Memphis People in Business for April 30, 2026
Dr. Scott Newstok, a Rhodes College professor, received a four-year grant from the State Research Agency of Spain to study the multilingual heritage of early modern English. Memphis nonprofit leader Tina Sullivan received the Frederick Law Olmsted Award from the Tennessee Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Dr. Scott Newstok, professor of English and executive director of the Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities at Rhodes College, was awarded a four-year grant from the State Research Agency of Spain. The grant will support his research on the multilingual heritage of early modern English. Newstok will conduct this research at the University of Murcia, where he was a 2022 Fulbright Scholar. Memphis nonprofit leader Tina Sullivan received the distinguished Frederick Law Olmsted Award from the Tennessee Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. R. Hunter Humphreys, a partner at Glankler Brown, will retire on June 30 after 41 years of service. Indie Memphis announced Brandon Harris as the artistic director for the 2026 Indie Memphis Film Festival.
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