Doris Y. Wilkinson papers

• Box 2010ua023-01

Scope and Contents

This is a group of material identified by Wilkinson as "personal." The series includes correspondence; newspaper clippings; reports and reprints of articles by Wilkinson; flyers, pamphlets, and newsletters announcing Wilkinson's professional events, publications, programs, lectures, achievements, honors and awards; and one personal calendar.

• Box 2010ua023-01
• Box 2010ua023-02
• Box 9, item 2
• Box 10, item 2
• Disk 06

Scope and Contents

This series includes biographical information such as Wilkinson's distribution of effort forms, faculty merit evaluations and end-of-year activity reports; teacher course evaluations; teaching and scholarship honors, awards and certificates awarded or earned at University of Kentucky or from outside organizations; newspaper clippings documenting her academic performance and social influence (including one VHS videocassette tape of a UK news report, April 1996); invitations to programs, projects, conferences, and meetings. There is also a variety of correspondence, including congratulation letters and cards; letters from the UK Sociology Department; letters to, from, and about the District of Columbia Sociological Society; letters from university colleagues, students, and friends; from publishers about her writings; and from other university professors mainly about asking for reprints or requesting research materials. There is also a scrapbook from her retirement reception, March 24, 2011 (box 9. item 2), one personal calendar, 1989 (box 10, item 2), and three electronic documents in an unknown format from a disk labeled "screensavers" (disk 06). There are programs from two events in box 1: "A day of reaffirmation, rededication, and reclamation with the community," East Second Street Christian Church, Lexington, Kentucky, March 15, 1998; and "YMCA Black Achievers Celebrating 21 Years (1985-2006): Raising the Bar, Achieving Excellence," 21st Annual Black Achievers Banquet, Lexington Center, Lexington, Kentucky, April 15, 2006.

• Box 2010ua023-02
• Disk 02
• Disk 03
• Disk 04
• Disk 05
• Disk 07

Scope and Contents

This series includes programs, memoranda, flyers and newsletters, and correspondence regarding lectures, meetings, presentations, conferences, panels and forums Wilkinson attended, participated in, or organized. There are also unpublished articles, and reports. Program, meeting, conference, and panel topics include race, gender and psychotherapy; "The Afro-American Presence in Medicine;" "The Buffalo Soldiers Captain Frederick Perkins;" Afro-American faculty forum; Annual meeting for the Society for the Study of Social Problems; Eastern Sociological Society; the American Sociological Association; Minority Businesswomen's Roundtable luncheon; Symposium about AIDS and Americans of African Identity; A tribute to William Turner; and The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia Project. UK events represented in this series include the University Initiatives Introduction, "1968: A Dramatic moment in U.S. Political History and Culture;" UK Black Women's Conference; and Afro-Latino Forum and the Writing Experience workshop.

Selected titles of unpublished writing include "The community health worker: delineating rules, roles, and relationships;" "Expanding employment opportunities with a sociology background: a guide for students and teachers;" "A Biographical Directory of Afro-American in Casey County;" "Proverty Has a Black Child's Face: Another Look at the 'Feminization' Process;" "Ethnicity and Breast Cancer: International Comparisons;" "The Minority-Specific Position in a Professional Association;" "The Awakening of American University: a Social Science Renaissance in Problem Solving;" and "The Components of Institutional Effectiveness: A Theoretical Paradigm." There are electronic files of writings in WordPerfect and MicrosoftWord formats on disks 01-04 and 07.

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• Box 11
• Box 10, item 1

Scope and Contents

This series includes both text and image-based exhibit content as well as announcements, flyers, and newspaper reports about exhibits that Wilkinson created based in her research. There are three main exhibit topics represented in this series. "Forgotten Pioneers: Black Physicians in Lexington from 1890-1950;" "The Afro-American Presence in Medicine" (focusing on Harvard and England); and exhibitions on women: "Celebrating the power of Creativity: African American Women from 1750-1950" and "Warriors in the Shadows: Women of the Underground Railroad."

• Box 2010ua023-03

Scope and Contents

This series include notebooks for courses Doris Wilkinson took as a student and notes she took for her professional training in sociology and anthropology. There are also research files from her year as a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

• Box 2010UA023-04

Scope and Contents

This series includes proposals, descriptions, study guides, handbooks, manuals, instructional material, and evaluations for courses taught by Wilkinson or for guest lectures given by her in other classes. Courses include Introductory Sociology, African American Studies, Black Studies, Society and Health, and Human Relations in the Administration of Organizations.

• Box 2010ua023-05
• Box 9, item 1

Scope and Contents

This series primarily comprises correspondence and memoranda, project and program proposals, meeting minutes, event announcements, and reports documenting the creation and development of the University of Kentucky Black Studies Committee/ Black Studies/ African American Studies and Research Program.

• Box 2010ua023-06
• Box 2010ua023-07
• Box 2010ua023-08
• Box 10, item 3
• Disk 01

Scope and Contents

This series primarily comprises surveys, statistical notes, drafts, memoranda, proposals, manuscripts, correspondence, publications, and reports Wilkinson collected for her research. Topics include "Diagnosing the Therapist: Race and Gender in Clinical Decision Making;" "Forgotten Pioneers" Series research and work on early African Americans' presence in physics, medicine, and other specific areas; race and gender consciousness; ethnicity; barbershops; and African American heritage, women and feminization, children and families, businesses, and university faculty. There is an electronic copy of the 1893 Lexington City Directory (dated October 26, 1993) in WordPerfect format on disk 01.

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• Box 13
• Box 14

Scope and Contents

This series comprises published monographs from Wilkinson's office library with text underlined or highlighted by Wilkinson. Many of the monographs also include handwritten notes.