Three Women Join the Faculty at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon

Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, has announced the hiring of nine new tenure-track faculty for the 2014-15 academic year. Three of the new faculty hires are women.

Tabitha Knight is a new assistant professor of economics. This past spring, Dr. Knight earned a Ph.D. in economics at Colorado State University. Her dissertation was entitled, “The Gender Dynamics of Public Finance: A Chinese and Cross-Country Analysis.” She is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento, where she majored in business administration.

Janet Lorenzen was hired as an assistant professor of sociology at Willamette. She recently earned her Ph.D. at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Her doctoral dissertation was titled “Going Green: Resisting Consumption in Contemporary America.” Dr. Lorenzen is a graduate of Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She earned a master’s degree in women’s studies at San Diego State University in California.

Katja Meyer was named an assistant professor of environmental and earth sciences. She was a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University. Dr. Meyer is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she majored in geology. She holds a PhD. in geosciences and bio-geochemistry from Pennsylvania State University.