Three Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships

Christine Suniti Bhat, professor of counselor education in Ohio University’s Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education, has been named the first Dr. Tommie Radd Professor of School Counseling. Professor Bhat has been a faculty member at Ohio University since 2006.

Dr. Bhat holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Bangalore University in Bengaluru, India. She earned a master’s degree in organizational psychology from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. in counselor education from Ohio University.

Pallabi Chakravorty was named to the Stephen Lang Professorship of the Performing Arts at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Her academic research is located at the intersections of visual and performing arts, history and anthropology, film and media studies, gender and postcolonial studies, religion, and bodies. Professor Chakravorty has served on the faculty at the college since 2002.

Dr. Chakravorty is a graduate of Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India, where she majored in English literature. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Hanétha Vété-Congolo was named the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Her latest book is Nous Sommes Martinquaises: Pawol en Bouches de Femmes Chataignes (Editions L’Harmattan, 2020).

Dr. Vété-Congolo holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane.

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