Full Professor Application & Online Supplements

Application for Promotion to Full Professor
Dr. Jared A. Ball
Associate Professor
Morgan State University
September 19, 2016

Contact:  jared.ball@morgan.edu / 202-997-0267

Table of Contents:

TAB 1:  Executive Summary

TAB 2: Candidate Statement and Website Introduction

TAB 3: Web Supplement Statement and Table of Contents

TAB 4: Curriculum Vitae

TAB 5: Last Annual Report (2014 / pre-2015 sabbatical) Including Last Student Evaluations (HARD COPY DOSSIER ONLY)

TAB 6: Teaching Statement 

TAB 7: Academic Production Statement

TAB 8: Selected/Referenced Publications

• “Ya Basta Con Latino!: The Re-Indigenization and Re-Africanization of Hip-Hop” The Ohio State University Press (Forthcoming, Fall 2016)
• “Tyler Perry and the Mantan Manifesto,” Baruti N. Kopano and Jared A. Ball in Interpreting Tyler Perry: Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, Jamel Bell & Ronald L. Jackson II (Eds.), New York: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Transformations in Race and Media Series, 2013.
• A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X / Introduction Black Classic Press (2012)
• I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto AK Press (2011)
• “In Defense and Appreciation of the Rap Music Mixtape as ‘National’ and ‘Dissident’ Communication,” International Journal of Communication (2011)

TAB 9: Service Statement

Appendices:

TAB 10: Appendix I
Letters of Recommendation
Full Professor of Journalism Dr. Wayne Dawkins / Hampton University
Full Professor of Journalism Dr. Linn Washington / Temple University

TAB 11: Appendix II
Supplemental Accolades and Statements of Support (Academics, Journalists, Activists, Artists, Members of the Community) (30+)

TAB 12: Appendix III
Survey/Poll Results of IMWIL Supporters Attesting to the Value of My Work, Website and Impact (100+)

TAB 13: Appendix IV
School of Global Journalism and Communication Department of Multiplatform Production Tenure and Promotion Criteria

TAB 14: Appendix V
Miscellaneous Awards, Committee Appointments, Commemorative Statements and Plaques

SUPPLEMENTAL/REFERENCED MATERIALS:

• “Son-Shine On Cracked Sidewalks: An Audiobook by Todd Steven Burroughs,” (Pr./Ed. Jared A. Ball), June, 2014.  The story of the mayoral election of famed poet Amiri Baraka’s son a transcribed excerpt of which was also re-printed in the Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring/Summer 2015), the official journal of the National Black Writers Conference. Published by the Center of Black Literature, Medgar Evers College, New York City.
• The Myth of Black Buying Power / including my own video and audio production, as well as, the many updates and media appearances I’ve made as a result of this work.
• Stokely: A Review of ‘Our Premier Interpreter’ of Black Power Studies
• Debate with Dr. Peniel Joseph re: the meaning of Black Power 
• A History of #BlackLivesMatter w Patrisse Cullors
• Maurice Bishop, Grenada and Revolutionary Lessons for #BlackLivesMatter w legendary journalist and former Bishop comrade Don Rojas
• Class and the Movement for Black Lives
• Interviews with Dr. Paula Giddings regarding her work on Ida B. Wells
• Women Tell the Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of the Hip-Hop Political Convention
• Interview (host/editor) with Grammy Nominee, internationally renown singer, song-writer and Baltimore native Maimouna Youssef
• Irreconcilable Anti-Blackness and Police Violence – one of our seminal interviews with Dr. Frank Wilderson, professor of media studies, award-winning author, former member of uMkhonto we Sizwe and the armed struggle against apartheid in South Africa (Azania)
• Living Genealogies of Africana Studies with Dr. Greg Carr, Chair of African-American Studies at Howard University
• Appearance on “Tarzan” by Head-Roc / The Mayor of D.C. Hip-Hop / explaining the origins and nature of policing in the U.S.
• Appearance on the Coming From the Bottom Album by Cornel West Theory / explaining the politics of media and underground cultural expression

