Beatrice Adams will join the history department faculty at Princeton University in New Jersey this coming September. Dr. Adams specializes in African American history and comes to Princeton from the College of Wooster in Ohio, where she has been an assistant professor since 2021.
Dr. Adams is a graduate of Fisk University in Nashville and holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Patricia Poitevien has been named vice president for campus life at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. An associate professor of pediatrics, she has been a faculty member with the university’s Warren Alpert Medical School since 2018. For the past three years, she has served as the medical school’s senior associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Dr. Poitevien received her bachelor’s degree in French literature and her medical degree from Brown University. She also holds a master’s degree in clinical investigation from New York University.
Tony Brown has been appointed deputy director of the recently launched Institute of Health Resilience and Innovation at Rice University in Houston, Texas. A Rice faculty member since 2016, he currently holds the rank of distinguished professor in the department of sociology. He is the founding director of the university’s Racism and Racial Experiences (RARE) Workgroup, as well as the Statistical Training and Research Techniques at Rice (STaRT@Rice) program.
An HBCU graduate, Dr. Brown received his bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. He holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan.
Najja K. Baptist has been named the Sylvia G. Swartz Endowed Chair in Political Science at the University of Arkansas. He is an associate professor of political science and director of the university’s African and African American studies program. His first book, In the Spirit, In the Dark: Black Music and Activism is forthcoming from New York University Press.
Dr. Baptist holds three degrees in political science from three historically Black universities: a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina Central University, a master’s degree from Jackson State University in Mississippi, and a Ph.D. from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
