TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
• Faculty Advisor, ONE IU -- 1994 to the Present
• Director, The African American Documentation Project, 1998 to the Present
• Coordinator, Readings on Race, 1998 to the Present
• Member, Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, The American Political Science Association, 1996 -1999
• Dean for the Office of Afro-American Affairs, Indiana University, 1993-1998
• Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Political Science, Tuskegee University, 1988 - 1993
• Social Science Section Chair, The Alabama Academy of Science, 1988 - March 1992
• Director, PROJECT PARTICIPATE, a state sponsored voter outreach program designed to increase the political
participation of Alabama's black electorate, 1988 - 1993
• Visiting Associate Professor, The University of Kentucky, Fall - 1989 and 1990
• Activity Director, The Committee for the Development of a Core Curriculum, 1989
• Chair, Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, The Southern Political Science Association, 1992
• Member, The Leo Strauss Awards Committee, The American Political Science Association, 1992-1993
• Assistant Professor and Department Chair Department of Political Science, Tuskegee University, 1984-1987
• Instructor, Wellesley - MIT Upward Bound Summer Program Summer, 1983
• Instructor, Tufts University, Spring 1983
• Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1979 - 1984

COMMITTEE AND ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE - INDIANA UNIVERSITY
• MENTOR, FASE Program 1993 to the Present
• MEMBER, Project TEAM Advisory Group
• MEMBER, Advisory Group for the Heritage Project
• CHAIR, Groups Review Committee (Phase I), 1995
• MEMBER, Groups Review Committee (Phase II), 1995-96
• MEMBER, Strategic Directions Task Force Committee on Persistence and Attainment, 1995
• MEMBER, Theatre/Neal-Marshall Task Force, 1995-96
• MEMBER, NCAA Certification Steering Committee, 1996
• MEMBER, The United Way Executive Committee
• MEMBER, The President's Minority Enhancement Council, Indiana University-Bloomington Representative, 1995-96
• MEMBER, Executive Council, The Commission on Multi-Cultural Understanding 1994- 1998
• ADJUNCT MEMBER, The Racial Incidence Team 1994-1998

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• PRESENTER, Freud, The Hegelian Dialect, and African American Political Thought. The Hawaii International Conference of Humanities and Arts, Waikiki, Hawaii, January 2004
• KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Black Political Empowerment Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, February 27, 2004.
•PRESENTER, “Removing Our Blinders: Towards An Objective Analysis of An Argument,” The Hawaii International
Conference of Humanities and Arts, Waikiki, Hawaii, January 2003.
• INVITED PAPER, “Black Political Empowerment in the New Millennium.” Livingstone College, Livingstone, North Carolina,
April 2003.
• OUTSIDE REVIEWER, The University of Louisville, 2000
• Roundtable on “Beyond Political Correctness: Social Transformation in the United States”, by Michael Cummings, APSA,
2000. Washington, D.C.
• CONSULTANT, "Setting the Woods on Fire": A Narrative Treatment of the Life of George Wallace, 1993- 2000
• REFEREE, The National Political Science Review, 1998
• OUTSIDE REVIEWER, Department of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University , 1998
• SECTION CHAIR, Southern Politics Section. The Southern Political Science Association's 67th ANNUAL MEETING. Tampa,
Florida, November 1995
• EDITOR, Research and Creativity, Vol. XVIII, Number 2, September 1995 (Civil Rights Issue)
• PRESENTER, "Alabama's Black Legislative Caucus: Its Effectiveness in the 1987 and 1988 Alabama Legislative Sessions."
The Mid-Western Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois, April, 1995
• CONSULTANT, U.S. Department of Justice, 1994
• DISCUSSANT, Papers on "Political Theory and Its Meaning for the African American Community." The National Conference
of Black Political Scientist. Hampton, Virginia. March 11-13, 1994
• DISCUSSANT, Papers on "Presidential Executive Politics and African American Interests." The Southern Political Science
Association, Savannah, Georgia, November 4-6, 1993
• PRESENTER, "The Struggle for Black Equity Towards the Year 2000" Bates College, January 1992
• PRESENTER, "The Alabama Democratic Conference: An Analysis of Black Interest Group", The Alabama Academy of
Science, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1992
• DISCUSSANT, Politics and Policy in the New South. The Southern Political Science Association, Memphis, Tennessee, 1989
• DISCUSSANT, Measuring the Effects of the Voting Rights Act. The American Political Science Association. Atlanta, Georgia,
November 1989
• PRESENTER, "The Synthetic Equal Opportunity Posture: The Optimal Posture of Bipartisanization of the Black Electorate."
Alabama Academy of Science, Birmingham, Alabama, March, 1989
• GUEST LECTURER, The Hoover Institute, Stanford University, April, 1988
• PANEL CHAIR, Minorities and Policy Impacts, The Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November,
1988
• PRESENTER, "Lessons from the Rural South." A Symposium of Black Political Empowerment and the Public Policy Agenda:
1988 and Beyond, The University of Kentucky at Lexington, November, 1988
• PRESENTER, Justice, Fairness, and the Ideal Observer: The Alabama Academy of Science, Auburn, Alabama, March, 1988
• PRESENTER, Political Empowerment in Hancock County, Georgia, The Southern Political Science Association's Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August, 1985
• PARTICIPANT, Round - Table Discussion on "The Voting Rights Act As Amended in 1982", The Southern Political Science
Association's Annual Meeting, Opryland, Tennessee, November, 1985
• DISCUSSANT, Papers on "Race, Gender, and Electoral Politics", The American Political Science Association's Annual
Meeting, 1984, Washington, D.C.
• LECTURER, "Leadership, Organization, and Resources: The Key Ingredients of Black Political Empowerment", Brandeis
University, Spring, 1984

