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JESSIE M. CARTER
Jessie Carter has been a lecturer in the department since 1978. From 1978 to 1992, she worked as Assistant to the Chair, a position that included handling the budget and the scheduling of courses. She served as Undergraduate Director from 1978 to 1986; 1994 to 2000 and is presently (2003) serving in the same position. She was Curriculum Coordinator from 1978 to1986 and 1994 to 2000. From 1990 to 1993, she held the position as Assistant to the Director of the American Studies/ African-American Studies Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program. And during the spring of 1992 she served as Acting Director of that program. From 1983 to 1985, she performed all the duties of Assistant to the Director of College B, Black Mountain College, one of the residence colleges formerly at the State University at Buffalo. 

Education
State University of New York at Buffalo 
Masters of Science: Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 
Bachelors of Arts:  Political Science/Sociology 
Woodburn Fellowship, 1976 to 1977 

Publication
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights edited by Charles Lowery & John Marszalek, Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1992. Contributor 

Presentations
"Proper Black Behavior: The Freedom's Journal Guide," paper presented befor the New York Historical Association, Seneca Falls, June 4, 1993. 

Courses
Introduction To African American Studies (required) 
Major Issues In African American Studies (required) 
Interracial Relationships 
Survey of the Black Middle Class 
History of African American Music 
Black Face/White Forum 
Black/White View of America 

Research Interest
General relationships beyond slavery between blacks and whites during the eighteenth and nineteenth century in the United States, Africa and Western Europe. 

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