RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Dr. House Soremekun Selected as A Woman Creating Excellence at indiana University Purdue University indianapolis

I also wish to congratulate Professor Chief Bessie House- Soremekun on the Women Creating Excellence Award,
Indiana Univerity, Purdue. I met her for the first time, a few weeks ago, and hope to meet her many more times in the
future. Her CV is inspirational for us all.




Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora


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I just your million admirers too to congratulate you; professor Chief Bessie House-Soremekun on your well deserved award for" Women Creating excellence".Indeed,You are creating and and exuding excellence.Excellent spirit,excellent creativity.Keep keeping on.Mike Odugbo Odey,Benue State University,Nigeria.
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This is wonderful news indeed, to be recognized for creativity and hard work!!!
Congratulations to Dr. Bessie House-Soremekun on her "Woman Creating Excellence" Award!

Dr. B. Teboh (UMASSD)

> From: toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu
> To: USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Dr. House Soremekun Selected as A Woman Creating Excellence at indiana University Purdue University indianapolis
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:11:11 +0000
>
>
>
> >>
> >
> >Dr. Bessie House-Soremekun Selected as a ³Woman Creating Excellence²
> >at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Dr. Bessie House-Soremekun was recently selected as a ³Woman Creating
> >Excellence² at Indiana
> >University Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the Director of
> >Africana Studies, the Public Scholar in African American Studies, Civic
> >Engagement and Entrepreneurship, Professor of Political Science and
> >Africana
> >Studies, and the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Global
> >Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development.
> >
> >She is also an award-winning author, inventor and entrepreneur, former
> >talk show host, as well as an internationally-recognized scholar, expert,
> >and
> >advocate on entrepreneurship and economic development. She has published
> >numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as six books,
> >including Class Development and Gender Inequality in Kenya, 1963-1990;
> >African Market Women and Economic Power: The Role of Women in African
> >Economic Development; Confronting the Odds: African American
> >Entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio (1st and 2nd Editions); Globalization
> >and Sustainable Development in Africa; and Gender, Sexuality and Mothering
> >in Africa. She is currently writing two additional books, titled, African
> >American Entrepreneurship: Philanthropic Giving, Self-Help, and the
> >Struggle for Economic Empowerment and Gender, Democratization, State and
> >Civil Society Relationships in Kenya.
> >
> >
> >House-Soremekun is also working with an emmy-award-winning film producer
> >and officials at
> >PBS/wviz/ideastream to create a documentary based on her award-winning
> >book, Confronting the Odds: African American Entrepreneurship in
> >Cleveland, Ohio, that will be shown on PBS television stations in 2015.
> >
> >
> >Professor House-Soremekun joined the IUPUI team in August of 2007. Since
> >that time, she has made notable and significant contributions to IUPUI,
> >the broader Indiana community, and at the
> >national and international levels. As Director of Africana Studies, she
> >has
> >exercised oversight for the successful operation of Africana Studies and
> >worked
> >collaboratively with the Africana Studies faculty to develop and implement
> >a
> >strategic pan to build the infrastructure and capacity for the movement
> >from
> >the status of being a program to become a department in the near future.
> >She
> >also provided leadership in the implementation of curricular reforms, the
> >development of an important self -study document, and the successful
> >external
> >review of Africana Studies. She has also worked to ensure a more effective
> >and
> >seamless delivery of Africana Studies courses to the students and
> >streamlined
> >the process of awarding scholarships to Africana Studies majors and
> >minors. She
> >has worked to create new awards for faculty and staff to incentivize them
> >to
> >enhance their participation in the areas of teaching, research and
> >service, and
> >in improving the overall efficiency of the operations of Africana Studies.
> >
> >
> >She has also worked collaboratively with internal and external
> >stakeholders to create innovative new partnerships to bring programmatic
> >and academic distinction to IUPUI, the
> >School of Liberal Arts, and Africana Studies. In one such partnership,
> >Africana
> >Studies and the Frederick Douglass Papers successfully co-established the
> >Madame C.J. Walker/Frederick Douglass Annual Lecture Series. The theme of
> >the
> >first symposium which took place in December of 2013 was ³The Life and
> >Times of
> >Madame C.J. Walker: The Historical Development of a Business Empire.² This
> >lecture
> >series promotes a respect for diversity and also honors two African
> >American global
> >heroes, Madame C.J. Walker, the first female self-made millionaire in the
> >United States and Frederick Douglass, who was an abolitionist, orator,
> >writer,
> >and skilled leader of the highest order. Professor House-Soremekun also
> >created
> >the Madame C.J. Walker Lifetime Achievement Award to honor scholars who
> >have performed
> >path-breaking research on African or African American Entrepreneurship.
> >
> >
> >Professor House-Soremekun played a strategic role in persuading the
> >African Studies Association to hold its¹ 57th Annual Conference in
> >Indianapolis from November 20-23, of
> >this year with Indiana University serving as the Local Host Institution
> >(IUPUI
> >and IU-Bloomington). The African Studies Association is the largest and
