Asa Grant Hilliard III Award for Lifelong Learning

Announcing the 2011 winner, Huberta Jackson-Lowman, Ph.D

 
Dr. Jackson-Lowman is an associate professor of Clinical and Community Psychology and recent past Chair of the Department of Psychology at Florida A&M University. Prior to joining Florida A&M in 1996, Dr. Jackson-Lowman served as executive director of the Mayor’s Commission on Families in Pittsburgh, Pa., focusing on the implementation of strategies for reducing the high African American infant mortality rate, and as Co-Director of the former Institute for the Black Family at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Jackson-Lowman's research interests include using African proverbs as a socialization tool with African American children; examining the use of proverbs as a tool for value transmission among African American elders; the relationship between cultural identity, spiritual orientation, and the mental health and psychological functioning of African American women and factors impacting African American male-female relationships. She is also interested in multi-cultural clinical and community intervention methods.

Currently Dr. Jackson-Lowman serves as the Southern Regional Representative for the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) and has served in various roles within that organization. She is also a board member of the Ujamaa Collective, a women’s cooperative in Pittsburgh. She is a certified diplomate and fellow in African-centered psychology. In 2008, she was awarded the Scholarship Award for her research and presentations by ABPsi.

"Education and lifelong learning are crucial to African Americans," says Dr. Jackson-Lowman. "I am thrilled to receive the Road Scholar Hilliard Award. Understanding, respect and compassion must become integral components of education and the lifelong learning processes that we establish for future generations. I look forward to raising awareness about Road Scholar and the importance of lifelong learning throughout our community."

Road Scholar awards this competitive scholarship annually to an educator with at least 10 years of experience, who is a member of NABSE; a member of Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); is on the faculty of a Historically Black College or University; is a professor of African American studies; or is a supporter of lifelong learning. The scholarship provides an opportunity to experience a Road Scholar program anywhere in the world.

"The Road Scholar Asa Grant Hilliard III Award for Lifelong Learning honors the legacy of a true lifelong learner. Through this award, Road Scholar is delighted to recognize an educator who shares our commitment to promoting lifelong learning," says James Moses, president and CEO of Road Scholar. "We are pleased to recognize Dr. Jackson-Lowman’s longstanding dedication to her field and look forward to welcoming her on a Road Scholar adventure."

 

Past Winners

 
2010 – Sheila S. Walker, Ph.D
Dr. Walker, a cultural anthropologist and filmmaker, is the Executive Director of Afrodiaspora, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that is developing a documentary series and educational materials about the global African Diaspora. In 2010, she co-produced a documentary, "Slave Routes: A Global Vision" for the UNESCO Slave Route Project, and published the edited volume, Conocimiento desde adentro: Los afro sudamericanos hablan de sus pueblos y sus historias (Knowledge from the Inside: Afro-South Americans speak of their communities and their histories), in La Paz, Bolivia. She also edited the volume, African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas, and produced the documentary film, "Scattered Africa: Faces and Voices of the African Diaspora."

A longtime member of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Dr. Walker served as Director of the Center for African and African American Studies, and was the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor in the College of Liberal Arts, and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. More recently she was the William and Camille Cosby Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the African Diaspora and the World Program at Spelman College.
 
2009 – Robert C. Hayden
Hayden is a historian and educator who has contributed to African American historiography for nearly 40 years as an author, co-author and editor of 19 books and special publications in the field. With four decades dedicated to promoting education, Hayden says he owes his passion for history and accomplishments as a historian to the knowledge gained through his participation in ASALH since 1971.

A longtime resident of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Hayden served on the Oak Bluffs Historical Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is founding president of the Martha's Vineyard ASALH branch and was elected to ASALH’s Executive Council in 1990 and served as the association’s secretary from 1995 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2008. For nine years he was chairman of ASALH’s national essay contest for graduate and undergraduate students. In 2009, he received the association’s Mary McCleod Bethune Award for "a career of service to history to his community and ASALH." Hayden was also an early and active member of the NABSE from 1971 to 1987 and was a charter member of the New England Alliance of Black School Educators.

Hayden held positions as a senior lecturer at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Northeastern University, Boston College and Lesley University, spanning from 1978 to 2006.
 
2008 – Patricia Payne
With 47 years of service to the Indianapolis Public Schools, Ms. Payne has taught in the city’s elementary schools and currently serves as the director of the Crispus Attucks Center, which comprises the Office of Multicultural Education and the Crispus Attucks Museum. She has a lengthy record of service in education and has been honored by numerous organizations for her contributions including with the NAACP Education Award; the Excellence Award from the Division of Equal Opportunity for the City of Indianapolis; the Outstanding Women of the Year Award from the Center for Leadership Development; and the Breakthrough Woman Award from the Coalition of 100 Black Women, among others.