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Dr. Daut, professor of French and of Black studies at Yale University, was honored for her newest book, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, which examines the complex political and intellectual life of early nineteenth-century Haiti.

Here is this week’s roundup of African Americans who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].

Brietta Clark is the new Fritz B. Burns Dean of Loyola Marymount University Law School in California. Clark, who is the nineteenth dean of the law school, is the first woman to hold the position and also the first Black dean in the law school's history.

Taking on new administrative duties are Tierney Bates at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, Kawanna Leggett at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Michael Smith at Florida A&M University, and Eric Holmes at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Albert Raboteau, the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion Emeritus at Princeton University, joined the faculty at the university in 1982. He served as chair of the department of religion from 1987 to 1992 and as dean of the Graduate School from 1992 to 1993.

Dr. Bobo currently serves as the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and chair of the department of African American Studies. He has been a Harvard faculty member since 1997. Earlier, he taught at UCLA and Stanford University.

Dr. Zeleza has been serving as vice president for academic affairs at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He will become vice chancellor of U.S. International University-Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 1.

Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.

The award is presented by the African Poetry Book Fund and Prairie Schooner, the literary magazine published by the University of Nebraska Press and the creative writing program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Black scholars who are among the new group of fellows are Christopher Emdin, Shose Kessi, Achille Mbembe, Mark Anthony Neal, Wole Soyinka, and Deborah Willis.

Bryant Keith Alexander has been serving as professor of communication studies at California State University at Los Angeles.

HEAL Africa has established 31 safe houses for women who have been victims of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.