Associate Provost for Graduate Education & Dean of The Graduate School at Northwestern University , McBride focuses on enhancing the educational experience of Northwestern ' s graduate students . Working with deans , decanal staffs , faculty , and students , he serves as an advocate for graduate education and helps to facilitate crossschool initiatives and coordination via the Office of the Provost .
A leading scholar of race and literary studies , he has been a University of California President ’ s Postdoctoral Fellow , a Ford Fellow , and a Mellon Fellow . An award-winning author of numerous publications that examine connections between race theory , black studies , and identity politics , his most recent publication is the co-edited volume A Melvin Dixon : Critical Reader , a collection of critical essays on literature and life from the African American activist and scholar .
McBride garnered the Best Special Issue Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for the special issue of Public Culture he co-edited titled " 100 Years of the ' Souls of Black Folk ': A Celebration of W . E . B . DuBois ." Read More .
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Beyond the ( Problematic ) RI Target : Graduate Education for a Range of Institutions
Dwight A . McBride , Northwestern University
Associate Provost for Graduate Education & Dean of The Graduate School at Northwestern University , McBride focuses on enhancing the educational experience of Northwestern ' s graduate students . Working with deans , decanal staffs , faculty , and students , he serves as an advocate for graduate education and helps to facilitate crossschool initiatives and coordination via the Office of the Provost .
A leading scholar of race and literary studies , he has been a University of California President ’ s Postdoctoral Fellow , a Ford Fellow , and a Mellon Fellow . An award-winning author of numerous publications that examine connections between race theory , black studies , and identity politics , his most recent publication is the co-edited volume A Melvin Dixon : Critical Reader , a collection of critical essays on literature and life from the African American activist and scholar .
McBride garnered the Best Special Issue Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for the special issue of Public Culture he co-edited titled " 100 Years of the ' Souls of Black Folk ': A Celebration of W . E . B . DuBois ." Read More .