Norris, UVA Engineering’s executive dean and co-principal investigator of UVA CHARGE, a program dedicated to increasing the participation of women in science, technology, engineering, math, and social, behavioral and economic science careers. “Margot’s work is groundbreaking because it draws attention to the importance of every person’s talents, perspectives and experiences as we strive to solve humanity’s biggest challenges and make the world a better place,” said Pamela M.
“Margot embodies all of these beliefs, and I am excited to see her scholarly pursuits illuminate new stories and reshape history as we know it.” “At McIntire, we believe in important scholarship, an inclusive mindset and the responsibility to use one’s own experience and influence as a catalyst for change,” said Carl Zeithaml, dean of the McIntire School. Since the success of “ Hidden Figures,” she committed to publish two more books in a trilogy loosely shaped around charismatic mid-century African-American figures. Shetterly, a 1991 graduate of the McIntire School, and her husband, writer Aran Shetterly, live in Charlottesville. Shetterly served as an executive producer for the Academy Award-nominated film adaptation of the book, and her research has been supported by Virginia Humanities and the Alfred P.
The title was named a top book of 2016 by TIME magazine and Publishers Weekly, and in 2017, it was awarded Best Nonfiction Book at the NAACP Image Awards and Best Book at the National Academies of Sciences Communication Awards. 1 New York Times bestselling book “ Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.” The book-turned-hit-film highlights three African-American women – NASA “computers” Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – who played critical-but-underappreciated roles in John Glenn’s successful 1962 space launch. University of Virginia alumna and bestselling author Margot Lee Shetterly will join UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce and School of Engineering as a visiting scholar for 2019, with the goals of furthering her research into untold histories of African-Americans and inspiring students to explore the intersections of history, technology, race, gender, work identity and social mobility.
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