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The Southern University family mourns the death of one of its greats, Dr. Jewel Limar Prestage, the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D from a department of political science at an American university. Prestage was 82 years when she passed on early Friday. Prestage, a Southern graduate, served as chair of SU’s Political Science Department for 18 years. During her tenure, the department became the nations leading catalyst for the development of African-American Ph.Ds in political science. Her husband, Dr. James L. Prestage, was chancellor of the Baton Rouge campus from 1982 to 1985. She retired in 1989, as dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, after 33 years at Southern. After her retirement, Prestage joined the political science faculty at Prairie View A& M University, where she eventually became dean of the Benjamin Banneker Honors College. In September 2002, she retired after an academic career that spanned 46 years.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:14:12 +0000

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