The Office of the Provost’s Anti-Racism Hiring Initiative had a three-round proposal submission and selection process. Selection committees across the rounds chose six proposals in total — which include the eventual hiring of 21 new faculty members — to receive funding support. Five faculty members have been hired to date.
ROUND 1
Racial Justice & Technology
Proposal leads:
- Ron Eglash, professor of information, School of Information; and professor of art and design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
- Shobita Parthasarathy, professor of public policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; and professor of women’s and gender studies, LSA
- Christian Sandvig, H. Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor of Digital Media and professor of information, School of Information; professor of communication and media, LSA; and director of the Center for Ethics, Society and Computing
- New hire: Emilia Yang, assistant professor of art and design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design (First of three new positions awarded)
Racial Justice in Healthcare: Informatics and Data Driven Approaches
Proposal leads:
- Manjunath (Amit) Pai, professor of pharmacy, College of Pharmacy
- Cheryl Moyer, associate professor of learning health sciences and of obstetrics and gynecology, Medical School
- Tiffany Veinot, professor of information, School of Information; and professor of health behavior and health education, School of Public Health
- Lenette Jones, assistant professor of nursing, School of Nursing
- Denise Anthony, professor of health management and policy, School of Public Health; professor of sociology, LSA; and professor of information, School of Information
- New hires: Beatriz Manzor Mitrzyk, clinical pharmacist specialist and assistant professor of pharmacy, College of Pharmacy; and Megan Vaness Threats, assistant professor of information, School of Information (First two of five new positions awarded)
ROUND 2
Advancing Anti-Racism through Arts-based Social Work Practice, Arts Leadership and Community Engagement
Proposal leads:
- Rogério Pinto, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Berit Ingersoll-Dayton Collegiate Professor of Social Work and associate dean for research and innovation, School of Social Work; and professor of theatre and drama, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
- Lorraine M. Gutiérrez, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Edith A. Lewis Collegiate Professor of Social Work, associate dean for educational programs and professor of social work, School of Social Work; and professor of psychology, LSA
- Jonathan Kuuskoski, assistant professor of music, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
- Priscilla Lindsay, Claribel Baird Halstead Collegiate Professor and professor of theater and drama, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
- Scott Piper, associate professor of music and Norma L. Heyde Faculty Development Professor, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
- New hire: Antonio Cuyler, professor of music, with tenure, School of Music, Theatre & Dance (First of four new positions awarded)
Indigeneity, Race and the American Belonging
Proposal leads:
- Kelly Askew, Niara Sudarkasa Collegiate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, and professor of anthropology and of Afroamerican and African studies, LSA
- Angela Dillard, Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies in the Residential College, professor of Afroamerican and African studies, of history and in the Residential College, LSA
- Gregory Dowd, Helen Hornbeck Tanner Collegiate Professor of American Culture and History, professor of American culture and of history, LSA
- Larry La Fountain-Stokes, professor of romance languages and literatures and of women’s and gender studies, LSA
- Stephanie Fryberg, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, professor of psychology, and director of the RISE Center, LSA
- Bruce Mannheim, professor of anthropology, LSA
- Barbra Meek, professor of anthropology, of linguistics and of American culture, LSA.
- New hire: Sherina Feliciano-Santos, associate professor of anthropology, LSA (First of three new positions awarded)
ROUND 3
Addressing Environmental Racism and Promoting Health Equity
Proposal leads:
- Kyle Whyte, George Willis Pack Professor and professor of environment and sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability, and professor of philosophy, LSA
- Marie O’Neill, professor of epidemiology and environmental health sciences, School of Public Health
- H. Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions; professor of social work, School of Work; Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy and professor of public policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
- Margaret Hicken, research associate professor, Survey Research Center, and faculty associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research; research associate professor, Medical School; research associate professor, School of Public Health
- (Three new positions to be awarded)
Racial Justice and the Urban Humanities
Proposal leads:
- Irina Aristarkhova, professor of art and design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, and interim director of the Digital Studies Institute
- Robert Fishman, professor of architecture and urban and regional planning, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Bénédicte Boisseron, professor of Afroamerican and African studies, LSA
- (Three new positions to be awarded)
