Past Davis Award Winners

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2025: Dr. Sylvanus Wosu, Swanson School of Engineering | Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs, Associate Professor
2024: Dr. Laurence Glasco, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences | Associate Professor, Department of History
2023: Dr. Jerome Taylor, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences | Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies

2025: Dean Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, School of Education | Renée and Richard Goldman Dean; Professor, Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy
2024: Dr. Dara Mendez, School of Public Health | Associate Director of the Center for Health Equity; Associate Professor; Faculty in Epidemiology
2023: Dr. Audrey J. Murrell, School of Business, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, School of Public and International Affairs | Professor, Business Administration, Psychology, Public and International Affairs
2022*: Sandra Murray, School of Medicine | Professor, Department of Cell Biology

2025: Dr. Seth Okyere, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences | Teaching Assistant Professor, Urban Studies
2024: Ron Idoko, School of Social Work | Associate Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems; Founding Director of the Racial Equity Consciousness Institute; Director of Social Innovation at the David C. Frederick Honors College; Research Assistant Professor
2023: Dr. Olanrewaju (Lanre) Morenikeji, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford | Assistant Professor, Division of Biological and Health Sciences
2022*: Amanda Boston, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences | Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies

2025: Professor Jules Lobel, School of Law | Bessie McKee Walthour Endowed Chair, Professor of Law
2024: Dr. Leonora Anyango, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences | Teaching Professor, Department of English
2024: Dr. Tony Gaskew, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford | Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; Professor of Criminal Justice, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences
2023: Dr. Esohe Osai | School of Education | Assistant Professor, Health and Human Development; Director, Justice Scholars Institute
2022*: James Huguley, School of Social Work | Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Associate Professor

2025: Dean Gerald “Jerry” Dickinson, School of Law | Dean, Professor of Law
2025: Dr. Rickquel Tripp, School of Medicine | Vice Chair of Engagement and Social Impact, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
2024: Dr. D. Kojo Hamilton, School of Medicine | Professor; Director, UPMC Neurosurgical Spine Services; Director, Residency Training Program; Co-Director, Spine Fellowship Program
2023: Dr. Taofeek K. Owonikoko, School of Medicine | Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology; Associate Director for Translational Research; UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
2022*: Valerie Kinloch, School of Education | Renée and Richard Goldman Dean

2025: Dr. Lori Delale-O’Connor, School of Education | Chair, Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy; Interim Co-Director of Center for Urban Education; Associate Professor, Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy (as Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award)
2024: Dr. Martina Anto-Ocrah, School of Medicine | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine (as Excellence in Mentorship Award)
2023: Dr. Robert Binder, School of Medicine | Professor, Department of Immunology (as Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award)
2022*: Esa Davis | Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinical and Translational Science, School of Medicine; Director UPMC Tobacco Treatment Service; Director Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) Program (as Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award)

* 2022 was the inaugural year for these awards