Ranysha Ware is a new assistant professor of computer science at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on networking, distributed systems, and applied machine learning. She previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Dr. Ware earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Eve Eure has joined the University of California, San Diego faculty as an assistant professor of literature. A transdisciplinary scholar, her work intersects Black studies and Native and Indigenous studies. She previously served as an assistant professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York. She is currently working on a book, The Grammar of Kinship: Black and Native Intimacies in the Nineteenth Century.
Dr. Eure is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she majored in Portuguese and Brazilian studies. She holds master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania.
Derron Wallace is a new associate professor of Africana studies and educational policy at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Before joining the Ivy League institution, he was the Jacob S. Potofsky Professor at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. With a focus on race, ethnicity, and education, his scholarship examines the relationship between social policies, political power, and young people. He is the author of The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Dr. Wallace is a summa cum laude graduate of Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where he double-majored in sociology and African diaspora studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in England.
J. Margo Brooks Carthon was appointed to the Van Ameringen Chair in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. A faculty member since 2010, she currently serves as associate director of Penn’s Center for Health Outcomes & Policy Research and director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. With a focus on advancing health equity, her scholarship bridges the history of nursing, health services and outcomes research, and the social determinants of health.
A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, Dr. Brooks Carthon holds a master of nursing degree in psychiatric and adult health from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.
Leslie C. Appiah has been appointed chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology and executive director of the Center for Women’s Health Research at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. She most recently taught at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Her medical expertise centers on fertility and reproductive preservation in women and girls undergoing cancer treatment, hormone replacement therapy, and breast cancer treatment.
A graduate of Baylor University in Texas, Dr. Appiah earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Shaniece B. Bickham has been appointed director of the School of Communication and Design at Loyola University New Orleans. She will also serve as an associate professor of mass communication. Prior to her new position, she was an associate professor and program coordinator for mass communication and film at Dillard University in New Orleans. Her scholarship focuses on source credibility, crisis communication, and political messaging.
Dr. Bickham holds three degrees in mass communication: a bachelor’s degree from Dillard University, a master’s degree from Loyola University New Orleans, and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi.
Tara M. Holman is a new assistant professor of literature and creative writing at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She writes and teaches about twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American and Black Atlantic literature and culture, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality.
Dr. Holman earned a bachelor’s degree in English and international studies from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in English from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Monyae Williamson-Gourley is a new assistant professor-educator at the University of Cincinnati College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Information Technology. Her academic interests center on sport sociology. Earlier in her career, she worked in college athletics as a communications director and sport administrator.
Dr. Williams-Gourley is a graduate of High Point University in North Carolina. She holds a master’s degree in organizational management from Jacksonville University and a Ph.D. in sport management from Florida State University.
