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SOC Making Strides




SOC alumnus named Provost at Clark Atlanta University
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:
http://www.cau.edu/news/2016/06/cau-names-peter-o-nwosu-new-provost.html

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SOC Ph.D. Students on Point with Gentrification Research
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 Professor Carolyn Byerly also spoke at the forum in which issues from the unpublished May 2016 summary report, Reflections on Gentrification: How Leaders and Residents in Three Washington DC Neighborhoods View Redevelopment were discussed.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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