Appointments & Awards

Two Women Named Department Chairs at Jackson State University

Tamika Bradley leads the department of health, physical education, and recreation and Ruby Wiggins was appointed chair of the department of special education.

Yolanda Moses Honored With the Frederick Douglass Medal from the University of Rochester

Dr. Moses is past president of the American Anthropological Association and past president of American Association for Higher Education. From 1993 to 1999 she served as president of the City College of New York.

Florida State University Honors Its Choral Director With a Stained-Glass Window

Andre J. Thomas is the the Owen F. Sellers Professor of Music, director of choral activities, and a professor of choral music education at the university. For the past 25 years, he has served as director of the Tallahassee Community Chorus.

New Appointments of African Americans in Higher Education

Debra Barksdale was named director of the new doctoral program in nursing practice at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Mark Foster was promoted and granted tenure at Bowdoin College and Antoneia Roe was named director of judicial affairs in the student affairs division at Florida A&M University.

Daryl Michael Scott Elected President of the Association for the Study of African American Life

A professor of history at Howard University, Dr. Scott has been elected president of the organization which was founded in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson.

Marilyn Nelson Named to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets

Professor Marilyn Nelson taught at the University of Connecticut from 1978 to 2002. She is the former poet laureate of the State of Connecticut and served in that position from 2001 to 2006. Twice she has been a finalist for the National Book Award.

Samuel Blackwell Named Chief of Staff at Voorhees College

As chief of staff, Blackwell will oversee recruitment, admissions, financial aid, and retention initiatives on the campus of the historically Black college. He has been serving as vice president for planning and information technology at the historically Black college.

Syracuse University Professor Honored by the Society of Historical Archaeology

Theresa Singleton, associate professor of anthropology at Syracuse University in New York, is being honored for her lifetime of contributions to the field of historical archaeology through scholarship.

Three African Americans in New Teaching Positions

Lois Brown was granted tenure at Wesleyan University. Jeffrey Redding is teaching choral conducting at West Virginia University and Loretta J. Ross is activist-in-residence at Smith College.

Elijah Anderson Honored by the American Sociological Association

Dr. Anderson, the William K. Lanman Professor of Sociology at Yale University, is one of the nation's leading urban ethnographers. Before coming to Yale in 2007, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 30 years.

Lewis Gordon to Join the Faculty at the University of Connecticut

He is currently a professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Claudia Rankine Elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets

The Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College in California, will serve a six-year term promoting the Academy and acting as an ambassador for poetry to the world at large.

Honors for Three African American Scholars

The honorees are Kevin Young of Emory University in Atlanta, Larry McCutcheon of Claflin University in South Carolina, and Murial Hawkins of Virginia State University.

Three African Americans With New Appointments in Higher Education

Rodney Irvin was promoted at Virginia Tech, Cheryl Thomas was named a vice president at Lincoln University, and LaTonia Karr was appointed to board of trustees at Stanford University.

Anna Deavere Smith to Receive the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize

The University Professor in the Department of Performance Studies in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University was recognized with the award that honors trailblazers in the arts who have redefined their art and pushed the boundaries of excellence in their field. The prize comes with a $300,000 award.

University of Maryland Eastern Shore Names New VP for Research and Development

For the past three years, G. Dale Wesson has held the Samuel P. Massie Chair of Excellence Professorship in Science and Nuclear Engineering at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg.

Two African Americans Named to Endowed Chairs

Filmmaker Julie Dash is spending the current semester in an endowed chair in media at Wayne State University. Kevin B. Johnson, who has served on the faculty at Vanderbilt University since 2002, has been named the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor.

University of Chicago Gives Out Its Diversity Leadership Awards

Michael Bennett, associate professor of sociology at DePaul University, received the award in the alumni category. Kim Ransom, director of the university's Collegiate Scholars Program won the award in the staff category.

Three African American Women Earn Promotions in University Administrations

The three African-American women earning promotions are Carmen Wigfall at Winston-Salem State University, Betty Roberts at Alcorn State University, and Lisa McKay at the State University of New York.

Three Black Scholars Honored With Prestigious Awards

The honorees are Richard Wamai of Northeastern University in Boston, Karen Jackson-Weaver of Princeton University, and Howard Fuller of Marquette University in Milwaukee.

Leon C. Wilson to Seve as Interim Provost at Alabama State University

Since 2011 he has served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the university. Previously he taught at East Carolina University and was on the faculty at Wayne State University in Detroit for nearly two decades.

Three African Americans in New Faculty Roles

Shirley Franklin, the former mayor of Atlanta, will be teaching at the University of Texas. Vivian Fluellen was named to department chair at Fort Valley State University and Desmond Patton is a new assistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan.

Hampton University Provost Elected Chair of the National Institute of Aerospace

Pamela V. Hammond, the former dean of the School of Nursing Hampton University in Virginia, was elected chair of the nonprofit research association conducting advanced study in aerospace and atmospheric science.

Seven African Americans Taking on New Administrative Duties in Higher Education

The new appointees are Albert Tezeno at Southern University, Jennifer Taylor at the American Institute of Architecture Students, Deborah Hayes at the University of Delaware, Michelle Thompson-Taylor at the University of Rochester, Renee MIddleton at Ohio University, Amilcar Shabazz at the University of Massachusetts, and K. Matthew Dames at Syracuse University.

University of Southern Mississippi Scholar Wins Outstanding Achievement Award

Royal P. Walker Jr., executive director of the Institute for Disability Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi, is honored by the Association of University Centers on Disabilities.

Gallaudet University Reinstates Its Chief Diversity Officer

Dr. Angela McCaskill had been placed on leave after the university learned she had signed a petition circulated by opponents of same-sex marriage.

Poet Nikky Finney to Join the Faculty at the University of South Carolina

After more than 20 years at the University of Kentucky, this fall Professor Finney will take the John H. Bennett Jr. Chair of Southern Literature and Creative Writing at the University of South Carolina.

Shawn Long Honored by the National Communication Association

Dr. Long is an associate professor and chair of the department of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Retired Army General, Ronald Johnson, Joins the Georgia Tech Faculty

The former deputy commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers is a new professor of practice in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

William N. Pruitt III Promoted at Virginia Tech

William Nelson Pruitt III was appointed assistant director of the Education Abroad program. He is the former assistant director of international affairs for Shanghai Finance University and currently is enrolled in the doctoral program in higher education administration at Virginia Tech.

Two Black Scholars Promoted and Granted Tenure at Williams College

James Manigault-Bryant was named an associate professor of Africana studies and Ngonidzashe Munemo was promoted to associate professor of political science.

Two Black Scholars in New Faculty Posts

Jericho Brown is a new assistant professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta and Nadia Rabesahala Horning was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of political science at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Three African American Women in New Administrative Roles in Higher Education

The new appointees are Jacquelyn White at Prairie View A&M, Juliana Mosley at Edward Waters College, and Emily Dickens at the University of North Carolina system.

Yale Establishes Lectureship to Honor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Philanthropists Joanna and Daniel Rose have donated funds to Yale University to create the Henry Louis Gates Jr. Lectures.

Mary Evans Sias Awarded an Honorary Degree from Central Michigan University

The 13th president of Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Dr. Sias was honored for being a "forward-thinking leader" and for her advocacy of higher education as chair of the board of directors of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

College Sophomore Honored for Her Work With Children Whose Parents Are in Prison

Olivia Stinson, a sophomore at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, was recognized as a 2012 L'Oreal Paris International Woman of Worth for establishing a nonprofit organization that distributes books and other supplies to children whose parents are incarcerated.
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