Fenaba R. Addo has been promoted to full professor in the department of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining the university’s faculty, Dr. Addo taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the co-author of A Dream Defaulted: The Student Loan Crisis Among Black Borrowers (Harvard Education Press, 2022).
Professor Addo is a graduate of Duke University, where she majored in economics. She earned a Ph.D. in policy analysis and management at Cornell University.
Darrell A. H. Miller has been named the Harry N. Wyatt Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He has been on the faculty since 2024 after teaching at Duke Law School and the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He is the co-author of The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Professor Miller is a graduate of Anderson University in Indiana, where he majored in English and education. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree at Oxford University in England as a Marshall Scholar. He holds a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.
Jaqueline Allen Trimble, professor of English and chair of the department of languages and literatures at Alabama State University, has been named poet laureate for the state of Alabama. She is the author of two poetry collections: How to Survive the Apocalypse (NewSouth Books, 2022) and American Happiness (NewSouth Books, 2016). As a scholar, Dr. Trimble studies twentieth-century Black women writers, feminist theory, and representations of race and gender in popular culture.
A graduate of Huntingdon College in Alabama, Dr. Trimble earned her master’s degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of Alabama.

