Four Women Faculty Members Granted Tenure at the University of Maine

The University of Maine has announced the granting of tenure to 11 faculty members. Four of those receiving tenure are women.

Sarah Harlan-Haughey was promoted to associate professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is the author of The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature: From Fen to Greenwood (Routledge, 2016). Dr. Harlan-Haughey earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish literature at the University of Montana. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Heather Hamlin was named an associate professor of marine sciences in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture. She joined the faculty at the university in 2011 after teaching for one year at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Hamlin earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s degree in marine bio-resources at the University of Maine. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida.

Jennifer Fairman, an associate professor of education and co-director of the Maine Education Policy Research Institute, was granted tenure. Dr. Fairman joined the faculty at the University of Maine in 2002. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she majored in political science. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in educational policy from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Lee Karp-Boss, an associate professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, was granted tenure. An oceanographer, her research has focused on plankton and its relationship to the environment. Dr. Karp-Boss has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.