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND PAPERS (REFERRED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS)
• “Affirmative Action, The Academy, and Compromised Standards?” The Forum on Public Policy. The Oxford Round Table of Oxford University. Forthcoming 2009.
• “The Patriotic-Pragmatic Argument.” The Forum on Public Policy Online. http://www.forumonpublicpolicy.com/archivespring07/hanks.rev.pdf. Fall 2007 Oxford Univesity.
• “African American Political Participation in Independent Organizations, Civil Rights Groups, and Social Movements” in African Americans and Political Participation . ( ABC-CLIO, Inc, 2003).
• Black and Multiracial Politics in America (co-editor with Yvette Alex-Assensoh). New York: New York University Press. 2000.
• “Pride and Pragmatism: Two Arguments for Diversification of Party Interest,” in Black and Multiracial Politics in America. New York: New York University Press. 2000. pp. 273-285
• “The Quest for Black Equity: African American Politics Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965” in Upon These Shores. New York: Routledge. 2000. pp. 404-417
• Black Voter Mobilization Since 1960." Prepared for the National Research Council. September, 1986. The paper provided data for A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, 1989
• Black Political Empowerment in Three Georgia Counties. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee, Summer, 1987

BOOKS (POPULAR/ SERVICE PUBLICATIONS -- SELF-HELP)
• Speight Height Yearbook Wildcat 1957. Author House Publications. June 2008
• Blessings and Bush Arbors. Author House Publications. May 2006
• The Alphabet of Self Esteem: An Inspirational Journal for Successful Living. Author House Publications. March 2004
• 365 Days of Kwanzaa: A Daily Motivational Reader. Author House Publications. November, 2002.
• Daily Fruit: 365 Days of Fruit of the Spirit. Author House Publications. November, 2003.

