Contact Information
Accounting Department
Fulton Hall 552A
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
(617) 552-4525 (Voice)
(617) 552-6345 (FAX)
theresa.hammond@bc.edu

Background

Ph.D., M.B.A., University of Wisconsin

B.S. University of Denver

Certified Management Accountant

A White-Collar Profession:  African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921 (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2002).

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• "Holding the Accountants Accountable:  Why are there so few African-American CPAs?"  State of Black America (New York:  Urban League, forthcoming 2002).

• "Excerpt, A White-Collar Profession," The Crisis (NAACP) May/June 2002.

• “Histories Outside the Mainstream:  Women and African Americans in the Accounting Profession,” in  Methodologies in Accounting History Research (Academy of Accounting Historians, forthcoming).

 
• “African-American Female Accountants:  The Stories and the Statistics,” Advances in Accountability:  Regulation, Research, Gender and Justice, (Vol. 8, 2001) pp. 275-277.

 
• “Still Seeking the Ideal,” with K. Paige, Journal of Accountancy (September 1999) pp. 75-79.

• "Temoignage et Histoire des Comptables Noirs-Americains: Historie de Theodora Rutherford," Comptabilite, Controle, Audit (October 1998). Translation by Yvon Pesqueux.

• "African-American Certified Public Accountants," in African Americans and Business: The Path Toward Empowerment (Washington, D.C.: The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, 1998).

• "From Complete Exclusion to Minimal Inclusion: African Americans and the Public Accounting Industry, 1965-1988," Accounting, Organizations and Society (January 1997) pp. 29-54.

• "The Potential of Oral History," with P. Sikka. Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal (1996) pp. 79-97.

• "Some Considerations in Attracting and Retaining African-American Doctoral Candidates in Accounting," Issues in Accounting Education (Spring 1995) pp. 143-158.

• "Overcoming Barriers: Early African-American Certified Public Accountants," with D. Streeter. Accounting, Organizations and Society (Vol. 19, No. 3, 1994) pp. 271-288.

• "The Role of Accounting in Ideological Conflict: Lessons from the South African Divestment Movement," with P. Arnold. Accounting, Organizations and Society (Vol. 19, No. 2, 1994) pp. 111-126. Reprinted in Financial Reporting by Multinationals, edited by C. Adams and C. Roberts (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1996).

• Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Minority Initiatives    Committee, 1995-1998
• Co-Founder, African-American Accounting Doctoral Student Association
• Member, Minority Faculty Development Committee of the American Accounting Association, 1992-1995
• Member, National Association of Black Accountants, 1988-present

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