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Three African American women earn PhDs within nine days of each other: Georgiana R. Simpson, PhD in German Philology, University of Chicago, June 14, 1921; [19] Sadie Tanner Mossell, PhD in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, June 15, 1921; [20] Eva B. Dykes, PhD in English Language, Radcliffe College, June 22, 1921. [21]
Philiswa Nomngongo, professor of Analytical Chemistry and the South African Research Chair (SARChI) in nanotechnology for water. Himla Soodyall (born 1963), South African human geneticist, known for genetic research into the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa. Andries Van Aarde (born 1951), professor of theology at University of Pretoria.
Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, politician, social critic, and public intellectual. [12]The grandson of a Baptist minister, West's primary philosophy focuses on the roles of race, gender, and class struggle in American society.
Not long after she returned to Howard University as a professor in 2013, Jennifer Thomas found herself overcome with emotion. ‘It’s a calling’: Why Black academics choose HBCUs over other ...
According to Nature.com, only 160 of the United Kingdom’s 22,855 professors are Black across all academic fields, and one-fourth are Black women. The BBC reports that there are only five Black ...
University of Chicago law professor, United States Senator, first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review, and 44th President of the United States of America: Ida Platt (1862–1939) [13] First African-American woman licensed to practice law in Illinois, and the third in the United States Charlotte E. Ray (1850–1911) [14]
Loury became an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University after receiving his doctorate. In 1979, he moved to teach at the University of Michigan, and was promoted to full professor of economics in 1980. In 1982, at age 33, Loury became the first black tenured professor of economics in the history of Harvard University. [3]
1976: Howard University establishes the first PhD program in mathematics at a historically black college or university under mathematics department chair James Donaldson and professor J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. [15] 1980: The Claytor Lecture – now the Claytor-Woodard Lecture in honor of William W S Claytor and Dudley Weldon Woodard – is ...