Three Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Brown University

Nancy Khalek is the William A. Dyer Jr. Assistant Professor of the Humanities at Brown. She joined the Brown faculty in 2008 after teaching at Franklin and Marchall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her first book, entitled Damascus After the Muslim Conquest: Text and Image in Early Islam will be published by Oxford University Press in September.

Dr. Khalek holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. She earned a second master’s degree at the University of Michigan.

Meredith Hastings was named the Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences. She joined the Brown faculty in 2008 after conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Washington.

Dr. Hastings is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Miami, where she double majored in marine science and chemistry. She earned a Ph.D. in geosciences at Princeton University.

Erika J. Edwards was appointed the Richard and Edna Solomon Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown. She joined the Brown faculty in 2007 after conducting postdoctoral research at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Dr. Edwards is a graduate of Stanford University. She earned a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Yale University.