Faculty Highlights and Accomplishments

Ashanté Reese, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology, has been named a Woodrow Wilson Foundation 2018 Career Enhancement Fellow.

Maira Goytia, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, has received a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $149,506.

ADW faculty presented at the plenary session of British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies conference, in Savannah, GA, on Feb 17, 2018.

As a member of the Clinical Practice Commission and HBCU representative for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Department of Education Assistant Professor Valeisha Ellis, Ph.D., contributed to a white paper the Commission will release at a Washington, D.C., press conference on Jan. 17.

The award-winning poem, "Tongueless in Vancouver," written by Pushpa Parekh, Ph.D., professor of English and director of Spelman's African Diaspora and the World program was selected to be presented at the Canada and Me - Celebrate Canada 150: From Far and Wide-2017 Multicultural Creative Writing Contest and Festival held earlier this fall.

Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Ph.D., Fuller E. Callaway Professor of English, will participate in the national forum, “Remembering Langston Hughes: His Art, Life and Legacy Fifty Years Later,” Nov. 10-11 at Princeton University.

Danielle Dickens, Ph.D., along with her colleague at Colorado State University, published a peer-reviewed research article in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research describing how early career U.S. Black women navigate workplace politics by engaging in identity shifting.

Dimeji Togunde, Ph.D., associate provost for global education and professor of international studies, has accepted an invitation to join the Global Studies Research Network Advisory Board

Jennifer Kovacs, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, has been awarded a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $603,128.

Charissa Threat, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, has received the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) 2017 Lavinia L. Dock Award for her book "Nursing Civil Rights: Race and Gender in the Army Nurse Corps."