JAY COUGHTRY, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of History

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 455020

Box 455020

Las Vegas, NV 89154-5020

Phone: (702)-895-3926 ~ Fax: (702) 895-1782

jay.coughtry@unlv.edu

Associate Professor of History, UNLV

Assistant Professor of History, UNLV

Adjunct Asst. Prof. of Afro-Am. Studies, Brown University

Research Historian, Rhode Island Black Heritage Society

Visiting Asst. Prof. of History, Colgate University

Assistant Prof. of History, Northern Illinois University

Lecturer, Northern Illinois University

'''Hellbent for Election': The CIO's 1944 Political Cartoon for President Roosevelt," Nevada History Conference, Reno, NV, May 22,2008.

"Bob Marley at the Gate: Billboard MagaZine and the Promotion of Reggae Music in the United States, 1973-1981,":Utah Acadamy, Southern Utah Univeresity,Cedar City, utah, April 13,2007.

"Seeds of the Great Society in Nevada: Welfare Reform and Innovation in the Early 1960's," Nevada History Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May 23,2006.

"Ska Music at the 1964 World's Fair: Marketing Early Reggae in Babylon," American Association of Behavioural and Social Scientists Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2005.

"From Trenchtown to Babylon: Marketing Reggae Music in 60's America," Utah Humanities Committee Annual Meeting, Cedar City, UT, April 2004.

"From Trenchtown to Babylon: Marketing Early Reggae Music in America," UNLV University Forum, April 2004.

"The Road Not Taken: Black Labor, the Black Community, and the New Deal Coalition in Wartime LAs Vegas," Nevada Historical Society, Las Vegas, October 1991.

Pushing Back the Limits of the Possible: Public Sources and Private Lives in Early Northern Black History," Rhode Island College, January 1985.

"Fragments of the Black Pasr The Essence of the Master-Slave Relation in Rhode Island," Rhode Island History Forum, January 1985.

Moses Brown and the Providence Black Community: The Limits of Paternalism," Lecture Forum: The Life and Legacy of Moses Brown, Providence, R.I., March 1984.

"Social Structure of the Providence Black Community in the Late 18th and early 19th Centuries," Creative Survival Lecture Series, Aldrich House, Providence R.I., March 1984.

Researching the Rhode Island Laboring Poor before the Civil War: Sources and Methods," Rhode Island History Roundtable, March 1984 "The Providence Black Community in the Era of the American Revolution," R. I.

Historical Society History Forum, ProVidence, R.I., March 1982.

"Rhode Island and the West African Rum Trade," Midwest Africanists Association, Lincoln, NE, April 1977.

"Prelude to Abolition: Enforcement of the Federal Anti-Slave Trade Act of 1794," Legal History Society annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 1975.

Review Essay of Ernest Obadele-Starks, Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave Trade to the United States after 1808 (Fayetteville, 2007) and Natalie S. Robinson, The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors (Westport, 2008) in Journal of American History (June 2009).

Review of Edward D. Miller, Emergency Broadcasting and 1930s American Radio (Philadelphia, 2003) in Journal of the West (Spring 2005).

Review of David W. Whisenhunt, Tent Show: Arthur Names and His Famous Players (College Station, TX, 2000), in Journal of the West (Winter 2004).

Review of Steven Watts, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life (Columbia, MS, 2001) in Journal of the West (Summer 2003).

Review of Shelley Streeby, American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley, 2002) in Journal of the West (Summer 2003).

Review of Thomas M. Spencer, The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration: Power of Parade (Columbia, MS, 2000) in Journal of the West (2001).

Papers of the American Slave Trade, (University Publications of America, 1997). [microfilm edition]

Review of Stanford E, DeDemars, The Tourist in Yosemite, 1855-1985 (Salt Lake City, 1991) in Journal of the West (1993).

"Felix Holbrook," entry in Randall M. Miller and John David Smith, eds., Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988)

"Newport Rhode Island Slavery,ft entry in Ibid.

"U. S. Slave Trade," entry in Book of Days 1987 (Ann Arbor, Pierian Press, 1987).

"Black Pauper Burial Statistics: Providence Rhode Island. 1777-1831," (coauthored with Jamie Coughtry) in Rhode Island History (November 1985).

"Creative Survival: The Providence Black Community in the Nineteenth Century," essay in volume of same title published by Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, Providence, 1984).

Review of Robert J. Cottrol, The Afro- Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era (Westport, CN, 1982), in Rhode Island History (May 1984).

Review of Philip Foner, History of Black Americans, vol II, From the Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom to the Eve of the Compromise of 1850 (Westport, CN, 1983), in Journal of American History (March 1984).

Review of Witlard B. Gatewood, Jr., Free Man of Color: The Autobiography of Willis Augustus Hodges (Knoxville, 1982), in Journal of the Early Republic (Winter 1983.)

The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807

(Philadelphia. Temple University Press. 1981).

Preface to Lubertha Johnson: Civil Rights Efforts in LasVegas, 1940s-1960s, by Jamie Coughtry (Oral History Program. UNR, 1988)

Review of textbook proposal, Out of Many, Prentice Hall (1988)

Marketing Review, America's History, Dorsey (1986)

Marketing Review, The American People vs. A People and a Nation, Harper and Row (1986)

Manuscript Review, Temple University Press (1986)

Review of U. S. documents collection, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1985)

Review of U.S. survey textbook prospectus, Scott Foresman (1984)

Evaluation of u. S. survey text, Houghton-Mifflin (1984)

Evaluation of U.S. survey text, Knopf (1983)

Evaluation of book manuscript, Temple University Press (1983)

Consulting for professional athletes returning to college for degrees, 2004- Present.

Marriner Echols Visiting Scholar, Southern Utah University, April 1998.

Black History month speaker, Southern Utah University. February 1995.

Consultant. Nevada Historical Society EXhibit, "World War II in the Emergence of Modern Las Vegas," 1991.

Publicity Committee, Organization of American Historians Meeting, 1988.

Grant writer/consultant for Alpha Kappa Alpha NEH programs: Thomas Meloncon and Rita Dove, March and October, 1988.

Grant writer/participant for NEH program with Hubert Locke for Alpha Kappa Alpha 1987.

Grant writer/consultant for Alpha Kappa Alpha NHC program: Maya Angelou.1986.

Grant writer for Alpha Kappa Alpha Black History Month program entitled

"Reorganizing Education for the 1980s," with speaker Mary Frances

Berry. Also panel Moderator for workshop on"The Content of Education, February 1985.

Grant writer/consultant for Alpha Kappa Alpha Black History Month program entitiled "Martin Luther King and his Era," with poet Nikki Giovanni, 1984. Funded by Nevada Humanities Committee.

Evaluator for Nevada Humanities Committee program entitled "Agitate: Our

Work is Not Finished: An Oral History Program on Frederick Douglass." Sept. 1983

Grant writer /consultant for Channel 10 planning gant for documentary on Fordyce/Tallulah Blacks in Las Vegas. Spring 1983. Consultant on implemenation phase of same. 1983-84. Nevada Humanities Committee funding.

Grant writer/consultant for Alpha Kappa Alpha program on "The Black Family: Outlook for the Eighties," Spring 1983.

Consultant for Rhode Island Black Heritage Society's "Black Providence"

Exhibit, March 1984. Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities.