New Teaching Roles for Two African American Scholars

Christina M. Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University in New York, was named the 2018 McSilver Fellow in Residence at the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at the School of Social Work of New York University. Dr. Greer is the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Dr. Greer is a graduate of Tufts University in Massachusetts. She holds two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in New York City.

This coming semester, Moon Molson will be joining the faculty at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University as an assistant professor of visual arts. Since 2015, he has been an assistant professor in the School of Theater, Film and Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Molson is a filmmaker who won the student Academy Award and has presented several works at the Sundance Film Festival. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University.

 

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