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Carol Henderson
Emory University
Carol Henderson
Emory UniversityAs the university’s first chief diversity officer, Henderson helps lead the realization of Emory’s vision for diversity, equity, and inclusion by working with campus leaders and representatives to define community goals, establish guiding principles, and create a strategy for moving forward and communicating progress. Henderson partners with Emory’s leadership, students, faculty, and staff to reimagine and strengthen comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the university and to create mechanisms for communicating the institution’s commitment to these principles and practices. She also serves as the public voice on these issues, helping to shape the discussion in the Atlanta metro area, nationally, and internationally. Henderson joined the University of Delaware faculty in 1995 and served as the university’s vice provost for diversity beginning in 2014. In that role, she oversaw and promoted diversity efforts across the university and provided strategic leadership in advancing diversity as an institutional value and an academic priority in all facets of the academic community. A widely recognized scholar and specialist in African American literature, Henderson also was professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Delaware, and served as interim chair and chair of the Department of Black American Studies from 2010 to 2014. Her authored and edited volumes include Imagining the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture (2010), America and the Black Body: Identity Politics in Print and Visual Culture (2009), James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical and Critical Essays (2006), and Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature (2002). Henderson holds a BA from the University of California–Los Angeles, an MA from California State University of Dominguez Hills, and she received her PhD from the University of California–Riverside.
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