Higher Education
Minor: Race and Rhetoric
Indiana University, Bloomington
Dissertation Title:
Speaking of Race: College Presidents’ Speeches and Student Unrest in North Carolina, 1960-1964
Joseph P. Cangemi Dissertation Award from Higher Education program faculty
Student Affairs Administration
Indiana University, Bloomington
Speech Communication
Tennessee State University, Nashville
Magna Cum Laude
2022
Education Week, Scholar of Public Influence
Since 2021, named annually in Education Week as one of “the top university-based scholars in the U.S. who did the most last year to shape educational practice and policy.”
2018
Early Career Award, Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
Honor is “given for a significant body of scholarship, a single extraordinary research achievement by a higher education scholar, or recognition of potential for future research.”
2017
Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Recognition as a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation as one of ten scholars nationally who “represent a developing class of scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are poised… to play a significant role in shaping American higher education.”
2015
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellow
Fellowship recognizes the “outstanding researchers at the postdoctoral level to pursue critical education research projects.”
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