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Sandra Jowers
History Program Coordinator, University of the District of Columbia
Location: Washington, DC
Joined: Jul 3rd, 2012

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Dr. Sandra Jowers-Barber is an assistant professor of history at the University of the District of Columbia, where she coordinates the History Program and hosts the "UDC Forum", a program featuring interviews with faculty, students and community residents that is shown on the University's cable television station. Sandra received both her doctorate in United States History and her MA in Public History from Howard University. She teaches courses in United States History, African American History, Women, Public History and Oral History. Her scholarship focuses on researching, documenting, and interpreting the history of the African American deaf community. She is establishing herself as an expert in this area through her research on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia case, Miller v. DC Board of Education, a pre-Brown v. Board of Education case that changed the educational policy for African American deaf school age children in the District of Columbia. Sandra hosts the UDC Forum seen on the University’s television station. Dr. Jowers-Barber is a member of the American Historical Association, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the Public History Council, the Association of Black Women Historians and Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Sandra is currently preparing her manuscript, “The End of the Educational Exile of Washington, D.C. Deaf African American Schoolchildren” for publication.

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Howard University class of 2005

Undergrad Major: History

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Delta Sigma Theta

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ECC (East Coast Conference) 2013 Faculty Appreciation Award

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I currently work with University of the District of Columbia as History Program Coordinator
I have 0 years of experience working in the Teaching / K-12 Education industry.

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