New Academic Assignments for Five Black Scholars

CarlGoodmanCarl Goodman, professor of pharmacology at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, has been given the added duties of associate provost for undergraduate education and student success. He previously served as the assistant dean for research and graduate studies. Dr. Goodman also is the head coach of the university’s men’s tennis team.

Dr. Goodman is a graduate of Jacksonville University, where he double majored in biology and psychology. He holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from Florida A&M University.

NwankwoIfeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, an associate professor of English and director of American studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, has been given the added duties of associate provost for strategic initiatives and partnerships. Dr. Nwankwo joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2006.

Dr. Nwankwo is the author of Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). She holds a Ph.D. in English from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

adogla_enochEnoch Agbesi Adogla is a new assistant professor of chemistry at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. He recently completed his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Adogla is a graduate of the University of Ghana. He earned a master’s degree from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro.

mosesGreene-1Moses Alexander Green, an assistant professor of media and communications at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina , has been given the added duties of chief communications officer for the university. Greene was an adjunct professor at the university in 2011 and joined the full-time faculty a year later.

Greene holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in new media management from Syracuse University in New York.

serie.mcdougalSerie McDougal III, an associate professor in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University in California, was appointed chair of the department of Africana studies. Dr. McDougal is the author of Research Methods in Africana Studies (Peter Lang Publishing, 2014).

A graduate of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, Dr. McDougal holds a master’s degree in Africana studies from the University at Albany of the State University of New York System and a Ph.D. in African American studies from Temple University in Philadelphia.

 

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