Filed in Appointments, Faculty on January 1, 2021
Twenty-three University of Chicago faculty members have received named professorships or have been appointed distinguished service professors. Five of these appointments went to Black scholars.
Melissa L. Gilliam has been named the Ellen H. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice in the departments of obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics. Her clinical focus is in pediatric and adolescent gynecology and family planning. She has served as vice provost at the university since 2016. Dr. Gilliam is a graduate of Yale University, where she majored in English. She earned a master’s degree at the University of Oxford in England and a medical degree at Harvard University. Dr. Gilliam also holds a master of public health degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Filed in Books, Honors & Awards on January 1, 2021
Derrick R. Spires, an associate professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, has won the Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book. He was honored for the book
In the book, Dr. Spires examines the parallel development of early Black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship between 1787 and 1861. Dr. Spires will be presented with the award during the MLA’s annual convention, to be held online in January.
The award committee calls
The Practice of Citizenship a “gorgeously written, powerfully argued and extensively researched book that casts vivid new light on a timely and important topic. Spires pursues an impressively broad exploration of Black print culture of all kinds, including the surviving minutes of political meetings in which Black Americans sought not only to secure their full rights of citizenship but also to define citi
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Chinese government says Wuhan outbreak 10 times larger than reported
30 Dec, 2020 07:38 PM
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By: Benedict Brook
It has long been suspected that China may have fudged the numbers when it comes to the true number of coronavirus infections the country endured.
But there now appears to be proof that during a critical phase of the pandemic up to 10 times more people caught Covid-19 than official figures stated. Extraordinarily, this revelation has come from the Chinese government itself.
An infectious diseases expert has said authorities failed to give a true appreciation of the infection and its size .
From late January, images of Wuhan being locked down circulated globally, a precursor of what was to come in any countries.