New Assignments for Two African American Faculty Members

Melissa Thomas-Hunt, a professor of management in the Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, was given the added duties as faculty director for Moore College at the university. Dr. Thomas-Hunt also serves as vice provost for inclusive excellence at Vanderbilt.

Professor Thomas-Hunt is a graduate of Princeton University in New Jersey, where she majored in chemical engineering. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Marshall Brown was hired as an associate professor of architecture at Princeton University in New Jersey. He was an associate professor in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Since 2011, he has also been the principal at his own architectural firm in Chicago.

Brown is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. He holds a master’s degree in architecture and urban design from Harvard University.

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