Two Women Appointed University Professors at Arizona State

Two women have been named University Professors at Arizona State University. Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University, stated that University Professors “represent the best of our world-class faculty” and their accomplishments “have made a significant impact on generations of scholars, entrepreneurs, and our community.”

Sally Kitch is a Regents Professor of women’s and gender studies. She also serves as a Distinguished Sustainability Scientist at the university’s Global Institute of Sustainability and is the founding director of the Institute for Humanities Research. Before joining the faculty at Arizona State in 2006, Dr. Kitch taught at Ohio State University. Professor Kitch is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from Emory University in Atlanta.

Jane Maienschein is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State. She is the director of the university’s Center for Biology and Society and also is a Distinguished Sustainability Scientist at the university’s Global Institute of Sustainability. She is also the director of the History Project at the Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory in Massachusetts. Professor Maienschein is a graduate of Yale University and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Indiana University.