Ben Vinson III

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academic administrator historian human university president

Ben Vinson III is an American historian and academic leader who serves as the president of Howard University.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic administrator → historian → human → university president →
academicDegree	Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College → PhD in history from Columbia University →
affiliation	Howard University →
areaOfExpertise	African diaspora in the Americas → Afro-Mexican history → colonial Latin American history →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
educatedAt	Columbia University → Dartmouth College NERFINISHED →
employer	Case Western Reserve University → George Washington University → Howard University → Johns Hopkins University → Pennsylvania State University →
ethnicGroup	African American →
fieldOfWork	African diaspora studies → Latin American history → history →
gender	male →
hasAcademicRank	professor of history →
isLeaderOf	Howard University →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Historical Association → Latin American Studies Association →
notableFor	leadership in higher education → scholarship on the African diaspora in Latin America →
notableRole	first historian to serve as president of Howard University (as of his appointment) →
notableWork	research on the African diaspora in Mexico → studies of Africans and their descendants in colonial Latin America →
occupation	academic → historian → university president →
positionHeld	dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University → faculty member at Johns Hopkins University → faculty member at Penn State University → president of Howard University → provost of Case Western Reserve University →
workLocation	Washington, D.C. →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Howard University →	hasPresident