Michelle Scott, associate professor of history, will head to South Africa this winter to work with students on issues of diversity.
Scott is a Resource Faculty in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow-SSRC Graduate Initiatives Program, which aims to transform the academy by eradicating racial disparities on the faculties at colleges and universities in the United States and South Africa. She and five other Resource Faculty Fellows have been invited to lead a seminar at the University of Capetown, South Africa, for graduate students. The seminar will deal with diversifying the academy and finishing the dissertation.
Scott has also been asked to speak at a cultural exchange program with students from Wesleyan, Williams, Duke, Oberlin and the Emory Summer Institute for HBCU students. She will be in South Africa from January 3, 2012, to January 14.
