New Appointments for a Half Dozen Women Faculty Members at Universities

Fathima Wakeel has been named the inaugural director of graduate studies for the College of Health at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Before coming to Lehigh, Dr. Wakeel was an associate professor at Ferris State University in Big Rapids. Michigan.

Dr. Wakeel holds a master of public health degree in maternal and child health from the University of South Florida. She earned a Ph.D. in public health at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Rachel Finley is a new assistant professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University. She is an award-winning spoken word artist, actor, director, playwright and voice and dialect coach.

Finley is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She holds a master of fine arts degree from Florida Atlantic University.

Elaine Shuey was named a Distinguished Professor at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty at the university in 1984 and currently serves as a professor and chair of the department of communication sciences and disorders.

Dr. Shuey is a graduate of Clarion University of Pennsylvania. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at Kent State University in Ohio.

Susan Dynarski will join the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a professor of education in July 2021. Dr. Dynarski is currently a professor of public policy, education, and economics at the University of Michigan. She holds appointments at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the School of Education, the department of economics, and the Institute for Social Research.

Professor Dynarski earned a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Harvard College, a master of public policy degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Amy Campbell is the new associate dean for law & health sciences and one of the newest members of its tenured faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School. She had been serving on the faculty at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.

Professor Campbell is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she majored in history and peace studies. She earned a juris doctorate at Yale Law School and a master’s degree in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Christianne Roumie has been named director of the master of public health degree program at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. She is an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at the medical school.

Dr. Roumie is a graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey. She earned a medical doctorate at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and a master of public health degree from Vanderbilt University.

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