Faculty Leaders

Faculty Fellows

The Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership Faculty Fellows advance the goals of the institutes of the AYCGL through their scholarship, research, civic engagement, and engagement faculty training, and through implementation of programs. These awards are made in the fall semester of each academic year.

Prison Education Teaching Affiliates

Faculty Teaching Affiliates support the Higher Education in Prisons [AYC-HEP] Program by teaching courses and enrichment seminars as well as offering academic support and advocating on behalf of incarcerated students in Georgia. Currently, HEP-affiliated Faculty Teaching Affiliates work with the Burruss Correctional Facility, METRO Reentry Prison, and the US Federal Correctional Institution.

2023-24 HEP Teaching Affiliates

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  • Stephane Dunn, Ph.D., MA, MFA (University of Notre Dame) is a writer, filmmaker, professor, and cultural critic. Dr. Dunn has written, co-directed and produced two short documentary films, Fight for Hope (first place BronzeLens Georgia Lottery Lights Action Camera competition), Mr. Creek’s Move for the city of Atlanta, and the forthcoming After the Bridge Burned: Basil Reviving in addition to several plays. She teaches screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, creative writing, African American Cinema, and film criticism and is a co-founder and the academic coordinator for the Morehouse Cinema, Television & Emerging Media Studies (CTEMS) major. She frequently moderates public discussions with industry professionals and screenings. She is the author of the book, Baad Bitches & Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films (University of Illinois Press) and the forthcoming novel Snitchers. Her essays and commentaries have appeared in edited books and a number of publications, including Ms., The Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN.com., The Atlantic, Vogue.com, TheRoot, Ebony, and NPR, among others. The 2016 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award was awarded for her novel manuscript, Snitchers. Her screenplay Chicago ’66 is the 2020 Finish Line/Tirota Social Impact Screenwriting Competition winner.

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  • Dr. Nathaniel Norment, Jr. is a professor in the Department of English at Morehouse College where he is the director of the Writing Center and the Black Ink Project.

    Dr. Norment is professor emeritus in the Department of English at the City College of New York and the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. He is a former director of writing programs, chair, and graduate director of African American Studies at Temple University where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in African American Studies, African American literature and culture. He has articles published in the College Language Association Journal, the Journal of Basic Writing, the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, the Journal of Black Studies, and the Language Quarterly. Norment earned his B.S. at Ball State University, M.S. at Saint Francis University, and Ph.D. at Fordham University.

  • Dr. Edwards is full-time lecturer of English at Spelman College, where he teaches courses in the First-Year Writing Program. He received his Ph.D. in 2020 from Clark Atlanta University with a dissertation that focused on the works of Edward P. Jones.

    Currently, he is at work on several projects that explore the ways animality in the African American literary tradition offers Black characters the opportunity to exercise their subjectivity in fatalistic, antiblack worlds. He argues that African American authors frequently problematize the meaning and significance of “human” through the metaphorical relationships that they establish between their Black characters and non-human animals. He has articles set to appear in Journal of the Short Story in English as well as Feminist & Scholar. Within the AYC Higher Education in Prisons Initiative, Dr. Edwards teaches Literature and Critical Writing at Metro Reentry.

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  • Ms. Hilton in an adjunct professor of art at Morehouse College. She writes: I am an artist, educator, and curator focused on experiential spaces of learning and collaboration. With work centering on responsive facilitation, I am most invested in creating academic, social, and emotionally intelligent environments that meet participants of all ages where they are. By encouraging active participation combined with self-reflection, my objective is to inspire an engagement with the world as a space for learning.

    Art is the language of our collective history, and my courses are decidedly decolonized to reflect this. My projects facilitate a sense of place, enhance creative problem solving and critical thinking, highlight connections to history, and nurture personal agency within individuals. For students this creates confidence and cultivates empathy, all while inspiring responsible civic and global engagement. Within the AYC Higher Education in Prisons Initiative, Ms. Hilton teaches Art History at both Burruss Correctional and Metro Reentry.

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  • Dr. Ruihua Shen received her B.A. in Chinese Literature from Wuhan University in China and received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. Dr. Shen has significant experience in designing and leading education abroad experiences during and prior to her service at Morehouse. While at Morehouse since 2014, Dr. Shen has served as the director of the Chinese Studies Program, director of the Morehouse Summer Study in China and Semester Study in China programs at Morehouse College, has served as an evaluator for the Critical Language Scholarship and Gilman International Scholars, and managed the Chinese Visiting Scholars Program at Morehouse College. Dr. Shen will remain on the College’s faculty as she serves as the Director of International Education at Morehouse College.

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