Camille Borders is a new assistant professor of history at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She is a social historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history with a specialty in women’s history and Black feminist thought. Through her work, she seeks to understand how Black people in America built, resisted, and thrived under the shadows of social and political domination
Dr. Borders is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. She earned a master’s degree in U.S. history at the University of Oxford in England and a Ph.D. in history at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Sophia Monegro is a new assistant professor of Africana studies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is a literary scholar working at the crossroads of Black women’s intellectual history, Dominican studies, and digital humanities. She is the author of the forthcoming book Architects of Relation: Black Women’s Social Thought From Santo Domingo to the Atlantic World.
A graduate of the City College of New York, Dr. Monegro earned her doctorate in the department of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity at Washington University in St. Louis.
Jametta A. Davis was named assistant director of the Honors College at Hampton University in Virginia. Dr. Davis has more than two decades of experience spanning higher education, federal service, and the public humanities. Before joining Hampton, she spent 15 years with the National Archives and Records Administration. Dr. Davis has held fellowships with Howard University, Columbia University, Emory University, Duke University, and the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College in New York.
Dr. Davis holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, a master’s degree in history form North Carolina Central University, and a Ph.D. in history with concentrations in African American, African diaspora, and public histories from Howard University.
Kiana Dibo-Armstrong has been appointed chair of the department of social work at Savannah State University. Dr. Dibo-Armstrong, a tenured associate professor, has served as the practicum field director for the university’s bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in social work for the past five years. Earlier in her career, she was a field education director at Colorado Mesa University, Southern Arkansas University, and Alabama State University.
Dr. Dibo-Armstrong holds three degrees in social work: a bachelor’s degree from Alabama State University, a master’s degree from the University of Alabama, and a doctorate from the University of Kentucky.
