During his long and distinguished career, Schement contributed to communications policy in the U.S. and helped mentor his peers with his humor and storytelling.
The prestigious and highly competitive fellowship was formed by The Faith and Politics Institute after the 2020 death of the late civil rights leader and U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis. As a fellow, Wilson will concentrate on studying the six principles of nonviolence and the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
“Lewis’s heroism was central to the Selma campaign in 1965, and he also was the one who did the most to keep Selma alive in popular memory in the last few decades, through these pilgrimages. So he really is the person with whom the campaign is most associated,” said SC&I and History Professor David Greenberg, author of “John Lewis: A Life.”
A study led by Associate Professor of Communication Jeffrey Lane explores the inequitable use of social media as evidence in America’s courts of law.
Spectrum Scholarships, the ALA said, are awarded to master’s students who demonstrate “their commitment to community building, leadership potential, and planned contributions to making social justice part of everybody's everyday work in Library and Information Science.”
“Health equity is not necessarily a health issue – it’s a human rights issue. I ground my work in this fundamental premise,” Senteio said.
