Jude Sandy has been named an assistant professor of theater at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He has taught at Swarthmore for the past year as a visiting assistant professor. Earlier in his career, he was a visiting assistant professor of theater and dance at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
Sandy earned his bachelor’s degree in Africana studies with an emphasis in theatre arts and his master of fine arts degree in acting and directing from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Jean Beaman has joined the faculty at the City University of New York Graduate Center as an associate professor of sociology. She comes to her new role from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she taught as an associate professor of sociology. Her background in ethnographic research led her to authoring Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017).
Dr. Beaman earned her bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and a Ph.D. all in sociology from Northwestern University in Illinois.
Seth Gaiters has joined the faculty at North Carolina State University as an assistant professor of religious studies and Africana studies. He most recently served as an assistant professor of philosophy and religion and Africana studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His research explores religion and race through Black progressive social movements and cultures in America.
Dr. Gaiters received his bachelor’s degree in psychology and Ph.D. in comparative studies and religious studies from Ohio State University. He holds a master of divinity degree in theology from Capital University in Ohio and a master of theology degree in theology and ethics from Fuller Theological Seminary in Houston.
Andrew Waaswa has been appointed as an extension agricultural educator at the University of Nevada, Reno. He previously served as an assistant with the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission Agricultural Leadership Development program at North Carolina State University. Earlier in his career, he was a coordinator for the agricultural exchange program between Iowa State University and Makerere University in Uganda.
Dr. Waaswa received his bachelor’s degree in agricultural and rural innovation from Makerere University and his master’s degree in agricultural extension from Egerton University in Kenya. He holds a doctorate in agricultural and extension education from North Carolina State University.
Alex Alston has joined the faculty at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania as an assistant professor of literatures in English. His research and teaching explore the political ecologies and eco-literary elements of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American and Afro-Diasporic literature.
Dr. Alston is a graduate of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he majored in African and African American studies. He holds a master’s degree in African and African American studies, as well as a master’s degree and Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University in New York.
