Adkins, Maurice

Maurice Adkins

Dr. Maurice Adkins
Assistant Professor of History
Office: Lauretta Taylor 321J
Phone: 910-672-1445
Email: madkins2@uncfsu.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., History, University of Cincinnati, August 2021
  • Fields:  African American History, 19th and 20th century U.S. History, History of Education, North Carolina History
  • MA, History, East Tennessee State University, 2012
  • BA, History (magna cum laude), North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, 2010

TEACHING

Fayetteville State University 2022-

  • HIST 460: Problems in Am Hist: Civil Rights and Black Protest
  • HIST 460: Problems in Am Hist: African American Education
  • HIST 210: African American History
  • HIST 211: U.S. History before 1877
  • HIST 212: U.S. History since 1877

University of Virginia 2021-2022

  • History of Black Resistance
  • History of African American Education

College of Wooster 2019-2021

  • History of Black America 
  • History of African American Education 
  • History of Black Resistance

Central State University 2019-2024

History of Africans in the United States (Online)

University of Cincinnati (2013-2019)

  • Instructor of Record:  U.S. History before 1860 (Online) 2019, African American History 1861-Present (Online), Separate and Unequal: The History of Education in the U.S.
  • Teaching Assistant:  History of War Technology, African American History 1861-Present, Making Sense of Race, U.S. History after 1860 

University of Cincinnati Upward Bound Summer Program (2013-2016)

  • U.S. Civics and Government, African American Experience, African American History after 1861

CERTIFICATIONS and TRAININGS

Fayetteville State University:

  • Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Certification: Effective Teaching Practice Framework
  • Quality Matters Certification 2023
  • Certificate of Attendance “EAB Bronco Navigate-Stay Connected Pt. 1” September 15, 2022
  • Certificate of Attendance “Learn how to use Canvas Studio” September 14, 2022
  • Certificate of Completion: 2022 NEO Mandatory Compliance Training 
  • Certificate of Completion: Communication Styles and Skills
  • Certificate of Completion: Active Shooter: Run, Hide, Fight
  • Certificate of Completion: Workplace Injury Prevention 

Central State University

  • Certificate of Completion: Ohio Ethics Commission 
  • Certificate of Mastery: Desire2Learn Module A Faculty Online Certification Program June 21, 2022
  • Quality Matters Certificate of Completion: Applying the QM Rubric (Virtual)(APPQMR) June 25, 2022
  • Certificate of Mastery: Desire2Learn Module C Faculty Online Certification Program June 21, 2022

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming

  • Book Proposal: Leadership in the Shadow of Jim Crow: Race, Labor, Gender and Politics of Higher Education in North Carolina 1860-1931. Under Review by the Michigan State University Press (submitted 2/16/2025)
  • Book Review: David Blight, Yale and Slavery: A History, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. (Journal of Civil War Era) Under Review
  • The Life and Works of Susan Wright Sampson: Race, Gender, and the Pursuit of Universal Education (History of Education Quarterly) Under Review
  • Joseph Price and the founding of Livingstone College (HBCU Encyclopedia Project Emory University) Under Review
  • Luke Dorland and the founding of Barber-Scotia College (HBCU Encyclopedia Project Emory University) Under Review

Book Chapters

  • Gary Dick, (ed.) Social Work Practice with Veterans, “Gay Individuals in the U.S. Military,” National Association of Social Workers, 2014 

Book Reviews

  • Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman, eds. Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. Journal of Southern History, (2024) 90(3),621-622.
  • Sandra E. Weissinger and Dwayne A. Mack, eds. Law Enforcement in the age of Black Lives Matter: Policing Black and Brown Bodies, Lamham, Maryland: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc, 2018. Journal of African American History, (2020) 105 (4), 753-755.
  • Angel D. Nieves. An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. History of Education Quarterly, (2020) 60(1), 120-123. 
  • Sarah Caroline Thuesen. Greater Than Equal: African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. The Journal of African American History, (2015). 100 (4), 791-793. 
  • Martha Bondi, The Black Revolution on Campus. Berkley: University of California Press, 2012. The Journal of Pan African Studies, (2013). 6 (4). 

