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C&RL News February 2022 90

P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway

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A p p o i n t m e n t s

Valeda F. Dent, acting provost and vice-president for academic affairs and vice-president for stu-
dent success and learning innovation at Hunter College of the City University of New York, has 

been appointed Emory University’s inaugural vice-provost of libraries and 
museum. Expected to formally take the role in July 2022, Dent will unite 
Emory Libraries and the Michael C. Carlos Museum under a new leader-
ship structure, working closely   with the Office of the Provost and providing 
support in planning for the future of both areas, including advancing shared 
discovery and conservation of the university’s collections while continuing 
to expand access, programming and community engagement. At Hunter 
College, Dent is cochair of the Presidential Task Force for the Advancement 
of Racial Equity. She has a robust and consistent record of scholarly achieve-
ment in the areas of chronic poverty and literacy, rural African libraries, and 
literacy culture development, and is a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to her ap-
pointments at Hunter College, Dent served as dean and university librarian 

at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, and dean and chief operating officer for the libraries 
at Long Island University.

Erin Passehl Stoddart has been appointed head of university archives and historical collections 
at Michigan State University.

D e a t h s

Kenya Siana Flash, librarian for Yale’s Political Science, Global Information, and Government Infor-
mation at Marx Science and Social Science Library, has died. She was a librarian at King’s College and 

the University of Tennessee-Knoxville before joining Yale’s Marx Library 
in 2017. Flash provided instructional and research support for the depart-
ments of Political Science and Global Affairs and for programs in Ethnicity, 
Race, and Migration and Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Her scholarship 
and subject expertise can be seen in more than 30 research guides she creat-
ed or co-created with colleagues, ranging from broad disciplinary overviews 
to more specific topics such as political protest movements and individual 
course guides. Within the library, she served on many committees, includ-
ing as co-chair of the Staff Diversity Committee. She was also active with 
ACRL’s Diversity Alliance residency program, and she recently coedited the 
ACRL book Ethnic Studies in Academic and Research Libraries. Beginning 

in 2023, Yale University Library will host a three-year residency for an early 
career librarian from a professionally underrepresented racial or ethnic group, in her honor.  

Valeda F. Dent

Kenya Siana Flash