Love named UGA Athletic Association Professor in Education
Bettina Love, a professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, was named the Athletic Association Professor in Education by the UGA Athletic Association. The association has funded professorships since 2006 as a demonstration of its commitment to academics. Love’s professorship is effective Aug. 1.
The professorship offers Love the resources to conduct research focused on the strengths and history of Black liberation, Black joy, and more. Love is concerned with how educators working with parents and communities can build communal, civically engaged schools rooted in abolitionist teaching with the goal of intersectional social justice for equitable classrooms that love and affirm Black and Brown people.
“I am honored to be the Athletic Association Professor,” she said. “I am happy that the work of anti-racism and abolition will be supported by my professorship at UGA.”