Eight Women in New Higher Education Teaching Roles

hoangHaco Hoang was promoted to full professor of political science at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. She has served as a Fulbright Scholar and visiting research associate at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.

Dr. Hoang is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned a Ph.D. in political science at Boston University in Massachusetts.

Lisette WaitsLisette Waits was appointed chair of the fish and wildlife sciences department at the University of Idaho. Dr. Weiss is a professor of wildlife sciences and has served on the university’s faculty since 1997.

Professor Waits is a graduate of the University of Georgia and holds a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Utah.

wemimontJacqueline Wemimont was named an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. She was an assistant professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on 16th- and 17th-century British literature.

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

ShannonKelly Shannon was named director of the master of landscape architecture program at the University of Southern California, effective with the spring 2015 semester. Currently, she is a professor of landscape architecture at the Institute or Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture in Norway.

Dr. Shannon is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She holds a master of architecture degree from the Berlage Institute in The Netherlands and a doctorate in applied sciences in architecture from the University of Leuven in Belgium.

Janice_Herbert-CarterJanice Herbert-Carter was appointed chair of the department of medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. She is an associate professor of medical education and an associate professor of family medicine at Morehouse.

Dr. Herbert-Carter is a graduate of Princeton University, where she majored in biochemistry and African American studies. She earned her medical degree at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

111243_JH_Dr_Celia_LoCelia Lo was appointed professor and chair of the department of sociology and social work at Texas Woman’s University in Denton. She was a professor of social work at the University of Alabama.

Dr. Lo holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama.

quiglianaHeather Quagliana was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor of psychology at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. She has been on the university’s faculty since 2008.

Dr. Quagliana is a graduate of Lee University and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

MosquedaLaura Mosqueda was appointed professor of family medicine and geriatrics, chair of the department of family medicine, and associate dean of primary care at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She held the Ronald W. Reagan Endowed Chair in Geriatrics and was associate dean of primary care at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

Dr. Mosqueda is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles and the medical school of the University of Southern California.

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