Valerie Sheares Ashby selected as next leader of UMBC
Our community is pleased to welcome Dr. Sheares Ashby, currently dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, as UMBC’s next president, starting August 2022.
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APR 26, 2022 / 5 MIN READ
New Carnegie Fellow Derek Musgrove examines Black political movements in the U.S., 1980 – 1997
Musgrove, an associate professor of history, is one of 28 scholars across the U.S. to receive the prestigious award this year, from nearly 300 nominations.
