SOC Making Strides
SOC alumnus named Provost
at Clark Atlanta University
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| Peter O. Nwosu |
SOC alum Peter
O. Nwosu , Ph.D., is the new
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Clark Atlanta University. President
Ronald A. Johnson announced Nwosu’s position, which starts July 15. Nwosu previously served as associate vice
president for academic programs at California State University–Fullerton. Nwosu
is the author of three books and more than 80 scholarly publications. He is a
tenured professor, a Fulbright Scholar, an American Council on Education Fellow
and a graduate of the Institutes for Higher Education at Harvard
University. He earned a B.A. degree in
mass communication and journalism from the Institute of Management and
Technology, Enugu, Nigeria; a M.A. degree from Towson University near
Baltimore; and the Ph.D. in communications studies from Howard University. (Source: Compiled from Clark Atlanta University press release). Link:
SOC Ph.D. Students on
Point with Gentrification Research
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| SOC faculty members Carolyn Byerly, left and Natalie Hopkinson. |
Local historian Dr. David Rosenstein’s
project on
gentrification at a D.C. Bloomingdale neighborhood forum in May gets noted
assistance from SOC Ph.D. students’ research on gentrification in the
Critical Research Methods seminar Spring 2016. SOC Doctoral students Shamilla Amulega, Tiffany Copeland,
Brittany-Rae Gregory, Tamara Owens, Finie Hunter-Richardson, Sharifa
Simon-Roberts, Morgan Smalls, Ann-Marie Waterman and Mehri Yavari participated in research applying
historical issues to study of gentrification in three Washington, D.C. neighborhoods. Professor
Carolyn Byerly also spoke at the forum in which issues from the unpublished May
2016 summary report, Reflections on
Gentrification: How Leaders and Residents in Three Washington DC
Neighborhoods View Redevelopment were
discussed.
See
History Sidebar story: Washington’s Bloomingdale neighborhood tackles
gentrification using history
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