‘Dimeji Togunde, vice provost for global education and professor of international studies at Spelman College in Atlanta, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute for the International Education of Students.
Dr. Togunde joined the Spelman College faculty in 2011 as the founding dean of the Gordon-Zeto Center for Global Education. Over the course of his tenure, he has increased the number of study abroad destinations for Spelman students from 16 to 35 countries across all six inhabited continents. Furthermore, two-thirds of all Spelman academic departments now offer at least one global studies course.
Prior to his current role, Dr. Togunde taught sociology at Albion College in Michigan for 15 years. He severed in several roles at the college, including the John S. Ludington Trustees’ Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, chair of the department of anthropology and sociology, chair of the global studies curriculum committee, and director of the ethnic studies program.
Dr. Togunde received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in demography and social statistics from what is now the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. He earned his Ph.D. in development sociology from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
