Appointments

• LeRhonda S. Manigault was appointed assistant professor of religion at Wake Forest University. Dr. Manigault is a graduate of Duke University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Emory University.

• Carol Stewart is the new ombudsperson at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She was a project manager in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts, where she is studying for a master’s degree in public policy and public administration.

• Nikki Giovanni, a distinguished poet and professor at Virginia Tech, is spending the current academic year as distinguished visiting professor at Fisk University. Giovanni is a graduate of Fisk University.

• Deborah J. Callaway was named interim dean of the School of Education at North Carolina A&T State University. She has been serving as chair of the department of health and leisure studies at the university.

Dr. Callaway is a graduate of Virginia State University. She holds a master’s degree in education from Virginia Commonwealth University and an educational doctorate from Virginia Tech.

• Michael W. Maxwell, vice president for safety and strategic services for Pepco Holdings Inc., was named to the board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute.

• Caroline Beschea-Fache was appointed assistant professor of French at Davidson College in North Carolina. She specializes in the study of Métissage, an examination of multiracialism in literature and the social sciences. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Lille.

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