Encyclopedia Entries 

  • Oxford African American Studies Center Online Encyclopedia (2016): “Biography of Jessie Locker,” “Biography of Marjorie Parham,” and “Biography of William Ware.” 

LECTURES 

Leadership in the Shadow of Jim Crow: Race and the Politics of Black Higher Education in North Carolina, 1877-1931, American Studies, University of Virginia, November 2021 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • “Susan Wright Dudley: Race, Gender and the Pursuit of Universal Education” Annual History of Education Society Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, October 2024
  • “Susan Wright Dudley: Race, Gender and the Pursuit of Universal Education” Annual History of Education Society Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2023
  • Leadership in the Shadows of Jim Crow: James Benson Dudley and the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race, 1861-1925. Annual History of Education Society Conference, San Diego, CA, November 2021
  • “’School Pride’”: The fight for African American Higher Education in North Carolina and the Reorganization Plan of 1971, Queen City Colloquium (QCC), University of Cincinnati, 2015
  • “’Aggies and Eagles’: Governor Oliver Max Gardner and the Consolidation Plan of 1931,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Memphis, Tennessee, 2013
  • “The State of North Carolina and the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Johnson City, Tennessee, 2012

AWARDS

  • FSU Department of Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Science, Political Science, and History (IGPH) Kudos Recipient, February 2025
  • FSU Department of Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Science, Political Science, and History (IGPH) Kudos Recipient 2024
  • American Council of Learned Societies HBCU Faculty Fellowsh at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Finalist, 2024
  • American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellow at the University of Virginia, 2021-2022 
  • Perry William Predoctoral Fellowship at the College of Wooster, 2019-2021
  • Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellowship Recipient, 2019-2021
  • Herbert Shapiro Award in African American History at the University of Cincinnati, 2018
  • Roger Daniels Summer Graduate Research Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati, 2018
  • John K. Alexander Teaching Prize at the University of Cincinnati, 2018
  • Research Council Grant, University of Cincinnati, 2016
  • Taft Graduate Enrichment Award, University of Cincinnati, 2015
  • Lenore McGrane Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 2015
  • University of Cincinnati History Memorial Scholarship, 2014
  • Graduate Incentive Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2014
  • McNair Scholars Graduate Incentive/Retention Award, University of Cincinnati, 2013
  • Yates Fellowship, University of Cincinnati Fall 2013
  • Highest Achieving Senior Award, NC A&TSU, History Department, 2010 
  • Carter G. Woodson African American History Award, NC A&TSU, 2010
  • Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program Outstanding Leadership and Service, NC A&TSU 2010 
  • Certificate of Merit, Ronald E. McNair Commemorative Celebration Symposium, 2009, 2010
  • Ronald E. McNair Foundation Scholarship, NC A&TSU 

COLLEGE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • FSU Foundations of American Democracy Committee 2024-2025
  • FSU Faculty Web Profiles Committee 2024-2025
  • FSU Department of Criminal Justice Lecturer and Assistant Professor Search Committee Member 2024-2025
  • FSU Chapter of Groove Phi Groove Co-Advisor 2024-2025
  • FSU Department of Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Science, Political Science and History Chair of Black History Month Committee 2023-
  • FSU College of Humanities and Social Science Co-Chair of Black History Month Committee 2023-2024
  • FSU College of Humanities and Social Science Marshals Committee Member 2022-2023
  • Black History Scholars Association Co-Advisor 2022-
  • Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., 2021-
  • Interviewer, Clarence Beecher Allen Scholarship, College of Wooster, 2019-2021
  • Diversity and Inclusion Council, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2018
  • Local Arrangements Committee, Assn. for Study of African American Life and History, Cincinnati, 2017
  • Intern, International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2010 
  • Tutor, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, 2008-2009

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • North Carolina Association of Historians
  • Southern Historical Association
  • History of Education Society
  • Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.