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Professor Bracey's
professional mentoring has made a significant impact on me. Aside from
chairing my dissertation committee, in 2000, he took me and other
graduate students from UMass, Amherst to theAssociation for the Study of
African American Life and History (ASALH)conference. ASALH was founded in 1915 by Carter
G. Woodson, who also began what is now Black History Month. Since my
first ASALH conference, members of that organization have also been
extraordinary mentors. Additionally, I joined theAssociation of Black Women
Historians (ABWH)(founded in
1979) and have been fortunate to meet with leading scholars in my area.
Through these organizations, I have learned much from senior scholars. In
turn, I have taken some students from Brown and UF to
ASALH.
Professional development,
particularly in African American Studies, is imperative if the field is
to grow. Connections with ASALH, ABWH,National Council for Black
Studies (NCBS), and theSouthern Conference of African
American Studies, Incorporatedare essential for the next generation of scholars
in the field of Black Studies.
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Professor
Braceyand thedistinguishedDr. Darlene Clark-Hineat their annual mentoring session for junior scholars.
ASALH 2005 Buffalo, New York
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 With Vanessa Fabien,
African American Studies student, UF Univeristy Scholar, and
Ronald E. McNair Scholar,
ASALH 2005 Buffalo, New
York
Vanessa entered the
doctoral program in Afro-American Studies at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst in Fall 2006
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Dr. Hinewith historian and
history maker,Dr.
Mary Frances Berry. ASALH 2005 Buffalo, New
York
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