Dr. Frank Eguaroje has been selected as the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Lecturer/Instructor Award for 2014. This award recognizes the important contributions of full-time, fully-affiliated, non-tenure track faculty. Nominees have demonstrated excellence in teaching, with university service and professional development also considered.
Dr. Eguaroje is a member of the faculty of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, hired as an Instructor in 2004, after having adjuncted numerous times in previous years with noteworthy success. He regularly teaches the Regional Studies course on Africa (RST2710), as well as the ART2140 Core course (Themes in Visual Culture) for Art and Art History. His Ph.D. degree was awarded by The Ohio State University in Art Education (1988). His experience previous to his appointment at Wright State was as as lecturer at Ohio State, Curator of the Heritage Center and Instructor in the Department of History at North Carolina A&T State University, and Chief of the Education Division and Curator of African Art at the National Afro-American Museum in Wilberforce.
Dr. Eguaroje also teaches Honors sections of the RST course and offers AFS (African and African American Studies) courses as needed. Next fall, he will offer a new course in anthropology on ethnographic collections in museums. Dr. Eguaroje touches so many students of diverse backgrounds and in so many ways that he is an exemplar of what a truly outstanding Lecturer should be.
