Three Women Scholars Announce That They Are Stepping Down From Faculty Posts

Susan A. MacManus, a distinguished professor of government and international affairs at the University of South Florida in Tampa is retiring. She joined the faculty at the university in 1987 and is an expert in Florida state politics

Dr. MacManus holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from Florida State University. She earned a master’s degree from the University of Michigan.

Mary Miller, the Sterling Professor of History of Art at Yale University will step down from her faculty post in December to become director of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Dr. Miller also serves as director of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at Yale and was the first woman to serve as dean of Yale College. She joined the faculty at Yale in 1981.

Professor Miller is a graduate of Princeton University in New Jersey. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at Yale University.

Jennifer W. Foster, an associate professor in the School of Nursing at Emory University, is retiring. She joined the Emory faculty in 2007 after teaching at the University of Massachusetts and serving as a nurse in Guatemala for the Peace Crops.

Dr. Foster is a graduate of the University of Rochester in New York. She earned a master of public health degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts.

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