B. Venkat Mani (Senior Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow, 2021-2025) has received an Evjue-Bascom Humanities Professorship. The Evjue-Bascom Professorships recognize outstanding research and teaching in the name of John Bascom, the university’s fifth president and in honor of William T. Evjue, founder, editor and publisher of The Capital Times.