Dr. Shawnrece (Campbell) Butler is the Assistant Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion at Northern Michigan University. Dr. Butler is a member of the inaugural Michigan Humanities Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access Committee, the MSI Aspiring Leaders Program, and the Lake Superior Leadership Academy Class of 2025. She has also served on the National Council for Black Studies Board of Directors and on the AAUW Florida Board of Directors. Prior to joining Northern, Dr. Butler served as the Dean of Liberal Arts & the Director of theSchool of Art, Media, & Communication at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. She is the co-author of Toni Morrison’s Secret Drive: A Reader-Response Study of the Fiction and Its Rhetoric. Dr. Butler obtained her Ph.D. from Kent State University, her M.B.A. from Stetson University, her M.A. from Youngstown State University, and her B.A. from John Carroll University.
