STRONG - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean
- Assistant Dean, Disciplinary Honors
- Lloyd International Honors College, Ex Officio
Job Titles:
- Senior Academic Adviser & Coordinator of International Honors
Dr. Christopher Hodgkins (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1988) is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Atlantic World Studies in the University of North Carolina-Greensboro Department of English. He is author or editor of seven books-five on George Herbert-and is co-founder of the international George Herbert Society, which organizes Herbert events in Britain, Europe, and North America. With Robert Whalen, he co-edits The Digital Temple of George Herbert (Virginia/Rotunda 2013) and The Complete Works of George Herbert, which digitally captures, transcribes, and annotates each Herbert first edition, work which has earned them two NEH Scholarly Editions Grants, for 2009-2011 and 2015-2018. Hodgkins directs UNCG's Atlantic World Research Network and manages UNCG's membership in the Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC; he has published a book on the British imperial imagination, as well as articles on Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, Drake and Pocahontas; and currently he is completing a textbook on the literary study of the Bible. His past awards include NEH, Mellon, and Pew grants. Hodgkins regularly offers courses in Shakespeare, Milton, 17th-Century Literature, the Metaphysical Poets, and Literary Study of the Bible. In Fall 2015, with Dr. Hope Howell Hodgkins, he led an Honors Abroad course, Literary London: A Week's Walk through History.
Job Titles:
- Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality, and Tourism
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Vygotskian Practice
Job Titles:
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Honors Council
Job Titles:
- Dean
- Dean & Professor
- Dean of Lloyd International Honors
- Lloyd International Honors College, Dean
Dr. Omar H. Ali is Dean of Lloyd International Honors College and Professor of Global African Diaspora History in the College of Arts & Sciences. He was named The Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year and appointed Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms (Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques) by the French government for his work with teachers around the world. He is a historian of the African Diaspora who explores the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean worlds. Of East Indian and Peruvian descent, Dr. Ali is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science and received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. He has been a Fulbright professor of history and anthropology at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, a visiting professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University, and a Library Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, and PBS, among other media outlets. He gave a TEDx talk entitled "What's in a Name?: Islam, History, and Identity."
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean, International Honors
- Lloyd International Honors College, Ex Officio
Job Titles:
- Honors Colloquium Instructor
Job Titles:
- Academic Adviser, Coordinator of Student Records
- Coordinator of Data and Student Records & Senior Academic Advisor
Job Titles:
- Budget & Operations Manager
- Executive Assistant to the Dean, Budget & Operations Manager
Linda Dunston-Stacey is Executive Assistant to the Dean and Budget and Operations Manager. She oversees budget and operations in the Lloyd International Honors College and manages personnel. She earned her BS in Business Administration from UNCG. Her employment history spans 30 plus years with UNCG including serving as the business manager for Intercollegiate Athletics, assistant director in Alumni Relations and budget and operations manager in the University Registrar's Office.
Job Titles:
- Visiting Scholar Honors / AADS
Rebecca A. Lloyd, a 1950 graduate of Woman's College (UNCG), gave her family's name and her financial support to Lloyd International Honors College. In 2006, Lloyd gave UNCG a $4 million gift to endow the Honors College, the largest alumni gift the university has ever received. The daughter of grocer Aubrey Paul Lloyd and seamstress Georgia Garrison Lloyd, she was born May 29, 1929, in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Honors College is named for her parents. After graduation, she joined the U.S. Navy. While working on her master's degree in personnel management at New York University, Lloyd served as a course instructor in the Naval Correspondence Course Center. In addition, she served in Washington, D.C., as Communications and Budgeting Officer at the Office of Chief Naval Operations, and in Yokohama, Japan, as Assistant Chief Staff Officer, and in the Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet. Lloyd later worked as a commercial realtor in San Diego, California. In 2009, UNCG awarded her an honorary doctorate, naming her Doctor of Humane Letters. Of her support for the Honors College, Lloyd once said, "The International Honors College will give students the international viewpoint that's needed in their education. To the extent that my gift could help world peace come about, I'm happy to be making it."
The Honors College is thrilled to invite applications for the 2019 Rebecca A. Lloyd Distinguished Resident Fellowship. The Fellowship is open to all full-time UNCG faculty and runs from January to December 2019.