Two African American Faculty Members in New Roles

John Winters was promoted to associate professor of sports recreation management at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Before joining the faculty at Bacone College, Dr. Winters was a coordinator for academic services for the athletics department at Tuskegee University in Alabama.

Dr. Winters is a graduate of Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. He holds a master’s degree in secondary physical education from Colorado State University and a Ph.D. in health leisure, and human performance from Oklahoma State University.

Nicole Stokes-DuPass, a professor of sociology at Holy Family University in Philadelphia, has been given the added duties of associate vice president for institutional effectiveness and diversity at the university. Dr. Stokes-DuPass is the author or co-author of several books including Integration and New Limits on Citizenship Rights: Denmark and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Professor Stokes-DuPass holds a master’s degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She earned a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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