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Three Black Female Authors Among 2020 ‘Genius Grant’ Winners
Three prominent Black female authors — N.K. Jemisin, Jacqueline Woodson and Tressie McMillan Cottom — are among 21 winners of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius grants,” reports CNN, which explained that the winners will receive a $625,000 “no-strings-attached” award paid out over five years. Since 1981, more than 1,000 people have earned the honor, with acclaimed […]
October 6, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Nicholas D. Hartlep
Dr. Nicholas D. Hartlep’s long list of publications tells the remarkable story of a productive scholar. With 22 books under his belt, including his latest — Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty: Perspectives and Lessons in Higher Education, co-edited with Dr. Daisy Ball — Hartlep is intent on lending his voice to the national discourse surrounding the plight of education in America.
January 28, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Yomaira Figueroa
Raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa is a first-generation high school and college graduate. Now an assistant professor of global diaspora studies at Michigan State University, she finds the cultural shift in academia encouraging as more first-generation students continue their education and become professors.
January 28, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Kabria Baumgartner
When Dr. Kabria Baumgartner went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst to earn her Ph.D., she thought she was going to study 20th century African diasporic literature.
January 22, 2020
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