Alumni Accomplishments

Samuel "Zeb" Baker, Ph.D. , '09, won a $1000 Moody Grant, awarded by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, to spend time at the LBJ Library in Austin working with the HEW records from the Johnson administration to establish the internal decision-making that precipitated Title VI compliance and, more specifically, the role that athletic integration played in the Johnson administration's mind set about desegregating higher education.

Timothy J. Crimmins, Ph.D., '72 & Anne H. Farrisee, published DEMOCRACY RESTORED: A HISTORY OF THE GEORGIA STATE CAPITOL, University of Georgia Press, 2007.

Larry Earvin, Ph.D., '82, President of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin,Texas, was recently inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in the education catergory. (JBHE Weekly Bulletin - 10/12/2006)

Terry Easton, Ph.D., '06, has won the 2007 Constance Coiner Dissertation Award of the Working-Class Studies Association. His dissertation, "Temporary Work, Contingent Lives: Race, Immigration, and Transformations of Atlanta's Daily Work, Daily Pay," documents the working lives of African American, Latino, and white day laborers in late twentieth century Atlanta. The dissertation also explores power, resistance, and reform through an examination of the ways attorneys, activists, legislators, religious leaders, and union members sought to improve day laborers' working conditions. He is currently a Marion Britton Teaching Fellow at Georgia Tech.

George Johnston, Ph.D., ‘06, received the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Book of the Year Award for his book Drafting Culture:  A Social History of Architectural Graphic Standards (MIT Press, 2008)

Pellom McDaniels, III, Ph.D., '07, was featured in an article "When it comes to KC's black history, Professor Pellom McDaniels says it's time to get beyond Negro Leagues and jazz" in The Pitch - Kansas City on October 27, 2009.

Krista Thompson, Ph.D., ’02 – received the $25,000 High Museum Driskell Prize