Honors Instructor and Fellow selected for the OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship 2022-23
Margena Christian, Honors Instructor and Fellow, is selected for the OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship. The Public Voices Fellowship is a national initiative first piloted at Yale, Stanford, and Princeton Universities, and now rolling out in partnership with top universities and foundations across the nation.
Each Public Voices Fellowship is customized for approximately 20 women and underrepresented thought leaders at each institution. Fellowships last one year and in most cases lead to ongoing partnerships.
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Margena Christian (she/her/hers)
Media Scholar, Journalist, Author and Senior Lecturer, Department of English,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago
Margena A. Christian is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she is a founding faculty member of the professional writing minor. Her research interests focus on the intersections of the role of the media in education, Black popular culture and historical inquiry. She is a former senior editor and senior writer with EBONY (2009-2014) and a former features editor, associate editor and
assistant editor for JET (1995-2009). Professor Christian is the only editor in the history of Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) to have written for EBONY, JET, EBONY Man, EBONY South Africa, EBONY Fashion Fair and EBONY.com (1995-2014). She compiled the history for EBONY Fashion Fair, JPC’s pioneering traveling fashion show, and was the last editor at JPC to have worked with publishing magnate, John H. Johnson, founder of JPC, before leaving the company in 2014. Professor Christian is the author of Empire: The House That John H. Johnson Built. The media scholar merges pop culture by writing for Oxford University Press American National Biography (ANB) where she pens essays about influential figures in American history. She is a recent recipient of The HistoryMakers 2022-2023 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship
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Read more about the Public Voices Fellowship here.