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.