Dr. Sylviane Diouf discussed the lives of Cudjo Lewis and his fellow passengers on the Clotilda during TROY's 2019 McPherson-Mitchell Lecture.
The story of the Clotilda is about more than just the last known ship to bring slaves from Africa to the U.S. — it’s about a group of teenagers who built a life and a lasting community in a strange land.
Dr. Sylviane Diouf, an African Diaspora historian and author of the book “Dreams of…
Cori Wood, left, and 2007 TROY graduate Kelly Efstathiou comprise a chart-topping music duo.
A burgeoning musical act has ties to Troy University.
Singing and songwriting duo Cori & Kelly, consisting of Cori Wood and 2007 TROY graduate Kelly Efstathiou, hit No. 1 on the HLE Christian Country Countown and the Power Source Christian Country top 100 charts in 2018 with their hit single “Take Me Back to Church.”
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Nick Cervera, left, and wife Carmen Cervera. Cervera has worked at Troy University for more than 50 years.
In the spring of 1961, when Nick Cervera and his best friend Al Sansone arrived in Troy, Alabama, to study at then-Troy State Teachers College, they found a very different world than the home left behind in Brooklyn, New York.
Cervera jokes that when they arrived at Troy’s only blinking traffic light they thought perhaps…
A new scholarship honors former faculty member Dr. Fred Davis and will benefit pre-law students with a preference for English majors.
For 33 years, Dr. Fred Davis devoted his professional life to teaching and mentoring students and fellow faculty members at Troy University.
Davis joined the TROY faculty in 1970 and served for many years as an assistant professor and chair of the English Department. His service to the University didn’t stop there. As he admits,…
