News

The MMUF Undergraduate Journal for 2014-2015 has just been published by Harvard University's MMUF program. It features articles by 33 current undergraduate Mellon fellows from across the program.

An electronic copy of the journal can be viewed here. The full list of contributing fellows is below.

Barnard College

• Isabelia Herrera

Brooklyn College

Jeffrey McCune, associate professor of women, gender and sexuality studies and performance studies at Washington University in St. Louis and the new director of Wash U's MMUF program, is quoted in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article about the emotional and academic impact on students of color of this summer's news stories centering around violence against people of color, particularly the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

MMUF PhD Lillian Guerra, who recently won a Guggenheim Fellowship, has added an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to her roster of recent honors. For more details, click here.

Congratulations to Dr. Guerra on all her recent achievements and victories!

We are delighted to announce that MMUF Brian Johnson, who was originally selected as an MMUF fellow as an undergraduate at Johnson C. Smith University, has been chosen by Tuskegee University as its seventh president. Brian, who currently holds a joint appointment as Interim Vice President of Strategic Planning and Institutional Effectiveness and Assistant Provost/Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at Austin Peay State University, earned his PhD in English from the University of South Carolina in 2003.