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Announcing Emerging Scholars Class of 2025

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top Scholars

FAIRFAX, VA — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education kicks off 2025 with its annual Emerging Scholars edition.

The Jan. 9 edition will profile 15 scholars throughout the country who are making their mark in the academy through teaching, research, and service. These outstanding scholars represent the future of academia and serve as inspirations to students and faculty members.

The 2025 Emerging Scholars of the Year are (in alphabetical order):

Dr. Majid Bagheri, assistant professor of engineering, Savannah State University

Dr. Kaleb Briscoe, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies, University of Oklahoma

Dr. Zachary K. Collier, assistant professor in the research methods, measurement and evaluation program, University of Connecticut

Dr. Ashley E. Cureton, assistant professor, social work, University of Michigan

Dr. Jesse Ford, assistant professor of teacher education and higher education, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Dr. Jonathan Daniel Gomez, associate professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Jose State University

Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr., associate professor of educational leadership and policy analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Kate (Kyung) Hyun, assistant professor of civil engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

Dr. Sabina Khan, assistant professor for health sciences, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Thomas Kneeland, assistant professor of English, Anderson University

Dr. Roman Liera, assistant professor of higher education, Montclair State University

Dr. Christina Love, associate teaching professor, physics, Drexel University

Dr. Karina G. Salazar, assistant professor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona

Dr. Angelica Witcher Walker, assistant professor and assistant dean for student vitality, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Dr. Brittany Williams, assistant professor of higher education and student affairs administration, University of Vermont

About Emerging Scholars:

Diverse, then Black Issues In Higher Education, published its first “Emerging Scholars” edition in 2001. It has remained one of the magazine’s most popular editions since its inception. Diverse editors select honorees from a pool of candidates recommended by various scholars, department chairs, university public information officers, and others.

Each scholar is selected based on research, educational background, publishing record, teaching record, competitiveness in field of study, and uniqueness of field of study. Each leader selected has demonstrated perseverance and tenacity, and each has made a broad impact on the academy.

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About Diverse:

For four decades, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education has been America’s premier source of timely news, provocative commentary, insightful interviews, and in-depth special reports on diversity in higher education. Savvy individuals who appreciate the crucial and ever-changing role that higher education plays in the lives of students, professionals, their families, and their communities make reading Diverse a habit.

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