Five Black Scholars Selected for New Faculty Appointments

Ishion Hutchinson has been named the W.E.B. DuBois Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He serves as a professor in the university’s department of English language and literature, centering his academic pursuits around creative writing, American and British poetry, and postcolonial and anglophone literature. He is the author of two poetry collections: Far District (Peepal Tree Press, 2010) and House of Lords and Commons (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016). A native of Jamaica, Dr. Hutchinson holds a Ph.D. in English and creative writing from the University of Utah. Martha Hurley has been named associate provost of faculty affairs at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. She has previously served the community college as dean of liberal arts, communication, and social sciences. Prior to joining the Sinclair Community College faculty, she served as a professor and chair of the criminal justice and security studies department at the University of Dayton. Dr. Hurley is a graduate of Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, where she majored in sociology. She holds a master’s degree in sociology and a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. Sandy Alexendre has been appointed co-head of the literature section at...