Three Women Named to Faculty Positions

Jane Gordon has agreed to join the faculty of the department of political science and the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She has been serving as co-director of both the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Professor Gordon is the author of Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 1967-1971 (Routledge, 2001) and the forthcoming book from Fordham University Press, Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau Through Fanon.

Dr. Gordon is a graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Shawna Klahn is a new assistant professor at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia. She is co-directing a new oncology program in the department of small animal clinical services. Dr. Klahn was a medical oncology technician at Upstate Veterinary Specialists in Greenville, South Carolina.

Dr. Klahn holds a bachelor’s degree in zoology and a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Brenda Romero was named game designer in residence at the Center for Games and Playable Media at the University of California at Santa Cruz. A graduate of Clarkson University, she is the co-founder and chief operating office of Loot Drop Inc.

Romero will teach foundational courses in game design and work with students on their individual game design projects. From 2008 to 2009, she was chair of the Interactive Design and Game Development program at the Savannah College of Art and Design.