Monique Taylor

Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Champlain College (VT)

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Monique Taylor is the provost and chief academic officer at Champlain College (VT). She previously spent 18 years working in international higher education with teaching and administrative positions in Mexico, China, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and the West Bank. Earlier in her career, Taylor was a liberal arts professor in Los Angeles and held teaching and research fellowships at Amherst College (MA), Occidental College (CA), and the UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies. She is the author of Harlem Between Heaven and Hell (2002) and other publications on gentrification in Harlem. Taylor’s current research explores the concept of “post-racialism” in the United States as it impacts comedy, food, film, and popular culture.


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