Quincy Mills is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for Graduate Education in the College of Arts and Humanities, the Director of the Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities, and Associate Professor of History. Before joining the faculty at UMD in 2019, he was Associate Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at Vassar College. A native of the Southside of Chicago, he received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1997), MBA from DePaul University (2004), and M.A. in Social Science (1999) and Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago (2006).