Four Women Named to New Faculty Posts at Leading Universities

sandersStephanie A. Sanders was named Provost Professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. Professor Sanders is a professor of gender studies at the university.

Dr. Sanders holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Reed.AnnAnn M. Reed was appointed to the William Cleland Professorship of Pediatrics at the Duke University School of Medicine. An expert on juvenile myositis, Dr. Reed is chair of the department of pediatrics at the medical school.

Dr. Reed is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo.

DutchRebecca Dutch was named a University Research Professor at the University of Kentucky. A member of the department of molecular and cellular biochemistry, her research is focused on RNA viruses.

Professor Dutch is a graduate of Michigan State University. She holds a master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge in England and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University.

DerrickRoshawnda Annette Derrick was named an assistant professor of Spanish linguistics at Pepperdine University in California, beginning in the fall of 2015. She is a King-Chavez-Parks Fellow at Wayne State University in Detroit.

In June, Derrick will be defending her Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Radical Bilingualism, Code-Switching, and Code-Mixing in U.S. Latino Texts” at Wayne State.

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