Roger A. Davidson is completing his dissertation entitled "Yankee Rivers, Rebel Shore: The Potomac Flotilla and Civil Insurrection in the Chesapeake Region." He is presently teaching in the Department of History at Delaware State University.

Homer Fleetwood is a Ph.D. student with special interest in the recent history of Los Angeles, California. He teaches history at Morgan State University.

Joy P. Jackson completed her bachelor's degree at Howard University in 1997 and her master's degree in Latin American history at the University of Arizona in 1999.

Barbara P. Josiah received her Ph.D. in 1997. Her dissertation is titled "Internal Migrants: African Guyanese Villagers and the Gold and Diamond Industries, 1890-1956." She is currently a lucturer in history at Howard University.

Lisa Y. King completed her Ph.D. studies in 1999. Her dissertation is titled "Wounds that Bind: A Comparative Study of the Role Played by Civil War Veterans of African Descent in Community Formation in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1865-1915." She presently teaches history at Morgan State University.

Learie B. Luke is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in Caribbean history. His dissertation is a study titled "Identity and Autonomy in Tobago, 1889-1980: From Union to Self-Government."

Sharon Pierre-Luke is pursuing a master's degree in speech and language pathology at the University of the District of Columbia.

Wanda R. Porter is a Ph.D. student whose area of interest is African and African American women's history.

Craig A. Schiffert is a Ph.D. student at work on a study of the Black Arts Movement.

Michael A. Southwood is a Ph.D. student with wide-ranging interests in the history of race relations in the United States.

James Peckham Stephens is a Ph.D. student at work on a study of African American images of Africa during the nineteenth century. During the 1999-2000 academic year, he holds a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Claremont Graduate University.

Robert T. Vinson is a Ph.D. candidate in history who is nearing completion of his study on "Garveyism in Segregationist South Africa, 1920-1940."

Bennie Visher III, completed his master's degree in history in 1998 and is currently pursuing the Ph.D. at the Ohio State University.