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MMUF PhD Neil Roberts earns tenure at Williams College

What sets MMUF apart is the way it illuminates the connection between diversity and academic excellence; the importance it places on mentoring relationships; its injunction to students to build supportive networks; the positive functions of the cohort; the disposition to collaborate as well as compete; and the obligation to pay these benefits forward to the next generation of young scholars.
Armando Bengochea, MMUF Director, the Mellon Foundation

MMUF PhD Neil Roberts earns tenure at Williams College

December 14, 2013

MMUF PhD Neil Roberts (Brown University '98) earned tenure at Williams College in December 2013 (see the announcement here). Neil earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in political science in 2007. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University before his arrival at Williams in 2008. His book Freedom as Marronage is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, and he is currently completing work on A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass for the University Press of Kentucky. Congratulations, Neil!