audrey.crawford@hccs.edu

Academic Background

May 2002, M.A., History, University of Houston, University Park, Houston, TX

December 1983, B.S., cum laude, Computer Science, University of Houston, University Park, Houston, TX

May 1964, B.A., French, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

Teaching Experience

Fall 2003-Present  Adjunct Instructor, U.S. History, Houston Community College, Central Campus

June 2004  Seminar Presenter for Teaching American History Project (PATH): 2004 Summer Seminar

For this training seminar for Houston high school teachers, I guided a city bus tour of sites relating to African American history, based on my own research in Houston history. This seminar was a federally funded joint project of the Region IV Education Service Center and the College of Education and Department of History at the University of Houston.

June 2002  Seminar Presenter for Teaching American History Project (PATH): 2002 Summer Seminar

For this training seminar for Houston high school teachers, I presented a lecture about women in Progressive Era Houston and guided a city bus tour, based on my own research in Houston history. This seminar was a federally funded joint project of the Region IV Education Service Center and the College of Education and Department of History at the University of Houston.

1994-1995  Instructor for Continuing Education Women's Studies Course

For a short continuing education course, I designed and presented a lecture series based on biographies by and about women. The series comprised 3 lectures of 1-1/2 hours each. I taught this course in various venues in Houston, including Houston Leisure Learning and Houston Community College Continuing Education.

Publications

Guest Editor, The Houston Review of History and Culture, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall 2003).

"'To protect, to feed, and to give momentum to every effort': African American Clubwomen in Houston, 1880-1910," The Houston Review of History and Culture, 1, no. 1 (Fall 2003).

Book Review, "Black and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder, by Mary White Ovington," in dialogue, Center for the Healing of Racism 3, no. 1 (January/February 1996).

"'Handing the Power-Glasses Back and Forth': Women and Technology in the Poems of Adrienne Rich," NWSA Journal 7, no. 3 (Fall 1995): 35-53.

Book Review, Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911, by Melba J. Boyd, in dialogue, Center for the Healing of Racism 2, no. 4 (November/December 1995).

Two poems: "Maintaining Series/1s" and "The First Ten Years," in Encodings 3, no. 1 (Spring 1994).

Editor, Encodings: A Feminist Literary Journal, 1989-1991  I co-founded and edited this journal and published six issues over a three-year period.

Editor, Feminists In Science and Technology, A Publication of the Science and Technology Task Force of the National Women's Studies Association, 1987-1990  I co-founded and edited this newsletter and published it quarterly for three years.

Corporate Work Experience:

1984-2003: Systems Analyst, Shell Information Technology International, Houston, TX

I evaluated, implemented, and supported data communications software products and services for the corporate LAN environment. I implemented various technologies, including Microsoft Exchange, BlackBerry wireless communications, VMS TCP/IP and DECNET networks, IBM Series/1 networks.

My responsibilities included:

•  Planning and managing deployment of new technologies to the Production environment within the Shell companies
• Installing and testing new software products: I reviewed products in the light of customer requirements for functionality, cost and performance, as well as corporate standards for software administration and security.
• Influencing vendor decisions about product functionality, performance and presentation, based on corporate expectations and requirements
• Designing tutorials and training Operations and Technical Customer Support staff in support of the technologies that I deployed
•  Ensuring that new technology implementations satisfied customer service level agreements