Three Black Scholars In New Faculty Roles at Colleges and Universities

LondonJeremi London is a new assistant professor of engineering systems at Arizona State University. She has been conducting postdoctoral research at the university after spending several years at the National Science Foundation.

Dr. London holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial engineering and a doctorate in engineering education, all from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

HamiltonMarcellina Hamilton was appointed associate professor of business administration at Bridgewater College in Virginia. She was an associate professor of business at the State University of New York at Canton.

Dr. Hamilton is a graduate of the University of Lagos in Nigeria. She holds an MBA from Delaware State University and a Ph.D. in organizational leadership from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

ginesKathryn Gines, an associate professor of philosophy, is the new interim chair of the department of African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. She came to Penn State in 2008 as an Africana Research Center Fellow and joined the faculty a year later.

Dr. Gines is the founding co-editor of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race. She is also the founder of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers. Dr. Gines holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis.

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