Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, has announced that Tracey Hucks will become provost at the highly rated liberal arts college on July 1. The college enrolls more than 2,800 undergraduate students and women make up 55 percent of the student body.
In accepting the appointment, Dr. Hucks said, “I look forward, with great anticipation, to working with the entire Colgate community as we collectively seek to inspire future generations of young people to reflect Colgate’s mission statement, which emphasizes self-knowledge, purposeful engagement, and respect for the complexity of human understanding.”
Dr. Hucks has been serving as the James D. Vail III Professor at Davidson College in North Carolina. Earlier in her career, Professor Hucks spent more than 15 years on the faculty at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. A prolific scholar of American religious history and Africana studies, Professor Hucks is the author of Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism (University of New Mexico Press, 2012).
Professor Hucks holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in religious studies from Colgate University. She earned a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in religious studies at Harvard University.