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 THE FACULTY AND STAFF |
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S helia Collins received her Ph.D. in English at the University of Kentucky. Her major interests are in African American literature, the literature of racial violence, and women's literature. |
Gordon
Morgan, a University Professor in sociology, earned
his Ph.D. from Washington State in 1961. His publications include
Toward an American Sociology: Questioning the European Construct,
published in 1997 by Praeger Publishers. He is also the author of
Tilman C. Cothran: Second Generation Sociologist, published by Wyndham
Hall Press in 1995. His research interests include investigating how
African countries might be converted to the dollar standard, the Arkansas
delta, and a comprehensive study of the discipline of sociology. Morgan
continues to be interested in the Caribbean as an area of research
and teaching as well. |
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 The art of John L. Newman is part of the permanent collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, the Spencer Museum in Lawrence, Kansas, the Museum of African American Life and Culture in Dallas, Texas, the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston, Jamaica, and a number of individual collections. He is the recipient of several fellowships, grants and commissions, including awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, the Kansas Arts Commission, the Ohio Arts Commission, and the University of Arkansas. He has taught at Ohio Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, and been a visiting professor for a printmaking workshop at the Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts in Kingston Jamaica. His art has been featured in 22 solo exhibitions and more than 50 group exhibitions. |
 Program director Charles Robinson received a Ph.D. degree in history from the University of Houston. Robinson, who has been a college professor for over 15 years, taught his first nine years at Houston Community College. Teaching and lecturing are Dr. Robinson’s passions. During his tenure at the University of Arkansas, he has been awarded both the Fulbright College Master Teacher Award and the Arkansas Alumni Distinguished Teacher Award. Robinson has been invited by numerous universities and professional organizations to speak on a variety of topics. He has published a book titled Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South (2003) and also has several articles and book reviews published in scholarly journals. |
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 Calvin White, Jr. studies the extent to which class, respectability, and the efforts of racial uplift intersected in the development of African Americans' religious traditions and racial identity after emancipation in the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi and teaches classes on African American history, US history, World Civilization, and the American Civil Rights Movement. |
 Staff
member Carl Riley,
assistant to the dean for minority affairs, has been with Fulbright
College for approximately 13 years. He received his Juris Doctorate
from the U of A in 1987. His responsibilities within the College include
retention, advising and recruitment of students of color. He feels
the academic environment within the College should be conducive to
a student’s learning. Therefore, promoting the African American
studies program is an important aspect of the recruitment and retention
of students of color within Fulbright College and the U of A.
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 Terrence Tucker
received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Kentucky and began his teaching at the University of Arkansas in 2006. His work focuses on African American litrature, particularly works after World War II to the present. His teaching interests are Contemporary African-American literature and African-American literature, American Drama, Twentieth Century American literature, and Popular culture. |
Sabrina Billings, in the Department of Foreign Languages, teaches Swahili courses. | |
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