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Julius Fleming receives two prestigious awards

April 30, 2018 English

Professor Julius Flemmings receives the Nancy Weiss Malkei Scholar award and the Emerging Scholar Award from the Comparative and International Education Society.

The Woodrow Wilson National Family Fellowship Foundation named Professor Fleming one of ten Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholars for 2018. This award recognizes Professor Fleming's outstanding scholarship, service, and teaching, as well as his commitment to building a more inclusive academic community.  You can read the press release, which provides more details about the program and the 2018 competition, here.

The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) awarded Professor Fleming with their Emerging Scholar Award. Reviewers highlighted Professor Fleming's "commitment to mentorship and diversifying the academic realm," as well as "the roles he plays as a teacher, a mentor and a scholar that attest to his outstanding qualifications.”

Professor Fleming earned a doctorate in English, and a graduate certificate in Africana studies, from the University of Pennsylvania. Specializing in African Diasporic literatures and cultures, he has particular interests in performance studies, visual culture, sound studies, philosophy, medicine, and southern studies—especially where they intersect with race, gender, and sexuality. Professor Fleming is currently completing his first book manuscript, entitled “Technologies of Liberation: Performance and the Art of Black Political Thought.” He is also beginning work on a second book project that traces the historical role of black performance in producing and dismantling the medical industrial complex.