Seven Women Scholars Taking on New Faculty Roles in Higher Education

Misty G. Anderson has been named a James R. Cox Professor for 2019 at the University of Tennessee. She has been a member of the faculty for 22 years, currently serving as a professor of English and the Lindsay Young Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) and Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

Dr. Anderson is a graduate of Yale University. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. both from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

Ann McKee has been named a 2019 William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University. She is a professor of neurology and pathology in the School of Medicine at the university.

Dr. McKee is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. She holds a medical doctorate from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Anne Applebaum has been named a senior fellow at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, a public and academic forum dedicated to strengthening the ideals of democracy, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She currently serves as a professor of practice at the Institute of Global Affairs and director of ARENA at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Gulag: A History (Doubleday, 2003) and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (Doubleday, 2012).

Professor Applebaum is a graduate of Yale University where she double majored in history and literature. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Meg Meloy has been named chair of the marketing department in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. She has been a member of the Smeal faculty since 2002, currently serving as a professor of marketing and the Calvin E. and Pamala T. Zimmerman Fellow.

Dr. Meloy is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University where she majored in agricultural economics and rural sociology with a minor in economics. She holds a master’s degree in applied economics and management and a doctorate in marketing both from Cornell University.

Ann Setzer has been appointed to the teaching faculty at the DePaul University School of Music in Chicago, Illinois. She is an expert violinist with current long-term appointments at the Mannes School of Music, the Juilliard School Pre-College, and the Meadowmount School of Music.

Professor Setzer is a graduate of The Juilliard School in New York City.

Jacqueline “Jacqui” Z. Bergman has been named vice provost for faculty affairs at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She is a professor in the department of management and has served as interim vice provost since July 2018.

Dr. Bergman is a graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she majored in liberal arts. She holds a master’s degree in industrial-organizational psychology from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga and a Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

Julie Trivitt has been named co-director of the Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center at the University of Arkansas. She has been a teaching associate professor of economics at the university since 2012.

Dr. Trivitt is a graduate of Missouri State University where she majored in economics. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D both in economics from the University of Arkansas.

 

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