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Sewell receives Political Science Award
April 5, 2004
CARROLLTON, GA - Dr. Said Sewell, assistant professor of political science at the University of West Georgia, was recently awarded the Anne Julia Cooper Teacher of the Year Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS).
Sewell
was presented this award at the NCOBPS 35th-annual meeting in Chicago.
The award is given in respect of Dr. Anne Julia Cooper (1858-1964), administrator
and teacher of the M Street School in Washington, D.C., and founder of
the Frelinghauysen University for adult education, also in Washington.
Cooper was born into a condition of enslavement but secured her PhD in French from the Sorbonne. The award is given to the teacher who has demonstrated excellence in the classroom as a teacher, advisor or academic counselor.
The NCOBPS is organized to study, enhance and promote political aspirations of people of African descent living in America. It is organized primarily as an intellectual vehicle and an educational instrument to resolve the multi-faceted predicament that confronts people of African descent both in the United States and throughout the Diaspora.
Sewell currently serves as the secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for the state of Georgia and is the faculty advisor for West Georgia’s NAACP chapter.
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