Three Women in the Running for Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Oregon

The University of Oregon has announced three finalists for the position of senior vice provost for academic affairs. All three candidates will participate in interviews and public forums on the Eugene campus this month. All three finalists are women and all three currently serve on the university’s faculty.

Susan Carter Anderson is a professor in the department of German and Scandinavian languages. She joined the faculty at the university in 1986 and was promoted to full professor in 2002. Professor Anderson is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in German from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Carol A. Stabile is a professor of journalism and communication. She joined the faculty in 2008 after serving on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Pittsburgh. From 2008 to 2014, Dr. Stabile was the director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from Brown University.

Frances J. White is a professor and chair of the department of anthropology. She joined the tenure-track faculty at the University of Oregon in 2005 and was promoted to full professor in 2014. Earlier in her career, she taught at Duke University. Dr. White holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge in England. She earned a Ph.D. in ecology and evolution from Stony Brook University of the State University of New York System.