| Summary: | Academic administrator Cheryl Johnson-Odim was born on April 30, 1948 in Youngstown, Ohio. She studied at City College of New York (CCNY) in New York City, and attended Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1975, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study African history in Nigeria. In 1978, she earned her Ph.D. degree in history from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Johnson-Odim was a founding member of the Free South Africa Movement, head of the TransAfrica Support Committee in Chicago, and co-chair of the Coalition for Illinois Divestment from South Africa. In 1995, she served as Loyola University Chicago history department chairperson, and taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University, as assistant director of the program of African studies. She was named dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Columbia College Chicago in 2000, and in 2007, she became provost and vice president of academic affairs for Dominican University.
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