Dr. Scott Finnie

Dr. Scott Finnie, raised in the Bay Area, came to Spokane in 1975 on a basketball scholarship at Gonzaga University. He earned a B.A. in English and a Minor in Criminal Justice in 1979, a Master’s degree in American History from Eastern Washington University in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University in 2000. Finnie has been a faculty member of EWU’s Africana Education Program (AEP) and Department of History since 1992. He currently serves as the department’s senior faculty member, its director of Africana Studies, and the executive director of its race and cultural studies program.