Evelyn Fields has been elected chair of the South Carolina Education Deans’ Alliance, an organization dedicated to uniting deans from public and private colleges of education throughout the state to tackle statewide challenges in teacher preparation. Dr. Fields currently serves as dean of the College of Education, Humanities, and Social Sciences at South Carolina State University, where she has worked for the past 25 years. A full professor of early childhood education, she previously served as president of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education.
Dr. Fields holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in early childhood education from the University of South Carolina.
Avery Willis Hoffman has been named the Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director of Court Theatre, a professional theatre affiliated with the University of Chicago. She comes to hew new role from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she was the inaugural artistic director of the Brown Arts Institute and a professor of the practice of arts and classics. Earlier in her career, she led content development for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History, as well as the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dr. Hoffman is a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in classics and English. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in classical language and literature from the University of Oxford in England.
Nicole McConlogue was awarded the John H. Faricy Jr. Professorship for Empirical Research in the Law at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. Professor McConlogue has a strong public interest background, including practice experience in consumer protection and disability benefits law. Her scholarly work focuses on concerns of economic mobility and fairness toward disadvantaged communities. She previously taught at the West Virginia University College of Law.
Professor McConlogue is a graduate of Towson University in Maryland, where she majored in French literature. She earned her law degree at the University of Maryland.
Gerald Horne has been named the John L. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. As a historian, his scholarship spans a wide-range of topics, including Hollywood, jazz, boxing, African liberation movements, and revolutionary histories across the Americas. He is the author of a dozen books, including The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America (New York University Press, 2014).
A graduate of Princeton University, Dr. Horne holds a juris doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in New York City.
