Ben Vinson III

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Ben Vinson III
18th President of Howard University
Assumed office
September 1, 2023

Ben Vinson III is an American historian and academic administrator. He currently serves as the 18th president of Howard University. He was previously Provost and Executive Vice President of Case Western Reserve University, a position he held since 2018. [1] He also held the title of the Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History at the university. [2] On May 2, 2023, he was appointed to be the 18th President of Howard University in Washington DC. [3]

Biography

Vinson was originally from Rapid City, South Dakota, where his father served in the United States Air Force. [4] He received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and PhD from Columbia University. [5] He served on the faculties of Barnard College and Pennsylvania State University before joining Johns Hopkins University as a professor of history and served as the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of Latin American History and vice dean of centers, interdisciplinary studies and graduate education. He also helped found Johns Hopkins' Center for Africana Studies and served as its founding director. [6] [7] In 2013, he became dean of George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. [8] [9]

As dean of GWU's Columbian College, he led the integration of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design into the college and opened a $275 million interdisciplinary science and engineering building. [10] He also spearheaded diversity initiatives including the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute that provides funding for high school juniors from their undergraduate to post-doctoral studies. [4] [11]

Vinson has been chairman of the board of the National Humanities Center since 2018. [12] [13] He is also a vice president of the American Historical Association [14] and president of the Conference on Latin American History. [15] [16]

Vinson is considered one of the country's foremost historians of Latin America. [4] His scholarship has focused on the African presence in colonial Mexico and has authored books on the African American experiences in Mexico and Afro-Mexican experiences in the United States. [8] His book Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico, won the 2019 Howard Cline Book Prize in Mexican History for the best work on Mexico by the Latin American Studies Association. [17]

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  2. ↑ "Ben Vinson III". College of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
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  6. ↑ "Johns Hopkins names Vinson first director for Africana Studies Center". Washington Examiner. 2006-07-22. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  7. ↑ "November 2006 – Center for Africana Studies". krieger.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  8. 1 2 "Ben Vinson III To Be Next Dean of Columbian College | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University". Columbian College of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
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  11. ↑ "CCAS Dean Named Provost of Case Western Reserve University | GW Today | The George Washington University". GW Today. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  12. ↑ "Ben Vinson, III, 2005–2006". National Humanities Center. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  13. ↑ NHC (2018-08-08). "National Humanities Center Board Elects New Chairman and Vice Chairman". National Humanities Center. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  14. ↑ "Ben Vinson III | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  15. ↑ "Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III elected to executive committee of the Conference of Latin American History". The Daily. 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
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