Topics I am Willing to Discuss with Other Faculty:
- Navigating Tenure and Promotion at The Claremont Colleges
- Strategies for Postdocs and Visiting Scholars Seeking Faculty Positions (Part-Time and Full-Time)
- Faculty Leadership and Administration
- Teaching Design for Inclusive Excellence
- Creating a Sustainable Writing Practice
What Mentoring Means to Me:
Mentoring means community. Mentoring also means advancing our disciplines.
Title: Warren Finney Day Professor of History, Pomona College
Email: april.mayes@pomona.edu
College: Pomona College
Department: History Department
Discipline: History, Chairing, Mentoring Emerging Scholars, Future Faculty Support, Faculty Retention
Faculty Profile Link: https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/april-j-mayes
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Professional Experience:
April J. Mayes focuses her research on the Dominican Republic and teaches courses in Colonial Latin American history, Afro-Latin American history, women’s and gender studies, and Africana studies. A graduate of Pomona College, Mayes was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship she used to examine Protestant women’s social justice movements in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Ecuador. Afterwards, she attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where she earned a Ph.D. in history (2003), with an emphasis in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, gender, ethnicity and race in the Americas, comparative post-emancipation studies and anthro/history. While at the University of Michigan, Mayes received the Dean’s Mellon Award and a Rockefeller Grant to pursue research at the Dominican Studies Institute at City College (CUNY) in New York City. During her tenure at Pomona College, Mayes received a Fulbright Research-Teaching Fellowship (2009-2010) for research in the Dominican Republic and raised over $30,000 from the Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy to support major scholarly initiatives in the Dominican Republic, including the first Transnational Hispaniola Conference and the symposium, Intercambiando Historias: Género y Política en la República Dominicana.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Michigan, History; BA, Pomona College, History
