Thirteen Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments

Leslie Mahler, an associate professor of communicative disorders in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Rhode Island, was named director of the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at the university. Dr. Mahler joined the faculty at the University of Rhode Island in 2007.

Dr. Mahler holds a bachelor’s degree in speech language and hearing science and a Ph.D. in speech and hearing science and neuroscience from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She also holds an MBA in strategic marketing from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and a master’s degree in communications disorders from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

Carolann Buff is joining the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington. She will serve as an assistant professor of choral conducting. Dr. Buff is an expert in fourteenth- and fifteen-century musical style. She has been serving as an assistant professor of choral musicology at Rider University in New Jersey.

Dr. Buff is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she majored in vocal performance. She holds a master’s degree from the Longy School of Music in Boston and a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in musicology from Princeton University in New Jersey.

Marcie Sariol, an assistant professor of strategic management in the Beacom School of Business at the University of South Dakota, was given the added duties as faculty coordinator of the master of professional accountancy program.

Dr. Sariol joined the faculty at the business school in 2016. She earned a Ph.D. in management from the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley.

Jennifer Stevens has joined the faculty at Boise State University in Idaho as a Professor of Practice. She will teach in the department of history and the Urban Studies and Community Development Program. She is the president of Stevens Historical Research Associates in Boise.

Dr. Stevens specializes in environmental history, urban planning, and U.S. business history. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.

Keisha M. Love was appointed a professor of psychology and associate provost for faculty development and special initiatives at the University of Cincinnati. Since 2014, she has been chair of the department of psychology at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Previously, she taught at the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Love is a graduate of Kentucky State University, where she majored in psychology. She holds a master’s degree in education from the University of Kentucky and a doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Carrie Bramen, an associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York System, was given the added duties as director of the university’s Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender.

Dr. Bramen is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, where she majored in English. She holds a master’s degree in critical theory from the University of Sussex in England and a Ph.D. in modern thought and literature from Stanford University.

Dana Rice was appointed clinical assistant professor of public health leadership in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a senior lecturer at the medical school and in the department of biological sciences at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Dr. Rice is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University, where she majored in biology. She holds a master’s degree in community health services research from the Wayne State University School of Medicine and a doctorate from the Boston University School of Public Health.

Tamara Underiner, an associate professor of theater and performance studies at Arizona State University, was given the added responsibilities of associate dean of academic affairs in the university’s Graduate College. Dr. Underiner joined the faculty at the university in 2001.

Dr. Underiner is a graduate of University of Dayton in Ohio, where she majored in communication arts. She holds a master’s degree in theater from Arizona State University and a doctorate in drama from the University of Washington.

Lara Brown an associate professor, was named director of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Before coming to George Washington University, Dr. Brown was an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of Jockeying for the American Presidency: The Political Opportunism of Aspirants (Cambria Press, 2010).

Dr. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a Ph.D. in political science, all from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Heather Roberge was appointed chair of the department of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has taught at the university since 2002 and is a principal of the Los Angeles architecture firm Murmur.

Professor Roberge holds a bachelor degree and a master of architecture degree from Ohio State University.

Mary Malaska was named an assistant professor and director of the bachelor’s degree program in nursing at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. She was head of the health sciences division at the Oklahoma City campus of Oklahoma State University.

Dr. Malaska holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma and a doctorate in nursing practice from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Tania Basta was appointed chair of the department of social and public health at Ohio University. She has served as interim chair for the past year. She joined the faculty at the university in 2006.

Dr. Basta holds a master of public health degree from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.

Angelica Bernal, an assistant professor of political science, was named director of the Academic Fellows Program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She joined the faculty in 2008 and is the author of Beyond Origins: Rethinking Founding in a Time of Constitutional Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Dr. Bernal is a magna cum laude graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she majored in political science and cognitive science. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

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