Congrats to Lida Colón, who has successfully defended her dissertation, "A Black Feminist Materialist Consideration of Reconstruction Era Education in Virginia, March-August 1866." Her committee was comprised of co‑chairs Gwen Pough, associate dean of strategic initiatives, dean’s professor of the humanities, and professor of women’s and gender studies, and Eileen E. Schell, professor of writing and rhetoric; as well as Alicia Hatcher, assistant professor of writing and rhetoric; Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science; and LaVerne Gray, assistant professor in the iSchool (external chair).