Seven Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments

Amy R. Pritchett was appointed a professor and chair of the department of aerospace engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She has been serving as the David S. Lewis Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1997.

Professor Pritchett holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Renee Polubinsky is the new interim chair of the department of kinesiology at Western Illinois University in Macomb. She joined the faculty at the university in 2002 and since that time has directed the university’s athletics training program.

Professor Polubinsky is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She holds a master’s degree in health promotion and cardiovascular fitness from the University of Cincinnati and a doctorate in health care education from Nova Southeastern University.

Courtney Weiss Smith was promoted to associate professor of English and granted tenure at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She is the author of Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England (University of Virginia Press, 2016).

Dr. Smith is a graduate of the University of Dayton in Ohio. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis.

Susan Pozo, a professor of economics at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, has been given the added duties of director of the global and international studies program at the university. Professor Pozo joined the faculty at the university in 1982.

Dr. Pozo is a graduate of Barnard College in New York City. She earned a doctoral degree from Michigan State University.

Diane Ebert-May was named a Distinguished Professor in the department of plant biology in the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University. She joined the faculty at Michigan State in 1998 after teaching at Northern Arizona University.

Professor Ebert-May is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she majored in botany. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Ann M. Obergfell, a professor and dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Indiana University Purdue University-Fort Wayne, has been given the added duties of associate vice chancellor of academic affairs and operations.

Professor Obergfell is a graduate of Indiana University and earned a juris doctorate at the University of Louisville, in Kentucky.

Susan Moffitt, an associate professor of political science and international and public affairs at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has been given the added duties of director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions. Dr. Moffitt is the author of Making Policy Public: Participatory Bureaucracy in American Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and co-author of Ordeal of Equality: Did Federal Regulations Fix the Schools? (Harvard University Press, 2009).

Dr. Moffitt joined the Brown University faculty in 2009. She is a graduate of the University of Rochester in New York and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan.