Award Committee Members
EMMANUEL COLLEGE
Professor Matthew Elliott, Chair of the English Department
Committee Member to be named
RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE
Professor Gerri August, Department of Education
Professor Maria Lawrence, Elementary Education Department
LESLEY UNIVERSITY, College of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies,
Professor Marjorie Jones (co-director), Department of Education
Professor Arlene Dallalfar, Department of Sociology
MASSASOIT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Professor Sawsan Zahara, Department of Modern Languages
Professor Panteha Sanati-Zaker, Department of Humanities and Fine Arts
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
Professor Esther Kingston-Mann, History Department
Professor Ping-Ann Addo, Department of Anthropology
Professor Lusa Lo, College of Education and Human Development
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH
Gloria de Sa, Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime and Justice Studies
Committee Member to be named
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
John Wooding, Department of Political Science
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Committee Member to be named
The awards are named for Esther Kingston-Mann, former director of UMass Boston's Center for Innovative Teaching (CIT) and founding director of The New England Center for Inclusive Teaching. Publications include: A Diversity Research Initiative: How Students Become Researchers, Change Agents, and Members of a Research Community (Boston, 1999), Achieving Against the Odds: How Academics Become Teachers of Diverse Students, co-edited with Tim Sieber (2003), and Teaching, Learning, Diversity: Just Don't Call It Epistemology! The Discourse of Sociological Practice (2004).