COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The College of Maryland has named Stephanie Shonekan dean of the School of Arts and Humanities (ARHU), efficient July 1, 2022. As dean, Shonekan will present robust and visionary management for ARHU, supporting an surroundings of range and inclusive excellence in instructing and studying; selling a tradition of impactful analysis, scholarship and inventive actions; and inspiring interdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships.

“I’m excited by this chance to guide the hassle to drive and assist an surroundings of interdisciplinary curricular, pedagogical innovation and analysis for the school and college students of the School of Arts and Humanities on the College of Maryland,” says Shonekan. “As a professor of music and Black research, I’m a relentless champion for the humanities and the high-quality arts, and am energized to guide collaborative work to assist all of us perceive the essential significance of those areas, and their potential to counterpoint all disciplines.”

Shonekan joins the College of Maryland from the College of Missouri, the place she presently serves as senior affiliate dean of the School of Arts and Science. On this position, her work focuses on guiding the faculty to satisfy the mission of a public establishment, offering a well-rounded training to its college students, selling analysis productiveness, and serving the faculty, campus, and all the assorted fields of the School of Arts and Science. She leads and manages the faculty’s funds and administration, school affairs, hiring and services. 

“Dr. Shonekan brings a wealth of expertise advocating for the illustration of arts and humanities, driving innovation in instructing and studying, and advancing work to create an inclusive tradition,” says Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice. “Her scholarship and management align with the imaginative and prescient outlined in our strategic plan, and I’m thrilled by the data and perspective she brings to the College of Maryland.” 

As senior affiliate dean on the College of Missouri, she has led initiatives to develop pointers concerning school workloads; assessment and revise the employees assist construction all through the faculty; and discover methods to uplift and spotlight the worth of the faculty’s departments and colleagues within the humanities, arts and social sciences. Previous to her present place, she served as affiliate dean for graduate research and inclusive tradition, the place she created a school mentorship initiative targeted on assembly the intricate wants of graduate college students and led cross-departmental work to make the faculty and campus a extra inclusive house. Shonekan beforehand served for 5 years as a division chair, first on the College of Missouri after which on the College of Massachusetts, Amherst, and held a number of roles at Columbia School Chicago for eight years. 

Shonekan’s work focuses on race, tradition, id and historical past. A prolific ethnomusicologist, she is the creator of Black Resistance within the Americas: Slavery and Its Aftermath, Black Lives Matter and Music, and Soul, Nation and the USA: Race and Id in American Music Tradition.  She can be co-founder of the nationwide “Race and the American Story” challenge, devoted to “cultivating dialog, fostering understanding, broadening data, and constructing neighborhood amongst individuals of various backgrounds and walks of life within the U.S.” Shonekan is the recipient of assorted awards, together with the Dedication to Variety College award on the College of Massachusetts, and the Marian O’Fallon Oldham Distinguished Educator Award, the Excellence in Training Award and the Black Ladies Rock Award, and was a Instructing Excellence finalist on the College of Missouri. 

She holds a B.A. in English from the College of Jos, Nigeria, an M.A. in English from the College of Ibadan, Nigeria, and a Ph.D. in Folklore and Ethnomusicology from Indiana College, Bloomington.  

Concerning the College of Maryland
The College of Maryland is the state’s flagship college and one of many nation’s preeminent public analysis universities. A world chief in analysis, entrepreneurship and innovation, the college is house to greater than 40,000 college students,10,000 school and employees, and 300 educational applications. As one of many nation’s prime producers of Fulbright students, its school contains two Nobel laureates, three Pulitzer Prize winners and 59 members of the nationwide academies. The establishment has a $2.2 billion working funds and secures greater than $1 billion yearly in analysis funding along with the College of Maryland, Baltimore. For extra details about the College of Maryland, go to www.umd.edu.

SOURCE College of Maryland