In 2023, 25 BIPOC faculty from across our 16 member institutions have been awarded the fellowship.
The North Star Collective Faculty Fellowship is a semester-long fellowship that promotes healing and repair by providing a nourishing community of care, mentorship and professional development for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) early-career faculty in the humanities and social sciences. This year, 25 BIPOC faculty from across our 16 member institutions have been awarded the fellowship.
The 2023 NSC Faculty Fellows are:
- I. Dami Alegbeleye (University of Southern Maine, Leadership and Organizational Studies)
- Sovicheth Boun (Salem State University, Language Education)
- Eliana Castro (University of Vermont, Education)
- Markeysha Davis (University of Hartford, Literature)
- Rebecca Davis (Simmons University, Library and Information Science)
- Jonathan Gordils (University of Hartford, Psychology)
- Marianella Herrera (Framingham State University, Nutrition)
- Aishwarya P. Joshi (University of Vermont, Counseling and Counselor Education)
- Soojin Kim (Eastern Connecticut State University, Art)
- Yunxin Li (Simmons University, History)
- Binneh Minteh (Salem State University, Criminal Justice)
- Claude Mayo (University of Bridgeport, Higher Education)
- Danielle Morales (Worcester State University, Sociology and Demography)
- K. Kayon Morgan (University of Hartford, Education)
- Soumyadeep Mukherjee (Rhode Island College, Public Health)
- Shuo Niu (Clark University, Computer Science)
- Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (Rhode Island College, English/Literature and Migration Studies)
- María Carvajal Regidor (University of Massachusetts Boston, English & Writing Studies)
- Khai Zhi Sim (Eastern Connecticut State University, Economics)
- Folashade Solomon (Framingham State University, Education)
- Nafisa Tanjeem (Worcester State University, Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies)
- Spencer Tricker (Clark University, English)
- Alessandra Bazo Vienrich (Rhode Island College, Sociology)
- Songtian Zeng (University of Massachusetts Boston, Education)
- Bingyu Zheng (Bridgewater State University, History)