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
- 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
- Morgan State/BEARTV Production
- 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
- SelectAppearances 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