Alumni Profiles

• 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.