Four Women Named Distinguished Professors in the State University of New York System

Margaret A. Turk has been named a Distinguished Service Professor in the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation, the department of pediatrics, and the department of public health and preventative medicine at the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. She holds numerous leaderships positions within her departments including vice chair and quality officer of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation, director of pediatric rehabilitation, associate director of rehabilitation units, director for clinical research, and director for student education.

Dr. Turk holds a medical degree from Ohio State University.

Lisa Jean Moore has been named a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College. As an academic, her scholarship focuses on the intersections of sociology of health and medicine, science and technology studies, feminist studies, animal studies, and body studies. She is the co-author of Buzz: Urban Bee-Keeping and the Power of the Bee (New York University Press, 2013) and the author of Catch and Release: The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab (New York University Press, 2018).

Dr. Moore is a graduate of Tufts University in Massachusetts. She holds a master of public health degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco.

Nkiru Nzegwu has been named a Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies at Binghamton University. She has been a Binghamton faculty member since 1990. Professor Nzegwu is the author of Family Members: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture (State University of New York Press, 2006). 

Dr. Nzegwu holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Ottawa in Canada.

Tiantian Zheng has been named a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at SUNY Cortland. She has contributed significant research to her field by promoting a deeper understanding of the inextricable connections between socio-economic and political conditions in China and other post-socialist countries. She is the author of Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)and Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China (University of Minnesota Press, 2015).

Dr. Zheng is a graduate of Bo Hai University in Jinzhou, China, where she majored in English education. She holds a master’s degree in English linguistics from Dalian University of Foreign Language in Dalian, China, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. both in socio-cultural anthropology from Yale University.