Amy Tillerson

• Dean, Mary Baldwin College for Women, Mary Baldwin University (MBU), 08/01/22-Present
• History and Department Chair, MBU, 08/01/16-08/01/22
• Chair, Coalition for Racial & Social Justice, MBU, 08/01/20-Present
• Member, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion planning team, MBU, 08/01/19-08/01/20
• Senior Fellow/Strategic Consultant, Moton Museum, Farmville, VA, 08/01/17
• Coordinator of Public History & Director, African American Studies Programs, Mary Baldwin University, 08/01/06-Present
• Director, African American Heritage Program of Virginia Foundation For the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA, 08/01/03-08/01/04

• National Trust for Historic Preservation-Alice Rosenwald Fund, Wrote successful grant application for an oral history project involving alumni from the former Waynesboro, VA Rosenwald School., 06/01/13
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant Review Panelist for Summer Seminars and Institute Program., Washington, DC, 04/19/10
• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Wrote successful grant application to fund research and community programming related to Fairview Cemetery., Staunton, VA, 01/01/07
• Teaching American History Grant, U.S. Department of Education, A three year series of summer and weekend workshops for history teachers., 01/01/04-01/01/07

• VA State Conference of the NAACP, Chair of the Education Committee, 08/01/20-Present
• NC Black Disabilities Network, Board member, 08/01/20-Present
• Port Republic Road Historical and Community Association, Co-founder
• Lift Every Voice: Conversations on Race, Organized a community lecture series featuring Douglas Blackmon, author to Slavery by Another Name., 01/01/15
• Disowning and Re-Claiming Native American Identities, Organized a community lecture featuring Chief. S. Bryant and Santina Knight, Monacan Nation, Virginia., 11/01/14
• 12 Years a Slave, Campus-wide movie viewing and talk-back co-moderator., 11/01/13
• Phi Alpha Theta, Campus Advisor, 08/01/10-Present
• Oral History Training Facilitator & Partner/Teacher Educator, Save our History Grant awarded by The History Channel to the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library., 08/01/07-08/01/08
• Mary Baldwin College delegate for Virginia Humanities Conference, The Humanities on Display, Virginia Commonwealth University., 04/01/09
• When I Do Becomes I Don’t: Why Relationships Fail, Sponsored by Charlottesville Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta., 04/19/08
• Educational Policy Committee/Masters of Arts in Teaching Committee, Mary Baldwin College, 01/01/05-01/01/07 & 01/01/16-01/01/19
• Madeline’s House Self-Esteem Building Workshop with Hair and Fashion Show, Longwood College. Workshop and show with middle and high school participants/models., Farmville, VA, 06/05/05
• Honor Scholars Committee, Mary Baldwin College, 01/01/05-01/01/08
• Media Advisory Board, Mary Baldwin College, 01/01/05-01/01/08
• Co-Advisor to Ida B. Wells Society, Mary Baldwin College, 01/01/04-01/01/06
• Friends of Fairview Committee, Staunton, VA, 01/01/04-01/01/12
• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Social Action Chairperson, Charlottesville, VA, 01/01/06-01/01/08
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Staunton, VA, 01/01/04-Present
• Church Pianist, Gravel Hill Baptist Church, Appomattox, VA, 01/01/02-01/01/07
• Church Pianist, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Charlottesville, VA, 01/01/04-01/01/05
• Church Pianist, Shiloh Baptist Church, Waynesboro, VA, 01/01/05-Present

• Teaching for Black Lives, 1880-1920, Living Black History: Teaching in the Era of Black Lives Matter Teachers Institute, Curry School, University of Virginia, 08/01/20
• The Southern Manifesto and Prince Edward County, VA, American Enterprise Institute, 03/01/16
• Race and Criminalization in Post-Civil War Virginia, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference, Atlanta, GA, 09/01/15
• More than Teachers: Black Women in Prince Edward County and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Cross-Generational Dialogues in Black Women’s History, Michigan State University, 03/01/15
• Redefining ‘Colored’: Native American Women’s Survival Strategies in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference, Memphis, TN, 09/01/14
• Since We Can’t Use Yours, We’ll Build Our Own: Black Mothers and the Public Library Effort in Prince Edward County, VA, 1945-1980, The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Pittsburgh, PA, 09/01/12
• Black Women in Prince Edward County: Activists and Community Builders, Virginia Forum Conference, Longwood University/Moton Museum, Farmville, VA, 04/01/09
• Black Women and their Organizations: Class and Community Building, Prince Edward County, VA, 1930-1965, The Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 01/01/06
• Integrating the History of the Prince Edward County Public School Closings into Social Studies Curriculums, Presentation to Social Studies Content Writers for Scott Foresman Textbook Publishers, Chicago, IL, 01/01/05

