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.