Diversity

Celebrate a diverse Women’s History Month with recommendations from Janaka Lewis, director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

Architect, researcher, educator and curator Sekou Cooke is the new director of the Master of Urban Design (MUD) program; he will join the architecture faculty in August.

A new book by Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams explores Silvestre Technique, the contemporary dance technique founded by Rosangela Silvestre as an extension of the spiritual dance traditions of enslaved Africans in Brazil. “Giving Life to Movement: The Silvestre Dance Technique” was published recently by McFarland.

Jason Dungee will join the faculty in August as assistant professor of Music and director of choral activities. A conductor, tenor and music educator, Dungee holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Arizona. His master’s degree in music education/choral conducting is from Westminster Choir College, and he completed a bachelor’s degree in music performance from Hampton University (Virginia).

Women make up the majority of nontenure-track lecturers and instructors across institutions, 44% of tenure-track faculty and 36% of full professors. Here are a just few UNC Charlotte researchers who represent the exceptional women of the faculty.

Akin Ogundiran, a Chancellor’s Professor and professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History, is the 2021 recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal, UNC Charlotte’s most prestigious faculty award, in recognition of excellence in research.

At UNC Charlotte, African American students are graduating at a rate higher than any time in the University’s history — especially in STEM majors.

A project led by a UNC Charlotte doctoral candidate along with local high school students and experts is tracing the history of the Black educational experience in Charlotte and finding wisdom in the past to apply to the issues of today.

UNC Charlotte invites students, faculty, staff, alumni and the greater Charlotte community to celebrate Women’s History Month.

As John Tobias ‘94, a senior analytical statistician for ESPN, surveys the growing field of sports analytics, he sees only opportunity for students from diverse backgrounds. His conviction is so strong that he’s returned to UNC Charlotte as a sports analytics lecturer in the School of Data Science with a hope to ignite in students an interest in sports analytics careers — and is hoping to see more students of color enroll in the courses he teaches.