Camille Wilson appointed University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor

This appointment is awarded to senior faculty members who have made significant contributions to excellence as demonstrated by a commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion through scholarship, teaching, or service and engagement. Wilson’s award will be celebrated on October 19.

Wilson’s appointment as a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor remains in effect during the remainder of her service with the University. The appointment carries with it an annual research stipend for each of the first five years of the appointment. 

In addition to recognizing individual achievement in the area of diversity, equity, and inclusion, these Professorships are designed to create a community of faculty who have a set of overlapping scholarly, pedagogical, and service/engagement interests that will stimulate exciting new collaborations and synergies. 

To facilitate the creation of this community, recipients will be granted a special faculty fellow-in-residence role in the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) where they will interact with other awardees and faculty fellows, postdoctoral scholars, and students via structured and informal activities. 

Faculty fellows-in-residence will be asked to articulate a set of goals related to their scholarship, teaching, and/or service and engagement that they plan to accomplish during their residency. 

Wilson’s “outstanding achievements both honor and build upon the University’s legacy of institutional and faculty commitments in diversity, equity, and inclusion,” said Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Susan M. Collins.