PVAMU Professor’s Selection to NEH Cohort Brings Professional Fulfillment, Expands Resources for University
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – It’s a typically busy year for Marco Robinson, associate professor of history and assistant director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice at Prairie View A&M University. The Mellon Outstanding Faculty Award winner just finished co-directing a summer institute at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, entitled “Understanding the Long View of the African Diaspora: Teaching African American Studies.” The institute, offered in partnership with the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice, allowed participating K–12 educators to “better understand the approaches and the historical perspective required to create and teach African American studies.”
Amid the excitement of the institute, Robinson was also announced as one of 15 humanities scholars from across the nation to take part in “Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps.” Brown University Library offers the three-week hybrid institute with the help of a $169,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.