Ebonya Washington has been named the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University. She was the university’s Henry Kohn Associate Professor of Economics.
Dr. Washington holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Catherine Kling has been named a Tisch University Professor at Cornell University. She joined the faculty in July as a professor of environmental, energy, and resource economics and as the director at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.
Dr. Kling holds a bachelor’s degree in business and economics from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels has been named the Marianna Merritt and Donald S. Matteson Distinguished Professor in Foreign Languages and Cultures at Washington State University. She has been a faculty member at the university since 2003.
Dr. Navarro-Daniels holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of ValparaÃso in Chile, a master’s degree in social science from Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. both in Spanish from the University of Connecticut.