Faculty Highlights – Spring 2020

Winston Thompson, PhD

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion welcomed esteemed scholar Winston C. Thompson as speaker for the Annual Spring Graduate and Professional Student Convocation and Networking Reception. Early in the spring semester, this event offers an exciting chance to recharge, and reconnect across academic disciplines.

Winston C. Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education. He received his PhD (with distinction) in Philosophy and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Following this, he has been a faculty member in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of New Hampshire. More recently, he was Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

Thompson joined The Ohio State University in autumn 2018.

Dr. Andreá N. Williams

The 49th Annual Graduate/Professional Student Recruitment Initiative welcomed esteemed scholar, Dr. Andreá N. Williams, Associate Professor in The Ohio State University’s Department of English, to serve as keynote speaker for the closing banquet dinner.

Andreá N. Williams specializes in African American literature and nineteenth-century U.S. literature. Her first book, Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction (2013), examines the black middle class and class inequality in African American literature between the Civil War and Harlem Renaissance. Her research interests also address black periodicals and print culture, labor and class studies, life writing and auto/biographical studies, and U.S. women writers. She is currently at work on a cultural study of singleness and unmarried African American women in the first half of the twentieth century. She regularly teaches courses such as “All the Single Ladies,” “Labor, Class and U.S. Literature” and “Growing Up Black: African American Coming-of-Age Narratives.” She has won awards for teaching and leadership at Ohio State, as well as national research fellowships and grants from Rutgers University, the National Humanities Center and the American Council of Learned Societies.