Lesley Lavery has joined the faculty of the political science department at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, as an assistant professor. She was an educational consultant at the Center for Education Data and Research at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Dr. Lavery is a graduate of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Katherine Baber is a new assistant professor of music at the University of Redlands in California. Her research, including her doctoral dissertation, focused on the music of Leonard Bernstein.
Dr. Baber earned a bachelor of music degree in clarinet performance and a Ph.D. in musicology from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.