Two Women Named Deans

● Robin A. Roberts was appointed dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. She will assume her new post this July.  Currently, Dr. Roberts is a professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Louisiana State University.

A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Professor Roberts holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

● Kriste Lindenmeyer was named dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in Camden. She will assume her new post on July 11. She is currently a professor of history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Dr. Lindenmeyer holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of The Greatest Generation Grows Up: Childhood in 1930s America (Ivan R. Dee, 2005) and A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children’s Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-1946 (University of Illinois Press, 1997).