Professor Davies was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Notes and Comments Editor of the Columbia Law Review while in law school at Columbia University. After graduation she worked for Steptoe and Johnson in Washington, D.C. and Lord, Day & Lord Barrett Smith in New York City.  Professor Davies served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York.  She joined the law faculty at Ohio State University in 1995, was awarded tenure in 1999, promoted to Full Professor in 2002, awarded a named professorship in 2003, and her current Chair in 2013.  Professor Davies teaches Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Race and Law, and Evidence.

Dr. Hathaway serves on the review board of all tenure and promotion cases of faculty.  She received her Bachelor degree in psychology from Manhattanville College (NY) her Masters degree in psychology from Yeshiva University (NY) and her Doctorate in Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh (PA).  Dr. Hathaway has presented diversity and inclusion, racial and gender bias and Title IX workshops and programs for organizations such as CUPA, NASW, CHAS, NADOHE and at higher education institutions including Swarthmore, Colgate, Manhattanville, Hamilton, Skidmore, Trinity, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and Union College.  Dr. Hathaway teaches in the Sociology Department at Union College (NY) and her research interest includes diversity, equity and inclusivity in higher education, child physical and sexual abuse, teenage abuse, marital rape and spousal abuse. Past positions include: Title IX Coordinator, Director of Community Outreach, Director of the Science Technology Entry Program and Affirmative Action Officer at Union College; Director of the Personal Counseling Center at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown; and Mental Health Counselor at the City County Clinic, Johnstown PA.  Dr. Hathaway enjoys writing poetry and is in the process of writing a historical fiction based on the true story of the relationship between an escaped slave and a college president set in the 1850’s.

Within the community, she was the project manager for the Greater Cincinnati International Hall of Fame and an educational consultant to White Hat Management.  Currently, she serves on the boards of the Cincinnati Recreation Foundation, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Public Media Connect, the African American Chamber, and Project ArtReach.  She is also a member of the Cincinnati Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, the Greater Cincinnati Hispanic Scholarship Fund Celebración, and St. James A.M.E. Church - Covington.  Bleuzette has been recognized with the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission’s Champion for Connecting Cultures & Communities Award, the King Legacy Award, the National Diversity Council’s Glass Ceiling Award, and the Cincinnatus Association’s 2016 Donald & Marian Spencer Spirit of America Award.

Dr. Jonathan C. Smith serves as Special Assistant to the President for Diversity and Community Engagement at Saint Louis University, where he is also an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Program. His teaching and research focus on the history and ideology of race in American culture. He has particular interests in how ideologies of race shape and are shaped by African American literature and culture. He is also a widely published poet. Dr. Smith's work has appeared in Callaloo, Quarterly West, Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review, Crab Orchard Review, Minnesota Review and the Riverfront Times. He holds both a Ph.D. in English & American Literature and a M.F.A. in Writing from Washington University in Saint Louis, where he was the recipient of the prestigious Chancellor's Fellowship for African American students. Jonathan is also an award winning teacher and an alumnus of Cave Canem.