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Dr. THEODORE JAMES DAVIS, JR.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Political Science and International Relations

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware 19716

Phone Number: (302) 831-8580

Fax Number: 831-4452

E-mail Address: teddavis@ udel.edu

Website Address: http://www.udel.edu/PolSci/teddavis

Secondary Faculty Appointment:

Black American Studies Program

Faculty Affiliate:

Center for Community Development and Family Policy

EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION

· Ph. D., Political Science, Florida State University, 1985

¨ Major Area: American Government

¨ Minor Areas: Public Policy and Public Administration

· Masters Public Administration, Florida State University, 1981

· Bachelor Science, School of Criminology, Florida State University 1979

¨ First Major: Criminology

¨ Second Major: Government

¨ Minors: Public Administration (significant course work in Black American Studies

TEACHING INTEREST

Teaching interest includes general public policy, urban politics, African-American politics, data analysis and social welfare policy and administration.

COURSES TAUGHT

· POSC 150 The American Political System

· POSC 220 Introduction to Public Policy

· POSC 300 Data Analysis for Political Science

· POSC 303 Public Administration

· POSC 322 Race and Politics

· POSC 355 Urban Politics and Community Development

· POSC 411 Politics and Poverty

· POSC 454 Public Organizational Theory and Behavior

· BAMS 110 Introduction to Black American Studies

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

· 1994 to present Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware

· 1987 to 1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware; Newark, Delaware.

· 1984 to1987 Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University of Mississippi; University, Mississippi.

· 1981-1984 Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Science at Florida State University; Tallahassee, Florida

RESEARCH OJBECTIVE

My research objective is to facilitate understanding and development of policy initiatives that address the social, political, and economic problems facing African-Americans and other socially, politically, and economically disadvantaged minority groups in society.

· Primary research interest includes:

¨ the relative socioeconomic development of African-American populations rural and urban communities

¨ African-Americans participants in the United States political system

¨ Intergenerational mobility among African-Americans

¨ Race as it relates to education and employment

· Secondary research interest includes:

¨ Political behavior

¨ Intergroup interaction

¨ Social welfare policy

¨ Social welfare administration

PUBLICATIONS

· “The Political Orientation of Blacks and Whites: Converging, Diverging, or Remaining Constant?” forthcoming in the Social Science Journal (2006)

· "Local Labor Market Structure and Black Unemployment." Review of Black Political Economy, volume 30, number 3, fall 2002

· Co-author, The Pace of Progress: A Report on the State of People of Color in Delaware, with Leland Ware and David Rudder (Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League, 2002)

· Book Review: Smith, Robert C. and Richard Seltzer. Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide in American Political Science Review, volume 95, number 4, December 2001

· “The Socioeconomic Transition of Black Populations in Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland: 1950 to 1990” in The African-American Experience in Delaware and Eastern Shore of Maryland edited by Carole Marks (1997)

· "The Occupational Mobility of Black Males Revisited: Does Race Matter?" Social Science Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, (April 1995) pages 121-135.

· "The Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility of Black Males: The 1970s and 1980s," Urban Review: A Quarterly Journal of Issues and Ideas in Public Education, vol. 32, no 2 (June 1994) pages 137-151.

· "Income Inequities between Black and White Populations In Southern Counties" The Review of Black Political Economy, vol. 22, no 4 (spring 1994) pages 145-158. This article was reprinted in Blacks in Rural America edited by James Stewart and Joyce Allen-Smith (Transaction Publishers, 1995).

· "Blacks' Socioeconomic Status in the South: Does Proportionate Population Size Make A Difference?" Humanity and Society volume 17, no. 4, November 1993 pages399-420.

· "African-Americans' Educational Characteristics and Political Representation in Mississippi," Southeastern Political Review, volume 3, winter 1993, pp. 133-151.

· "African-American's Public Opinion: Homogeneous or Heterogeneous?" Western Journal of Black Studies (Volume 15 Number 3) fall 1991.

· "Blacks' Political Representation in Rural Mississippi," in Blacks in Contemporary Southern Politics, edited by Laurence Moreland, Todd Baker, and Robert Steed (Praeger Press, 1987).

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

· “Intra-racial differences in the attitudes of blacks revisited: a question of consensus” under review

· “Alternative Framework for Understanding Interracial Politics”

· Web masters of web page on blacks in Delaware: http://www.udel.edu/blacksindelaware

· Book Project (in progress expect to be completed by summer 2005):

Proposed Title: Changing Values and the Rise of a New Black Politics

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One: Three Phases of Contemporary Black Politics: The Protest, The Politics, and The Social Transition Eras

Chapter Two: A Community in Transition and Dividing by Class: The Dilemmas of the New Black Middle Class

Chapter Three: Blacks and Politics of Assimilation

Chapter Four: Interracial Political Attitudes: Converging, Diverging, or Remaining Constant?

