2014 Development Committee
2013 - 2014 Development Committee Members
These dedicated educators play a critical role in the preparation of the Course
Description and exam for AP U. S. History. They represent a diversity of knowledge
and points of view in their fields and, as a group, are the authority when it comes to
making subject-matter decisions in the exam-construction process. The AP
Development Committees represent a unique collaboration between high school and
college educators.
Committee Co-Chairs
Kevin Byrne, Gustavus Adolphus College, North Mankato, Minnesota
Edward M. Dickson, Providence Day School, Matthews, North Carolina
Committee Members
Juliana Barr, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
John Irish, Southlake Carroll High School, Southlake, Texas
Jessica Millward, University of California, Irvine, California
James Sabathne, Hononegah High School, Rockton, Illinois
College Board Advisor
Geri A. Hastings, Catonsville High School, Baltimore, Maryland
Chief Reader
Jonathan Chu, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
Chief Reader-Jonathan Chu
• University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
• Areas of Expertise
• Professor Chu’s research interests are in American
colonial and legal history, and he teaches courses in
those areas as well as the American Revolution.
Jonathan Chu (cont.)
• Professional Publications & Contributions
• Stumbling towards the Constitution: The Economic Consequences of
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Freedom in the Atlantic World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
"Imagining a World without Tea or Sugar," in America on the World Stage:
A Global Approach to U.S. History, eds. Gary Reichard and Ted Dickson
(University of Illinois Press, 2008).
With Ellen Parisi, Advanced Placement Resource Binder to Accompany
America’s History, 7th ed. (Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2007).
“George Frisbie Hoar and Chinese Exclusion: The Political Construction
of Race,” in Faces of Community: Immigrant Massachusetts, 1840-2000,
eds. Conrad Wright and Reed Ueda (Massachusetts Historical Society,
2003).
"Debt and Taxes: Public Finance and Private Economic Behavior in PostRevolutionary Massachusetts," in Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business
Community, 1700-1850, eds. Conrad Wright and Kathyrn Viens,
(Northeastern University Press, 1997).
Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in
Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts (Greenwood Press, l985)
College Board Advisor-Geri A. Hastings
Bio: Geri Hastings has been a high school social studies teacher in
Baltimore County, MD since 1974, an AP U.S. History teacher since 1983,
and Social Studies Department Chairman at Catonsville High School
since 1998. The National Council for the Social Studies named her
Outstanding Secondary Social Studies Teacher of the Year for 2003-2004
and the Daughters of the American Revolution named her as their
Outstanding National U.S. History Teacher of the Year for 2004-2005.
Juliana Barr – University of Florida
Associate Professor Juliana Barr received her M.A. and Ph.D.
(1999) in American women’s history from the University of
Wisconsin Madison and her B.A. (1988) from the University of
Texas at Austin. She joined the University of Florida’s
Department of History in 2004 after teaching four years at
Rutgers University and one year as a postdoctoral fellow at
the William P. Clement Center for Southwest Studies at
Southern Methodist University. She specializes in the history
of early America, the Spanish Borderlands, American Indians,
and women and gender.
Her book, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and
Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands 2007.
She is currently a University of Florida Research Foundation
Professor and is hard at work on a new book, “La Dama Azul
(The Lady in Blue): A Southwestern Origin Story for Early
America.”
John Irish-Southlake Carroll High School
Short Biography: I was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas,
but spent most of my life in North Texas. I received my
B.A. in philosophy and political science from Southern
Methodist University and my M.A. in philosophy from the
University of Arkansas. I spent several years working on
my Ph.D., but decided to abandon that and begin my
teaching career. I hope some day to finish my Ph.D. I just
recently began another Masters program, with a
concentration in Humanities and American Studies, from
SMU. I am a season ticket holder for SMU Football &
Basketball - Kick 'em Stangs! I've been teaching for over
15 years.
Jessica Millward-University of California
Fields of Interest:
African American, African Diaspora, Early America,
Gender, Slavery
Bio Statement:
Dr. Millward is presently working on a book titled,
Charity’s Folk: Enslaved Women, Families, and
Freedom in pre Civil War Maryland (Race in the
Atlantic World series, Athens: University of Georgia
Press); as well as a second project titled, Moving
Freedom: Citizenship, Migration, and Resettlement in
the Afro-Atlantic, 1775-1865. Her research has been
supported by the American Association of University
Women; the Daughters of the Colonial Wars; the David
Library of the American Revolution; the Maryland
Historical Society; as well as the Organization of
American Historians.
Jessica Millward Publications
• Publications:
• » “‘That All Her Increase Shall be Free:’ Enslaved Women's Bodies
and the Maryland 1809 Law of Manumission,” Women’s History
Review, Vol. 21 No. 3 (July 2012): 363-378.
• » “‘The Relics of Slavery’: Inter-racial Sex and Manumission in the
American South,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies Vol 31. 3:
22-30. 2010
• » “Teaching African American History in the Age of Obama,” The
Chronicle of Higher Education, February 27, 2009.
• » “More History Than Myth: African American Women’s History since
the Publication of Ar’n’t I a Woman,” Journal of Women’s History Vol.
19 No. 2 (Summer 2007): 161-167. * Recipient of the Association of
Black Women’s Historians Letitia Woods Brown Award for best article
on African American Women’s History, 2007.
James Sabathne-Hononegah High
School
Committee Co-Chair-Kevin ByrneGustavus Adolphus College
Education
B.A. Providence College, M.A. and Ph.D Duke University
Areas of Expertise
20th-Century U.S., New Deal, U.S. History, U.S. since 1945,
and Vietnam War
Interests
athletics, classic cinema, mystery novels, and rock 'n' roll
Edward M. Dickson, Providence Day
School
The Civil War and Civil Rights in a
Global Perspective
Edward M. Dickson, Providence Day
School
There is a lot of legal history at the Annual Meeting of the
American Historical Association, beginning tomorrow,
January 3, in Washington, D.C. A search of the on-line
program for "law", "legal" and "rights" turned up these 28
panels, plus three "poster sessions."