Mississippi State University’s Morgan Robinson, an associate professor in the Department of History, is the new leader of the College of Arts and Science’s Institute for the Humanities and begins her duties this fall.

Mississippi State University Assistant Professor Kemeshia Swanson is this year’s recipient of the Eudora Welty Prize for her new book “Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability,” a 2024 University Press of Mississippi publication.

Brian Shoup, professor and head of Mississippi State’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration, delivers this year’s Constitution Day lecture as part of the Lamar Conerly Governance Lecture Series on Sept. 17. The lecture, “What We Owe to Each Other: Civic Responsibility in a Narcissistic Age,” focuses on the importance of civic responsibility in contemporary society.