Morehouse College

Dr. Stephane Dunn - CTEMS Co-Director Adisa Iwa - CTEMS Instructor Avery Williams - CTEMS Instructor Dr. David Rice - CTEMS Co-Director Dr. Terry Mills - CTEMS Administrator
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CTEMS Team & Faculty

Dr. Terry Mills, Dean for Research and Director of Sponsored Programs, CTEMS Program Administrator
photo courtesy of David Collins – Morehouse College
Dean Mills arrived at Morehouse in July 2007 with the dawning of President Franklin's "Renaissance Mission." As part of Terry's vision of liberal arts at Morehouse, he introduced the humanities and social sciences division slogan, "Building the strong foundation upon which all Morehouse Men stand." The slogan expresses the central role the division plays in educating Men of Morehouse. Each semester, Terry can be found in the classroom where he enjoys teaching statistics, survey research methods, or Social Gerontology. Among his scholarly activities, Dr. Mills has presented the keynote address - "Empathy: walking in others' shoes" at the Auburn University Diversity and Tolerance Dialog Dinner.
119 Wheeler Hall
(404) 653-7795
Dr. Stephane Dunn, CTEMS Co-Director
Stephane Dunn
Stephane Dunn received her MA, MFA, and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in film, creative writing, and African American and American cultural and literary studies. She authored the 2008 book, Baad Bitches & Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films (U of Illinois Press), which explores the representation of race, gender, and sexuality as they play out in the Black Power and feminist influenced explosion of black action films in the early 1970s, including, Sweetback Sweetback’s Baad Assssss Song, Cleopatra Jones, and Foxy Brown. Her writings about film and black popular culture and history have appeared in several edited books, Ms. magazine, Screening Noir, The Chronicle of Higher Education, TheRoot.com, AJC, CNN.com, and the Best African American Essays (2009) among others. She is currently working on a novel, a screenplay, and a second non-fiction book project about early black-cast films produced by white film companies, with an ALL-COLOURED CAST: White Film Companies & Black Gold, 1919-1942.
Department of English
(404) 572-3605
Dr. David Wall Rice, CTEMS Co-Director
David Wall Rice
David Wall Rice is associate professor of psychology and is also Principal Investigator of the Identity Orchestration Research Lab at Morehouse College. The transdisciplinary lab space works to understand and to elicit behavioral bests through research concerning identity relative to engagement, the exploration of varied contexts and personal narratives. David graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and earned a Doctorate in Personality Psychology from Howard University. With a Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University, David frequently applies his research to cultural criticism. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for The Journal of Popular Culture and has provided commentary for NPR, CBS News, MSNBC, Public Radio International and his writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Vibe magazine and The Root among other media outlets. David’s research in Personality Psychology is sharply focused on identity and self constructs. This is demonstrated in his book Balance: Advancing identity theory by engaging the Black male adolescent and the text-in-progress Visible Man: Emcees, identity and the psychology of hip-hop narratives. David’s current studies attend to Black identity within the recast social context of the “Obama Era” and the psychology of strength as informed by study in Ghana, Israel and Haiti.
Department of Psychology
(404) 681-7565
Mr. Adisa Iwa, CTEMS Instructor
Adisa Iwa
Morehouse alum Eric L. Baker (professionally known as Adisa Iwa) has written for multiple hit TV shows including Law & Order: SVU; NYPD Blue; Dark Angel, etc. and sold his first feature screenplay to Universal Studios. In addition to Universal, Mr. Iwa has worked at virtually every major studio and television network in Hollywood including 20th Century Fox; Sony; Warner Bros.; NBC; ABC; and FOX Broadcasting. Mr. Iwa currently is writing and producing new television and film projects in Los Angeles and Atlanta, and is a proud founding member of Morehouse's prestigious new CTEMS Department.
Morehouse College ‘91
Mr. Avery O. Williams, MFA - CTEMS Instructor
Avery O Williams
AVERY O. WILLIAMS graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Morehouse College and earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. He co-wrote the feature Directing Eddie (Valerie Perrine, Jade Barrymore) voted Best Comedy, 2001 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival. He wrote and co-produced the film short The Willie Witch Projects (distr. by Trimark Pictures) in the compilation The Bogus Witch Project. Avery also wrote and co-produced the award-winning Notes In A Minor Key (Keith David, Harry Lennix) hailed by the New York Times as "...crisp, assured... tightly constructed and well-acted." He’s penned screenplays for Damon Dash, Nia Long, Master P, Erika Alexander, T.I., Heavy D and more. In print, Avery's work is included in Monologues for Men By Men.
For the theater, Avery co-produced Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues directed by Penny Marshall (2005) and Penny Johnson Jerald (2006). He wrote the books for musicals TLC (A Tribute to Tracy Coley), The Chocolate Factory, Pino and Everything Changes, each directed by Denise Dowse and executive produced by Wendy Raquel Robinson. For the national stage, Avery wrote and produced A Mother's Prayer and What A Woman Will Do For Love starring Raven Symone, Cherrelle, Ann Nesby, Howard Hewett and Lashun Pace. Avery also produced Tom Coles' Medal of Honor Rag, starring Heavy D, directed by Delroy Lindo and executive produced by Will Smith. Recently, Avery wrote and executive produced with “Nephew” Tommy Miles (Steve Harvey Morning Show), a sketch-comedy pilot entitled Alley Cats.
Morehouse College ‘86