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MMUF PhD Sean Decatur, the first MMUF fellow to become a college president, has now been named the next president of New York City's American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Decatur became president of Kenyon College in 2013; he will step down from that role and assume the presidency of the Museum in April 2023, becoming its first Black leader.

MMUF PhD Saida Grundy, currently an assistant professor of sociology at Boston University, was recently interviewed by Inside Higher Education about her new book on Morehouse College, Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man (University of California Press, 2022). Dr.

MMUF PhD Monica Muñoz Martinez, currently Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, is among the 25 recipients of the 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. She is one of two MMUF PhDs (along with film historian Jacqueline Stewart) in this year's cohort of winners.