Dwight A. McBride, PhD, the Gerald Early Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences and a senior advisor to the chancellor, is now executive director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2), Washington University in St. Louis announced. His appointment took effect July 1.
McBride, a nationally recognized scholar of race and literary studies, joined the WashU faculty in 2023 with an appointment in the Department of African and African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences. Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2022, McBride is co-founder and co-editor of the annual open-access journal James Baldwin Review. He is also a founding co-editor of “The New Black Studies” series at the University of Illinois Press, which has published more than 50 titles.
He is also a founding co-director of the Academic Leadership Institute, a partnership between Washington University and the University of Michigan that supports the development of academic leaders — who are potentially future college and university presidents and provosts — committed to advancing diversity and inclusion.