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Charmaine A. Nelson is a Provost Professor of Art History and the founding Director of the Slavery North Initiative.

Nancy Noble is senior lecturer in History of Art and Architecture and associate dean for undergraduate education and student success.

Joseph Nyarko is the Assistant Personnel Manager for the College of Humanities & Fine Arts.

Professor Nye has over twelve years of experience as a practicing public interest attorney. While living in Tucson, Arizona, she worked at the Arizona Center for Disability Law where she practiced health and mental health care law and litigated cases at the administrative, state, and federal court levels. She has successfully represented hundreds of adults, elders, and children with disabilities in individual and class action lawsuits challenging Medicaid denials and cuts in services, including several victories at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She began her legal career at Southern Arizona Legal Aid as a National Association for Public Interest Law Fellow (now Equal Justice Works) and staff attorney, where she represented survivors of domestic violence in family law and immigration matters under the Violence against Women Act.  Most recently, she worked for the Center for Medicare Advocacy, a national public interest law firm.  Professor Nye is excited to return to teaching and sees training undergraduates--potential new lawyers--as integral to the work of using the law for social justice. Her appointment in the History Department is a natural fit, as history is critical to the methodology of the law, which is bound by precedent and always influenced by the historical and cultural context in which it arose.  Further, a history major is a common (and excellent) route for students to find their way to law school.  Professor Nye holds a law degree from Boston College Law School and previously taught at the University of Arizona in the Department of Women’s Studies and at the James E. Rogers College of Law.