Two Women Among the Finalists for Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine

The University of Maine has chosen three finalists for the position of dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The three candidates will all visit campus in April for interviews and public presentations. Two of the three finalists are women.

Emily A. Haddad is a professor of English and associate dean for academics in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of South Dakota. She has been a member of the faculty at the university since 1997. Dr. Haddad is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University. After earning a certificate in Arabic at the American University in Cairo, she returned to Harvard to earn a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in comparative literature. She is the author of Orientalist Poetics: The Islamic Middle East in Nineteenth-Century English and French Poetry (Ashgate Publishing, 2002).

Pamela Kalbfleisch is a professor of psychology, professor of communication, and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Concordia University in Chicago. Earlier in her career, she served on the faculty at the University of North Dakota and the University of Wyoming. Dr. Kalbfleisch is a graduate of Boise State University in Idaho. She holds a master’s degree in speech communication from the University of New Mexico and a Ph.D. in communication from Michigan State University.