BOOK REVIEWS
• Richard A. Cuoto's Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: The Pursuit of Racial Justice in the Rural South, The Journal of Southwest Georgia History, Fall 1993
• Frank R. Parker's Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965, The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer, 1991
• Melany Neilson's Even Mississippi. The Journal of Southern History, February 1991
• Harold Stanley’s Voter Mobilization and the Politics of Race: The South and Universal Suffrage, 1952-1984. The American Political Science Review, Vol. 83, No. 1, March 1989, pp.303-304
• Harold Robinowitz's (ed) Southern Leaders of the Reconstruction Era. The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Spring, 1988
• John Rozier's Black Boss: Political Revolution in a Georgia County. Southern Changes, January/February, 1983

ESSAYS
• “Race Still Matters in America, despite election of Barack Obama as President.” The Herald Times Op. Ed. Page. November 30, 2008
• MLK, Obama and Realizing the Dream.” The Herald Times. Guest Ed. January, 20, 2008.
• “A Tale of Two Kings: one embraced, the other diminished.” The Herald Times. Op-Ed Page, January 14, 2007
• “Race and Rumors of Race: MLK, Adam Herbert, and Indiana University.” The Herald Times. Op-Ed Page, January 15, 2006
• “The Affirmative Action Bake Sale.” The Herald Times. Op Ed Page January 17, 2004
• “The Bush Presidency: Affirmative Action at its Worst.” The Herald Times. Op-Ed Page, February 23, 2001
• "Identity Crisis" ("Black Americans and the Question of Self-Reference"). The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. Sunday, July 30, 1989, pp. F-1 and F-7
• "The Battle Flag: Substance or Symbolism” The Tuskegee News, Thursday, June 9, 1988
• "Rosa Parks Was Not the First", Tuskegee News, March 24, 1988, p. A-6

COMMENTARY
• “Change Still Needed,” Indiana Daily Student. Op. Ed. Page December 13, 2002
• “Mural a Rock in Mary’s Shoe,” April 9, 2002. Indiana Daily Student. Op. Ed. Page.
• “Segregation Already Exist, Groups Should Be More Recognized.” March 26, 2002, The Indiana Daily Student. Op. Ed. Page
• "The Diverse Quest for Civil Rights." Research and Creativity, September 1995, pp. 2-3
• “Views on Diversity”, Letter to Editor The Herald Times, April 4, 2001
• "View That Majority Runoff Not Racially Based Weak", The Atlanta Constitution, June 14, 1990, p. A-12
• "King Holiday Celebrates the Highest American Values," The Atlanta Constitution, Thursday, December 22, 1988, p. 18-A
• "Affirmative Action Helps United State Use the Talents of All, The Atlanta Constitution, Thursday, September 14, 1989
• "Until Whites Back Black Candidates, 'Vote by Race' Will Go On", The Atlanta Constitution, Monday, August 1, 1988, p. 10-A

AWARDS AND HONORS
• Faculty Bridge Builder Award -2009. Awarded by the MLK Committee
• Nominee, Student Choice Aware, 2008
• Who’s Who Among American Teachers, 2005
• Marquis’s Who’s Who in America, 2004.
• Nominee, Student Choice Award, Most Outstanding Teacher, 2003
• 10 Year Service Award, the FASE Mentoring Program
• Wall of Service Honoree, Portrait Placed in the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center, January 2002
• Platform Guest, The Neal Marshall Black Culture Center and Theatre Building Dedication, January 2002
• Distinguished Faculty Award, Delta Sigma Theta, 1998
• Distinguished Service Award, The Black Student Union, 1998.

RELATED EXPERIENCES
• REVIEWER, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1993
• ADVISOR, George Wallace Film Project, 1993-Present
• CONSULTANT, U.S. Department of Justice, 1993-Present
• CONSULTANT, The Southern Regional Council, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, The Birmingham Post Dispatch, University of Tennessee Press, Alabama Public Television, 1984-1993
• MEMBER, The Alabama Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1984 to 1992
• MEMBER, The National Board of Trustees, The National Urban League, 1980-83

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Debated, Dineseh D’Souza, April 7, 1999, Indiana University
• INSTRUCTOR, Mini University – 1993 - 1997
• COORDINATOR, The Tuskegee University Forensics Society's Debate Series 1985-1993
• ADVISOR, The Tuskegee University Political Science Department 1984-1993
• FOUNDER AND ADVISOR, The Tuskegee University Forensics Society