Chapter Five: Changing Values and the Rise of Intra-racial Politics

Chapter Six: Patterns of Public Opinion within the Racial Group: The Implications for Black Politics

Chapter Seven: Black Vote and Party Politics: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go

Chapter Eight: The Future of Black Politics

MISCELLENOUES PUBLICATIONS

“When drugs and violence rule: the problem with inner-city Wilmington is economic and social instability.” News Journal, Wilmington Delaware, Sunday, February 20, 2005.

PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

· “Changing Values and the Rise of Intra-racial Politics Among Blacks” presented at the 2004 Northeastern Political Science Association Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, November 11-13.

· “Public Opinion of Blacks’ and Whites’: Convergence, Divergence, or Remaining Constant?” presented at the 2003 Western Political Science Association Meeting in Denver, Colorado, March 30 – April 1.

· “Public Opinion of Blacks’ and Whites’: Convergence, Divergence, or Remaining Constant?” Presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association and International Studies Association-Northeast meeting held in Philadelphia, PA November 11-13, 1999

· Presenter at the Korean Scholars from Hankuk Univesity of Foreign Studies Program and the University of Delaware, June 1998

· “Structural Factors Associated with Black Unemployment in the South” presented at the 10^th Annual Conference of the Society to Advance Socioeconomic, July 1997, in Montreal Canada

· “A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Black Politics,” presented at the National Conference of Black Political Scientist, March 1997, Chicago Illinois

· "The Social, Political, and Economic Development of the Black Population in America: A Historical Analysis" presented at the National Association of African-American Studies Conference meeting, February 1995, at Virginia State University.

· "Black and White Populations Unemployment in Southern Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties" presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, April 1993, New York, New York.

· "A Political Paradigm of Intergroup Interaction" presented at the Southern Political Science Association Meeting, November 1991, Tampa, Florida.

· "Making the African-American Vote Count: An Assessment of Three Strategies" presented at the Southern Political Science Association Meeting, 1990, Atlanta, Ga.

· "Race Consciousness and African-American's Public Opinion" presented at the National Conference of Black Political Scientist, 1990, Atlanta, Ga.

· "Black Representation in the South: Preconditions Revisited," delivered at the Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, presented at The Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, March 1988, Charleston, South Carolina.

· "The Implications of Blacks' Social and Economic Underdevelopment in the Rural South," presented at the Conference on Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Societies, December 1987, University of Notre Dame

· "Middle Class Blacks As Status Inconsistent: Their Political Attitudes Relative To Other Status Consistent and Inconsistent," delivered at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, April 1987, Chicago, Illinois.

· "Nonpolitical Factors That Explain Black Representation in the Rural South: A Case Study of Mississippi," The Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, March 1986, Charleston, South Carolina.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

· Served as a grant reviewer for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) FY 2001 Field-Initiated Studies Education Research Grant Program (October 18-20, 2000).

· Principal investigator on a research project entitled "Status Inconsistency Revisited: The Case of the Black Middle Class." This planning grant was funded by the National Science Foundation August 1989.

· Principal investigator on a research project entitled "A Competitive Power Relationship: Its Consequence in the Rural South." This research project was funded through a University of Delaware's General University Research Grant in 1989.

· Principal investigator for a research project entitled "Black Representation in rural Mississippi." The University of Mississippi funded this research project in 1986.

· Research Assistant, "The Increasing Ethnocentrism of American Social Science Encyclopedias," The International Journal of Comparative Sociology, December 1983, Professor Frederick H. Gaureau, Principal Investigator.

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

· Faculty Senate Academic Appeals Committee (2001 to present)

· At-large member of the College of Arts and Science Faculty Senate (2000 to 2003)

· Chairperson of the Faculty Senate’s Diversity and Affirmative Action Committee (1999 to 2002)

· Served on the AAUP Executive Steering Committee (1999 to present)

· Served on the AAUP Student Award Committee (1998 to 2003)

· Served as Department of Political Science and International Relations Internship Director (1995 to 1999)

· Served a community volunteer for the United Way of Department Allocation’s Committee (ongoing since 1995)

· Served as the Chairperson of the African Heritage Faculty Caucus (1996 to 1998)

· Chaired the search committee for the Assistant Dean of Minority Affairs of the College of Arts and Science (1997)

· Served on the faculty Senate’s Committee on Rules (1995 to 1997)

· Chaired the Department of Political Science and International Relations Public Administration Committee (1997-1998)

· At-large member of the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate (1997)

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST