Mirrored Communities:
The Project Staff

Cassandra Newby-Alexander, the Project Director, is a professor at Norfolk State University. She has been a student of Norfolk and the Tidewater region since her graduate studies, and her dissertation and subsequent work have focused largely on this area. She has considerable experience in oral history and digital history.

William Alexander, the Co-Director, is a professor at Norfolk State University and has organized numerous conferences and workshops, in addition to working on the online "Race, Time, and Place" project.

Thomas Burgess, the HU Co-Project Director/Editor, is the director of the Hampton University Oral History Research Center.

Jeffrey Littlejohn, the webmaster and content consultant, is a professor at NSU with considerable experience in website construction, civil rights issues, and Constitutional studies.

Eugenie Blang, the HU Assistant Director, is co-director of the Hampton University Oral History Research Center.

Charles Ford, the Lesson Plan Designer, is a professor at NSU with experience in constructing lesson plans and developing educational assessment measures.

The transcriptionists and editors are undergraduate and graduate students, and individuals from the community organization partners who will work directly under the co-directors at NSU and HU.