Arkansas faculty named to civil rights panel

Five University of Arkansas faculty members were recently chosen by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to serve on the commission’s state advisory committee.

Established by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Arkansas Advisory Committee serves to improve the enforcement of civil rights laws and make recommendations on civil rights policy. The panel also reviews allegations of voting rights deprivations and discrimination.

The faculty members appointed to the committee are Valerie Hunt, associate professor in the Department of Political Science; Cynthia Nance, dean emeritus and professor in the School of Law; Sean Teuton, associate professor in the Department of English; Xavier Medina Vidal, professor of Latino studies and assistant professor of political science; and Diana Gonzales Worthen, director of Project RISE in the College of Education and Health Professions.

The panel also includes Warigia Bowman, assistant professor at the university’s Clinton School of Public Service, and Robert Steinbuch, professor of law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.