DoVeanna Fulton

Dr. DoVeanna Fulton serves as NSU’s Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. As the University’s Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Fulton leads the transformation of NSU’s academic enterprise into a nationally recognized center for teaching excellence that advances student success, research, and community service. Dr. Fulton brings 20 years of experience as a higher education administrator and scholar to NSU. For the past 8 years, she has served as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of History, Humanities, and Languages at the University of Houston – Downtown (UHD). The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is UHD’s largest college serving over 2,500 students and employing more than 200 faculty and staff.

Dr. Fulton is a tested transformational leader. At UHD, she led the College’s strategic planning and successfully reorganized its administrative units, which included creating a fourth unit to support academic programs and interdisciplinary research. Dr. Fulton also increased student enrollment at UHD by spearheading the establishment of graduate and undergraduate programs, to include the Bachelor of Science Program in Health and Behavioral Sciences, the Master of Arts Program in Nonprofit Management, and the Master of Arts Program in Rhetoric and Composition. She also established the Center for Latino Studies. Dr. Fulton’s leadership at UHD yielded collaborative partnerships such as the 4 +1 program with Brazosport College, which allows Brazosport students to take graduate level coursework at UHD. She also led a delegation of UHD students, staff, and faculty on an exchange to Ghana to develop partnerships and collaborative projects with universities and healthcare organizations throughout Ghana.

Prior to her tenure at UHD, Dr. Fulton served as the Founding Chair of the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama where she was also an Associate Professor for Gender and Race Studies. She also served as the Director of the University of Alabama’s African American Studies Program. Dr. Fulton has held tenured professorships at the University of Houston - Downtown, and the University of Alabama. She has also taught at Arizona State University, the University of Memphis, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and at Jimma University in Ethiopia. Dr. Fulton is a prolific writer and researcher, and has published widely in the areas of feminism and African American women’s history.

Dr. Fulton received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Wayne State University. She was a CIC traveling scholar at the University of Michigan.