Cheryl Johnson-Odim is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Dominican University. Previously, she was Professor of History and Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Columbia College Chicago and prior to that was Chairperson of the History Department and Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. She has also taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Johnson-Odim has a doctorate in history from Northwestern University and was a Fulbright Fellow in Nigeria. She is a past member on the Boards of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies and the African Studies Association and a recent Vice Chairperson of the Illinois Humanities Council. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the Founding Editorial Board of the Journal of Women’s History. She is a recent past chair of the Joan Kelly Prize Committee of the American Historical Association. Johnson-Odim is a founding member of the Vivian G. Harsh Society of the Carter G. Woodson Library, among other community activities, and is an author of two books, an edited collection, and numerous chapters in books and articles in scholarly journals.

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