Dwight Williams has been named to the Kurt D. Kaufman Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. He has been a faculty member with the college since 2015, and previously held a two-year appointment as the Roger F. and Harriet G. Varney Assistant Professor of Chemistry. As a scholar, his research interests include synthetic organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and pharmacology.
Dr. Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Amy D. Linder has earned tenure and been promoted to associate professor in the department of kinesiology and recreational administration at North Carolina Central University. Her research focuses on physical activity behaviors, coaching, and the intersection of sports and society.
Dr. Linder received a bachelor’s degree in sports management from Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. She earned a master’s degree in physical education and recreation from North Carolina Central University and a Ph.D. in education from Northcentral University.
Stacie Williams has joined the Simmons University faculty as an assistant professor of practice and manager of field experiences in the School of Library and Information Science. Her background includes more than a decade of archives experience in academic, public, and community institutions.
Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree in library and information science from Simmons University.
Wunpini Mohammed has joined the faculty at Cornell University as an assistant professor in the department of communication. In her research, she focuses on interrogating power in media and communications while working together with disenfranchised communities to use media to bring about transformative change in communities.
Dr. Mohammed earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Ghana in Africa, a master’s degree from Michigan Technological University, and a Ph.D. in mass communications from Pennsylvania State University.
Boukary Sawadogo has been appointed as the 2024-2025 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities and the Arts at the City College of New York. He currently teaches as an associate professor of cinema studies and Black studies in the college’s division of humanities and the arts. As a scholar of African cinema, he has published several books, including West African Screen Media: Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalization (Michigan State University Press, 2019).
A native of Côte d’Ivoire, Dr. Sawadogo received his Ph.D. from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad will join the Princeton University faculty in January 2025 as a professor of African American studies and public affairs. He previously served as director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project at Harvard University and as director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He has conducted extensive research on the intersections of racism, economic inequality, criminal justice, and democracy in United States history.
Dr. Muhammad holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Rosemary Shumba has been granted the title of Wilson H. Elkins Academic Transformation Professor at Bowie State University in Maryland. She currently serves as chair of the university’s department of computer science. Her academic interests center around digital forensics, cyber security, software validation and verification, and computer science education.
Dr. Shumba received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Birmingham in England.
