Two Women Scholars Appointed to Named Professorships

Daphne Ann Brooks has been named the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of African American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Duke University Press, 2006).

Dr. Brooks is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in English both from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Sherry Fowler has been named a Keeler Family Intra-University Professor at the University of Kansas. She is a professor of the history of art and has been a faculty member at the university since 2000. Her professorship will support collaborative research, focused on East Asian religions and art history, with faculty from the department of religious studies.

Dr. Fowler is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach where she majored in art history. She holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles.