Four Women Join the Faculty at Haverford College in Pennsylvania

Haverford College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in suburban Philadelphia, has announced that there are six new faculty members on campus this fall. Four of the six new hires are women.

Juli Grigsby is a new assistant professor of anthropology. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Africana Research Center and the department of women’s gender, and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Grigsby is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Christina Knight is a new assistant professor of visual studies. Previously, Dr. Knight was a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Bowdoin College in Maine. She is working on a book focusing on representations of the Middle Passage in contemporary American visual art and performance. Dr. Knight is a playwright and a founder of a dance theater company. Dr. Knight is a graduate of Stanford University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in African American studies from Harvard University.

Zainab Saleh is an assistant professor of anthropology. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Arab studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the book manuscript Inhabiting Destruction: Exile, Political Subjectivity, and the Iraqi Diaspora. Dr. Saleh holds bachelor’s degrees from Baghdad University and the American University of Beirut. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Columbia University.

Kristen Whelan is an assistant professor of biology at Haverford College. She was a research associate at the National Science Foundation and a postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Dr. Whelan is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and holds a Ph.D. from a joint program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.