Faculty Highlights – Autumn 2020

August 31, 2020
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Lanier Holt, PhD

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion welcomed esteemed scholar Lanier Holt as the new ODI Faculty Fellow.

Lanier Holt is an Associate Professor in the Ohio State School of Communications, he received his PhD in Mass Communication from Indiana University. Following this, he was a lecturer of Strategic Communication/Public Relations at Butler University’s College of Communication, and more recently was a Lecturer in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. In the 2013 – 2014 academic year Dr. Holt received The Ohio State University College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, and in 2020 received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, Ohio State’s most prestigious teaching award.

Dr. Holt’s areas of research are political communication and media effects in which he analyzes the effect media messages have on the perception of people of color and other traditionally marginalized groups.

Holt joined The Ohio State University in Autumn 2013.

Dr. Anne-Marie Nuñez

The 49th Annual Graduate & Professional Student Orientation & Networking Event welcomed esteemed scholar, Dr. Anne-Marie Nuñez, Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs in The Ohio State University’s Department of Educational Studies, to serve as keynote speaker for the event.

Anne-Marie Nuñez specializes in broadening participation for historically underrepresented groups, including faculty and students, in postsecondary education. She was lead author of the books, Latinos in Higher Education and Hispanic Serving Institutions: Advancing Research and Transformative Practice (2013) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Advancing Research and Transformative Practice (2015). Her research interests also examine: the higher educational experiences and trajectories of Latino, first-generation, and migrant students; institutional diversity in the United States, including the role of Hispanic-Serving Institutions in promoting college access and success; and fostering supportive organizational climates for faculty and administrators to advance inclusivity in the academy. She is currently co-principal investigator on an National Science Foundation grant to strengthen pathways into the geoscience workforce.