COLUMBIA — South Carolina Humanities has named the 2025 recipients of the Governor’s Awards in the Humanities, the Akers Prize, and this year’s new state-wide award known as the McMeekin Award, named after its inaugural recipient, S.C. (Cal) McMeekin Jr.

Erica Johnson

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Dr. Erica Johnson, associate professor of history, co-director of African and African American Studies, and the Francis Marion University faculty coordinator for Universities Studying Slavery, is the 2025 recipient of the Akers Prize.

The Akers Prize, formerly the Fresh Voices in the Humanities Award, recognizes innovative individuals who use culture and history to bring people together, but whose efforts may have gone relatively unnoticed beyond their own community.

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