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Graduate Assistantships
Graduate Assistantships provide scholarships and stipends to outstanding students
who are dedicated to social change. Graduate assistants, full-time students who provide 20 hours of service weekly to
the Hooks Institute, research projects, assist staff in developing programs, work
with faculty on Institute projects, and receive extensive exposure to the Institute’s
management and guests, including national figures and noted civil rights activists. These experiences provide graduate students with work experience and credit on certain
projects that can be used to show career progression
Former Graduate Assistants
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Tera Tongumpun - January to August 2012
2012: Master of Public Health Degree with a concentration in Social and Behavioral
Sciences and Health Promotion
2010: B.S. in Biological Sciences from University of Memphis. Tera, is currently working
at Methodist Le Bonheur.
"My experience as a graduate assistant with the Hooks Institute has proven invaluable.
It has broadened my understanding of societal issues and has shown me the importance
of Dr. Hooks' legacy in today's culture. I am confident that I am making the seconds
of my life count."
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Armanthia N. Duncan - Aug. 2009 to 2011
Masters Degrees in History and Women and Gender Studies. B.A. in Political Science from Jackson State University, Jackson Mississippi.
Duncan’s academic research examines, among other things, institutional medical and
governmental practices regarding African American female reproductive rights.
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Amy Livingston- September 2007 to June 2009.
2009- Masters of Philosophy Degree
2006 - B.A. in Philosophy, University of Memphis
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Jervette Ward - Summer 2008
Ph.D. English Textual Studies at the University of Memphis
2004 - BA in Journalism News Editorial, with a minor in English, University of Memphis
Ward spearheaded the Hooks Institute’s Youth for Social Change initiative which seeks
to create a youth summer program stressing academic excellence and leadership development.
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Brittany Sansbury
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Michael Blum -Summer 2010 & Summer 2011
Bachelors degree in criminal justice from York College of Pennsylvania.
Masters of Arts degree in History from Millersville University .
Currently Mr. Blum is a fourth year PhD student working on his doctoral dissertation
at the University of Memphis in the African American history department. His dissertation focuses on the civil rights movement in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 2011, he won the
history department's Teaching Assistant of the Year Award.
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Tiffany Johnson
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Sara D. Smith - February 2005
M.A. in History from the University of Memphis, and
B.A. .in African and African American Studies
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