Faculty Achievements

Awards

Dr. Jas Sullivan, AAAS core faculty member, won the 2023 海角社区 Distinguished Faculty Award
Dr. Asha Winfield, AAAS affiliate faculty member, won the 2023 海角社区 Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award
Dr. Helen Regis, AAAS affiliate faculty member, won the 2023 Brij Mohan Distinguished Professor Award
Dr. Herman Kelly, AAAS instructor, won the 2023 George Deer Distinguished Teaching Award
Dr. Tina Harris, AAAS affiliate faculty member, won the 2023 Award
Dr. Raquel Robvais won both faculty awards from the 海角社区 NAACP chapter for the 2022-2023 Academic Year! The Faculty Award goes to the faculty from AAAS who showcases excellence in teaching and mentoring! The Magnolia Award goes to the staff/faculty who supports the 海角社区 student body to the fullest! Congrats Dr. Robvais!
Dr. Harris won the Francine Merritt for Outstanding Contributions to the Lives of Women in Communication.
Dr. Lori Latrice Martin received the Black Student-Athlete Summit Athletic Leadership Award on January 6, 2021.
Dr. Solimar Otero has been awarded the 2018 Distinguished Faculty Award for excellence in research, teaching, and service.
Dr. Sunny Yang received the ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) fellowship!
Dr. Herman Kelly was chosen as a recipient of the Kumba Community Member/Organization Award as a part of the 2017-2018 海角社区 Black History Month Celebration by the 海角社区 Clarence L. Barney Jr. African American Cultural Center.

Publications

Forde, E., Finley, S.C., and Martin, L.L. (2023). 鈥淩eligion and Conciliation.鈥� Issues in Race and Society. 11: 259-279.
McDonald, M. and Martin, L.L. (2023). 鈥淲ealth Matters: Home Ownership, Housing Values...", 1990-2016. Issues in Race and Society. 11: 117-152.
Sarah Franzen,
Ife, Fahima. Has two poems in the Interim special issue "On Black Aliveness" edited by Ronaldo V. Wilson. The issue is freely available online. Scroll down to the "Black Experiment" section and click on fahima ife
Keating, K.S., Becker, S., Davis, I., Chandler, T., Slack, T., and Beedasy, J. 2020. Families Coping with Financial Loss Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Family Relations. 69(5): 887-906.
Gray, B.M., Finley, S.C., and Martin, L.L. (2019). High Tech Lynching: White Virtual Mobs and University Administrators as Policing Agents in Higher Education. Issues in Race and Society. 8:147-176. Published 2020.
Gray, B.M., Finley, S.C., & Martin, L.L. (2020). 鈥淭he Soul of White Folk鈥�: Race, Affect, and Religion in the Religion of White Rage.鈥� In Finley, S.C., Gray, B.M., and Martin, L.L. (Eds). The Religion of White Rage. (1-26). Edinburgh University Press.
Martin, L.L. (2020). 鈥淎merican (Un) Civil Religion, the Defense of the White Worker, and Responses to NFL Protests. In Finley, S.C., Gray, B.M., and Martin, L.L. (Eds). The Religion of White Rage. (73-84). Edinburgh University Press.
Martin, L.L., Finley, S.C., and Gray, B.M. (2020). 鈥� Race, Religion, and Labor Studies: The Way Forward.鈥� In Finley, S.C., Gray, B.M., and Martin, L.L. (Eds). The Religion of White Rage. (227-239). Edinburgh University Press.
Martin, L.L. (Editor). (2020). Introduction to Africana Demography. Brill.
Finley, S.C., Green, D., Martin, L.L. & Rovaris, D. (Forthcoming). Lifting as We Climb. Western Journal of Black Studies.
Finley, S.C. and Martin, L.L. (2017). The Complexity of Color and the Religion of Whiteness. In Martin, L.L., Horton, H.D., Herring, C., Keith, V. and M. Thomas. (Eds.). Color Struck. The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. 179-195.

Links to Faculty Books

Bibler, Michael

Chaney, Cassandra

Finley, Stephen C.

Finley, Stephen C., Gray, Biko M, and Martin, Lori L.

Ife, Fahima
Kelly, Herman
Martin, Lori L

Roland Mitchell and Lori Latrice Martin

Jas Sullivan

Other News

Dr. Rogers Orock Organized and Presented at the following Conferences and Workshops in 2023: 鈥榁illages et d茅mocraties en Afrique : r茅inventer pour l鈥檌nnovations d茅mocratique.鈥� Invited presentation at the 鈥淪茅minaire de recherche et formation 芦 Democracy Curriculum 禄 (sponsored by Fondation de l鈥橧nnovation pour la D茅mocratie), Gor茅e Institute, Dakar, S茅n茅gal, August 8th 鈥� 15th 2023; 鈥楢liens, Blackness, and Race in Credo Mutwa鈥檚 Narrative History of African Esotericism: African Traditional Beliefs or Conspiracy Theorizing?鈥� Invited presentation at the 鈥淓sotericism and Race鈥� Workshop, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, July 16th 鈥� 17th 2023 (virtual); The New 鈥淢agic鈥� of Power? Freemasonry and Postcolonial Homophobia in Central Africa,鈥� Africana Studies Guest Lecture, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, March 20th 2023.
Drs. Stephen Finley and Lori Martin's 2022 book publications were celebrated with a book signing event at 海角社区 Barnes & Noble. Thier 2022 books are linked above.
Drs. Cassandra Chaney and Sonja Wiley introduced a resolution to the Faculty Senate regarding requiring all students to complete AAAS 2000 prior to graduation. The idea for the resolution was initiated by the Black Student Athlete Association at 海角社区 and supported by AAAS and a university-wide committee on a required course. Drs. Stephen C. Finley and Lori Latrice Martin were members of the university-wide committee.
The 海角社区 Board of Supervisors recently approved the independent BA in AAAS.
Dr. Lori Latrice Martin is part of the 海角社区 President/Chancellor Selection Committee.
Dr. Finley held the Executive Director position of the Society for the Study of Black Religion (SSBR).
Dr. Martin is President of Research for ABIS. The organization launched in September, 2020.
Congratulations to Dr. Petra Robinson for receiving tenure.
Congrats to Dr. Bryan McCann on being promoted to associate professor with tenure.