Davies Takes the Helm at the Kirwan Institute

Posted under Industry News on January 5, 2012

Professor Sharon L. Davies is the new director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, replacing founding executive director john powell, who left the institute’s top leadership position at the end of December.

From the Kirwan Institute:

Professor Sharon L. Davies has been selected as the next director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, replacing founding executive director john powell, who leaves the institute’s top leadership position at the end of December.

Through interdisciplinary research and other working partnerships, the Kirwan Institute seeks to deepen the understanding of the causes and consequences of racial and ethnic disparities in order to stimulate change to bring about a society that is fair and just for all people. The institute was established in May 2003 and named for former university president William E. “Brit” Kirwan in recognition of his efforts to champion diversity.

Davies, the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor in Law at the Moritz College of Law, is a leading scholar in race and criminal law. She was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Notes and Comments editor of the Columbia Law Review while attending Columbia University School of Law. Davies was an associate attorney for Steptoe and Johnson in Washington, D.C. and Lord, Day & Lord Barrett Smith in New York City, and she later served as assistant United States attorney in the criminal division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Davies, who came to Moritz in 1995, will continue as a member of the College’s faculty as she assumes her new role at the Kirwan Institute.

Source: Davis to Lead Kirwan Institute

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