New Faculty Posts at Colleges and Universities for 13 Women Scholars

Lori Gruen was appointed to the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She joined the faculty at Wesleyan in 2000 and has chaired the philosophy department and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Dr. Gruen is the author of Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Professor Gruen holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.

Esther Redmount was promoted to full professor of economics and business at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. She is the editor of The Economics of Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth (Praeger, 2014).

Professor Redmount is a graduate of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She earned a Ph.D. at the University of Virginia.

Sallie Chisholm was named Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is one of three faculty members, and the only woman, to be named an Institute Professor since 2008. Thirteen professors at MIT now hold this prestigious honor. Since 2002, Dr. Chisholm has been the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor in Environmental Studies at MIT.

Professor Chisholm is a graduate of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. She holds a Ph.D. from the University at Albany of the State University of New York System.

DeeAnn Reeder was named a Presidential Professor at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She is a professor of biology. Professor Reeder is the co-editor of Mammal Species of the World, A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 2005).

Dr. Reeder is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.

Diana Tamir is a new assistant professor of psychology at Princeton University in New Jersey. For the past academic year, she was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University.

Dr. Tamir is a graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she majored in cognitive neuroscience. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University.

Alana Gunn was appointed an assistant professor of social work at Binghamton University, a campus of the State University of New York System. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Development and Research Institutes in New York City.

Dr. Gunn is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she majored in urban studies. She holds a master of social work degree, a master of public policy degree and a Ph.D. in social service administration, all from the University of Chicago.

Karen Heaton, an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, is taking on the additional responsibility as associate editor for continuing education at the journal Workplace Health and Safety. The journal is the official publication of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses.

Dr. Heaton is a graduate of the University of Alabama-Birmingham. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Louisville and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Kentucky.

Lindsey G. Eckert is joining the faculty at York College in Nebraska as an assistant professor of psychology. She has been serving as an adjunct instructor at the college.

Eckert is a graduate of York College and holds a master’s degree  in counseling from Doane College in Crete, Nebraska.

Elizabeth H. Bradley was named the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grant Strategy at Yale University. She also serves as the faculty director of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute.

Professor Bradley is a graduate of Harvard University, where he majored in economics. She earned an MBA at the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in health policy and health economics from Yale University.

Wendy Bartlett was promoted to full professor of physical education at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She has been on the college’s faculty since 1984 and also serves as the head coach of the women’s squash team.

Professor Bartlett is a graduate of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and holds a master’s degree from Central Connecticut State University in New Britain.

Elaine Molaison was appointed chair of the department of nutrition and food systems in the College of Health at the University of Southern Mississippi. Since 2006, Dr. Molaison has been director of the dietetic internship program at the university.

Dr. Molaison is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she majored in dietetics. She holds a master’s degree from Louisiana Tech University and a Ph.D. in nutrition and food systems from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Kathleen Bogaski has been named to the Marie M. Bickham Chair in Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She has been a professional landscape architect for 25 years and taught at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Professor Bogaski holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in education from Michigan State University and a master of landscape architecture degree from the University of Michigan.

Janis P. Terpenny was named chair of the department of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Pennsylvania State University, effective September 7. She has been serving as the Joseph Walkup Professor and chair of the department of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Iowa State University. She has been at Iowa State since 2011.

Professor Terpenny is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where she majored in mathematical sciences. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from Virginia Tech.