Yvette Alex-Assensoh, assistant professor of political science, IUB | |
 Alex-Assensoh | Yvette Alex-Assensoh, assistant professor of political science at IU Bloomington, has received a 2000 Excellence in Authorship Award from the Association of Third World Studies for her book Neighborhoods, Family and Political Behavior, and for her co-editorial role on Black and Multiracial Politics in America, published in October by the New York University Press and co-edited by Lawrence J. Hanks, associate professor of political science at IUB.
Alex-Assensoh will be spending the spring semester teaching at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, as a Fulbright Scholar. She will be completing research in the country for a book manuscript in which she intends to compare Croatian ethnic politics and American racial politics.
Alex-Assensoh and A.B. Assensoh, a professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at IUB, have recently received word of a $48,000 grant to support a proposed conference, “Beyond Diversity: Assessing the Incorporation Experiences of Faculty of Color in Predominantly White Institutions.” |
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