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ETHEL WADDELL GITHII HONORS PROGRAM

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Director

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Michelle Hite, Ph.D.

Dr. Michelle S. Hite is an associate professor in the English Department at Spelman College. Her teaching and research interests in death and mourning in African American Culture, Southern Studies, and Toni Morrison support the Literary and Textual Studies concentration in the major.

Dr. Hite’s most recent meditation on Toni Morrison appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution after the author’s passing. She can also be heard discussing the cultural impact of Morrison’s loss in conversation with NPR’s Rose Scott. Dr. Hite’s manuscript, Toni Morrison and Portraits of Human Richness is currently under-contract with McFarland Press.

What We’re Reading

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Robin D. G. Kelley Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the […]

  • Passing
  • Parable of the Sower
  • Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

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History of Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program

Established in 1980, the Honors Program was renamed the Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program in 1992. A distinguished scholar, teacher, and Spelman graduate, Dr. Githii served as the director of the Honors Program from 1985 to 1990.

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