Five African American Scholars Appointed to New Faculty Positions

Judith Byfield has been named the Stephen ’59 and Madeline ’60 Anbinder Professor at Cornell University. She is a professor of history and holds appointments with the Africana Studies and Research Center and the feminist, gender, and sexuality studies program. She has conducted extensive research on women’s social and economic history in Nigeria and authored A Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Post-War Nigeria (Ohio University Press, 2021). Dr. Byfield completed her undergraduate education at Dartmouth College. She received her master’s degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Nikki Hoskins has been named assistant professor in religion and ecology at Harvard Divinity School. She comes to her new role from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, where she has taught as an assistant professor of theology and religious studies for the past three years. Her research focuses on Christian histories of colonial, race, and environmental domination. Dr. Hoskins holds a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from Spelman College in Atlanta, a master of divinity degree from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in religion and society from Drew University in New Jersey. Edda Fields-Black has been appointed director of the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has served...