• Deconstructing Brown v. Board of Education and what it Means for School Choice, VA NAACP, Education Committee, 11/01/22
• Radical Remembrances—50 Years After: Dr. King and Other Victims of Domestic Terrorism, Mary Baldwin University, 04/01/18
• Thank You For Your Service: A Gospel Benefit Concert and Tribute to Veterans, Waynesboro High Schools, 11/01/16
• Dialogue with School Age Children about William McGlascow Carter, A Statesman from Staunton, 05/01/16
• Brown vs. Board of Education - Virginia Roots, Lead professor for a symposium that I organized for the University of Virginia., 03/01/15
• Lift Every Voice—Conversations about Race: A Dialog with Douglass Blackmon, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA, 01/01/15
• Women and Humanities, Virginia Humanities Conference, Mary Baldwin College, 03/25/10-03/27/10
• Planning Committee Member, Virginia Forum, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA, 04/15/10-04/17/10
• Don’t Forget to Remember: Documenting Community Memories of Staunton, VA
• A Half-Century After Brown: To Remember and to Act, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 05/21/04-05/22/04

• Building Community in an Hour of Chaos, A conversation with Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, MBU, 10/01/20
• Community discussion on the film An Outrage, The Prizery, through its One Community Initiative for Unity through the Arts, Humanities and Conversation, South Boston, VA, 09/07/17
• Panel of Local Election Candidates, Waynesboro, VA, 05/01/16
• Divided Towns, Communities, Families: Civil Rights in our Schools, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Virginia Festival of the Book, 03/01/16
• Commenter for panel, ‘The Content of Their Character: African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights, ASALH, Memphis, TN, 09/01/14
• Mothering on the Fringe: Afro-Caribbean Migrant Mothers in Canada and the U.S., Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, University of Toronto, 05/22/14-05/25/14
• Community Forum on Race, 08/01/13
• Threads of History, Oral History Project with Booker T. Washington High School Alumni, Staunton, VA, 04/01/13-05/01/13
• Realized Humanity, Panel moderated for the Virginia Humanities Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 04/01/09
• MBC African American Studies Minor Community Conversations: Stereotypes, Generalizations, and the Media, Spring 2009
• Southern Black Women's Institutions in the Early 20th Century, Panel chair/commenter, 01/01/06
• Remembering Jim Crow in Augusta County, Virginia, Panel organized and moderated for the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Teacher’s Institute on Jim Crow in Virginia, Staunton, VA, 01/01/06
• Student Protest of the 1960s, Panel chair/commenter, 01/01/05
• Oliver Hill and the Prince Edward County School Crisis, Panel discussion for the film Honor Bound: The Story of Legal Warrior Oliver White Hill, Sr., Farmville, VA, 01/01/05
• Civil Rights Stories, Panel Moderator for Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA, 01/01/05
• Brown v. Board: They Closed Our Schools, Panel Moderator for Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Festival of the Book, University of Virginia, 01/01/04
• Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1930-1965, Panel Moderator for Virginia Tech’s Black Student Alliance Black History Month Program, 01/01/04

• Reaching Every Child: A Community Forum on Education, Culpepper NAACP panelist, 01/01/22
• Juneteenth: A Day of Jubilee and Commitment to Justice, University of Virginia Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Charlottesville, VA, 06/15/21
• Black Women and the Freedom Struggle in Prince Edward County: Abolitionists & Activists, 1959-1963, R. R. Moton Museum, Farmville, VA, 06/21/21
• Responding to Racial Trauma: Acknowledge, Advocate and Ascend, Keynote, Merck Pharmaceuticals, League of Employees of African Descent, 05/01/21
• Maximizing Opportunities to Promote a Sense of Belonging in Campus Communities, Webinar Panelist, Kognito, 05/01/21
• Still We Rise: Conquering Fear, Activating Faith and Transforming Communities, Keynote, annual Jubilee Day ceremonies sponsored by the Prince Edward County Branch of the NAACP, 01/01/20
• Negotiating the ‘Color Line’ in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley: Black Activism and Montgomery Hall Park, Paper presented at Shenandoah Battlefield Foundation conference, 11/01/19
• Women and the Civil Rights Movement, Mary Baldwin University, 01/14/18
• MLK Remembering the Dreamer, District Wide Black MLK Presentation, Harrisonburg City Public Schools, 01/15/18
• King’s Legacies and their Relevance Today, Waynesboro African American History Museum MLK Community Program, 01/15/18
• Black Women Activists: Where Do We Go from Here?, Black History Month Program, Dabney S. Lancaster Community College

