“Professor Priscilla Wald has been a strong leader in advocating for a more diverse faculty at Duke. She always steps up to lead when issues of diversity are at stake,” said nominator Kevin Moore, vice dean for Faculty, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. “We have seen sustained evidence for this in her home department (English) as well as in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist (GSF) Studies where Priscilla has been chair for the last three years. In GSF she led the targeted recruitment of a scholar of color and this effort led to an open search this academic year in Black Feminism and the successful hire of a very promising junior scholar.”
The Dean's Diversity Award, first presented in 2016, recognizes how diversity drives excellence in research, teaching, advising, mentoring and service. See past award winners.
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