Cicero M. Fain III Profile

Assistant Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellow; Adjunct Professor
Harris Hall 113

Biography

CICERO M. FAIN, III (Ph.D., Ohio State) is the Assistant Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellow. His teaching career includes positions at Marshall, Ohio University-Southern, Niagara University, and the College of Southern Maryland. He has authored several articles on the African American experience in Central Appalachia and is the author of Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story (University of Illinois Press, 2019), a finalist for the 2019 Appalachian Studies Association’s Weatherford Award and winner of the 2021 West Virginia Literary Merit Award. He is the Marshall Liaison/Steering Committee Member to the ASA and member of the West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies Editorial Board. His current book project is entitled, “Buffalo Soldier, Deserter, Criminal: The Remarkably Complicated Life of Charles Ringo.”  Dr. Fain is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Appalachian Studies and on the West Virginia Humanities Council Board of Directors.