• Participant, Council of Independent Colleges Faculty Seminar on the Legacies of American Slavery, 06/18/23-06/22/23
• Robert Jones Political Activist Award, Virginia Education Association, 01/01/23
• Trailblazer Excellence in Diversity-Diversity Leadership Faculty Award, Mary Baldwin University, 01/01/23
• Scholarship Recipient, American Council on Education Senior Leadership Seminar, 01/01/22
• Teacher of the Year, Mary Baldwin University, 01/01/16
• Fellowship Recipient, ROOTS: African Dimensions of the History and Culture of the Americas, 01/01/07
• Isabel McConnell Memorial Scholarship, Morgan State University History Department, 01/01/01
• Project Scholar, Ford Foundation Cornell University & Morgan State University, 01/01/99
• Member, Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society
• Member, Chi Sigma Iota, National Counseling and Professional Honor Society

• Black Women in the Prince Edward County, Virginia Freedom Struggle, 1880-1965, In preparation
• School Interrupted, Invited interview, The Future of America’s Past., 03/23/20
• Rosalyn Terborg-Penn: In Memorandum, Journal of African American History, Summer 2019
• Struggles for Educational Equity in Prince Edward County, VA: Resistance, Southern Manifesto Ideologies, and School Choice, Journal of School Choice, 10, 4, 2016, 446-461
• They Can Take the Public Schools but They Can’t Stop Us from Teaching: Black Women in Prince Edward County, VA Educate Their Children, 1959-1964, Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times, University of Georgia Press, Cynthia Kierner, Sandra Treadway, Fall 2015
• Voices from Port Republic Road, Documentary funded by the National Historic Trust, Alice Rosenwald Grant & Virginia Foundation for the Humanities., Fall 2014
• Review of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, Journal of Southern History, 78, 3, August 2012
• Grassroots Schools and Training Centers in the Prospect District of Prince Edward County, VA, 1959-1964, The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964), Terence Hicks, 2010, 1-17, University Press of America
• Black Women and Their Organizations Class and Community Building, 1930-1953, Emerging Voices and Paradigms: Black Women’s Scholarship, Ida E. Jones, Elizabeth Clark Lewis, Association of Black Women’s Historians Press, 2008
• Rita Dove, Encyclopedia of African-American History: 1896 – Present, Finkelman, Paul, Oxford University Press, 2007
• Briggs v. Elliott, Social Studies South Carolina teacher’s edition, Pearson/Scott Foresman, Glenview, IL, 2005
• 40,000 Calls to Virginia VIEW Career Information Hotline, Virginia Counselor’s Journal, 1996

• African American History
• Black Women’s History
• United States Twentieth Century History
• Civil Rights History
• African Diaspora History
• Public History

HIST 112: United States History, from 1877, HIST 203: Women in American History, HIST 213: Civil War and Reconstruction, HIST 214: The United States, 1865-1929, HIST 216: Hip Hop and History, United States from 1970, HIST 227: History of the South, HIST 264: Introduction to the African Diaspora, HIST 265: African American History, to 1865, HIST 266: African American History, from 1865, HIST 267: History of the Harlem Renaissance, HIST 302: Virginia History, INT 398: Local Color: Racial Legacies of MBU, HPUB 398: Special Topics in Public History, HIST/HPUB 398: Archival Theory and Practice, HIST 400: Senior Seminar, HIST 1116: History of the United States, Civil War to the Present, HIST 3176: Afro-American History, 1877 to the Present, HIS 121: United States History, to 1877, HIS 122: United States History, from 1877, HIS 141: African American History, to 1877, HIST 106: History of the United States II, from 1865, HIST 350: Introduction to the African Diaspora