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.