Tamara Taggart has been named the inaugural Perry N. Halkitis Endowed Chair for Advancing LGBTQ+ Public Health at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She will also hold an appointment as an associate professor of urban-global public health. She has been serving as an associate professor at George Washington University. Her research focuses on developing and implementing interventions to improve HIV-related outcomes and reduce substance use and abuse.
A graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Dr. Taggart holds a master of public health degree from Columbia University in New York City and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Oumar Ba has been named the Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. A faculty member in the university’s department of government, his research focuses on law, violence, race, humanity, and world order in global politics. He is the author of States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and is currently working on two forthcoming book projects.
Dr. Ba holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Florida.
Farah Jasmine Griffin has been named a University Professor at Columbia University. The distinction is the university’s highest faculty honor. Dr. Griffin currently holds the title of William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of African American Studies. She previously served as the inaugural chair of the department of African American and African diaspora studies. Her scholarship examines the Black experience in the United States, spanning the fields of literature, music, history, and politics.
Dr. Griffin received her bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University.
Hey JBHE,
You need to tell the damn truth about these so-called black professors mentioned in this article. For starters, all three of these individuals are either African or Caribbean immigrants and not “native born Black Americans”. It’s called delineation because these African and Caribbean immigrants simply use the native Black American community as a launching pad for their damn group. Times up.