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Originally from Washington, DC, Kaye joined the UMBC community in 2005 as a Master Teacher for the Center for History Education’s Teaching America History Program.  Since then, she has worked with the Baltimore City Teaching Residency (BCTR) and the New Teacher Project as a Master Teacher training social studies teachers in historical thinking skills. Kaye has also been working as a Baltimore City middle school Social Studies teacher and was recently named the 2006 Gilder Lehrman Preserve America MD History Teacher of the Year. She was also selected as one of the 2006-07 MD Historical Society’s Lord Baltimore Research Fellows (focusing on 19th Century free Black women in Baltimore) and in 2005, was one of two teachers selected nationwide to serve as the Monticello’s Center’s Barringer Research Fellow (studying Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with the Hemings family).

Before relocating to Baltimore, with her family, Kaye worked as documentary filmmaker with Metro Television in New York where she was nominated for three New York-Emmy Awards.  Her most successful documentary was the New York Emmy-nominated film, Twin Towers: A History, which has been airing on PBS on every September 11 since 2002. 

Selected in 1997 and 1998 as the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award by the Gwendolyn Brooks Creative Writing Center, Kaye is also a published writer and poet.  She is one of the writers in Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ upcoming African American National Biography and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of African American History. 

Kaye received her Master’s Degree in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. 

Kaye was interested in LLC because the diversity of the program would allow her to pursue her interests in cross-cultural communication and 19th Century history.  Her dissertation will be a comparative study of black women’s political agencies in antebellum America and the Civil Rights Movement. Kaye also teaches in the Department of Communication at Loyola College.

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