Complex sentence: He was the recipient in 2014 of the K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 2016 he received a doctoral degree in Cultural and Literary Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Split into simpler sentences: He was the recipient in 2014 of the K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2016, he received a doctoral degree in Cultural and Literary Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.