The History Department is pleased to offer a scholarship provided by the Center for the Study of Religion and Spirituality in African and the African Diaspora, or RASHAD, which was founded by Dr. Regennia N. Williams in 2006 and funded generously in part by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Before becoming an assistant professor in the History Department at Cleveland State in 2001, Dr. Williams took a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve. While at CSU, she organized high-profile celebrations of notable Ohio historical figures such as Langston Hughes, and she organized, along with the Michael Schwartz Library, the Praying Grounds Oral History Project. Dr. Williams retired from CSU in 2015 and continues to support and promote the arts and humanities in Northeast Ohio.

portrait photo of Regennia Williams
Dr. Regennia N. Williams

2015-2016

Katherine Taylor

2016-2017

Toni Berry

2017-2018

Malaysia Brooks

2018-2019

Camilya Williams

2019-2020

Asha Tinker-Phelps

2020-2021

Olivia Morgan