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Dr. Keith Alexander
Title	Assistant Professor of History
Dr. Alexander is Assistant Professor of History at Shepherd University. After graduating from Penn State in 1992, Alexander worked in Washington, DC as an environmental policy analyst before returning to graduate school. He received his MA in 1996 and his PhD in 2003 in history from the University of Maryland. He has been involved in historic preservation efforts in West Virginia and in Germany. His research interests include green historic preservation and service learning in preservation education. He teaches classes in architectural history, oral history, modern history, and historic preservation at Shepherd University.

Dr. Keith Alexander

Title

Assistant Professor of History

Dr. Alexander is Assistant Professor of History at Shepherd University. After graduating from Penn State in 1992, Alexander worked in Washington, DC as an environmental policy analyst before returning to graduate school. He received his MA in 1996 and his PhD in 2003 in history from the University of Maryland. He has been involved in historic preservation efforts in West Virginia and in Germany. His research interests include green historic preservation and service learning in preservation education. He teaches classes in architectural history, oral history, modern history, and historic preservation at Shepherd University.

Dr. Julia Sandy
Title	Associate Professor of History
Dr. Sandy’s research interests focus on the history of social and political movements, especially the northern civil rights movement. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the black freedom movement in New York City which examines consumer rights and activism as part of that movement. A related article is forthcoming on a women’s consumer-rights organization in postwar Harlem (Routledge Press, 2010) and she is the author of an essay on modern American women’s history in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford University Press, 2007). Her work also includes the field of public history, with a special emphasis in new media, oral history, and local history. Her public history projects have included work with K-12 schools, conducting oral histories, online curriculum development, and civic education programs for international teachers and scholars.

Dr. Julia Sandy

Title

Associate Professor of History

Dr. Sandy’s research interests focus on the history of social and political movements, especially the northern civil rights movement. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the black freedom movement in New York City which examines consumer rights and activism as part of that movement. A related article is forthcoming on a women’s consumer-rights organization in postwar Harlem (Routledge Press, 2010) and she is the author of an essay on modern American women’s history in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford University Press, 2007). Her work also includes the field of public history, with a special emphasis in new media, oral history, and local history. Her public history projects have included work with K-12 schools, conducting oral histories, online curriculum development, and civic education programs for international teachers and scholars.

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