Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Associate Arts Professor Sheril Antonio will be awarded with a New York University Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award.
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The award recognizes outstanding faculty who exemplify the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through teaching excellence, leadership, social justice activism, and community building. These faculty make a positive impact within the classroom and in the greater NYU community.
The New York University Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Faculty Award was established in 2008, with the support of Provost Katherine E. Fleming, and is one of the most prestigious honors a faculty member at NYU can receive. Candidates are nominated by students and this year nine award recipients were chosen by a selection committee.
The Awards will be presented during NYU MLK Week, February 3-8, 2020. Winners of the award will receive a $2500 research stipend and be recognized at the Faculty Award Reception on Wednesday, February 5th during a special ceremony.
More About Sheril Antonio
Dr. Antonio is an Associate Arts Professor in the department of Art and Public Policy and Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives. Her courses include: Anatomy of Difference: The Other in Film, The World Through Art, and Language of Film. She received Curricular Development Challenge Grants for two courses: Issues in Contemporary African-American Cinema and The Summer Film & Video Program for High School Students. She is an advisor, mentor, and frequent lecturer whose presentations include: a live online debate about the movie Precious with Stanley Crouch; Keynote for Lincoln Center Education Forum and Future Filmmakers Workshop. She serves on the Board of the Ghetto Film School and has worked on several projects with the NAACP.
Dr. Antonio is the author of Contemporary African American Cinema, 2001. Her other works include: Do Hollywood Films Truly Reflect Life in America?; a feature essay for the inaugural issue of Black Camera: The Urban-Rural Binary in Black American Film and Culture, Indiana University Press 2009, New Black Cinema: When Self-Empowerment Becomes Assimilation, Bertz Verlang, 2006; and Matriarchs, Rebels, Adventurers, and Survivors: Renditions of Black Womanhood in Contemporary African American Cinema, Sight & Sound, Supplement, July 2005; as well as a blog for the Huffington Post.