Faculty Accolades, Spring 2022
Congratulations to Dawn Duke, past chair of the Africana Studies program and current chair of the Portuguese program, on her promotion to full professor. She was awarded the Lindsay Young Professorship (2021—2023) and has received a book contract with Bucknell University Press.
Robert Bland, assistant professor of history and Africana Studies, attended the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), conference held September 27-29, 2021. The topic of the conference was on the State of Black America. He was also a speaker and spoke about his paper on a larger panel about the policy report. This policy report will also be a published article scheduled for release in May 2022.
Shayla C. Nunnally, head of Africana Studies and professor of political science, will be serving as a co-chair with Prof. William Jennings (University of Southampton, UK) for a bilateral, virtual research workshop among a diverse group of invited scholars, who will be jointly-convened by the US-based, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the United Kingdom-based, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), on the topic of “Trust in Democratic Institutions.”
Larry Perry II, assistant professor of religious studies and Africana studies, recently presented his research to the Board of Visitors, and he is celebrating a new publication in the journal, The Acorn, “Beyond Black Churches: Toward an Understanding of the Black Spiritual Left, featuring Du Bois, Bethune, Thurman, and Black Lives Matter.”