1. • Sabbatical Productions with the Real News Network (170 total)
     • All Sabbatical Productions with The Real News Network
     • Featuring: “George Jackson: Releasing The Dragon (A Video Mixtape),”  The Real News Network, (Producer, Co-Director with Ed. Bashi Rose, 103 min.) Baltimore, MD. April 2016.
   • Productions featuring Morgan State University Colleagues
     • Dr. Baruti Kopano discusses his book Soul Thieves
     • Dr. Raymond Winbush discusses Cherry Hill: The Model Negro Village
     • Drs. Anika Simpson and Jennifer Williams discuss feminism and Beyonce’
   • Morgan State/BEARTV Production
     • MSUndrgrnd / Hip-Hop and Mass Media Course
     • Inside the SGJC Studio
     • MSU Realness
   • Referenced select praise of my work, interviews, classroom visits, etc.:
     • The 50th Anniversary of the Call for Black Power Live Broadcast Panel
     • Dr. King Commemorated: The 45th Anniversary of His Assassination
     • Amanda Seales / MTV and BET host, comedian, DJ, web series producer/host
     • Ajamu Baraka Joins Jill Stein as Green Party Vice-Presidential Nominee
     • Dr. Sut Jhally / World renown media scholar and film producer with the Media Education Foundation (MEF)
     • Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble on “Surveillance Literacy and the Political Economy of Black Death,” and also HERE regarding “Media Coverage and the Political Economy of Black Death” (praise at minute 19)
     • Dr. Cornel West Praise (minute 11)
     • Dr. Anthony Monteiro Praise (minute 4)
     • Hear WEAA’s Strictly Hip-Hop Shout Out to Dr. Ball
     • Sports (W)Rap Pilot with Dr. Jason Johnson
   • Select Appearances in National/International Media
     • Loud & Clear / Sputnik News / Russia / discussing our edited volume, A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
     • By Any Means Necessary – Sputnik Radio / Russia – discussing “Blue Lives Matter at the RNC and Black Banking Power and The Myth of Black Buying Power”
     • America’s Unofficial Religion — The War on an Idea / discussing the historical links between the movements for socialism, communism and Black liberation / with internationally renowned journalist currently with TeleSur (Venezuela) Abby Martin
     •  Debating the Debate: The Value (?) of Electoral Politics / Roundtable participant in a debate about the political value of electoral politics with internationally renowned journalist currently with TeleSur (Venezuela) Abby Martin
     • The (Ab)Use of Harriet Tubman’s Image / Al-Jazeera International
     • The Riz Khan Show – Malcolm X: Who was the man behind the legend? – Al-Jazeera International
     • X: Malcolm’s Final Years / TeleSur (Venezuela)
     • Cassette (Documentary) / discussing my seminal use of and research into the history and function of the rap music mixtape
     • What Ever Happened to Hip Hop? (Documentary) / Featured appearance in this world famous documentary with more than 400,000 views and which features many of hip-hop’s legends discussing the history and politics of the world’s most popular cultural expression
     • Professor Jared Ball on Ferguson and the Media / TruthOut.org
     • Calling Out “Activist Tourism” and the “Progressive” Mainstream / TruthOut.org
   • Samples of Mixtape Journalism / Mixtape Radio / Emancipatory Journalism
     • FreeMix Radio: The Original Mixtape Radio Show (limited archive)
     • The Official iMWiL! Companion Mixtape
     • All Power to the People Conference Mixtape
     • The Super Funky Soul Power Hour F*!K The George Zimmerman Verdict Trayvon Martin Mega Mix
     • The [Original] George Jackson Tribute Mixtape / Dozens of artists, activists and members of the community reading Jackson’s work in the mix
   • Select Presentations / Click HERE for full list
     • Dr. King, Civil Rights and #BlackLivesMatter  / Presentation made before the Black Student Union at Indiana University Northwest.
     • Malcolm, Martin and Mass Media / Presentation given at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
     • Hip-Hop and the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) / Presentation give to the Eddie Conway Liberation Institute, a program run by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle in Baltimore, MD.
     • #WordsMatter: Mobilization & Expressive Culture at the Smithsonian History, Rebellion and Reconciliation 6 – #WordsMatter Making Revolution Irresistible
       Part of the The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s (NMAAHC) daylong symposium titled, “History, Rebellion and Reconciliation: Communities Mobilized for Social Change.”
     • Malcolm X, The Mixtape and Obamamania / This was a talk given as part of Goucher College‘s Peace Studies series on #BlackLivesMatter.
     • Sports Talk Radio and North American Apartheid / This was a presentation given at the Passing the Ball: Race and Sports conference at Temple University.
     • Colonialism, Media and Psychological Warfare