavery.” American Association of Physical Anthropologists. St. Louis, Missouri,
March 2015.
Panelist, “Enforcing the Culture of Silence: The Politics of Online/Real Life Identities in Higher
Education.” International Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference. Spokane,
Washington, February 2015.
Invited Speaker for Black History Month, “What ‘Ability’ Is: Disabled African Americans
Finding Power in the Antebellum South.” The University of Toledo, February 2013.
Guest Lecturer, “Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History: Ladies, Lynching and Women’s
Leadership, 1890-1930.” The University of Akron, Honor’s Colloquium on Women and
Leadership, Fall 2012.
Panelist, “Enabling Education in the Post-Emancipation South: Black Women Educators and
Children with Special Needs.” Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2012.
Panelist, “Re-Imagining Slave Communities: Disability on Southern Plantations, 1820-1865.”
Society for Disability Studies. Denver, Colorado, July 2012.
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Speaker, Culminating Lecture for the CWRU African American Studies Postdoctoral
Fellowship, “Bad Breeders, Monstrosities, and Women of Poor Character: Race, Gender and
Disability in Antebellum Medicine.” Cleveland, Ohio, May 2012
Guest Speaker, 30
th
Anniversary Celebration, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of
Virginia, “Invalid History: Disability, Race and Slavery in Antebellum America.”
Charlottesville, Virginia, April 2011.
Panel Organizer, “Re-Imagining Community: Enslaved People with Disabilities and the Making
of Family, Community and Culture.” Southern Historical Association. Charlotte, North Carolina,
November 2010.
Guest Lecturer and Discussion Facilitator, the University of Virginia’s Transitions Program for
nontraditional undergraduate students, Spring 2009.
Interviewee, “Getting to Know Each Other: A Spotlight on Jenifer Barclay” by Lindsey
Patterson for the Disability History Association Newsletter Fall 2009 Vol. 5, Issue 2.
Guest Discussion Facilitator, “Sentimental Looks: Race and Visual Culture.” Co-taught at the
University of Akron with Tracey Jean Boisseau, HST 669, Graduate Seminar in American
Visual Culture, September 2008.
Panelist, “Crippling the Race: Disability and the Stigmatizing Power of Slavery in the Old South
and Beyond.” Disability History: Theory and Practice. San Francisco State University, July
2008.
Guest Lecturer, “Josephine Baker as Transnational Figure: Continuity and Change in African
American Women’s Activism, ca. 1900-1960.” Delivered at Michigan State University for Nik
Ribianszky’s HST 312, African American Women’s History, 2008.
Guest Lecturer, “Josephine Baker and the African American Roots of Her International
Activism.” Delivered at Michigan State University for Dr. Daina Ramey Berry’s HST 312,
African American Women’s History, March 2007.
Panelist, “Naked, Savage, Woman: Subjectivity in the Life and Dance of Josephine Baker.” First
Annual Graduate Gender Symposium. University of Akron, April 2006
TEACHING AND CURRICULUM
Washington State University
Semester Course # Course Title
Spr 2017 CES/SOC/WST 300 Intersections of Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality
CES 131 Introduction to Black Studies
Fall 2016 WST 120 Sex, Race, and Reproduction in Global Health Politics
WST 101 Gender and Power
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Spr 2016 AMST 596 Topics in American Studies Graduate Seminar:
Introduction to Disability Studies
CES/SOC/WST 300 Intersections of Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality (online)
Fall 2015 CES/SOC/WST 300 Intersections of Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality
CES/HST 280 Race and the Law in American History
Spr 2015 non-teaching semester
Win 2014 CES/SOC/WST 300 Intersections of Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality (online)
Fall 2014 WST 120 Sex, Race, and Reproduction in Global Health Politics
WST 220 Gender, Culture and Science
Spr 2014 WST 101 Gender and Power
WST/CES 435 African American Women in U.S. Society
CES 101 Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies
Fall 2013 CES 101 Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies
WST 220 Gender, Culture and Science
CES/SOC/WST 300 Intersections of Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality
Courses Developed at WSU
CES/HST/WST 323 Histories of the Body and the Politics of Medicine
The University of Akron
Semester Course # Course Title
Spr 2013 HST 493/593 U.S. Disability History
HST 350 U.S. Women’s and Gender History
HST 310 Historical Methods
HST 250 U.S. to 1877
Fall 2012 HST 351 Global History
HST 310 Historical Methods
HST 290 World Civilization, Africa (2 sections)
Case Western Reserve University
Spr 2012 HST/ETHS 399 Enslaved Families, Communities and Culture in Early U.S.
Michigan State University, Teaching Assistant
HST 202 United States History to 1877
HST 311 African American History since 1876
HST 203 United States History since 1876
HST 304 American Civil War
IAH 201 U.S. and the World – Freedom in American History
HST 150 World History since 1500
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The University of Akron, Teaching Assistant
HST 350 World History
HST 250 United States History to 1877
HST 251 United States History since 1877
HST 250 United States History to 1877
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Professional Service
Member Organization of American Historians, Committee on Disability and Disability
History, 2016-2020
Member Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal Manuscript Review Board,
2017-2019
Member Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal Editorial Board, 2017-
Ad hoc
Reviewer Disability Studies Quarterly
Reviewer Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies
Reviewer SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
University Service
Judge Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, March 27, 2017
Panelist McNair Faculty Panel, April 6, 2016
Attendee Active Shooter Training, September 8, 2014
Judge Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, March 28, 2014
CCGRS Department Service
Speaker “Publishing 101” for Graduate Students in Education (GSE), fall 2016
Member Annual Hockenhull Speaker Committee, 2016-17
Co-Chair End of Year Student Awards Committee, 2014-16
Member End of Year Student Awards Committee, 2013-14
Member Recruitment Committee, 2014-17
Member Curriculum – Undergraduate Committee, 2014-17
CCGRS Rep Roots of Contemporary Issues (RCI) Steering Committee, 2015-17
Member Faculty Affairs Committee, 2013-14
Contributor “Academic Job Market Workshop for Graduate Students,” October 18, 2013
Professional Development
Participant Faculty Success Alumni Program, National Center for Faculty Development and
Diversity, Spring 2017
Participant Faculty Success Program, National Center for Faculty Development and
Diversity, summer boot camp 2015
Participant “Productive Proposal Writing” seminar series hosted by the Office of
Grant and Research Development, WSU, fall semester 2014.
Participant Kerry Ann Rockquemore, “Mentoring 101: How to Get What You Need to Thrive
in the Academy,” WSU, October 24, 2013.
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Community Service
Organizer “Social Justice 101” and “Ethnic Studies through Disney Film,” Cougar Quest,
Academic Summer Camp Grades 9-12, Washington State University, July 2015
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians
Coordinating Council for Women in History
Disability History Association
Labor and Working Class History Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for Disability Studies
Southern Historical Association
Graduate Committee for Research on Women/Gender (CROW), 2005-2006
