CHAIR AT THE TABLE
Black Women &
Academic Leadership
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Co-Chairs
Stephanie Y. Evans, PhD
Dr. Evans is Professor and Director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality at Georgia State University.
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, PhD
Dr. Sharpley-Whiting is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities (AADS and French), Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies, and Director of the Callie House Center at Vanderbilt University.
MENTORING WORKSHOP: january 8, 2021
Mentoring for Department Chair & Administrative Leadership: Strategies for Professional Development
This virtual workshop explored race, gender, and higher education leadership. Invited speakers were presenters from the Working Symposium held at Vanderbilt University in 2019. The event was free and open to the public. Over fifty scholar-administrators attended this professional development workshop. Registrants who are current or aspiring department chairs, academic program coordinators, research institute directors, deans, or provosts participated in a day-long retreat to share information about four topics:
1. Administration 101
2. Leadership, Balance, & Self-Development
3. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Change, & Transformation
4. Faculty, Staff, Students, and Community.
In addition to a Keynote Address by Dr. Sharply-Whiting, two sessions covered mid-level administration and next-level administration:
- Morning Session: "Chairs at the Table" (current and former department chairs)
- Afternoon Session: "Beyond the Chair" (current deans and upper administrators)
This virtual gathering built on the 2019 discussion and will be followed by future gatherings (check back on this web page for notification). Presenters previewed their articles that will appear in the Palimpsest journal in Fall 2021. For a list of attendees in the Chair at the Table network, see below.
mentoring workshop speakers
Dr. Stephanie Adams
Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina
Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina
Dean of Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | University of Texas-Dallas
Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina
Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina
Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina
Professor of History and Distinguished Faculty Researcher
Dr. Michelle Dunlap
Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina
Dr. Michelle Dunlap
Professor of Human Development Department
Dr. Carol Henderson
Dr. Theresa Rajack-Talley
Dr. Michelle Dunlap
Inaugural Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Chief Diversity
Officer, and Advisor to the President
Dr. Donna Nicol
Dr. Theresa Rajack-Talley
Dr. Theresa Rajack-Talley
Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies
Dr. Theresa Rajack-Talley
Dr. Theresa Rajack-Talley
Dr. Theresa Rajack-Talley
Inaugural Vice-Provost of Equity & Inclusion
Dr. Stephanie Shonekon
Dr. Stephanie Shonekon
Dr. Stephanie Shonekon
Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Science and Professor of Music
Dr. Janice Sumler-Edmond
Dr. Stephanie Shonekon
Dr. Stephanie Shonekon
Professor Emerita of United States History and Constitutional Law
working symposium: september 13, 2019
Mid-Career Workshop Presenters
Stephanie Y. Evans Georgia State University | Personal Page
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Vanderbilt University
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Stephanie Adams
Dean of the Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Katherine Bankole-Medina
Professor of History and Distinguished Faculty Researcher
Copping State University | Personal Page
Margo Crawford
Professor of English and Director of the Center for Africana Studies
Michelle Dunlap
Professor of Human Development Department
Tara T. Green
Linda Carlisle Excellence Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
University of North Carolina-Greensboro | Personal Page
Carol Henderson
Inaugural Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Chief Diversity
Officer, and Advisor to the President
Donna Nicol
Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies
California State University-Dominguez Hills | Personal Page
Theresa Rajack-Talley
Inaugural Vice-Provost of Equity & Inclusion
Noliwe Rooks
Professor of Africana Studies
Cornell University | Personal Page
Janice Sumler-Edmond
Professor Emerita of United States History and Constitutional Law
Stephanie Shonekan
Former Professor & Chair, W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, UMass-Amherst
Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Science and Professor of Music
University of Missouri | Personal Page
Special thanks to:
Dr. Tiffany Patterson, Dr. Claudine Taffe, Ms. Lennita Tate, and Dr. Gilman Whiting
PALIMPSEST JOURNAL
Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International
Palimpsest is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their communities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds. A partnership between Vanderbilt University’s African American and Diaspora Studies Program and the State University of New York (SUNY) Press, the journal is published twice a year and accepts submissions on a rolling basis.
The Chair at the Table special issue of Palimpsest is expected to be published in fall or winter 2021. Updates will be posted here when the collection is available.