Appointments & Awards

Dr. Achebe, an endowed professor at Michigan State University, is known for her research on the study of women, gender, sexuality, and oral history in Nigeria.

The National Association of College and University Business Officers is honoring Dawn Rhodes, chief business and finance officer and senior vice president at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Daniel Hastings has been granted the highest faculty honor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Linda Baker of Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Derrick Cohens of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff are taking on leadership roles at their institutions. Florida State University's Alma Littles is the new president of the Florida Medical Association.

Dr. Threadcraft is a member of the Vanderbilt University faculty. Her new book, The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy, has received two book awards from the American Political Science Association.

The appointments are Akirah Bradley-Armstrong at MIT, Corey Edmonds at Morris College, Nechell Bonds at Prairie View A&M University, Juanita Womack at Emory University, Taran L. McZee at Talladega College, Nakia Pugh at the University of the District of Columbia, and Rosalyn Galloway at North Carolina A&T State University.

Emery Brown was granted MIT's highest faculty title and Denise Davis-Maye is the inaugural associate provost for faculty affairs at Albany State University. Jeffrey Allen Murdock, Shaundra Daily, and Maxie Hollingsworth have joined the faculties of Yale University, the University of Tennessee, and Sam Houston State University, respectively.

Among this year's recipients of the National Black Nurses Association's Trailblazer Awards are four Black scholars currently teaching at universities: Angela Frederick Amar of New York University, Felesia Bowen of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Stephan Davis of Georgetown University, and Selena Ann Gilles of the University of Pennsylvania.

Here is this week’s roundup of African Americans who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@jbhe.com.

Henry R. Young of the University of Georgia and Tricia Penniecook of the University of South Florida were promoted to leadership roles. Derrick C. Lewis Sr. and Jennifer Hunter joined the faculties of Rust College and Virginia Commonwealth University, respectively. Yale University's Marlene Daut was selected for a fellowship at New York Public Library, and Kenni Zellner is an endowed visiting assistant professor at Boston College Law School.

The University of Georgia Libraries has honored Dr. Blain, professor of history and Africana studies at Brown University, for her latest book, Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights.

Jennifer Clark, Loria Oliver, and Rashanda L. Lowery are taking on leadership roles at Jackson State University, the University of Arkansas, and Livingstone College, respectively. Georgia Southern University's Memory Littles was appointed to a University System of Georgia committee, and Kenny Thompson has joined the College Sports Commission.

Amelia Kraehe of the University of Arizona and Ashanti Jones of the University of Louisiana Monroe were appointed to academic leadership roles. Jamal Cyrus is a a new assistant professor of sculpture at the University of Houston, Grisha Coleman is a new professor in music and theater arts at MIT, and Nicholas Ball was promoted to full professor of chemistry at Pomona College.

Marlene Daut, professor of French and Black studies at Yale University, has received another award for her book The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe. The monograph's latest honor is the University of Edinburgh's James Tait Black Prize, the longest-running literary award in the United Kingdom.

The administrators who have been appointed to new roles are Genesis Doubletree at Shaw University, Andrea G. Riley at Paine College, Joshua Spivey at Benedict College, Monique Sneed at Jarvis Christian University, Charlyn A. Hilliman at Tuskegee University, and Johngerlyn Young at Livingstone College.

Herman Bennett of the City University of New York was selected for a year-long fellowship at the Library of Congress. Mouhamédoul Niang was promoted to full professor at Colby College in Maine. Elizabeth J.A. Siwo-Okundi and Angela Lynn Tucker are new assistant professors at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Houston, respectively.

A faculty member with the University of Pennsylvania for nearly three decades, Professor Allen is an internationally renowned expert on philosophical and social justice dimensions of privacy and data protection law.

The appointments are Darrius Jones at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Arthur Bradford at Northwest Arkansas Community College, Edward Raimundi at Virginia Tech, Brittany Bell at Valley City State University in North Dakota, and Jarett Gerald at La Salle University in Philadelphia.

Chandra Bhimull was selected for an endowed professorship at Colby College in Maine and Ngozi Okidegbe was promoted to full professor at the Boston University School of Law. Bradley S. Gardner has joined the Savannah State University faculty as an associate professor of political science and international affairs.

Dr. Jenkins, an alumna of two historically Black universities, was recently recognized by the the American Veterinary Medical Association for her lifetime contributions to advancing opportunities for underrepresented students and veterinarians.

The appointments are Derrick Jordan at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Joelle L. Rollins-Kent at South Carolina State University, Kenneth Goodrum at Wittenberg University in Ohio, Roderick Smothers Jr. at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, and Rashida Willard at Mt. Hood Community College in Oregon.