Universities Announce the Appointment of Three Women to Endowed Professorships

Daisy Delogu has been named the Howard L. Willett Professor in the department of romance languages and literatures at the University of Chicago. Dr. Delogu is the author of Allegorical Bodies: Power and Gender in Late Medieval France (University of Toronto Press, 2015). She is currently working on a book entitled Good Shepherds and “Sheep of Human Descent”: Pastoral Politics in Late Medieval France and Burgundy.

Professor Delogu earned a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.

Julie V. Battle, professor of psychology and chair of the Lynn J. Darby School of Psychology and Adolescent Counseling at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, has been named to the Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair. Professor Battle joined the faculty at the university in 1999.

Dr. Battle earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Houston.

Aerial Ellis has been appointed to the Wells Fargo Endowed Chair in the department of mass communication at North Carolina Central Univerity. For the past decade, Dr. Ellis has taught courses in public relations, cross-cultural communication, organizational communication, and leadership at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Professor Ellis holds a bachelor’s degree in speech communication from Tennessee State University and a master’s degree in mass communication from Middle Tennessee State University. She also earned a global executive doctoral degree from the University of Southern California.

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