Eleven Women Faculty Members Given New Duties or Assignments

Rachel Miyung Joo was promoted to associate professor of American studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. Dr. Joo was also awarded tenure. She joined the faculty at Middlebury College in 2007.

Dr. Joo is the author of Transnational Sport: Gender, Media, and Global Korea (Duke University Press, 2012). She is a graduate of Pomona College and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in cultural and social anthropology from Stanford University.

Michelle Gray, an associate professor of exercise science at the University of Arkansas, has been given the additional duties as director of the Exercise Science Research Center. She joined the faculty at the university in 2010 after teaching at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Dr. Gray holds a master’s degree from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and a Ph.D. in exercise science from the University of Arkansas.

Amy Magnuson, who teaches in the department of nutrition, food, and exercise science at Florida State University and since 2003 has been director of the Center for Health Advocacy at the university, was named interim director of University Health Services.

Dr. Magnuson holds three degrees from Florida State University including a Ph.D. in nutrition.

Amy Schweinle, chair of the division of counseling and psychology of education at the University of South Dakota, has been given the added duties as associate dean of research and graduate studies for the School of Education. Dr. Schweinle joined the faculty at the university in 2003 as an assistant professor.

Professor Schweinle is a graduate of Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Sarah Beth Estes, professor of sociology at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, was appointed executive director of the Community Connection Center at the university. Dr. Estes joined the faculty at the university in 2006 and served as coordinator of the gender studies program.

Professor Estes is a graduate of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.

Sarah Meerts was promoted to associate professor of psychology and granted tenure at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She joined the faculty at the college in 2011.

Dr. Meerts is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she majored in biopsychology. She holds a Ph.D. in psychological and brain sciences from Dartmouth College.

Lori Snyder Bennear, was appointed the inaugural Juli Plan Grainger Associate Professor of Energy Economics and Policy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Bennear joined the Duke University faculty in 2004.

Dr. Bennear is a summa cum laude graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles, where she majored in economics and environmental studies. She holds a master’s degree in economics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.

Elizabeth Wilson was named professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College, effective September 1. She will also serve as the inaugural director of the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at the college. Since 2005, Dr. Wilson has served on the faculty at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Wilson is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz. She earned a master’s degree at Vrije University in Belgium and a Ph.D. in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Frances J. Richmond was named chair of the new department of regulatory and quality sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dr Richmond has taught at the university since 1999.

Dr. Richmond holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in neurophysiology from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario.

Sharon Inkelas, professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, has been given the added duties as special faculty adviser to the chancellor on sexual violence and sexual harassment. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1992 and has served as chair of the department of linguistics.

Professor Inkelas is a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she majored in mathematics. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University.

Andrea Lommen is joining the faculty in the department of physics and astronomy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Since 2003, she has served on the faculty at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Lommen is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She earned a master’s degree in physics at the University of Pennsylvania and a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley.