A Large Group of Women Faculty Members Taking on New Duties in Higher Education

Allyssa L. Harris was promoted to associate professor of nursing and granted tenure at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She also serves as director of the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program at the college.

Dr. Harris holds an associate’s degree from Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. She earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees at Boston College.

Irina Russu, a professor of chemistry at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, was named to the E.B. Nye Professorship of Chemistry. This endowed chair was established in 1908.

Dr. Russu is a graduate of the University of Bucharest in Romania. She holds a master’s degree from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Krista Ratcliffe was appointed chair of the department of English at Arizona State University. She was chair of the English department at Purdue University. Earlier, she chaired the English department at Marquette University in Milwaukee.

Professor Ratcliffe is an editor of Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016). She holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.

Elizabeth Madigan, the Independence Foundation Professor in the School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, has been elected CEO designate of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. The organization has more than 135,000 members in 90 countries around the world.

Dr. Madigan is a graduate of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She earned a master’s degree at Ohio State University and a doctorate at Case Western Reserve University.

Emma Morton-Eggleston, an associate professor of endocrinology at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, has been given the added duties of interim associate vice president of health sciences and dean of West Virginia University’s Eastern Campus in Martinsburg.

Dr. Morton-Eggleston holds a master of public health degree and a medical doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jill Pipher, the Elisha Benjamin Professor of Mathematics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, is the new vice president for research at the university. Professor Pipher also serves as the director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics.

Professor Pipher joined the faculty at Brown University in 1989. She earned bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Patricia A. Ganz, a professor of health policy and management and a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. For the past five years, Professor Ganz has been deputy editor.

Dr. Ganz earned her medical degree at the University of California, Los Angeles and joined the faculty there in 1977.

Erinn Tucker was appointed associate professor of practice in the master of professional studies in global hospitality leadership program in the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She was an assistant professor in the School of Sport, Tourism, and Hospitality Management at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Dr. Tucker is a graduate of Florida A&M University, where she majored in business administration. She holds a master’s degree in sport administration from Florida State University, an MBA from Winthrop University, and a Ph.D. in hospitality administration from Oklahoma State University.

Charlotte Skinner, a professor of mathematics at Blue Ash College of the University of Cincinnati, has been given the added duties of interim associate dean of academic affairs. She has been on the faculty at the college for 23 years.

Professor Skinner is a graduate of Binghamton University of the State University of New York System. She holds a master’s degree in mathematics from Indiana University.

Sherine Obare, a professor of chemistry at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, was appointed interim vice president for research at the university. She has been serving as associate vice president for research. Dr. Obare joined the faculty at the university in 2004.

Professor Obare is a graduate of West Virginia State University and holds a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of South Carolina.

Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, an associate professor of social work at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, was appointed assistant vice president for university academic policy. She will also be the director of the University Transfer Office.

Dr. Gentle-Genitty is a native of Belize. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky and a Ph.D. from Indiana University.

Hilary A. Sandler, an extension associate professor of integrated pest management and weed science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, was appointed director of the university’s Cranberry Station in East Wareham, Massachusetts.

Dr. Sandler is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She earned a master’s degree at the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in plant and soil sciences from the University of Massachusetts.

Hayley Chouinard is the new chair of the department of agricultural and resource economics at Colorado State University. She has spent the last 15 years on the faculty at Washington State University.

Professor Chouinard holds a bachelor’s degree in business and a master’s degree in applied economics from Montana State University. She earned a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jan Love will be the inaugural Mary Lee Hardin Dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. She is a professor of Christianity and world politics at the school. Before coming to Emory, Dr. Love taught at the University of South Carolina for more than 20 years.

Professor Love holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in political science, all from the University of South Carolina.

Eleanor Brown has joined the faculty at Pennsylvania State University as a professor of law and a professor of international affairs. Previously, she was a professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

Professor Brown is a graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she majored in molecular biology. She earned a master’s degree in politics as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. Later she earned a juris doctorate at Yale Law School.

Linda Bockenstedt, the Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medicine at Yale University, was given the added duties of deputy dean for faculty affairs at the medical school.

Dr. Bockenstedt earned her medical doctorate at Ohio State University and did postdoctoral research in rheumatology at the University of California, San Francisco.

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