Spelman College is a private,historically Black,women's liberal arts college in Atlanta,Georgia. It is a founding member of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary,Spelman awarded its first college degrees in 1901 and is the oldest private historically Black liberal arts institution for women.
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University,the first woman in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes,including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014.
Nancy Hopkins,an American molecular biologist,is the Amgen,Inc. Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy,and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is known for her research identifying genes required for zebrafish development,and for her earlier research on gene expression in the bacterial virus lambda,and on mouse RNA tumor viruses. She is also known for her work promoting equality of opportunity for women scientists in academia.
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts,United States. Founded October 28,1636,and named for its first benefactor,the Puritan clergyman John Harvard,it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Its influence,wealth,and rankings have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Jean Comaroff is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology,Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University. She is an expert on the effects of colonialism on people in Southern Africa. Until 2012,Jean was the Bernard E. &Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.
Carolyn Abbate is an American musicologist,described by the Harvard Gazette as "one of the world’s most accomplished and admired music historians". She is currently Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University. From her earliest essays she has questioned familiar approaches to well-known works,reaching beyond their printed scores and composer intentions,to explore the particular,physical impact of the medium upon performer and audience alike. Her research focuses primarily on the operatic repertory of the 19th century,offering creative and innovative approaches to understanding these works critically and historically. Some of her more recent work has addressed topics such as film studies and performance studies more generally.
John L. Comaroff is a retired professor of African and African American Studies and of anthropology. He is recognized for his study of African and African-American society. Comaroff and his wife,anthropologist Jean Comaroff,have collaborated on publications examining post-colonialism and the Tswana people of South Africa. He has written several texts describing his research and has presented peer-reviewed anthropological theories of African cultures that have relevance to understanding global society.
Sheila Sen Jasanoff is an Indian American academic and significant contributor to the field of Science and Technology Studies. In 2021 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Her research has been recognized with many awards,including the 2022 Holberg Prize "for her groundbreaking research in science and technology studies."
The 2012 Harvard cheating scandal involved approximately 125 Harvard University students who were investigated for cheating on the take-home final examination of the spring 2012 edition of Government 1310:"Introduction to Congress". Harvard announced the investigation publicly on August 30,2012. Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris described the case as "unprecedented in its scope and magnitude". The Harvard Crimson ranked the scandal as the news story most important to Harvard in 2012.
Sylvia D. Trimble Bozeman is an African American mathematician and Mathematics educator.
Beverly Guy-Sheftall is an American Black feminist scholar,writer and editor,who is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and English at Spelman College,in Atlanta,Georgia. She is the founding director of the Spelman College Women's Research and Resource Center,the first at a historically Black college or university.
Paula Therese Hammond is an Institute Professor and the Vice Provost for Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was the first woman and person of color appointed as head of the Chemical Engineering department. Her laboratory designs polymers and nanoparticles for drug delivery and energy-related applications including batteries and fuel cells.
Black Women in the Academy:Defending Our Name 1894–1994 was a national conference focusing on Black women academics held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on January 13–15,1994. This was the first national conference focusing on issues pertaining to Black female scholars. It was held 100 years after the National Federation of Negro Women met in Boston to create a national organization focusing on Black women's issues and to protest the popular image of Black womanhood in the press. The outcome of that meeting was the creation of the National Federation of Afro-American Women.
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is an American academic who is professor of Afro-American Studies,African American Religion and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University. Higginbotham wrote Righteous Discontent:The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church:1880–1920,which won several awards. She has also received several awards for her work,most notably the 2014 National Humanities Medal.
Michelle Ann Williams is a Jamaican-American epidemiologist,public health scientist,and educator who has served as the dean of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health since 2016.
Mary Logan Reddick was an American neuroembryologist who earned her PhD from Radcliffe College,Harvard University in 1944. She was a full professor,first at Morehouse College,and then at the University of Atlanta from 1953 to her death. Her doctoral dissertation was on the study of chick embryos,and she went on to do research with time-lapse microscopy in tissue cultures.
Sophia Bethena Jones was a British North America-born American medical doctor and the first woman of African descent to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School. She founded the Nursing Program at Spelman College,where she was the first black faculty member.
Shirley Ann Mathis McBay was an American mathematician who was the founder and president of the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network,a nonprofit dedicated to improving minority education. She was the dean for student affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1980 to 1990. She was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. McBay was recognized by Mathematically Gifted &Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.
Claudine Gay is an American political scientist and academic administrator who is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. Gay's research addresses American political behavior,including voter turnout and politics of race and identity.
Durba Mitra is an American historian and professor in the history of social and feminist studies departments at Harvard University. Her work has contributed to the intersection of feminist theory and queer studies through her publications. Mitra's book Indian Sex Life:Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought was published by Princeton University Press. She was chosen for Carol K. Pforzheimer student fellowship as an assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute [2018]. At Harvard,she accepted the first full-time faculty member position for the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women,Gender,and Sexuality.
