New Academic Positions for Three Black Scholars

Marcia Douglas was named a Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a professor of English and College Professor of Distinction at the university. She is also the associate chair of the creative writing program. Professor Douglas is an internationally acclaimed novelist, poet, and performer whose work focuses on Afro-Caribbean and diasporic literature. She is the author of several books including The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: Being Dreamity, Algoriddims, Chants & Riffs (New Directions, 2025).

Dr. Douglas is a graduate of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. She earned a master of fine arts degree from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University of the State University of New York System.

Regina Williams Davis has been appointed assistant vice provost for online and extended learning at North Carolina A&T State University. She has been a faculty member in the university’s department of English and communication studies for nearly two decades. Throughout her tenure, she has served in several key leadership roles, associate vice provost for student success and university registrar; interim vice provost for strategic planning, operations, and institutional effectiveness; and director of the Center for Academic Excellence.

Dr. Davis holds a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Hampton University and a master’s degree in communication and human relations from the University of Oklahoma. She earned her Ph.D. in education leadership and cultural foundations, as well as a certificate in women’s and gendered studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Kamal Kariem is a new assistant professor of anthropology at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. An environmental and political anthropologist, Dr. Kariem centers his scholarship on global Indigeneities and comparative imperial formations as these intersect with nature protection. He also has research interests in environmental stewardship, the ethnography of archives, Indigenous sovereignty, historical anthropology, the history of Russian ethnography, environmental anthropology, and the anthropology of time.

Dr. Kariem is a graduate of Connecticut College, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in anthropology and Slavic studies. He received his master’s degree and Ph.D. in anthropology from Princeton University.