> >preeminent association for Africanist scholars in the world with more than
> >2,000 members worldwide. Dr. House-Soremekun is serving as the Co-Chair of
> >the
> >Local Arrangements Committee along with Dr. Maria Grosz-Ngate of Indiana
> >University-Bloomington.
> >
> >Professor House-Soremekun also served as a Faculty Fellow in the Office of
> >Academic Affairs for two years under the leadership of Former Executive
> >Vice Chancellor and Dean of the
> >Faculties. In the capacity of Faculty Fellow, she served as a member of
> >the Search Committee for Founding Dean of the Honors College; the
> >Coordinator of the Grant Fund in Academic Affairs; worked collaboratively
> >with the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research to create an innovative
> >program called ³Thinking Outside of the Circle: Promoting
> >Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences² which
> >was
> >designed to encourage IUPUI faculty and community leaders to think outside
> >of
> >their disciplinary areas of focus to develop interdisciplinary research,
> >collaborative activities, and fundable grants. She also coordinated and
> >created
> >mentoring workshops for SRUF (Support for the Recruitment of
> >Underrepresented
> >Faculty) to enhance their opportunities to achieve academic success at
> >IUPUI.
> >
> >
> >House-Soremekun also successfully organized and served as Convener of the
> >1st Public
> >Scholars Conference in Africana Studies International Conference on
> >Globalization, which brought an African King and Queen to the IUPUI campus
> >for
> >the first time in its¹ history, as well as renowned scholars from Africa,
> >Europe,
> >North and South America. She also inaugurated four new awards at the
> >conference
> >that included, the Africana Studies Public Scholar Lifetime Achievement
> >Award,
> >the Africana Studies Global Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award, the
> >Africana
> >Studies Path breaker Award, and the Africana Studies Award of
> >Appreciation. This
> >conference was very successful and achieved local, national, and
> >international
> >Acclaim.
> >
> >
> >House-Soremekun is also the Founding Executive Director of the Center for
> >Global Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development at IUPUI.
> >House-Soremekun developed the core mission, goals and objectives as well
> >as the organizational structure for the center. The
> >four key areas of focus for the center are:
> >
> >· The impact of globalization on the attainment of
> >economic development and the creation of sustainable communities.
> >· The identification of variables that affect the
> >attainment of entrepreneurial success and economic self-sufficiency for
> >Africans and African Americans.
> >· Assessment through experimental research design and
> >modeling of the best practices in building entrepreneurial capacity.
> >· Building entrepreneurial capacity and enhancing
> >economic growth in Africa and the African Diaspora.
> >
> >
> >
> >She has also worked on developing international collaborations between
> >IUPUI and two Nigerian
> >Universities, namely, the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta,
> >Nigeria as well as Adekunle Ajasin University in Akongo-Akoko.
> >
> >
> >House-Soremekun has made more than 100 public presentations that include
> >public lectures, keynote speeches, and workshops to academic and lay
> >audiences in the United States and other
> >countries, including Russia and Nigeria. She received her Ph.D. in
> >International
> >Studies from what is now the Josef Korbel School of International Studies
> >at the University of Denver in Colorado, performed graduate studies in
> >Political Science at the University of
> >Tubingen in West Germany, and her doctoral dissertation research at the
> >Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nairobi in Kenya.
> >
> >
> >She has written and received more than 21 grant awards through the years
> >totaling more than $1.3 million dollars from the Federal Government
> >(Department of Housing and Urban
> >Development), the Shell Foundation, the Cleveland Foundation, the Ohio
> >Urban
> >University Program, the Ohio Board of Regents, the Ohio Employee Ownership
> >Faculty Associate Program, Kent State University, Indiana University, the
> >Mahoning Youngstown Community Development Partnership, and others.
> >
> >
> >Because of her high scholastic achievements, she was inducted into the
> >National Honor Society,
> >Alpha Beta, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Phi Beta Delta. She has received many
> >accolades, awards, and honors through the years, including among others,
> >the
> >Elizabeth E. Fackt Honors Fellowship for Graduate Study, the University of
> >Tubingen, West Germany Exchange Fellowship, selection for Who¹s Who in
> >American
> >Colleges and Universities, the Henry Howe Book Award, the Distinguished
> >Public Service
> >Award from the University of Texas at Austin, the Gold Key to the city of
> >Hopkinsville, Kentucky from the Mayor, the Northern Ohio Live Magazine
> >Rainmaker
> >of the Year Award in the category of Education and Research, the Oni Award
> >from
> >the International Black Women¹s Congress, the Global African American
> >Activist
> >Ambassador Award from the African American Restoration Movement and the
> >Globe
> >Changers Movement, the Phenomenal Woman of the Year Award for two
> >consecutive years, Who¹s Who in Black Cleveland for four consecutive
> >years, the Minority Innovator of the Year Award, and the Egba National
> >Award of Excellence from Oba (King) Michael Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo,
> >the Alake and Paramount Ruler of Egbaland, for her important work in
> >building
> >collaborations between her university and the Federal University of
> >Agriculture
> >in Abeokuta, Nigeria. She was recognized by the Chancellor of IUPUI at
> >the Honors Convocation in 2013 as a PrestigiousExternal Award Recipient.
> >
> >
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> >
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