Paula Marie Seniors was named the Gloria D. Smith Memorial Professor in Africana Studies at Virginia Tech. Dr. Seniors is an ethnics studies scholar and an associate professor in the university’s department of history. She is the author of Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists (University of Georgia Press, 2024), which won the Afro American Historical and Genealogical International Book Award for Social Justice.
Dr. Seniors is a graduate of City College of New York, where she majored in dance. She holds a master’s degree in musical theater from New York University and both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in ethnic studies from the University of California, San Diego.
Kamia Smith is a new assistant professor in the department of mechanical, materials, and industrial engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. She specializes in high-temperature creep deformation, Harper-Dorn creep, dislocation theory, and mechanical behavior of single- and poly-crystalline materials.
Dr. Smith is a graduate of Wheaton College in Norwood, Massachusetts, where she majored in chemistry. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Efemena Diejomaoh has joined the Meharry Medical College faculty as an assistant professor of psychiatry. He recently completed his residency in adult psychiatry at Meharry. His clinical and research interests include mental health disorders, substance use disorders, chronic pain, minority health, and global health.
Dr. Diejomaoh received a bachelor of medicine degree and a bachelor of surgery degree from Ambrose Alli University in Nigeria. He later completed training in clinical research at McGovern Medical School and in tropical medicine and global health at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Diejomaoh also holds a master of public health degree with a concentration in epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Danielle Lynch is a new assistant professor of physical education at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She is also director of athletics and chair of the physical education department. Her doctoral research examined the lived experiences of Black male professional athletes during ongoing social justice movements, exploring how identity, activism and sport intersect.
Dr. Lynch double majored in geography and anthropology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She earned a master’s degree in education from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and a doctorate in lifelong learning and adult education from Pennsylvania State University.
Camille Louis is a new assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Previously, Dr. Louis served as director of conservation for the National Museum of Haiti. He taught at the Université d’Etat d’Haïti.
Dr. Louis earned a master’s degree from the University of the West Indies and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
