Emmett G. Price III was named professor of worship, church and culture at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Massachusetts. He has been serving as an associate professor of music at Northeastern University in Boston. Dr. Price is the author of several books including The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture: Toward Bridging the Generational Divide (Scarecrow Press, 2011).
Professor Price is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he majored in music. He holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Larycia Hawkins was named the Abd el-Kader Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Virginia. She was an associate professor of politics and international relations at Wheaton College, a Christian college in Illinois. There, she came under fire for wearing a hajib during advent in support of Muslim colleagues and by saying that Muslims and Christians worshiped the same God. She was the first tenured African American woman faculty member in the history of Wheaton College.
Dr. Hawkins is a graduate of Rice University in Houston, Texas. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Oklahoma.
Dedric Carter, a professor of engineering practice at Washington University in St. Louis was given the additional responsibility of vice chancellor for operations and technology. He has been serving as associate provost and associate vice chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Professor Carter holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in information systems from Nova Southeastern University.

Dr. Hart is a graduate of Lee University, where she majored in accounting. She went on to earn an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga and a Ph.D. in accounting from Anderson University in Indiana.

Dr. McMickens is a graduate of Tuskegee University in Alabama, where he majored in business administration. He holds a master’s degree in higher education administration from Suffolk University and an educational doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Dr. Wimberly is a graduate of the University of Memphis. She holds a master’s degree in epidemiology from the University of Cincinnati and a medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.

Clark is a graduate of Prairie View A&M University in Texas, where he majored in theatre. He holds a master of fine arts degree in technical direction from the California Institute of the Arts.


congratulations to all of these scholars and educators.