Eight Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments

Myriam Jimenez recently joined the faculty of Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia, as a clinical assistant professor of production management medicine.

Dr. Jimenez earned a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in food animal medicine and reproduction from the University of Florida.

Jung Youn Lee is a new assistant professor of marketing at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Her research interests lie broadly in the distributional and efficiency consequences of firm and government policy, with a particular interest in the consumer credit market.

Dr. Lee is a graduate of Rice University. She earned a Ph.D. in marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Teresa Longo, professor of Hispanic studies and executive director of the Reves Center for International Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, has been given the added responsibilities of associate provost for international affairs. She joined the faculty at the college in 1989.

Professor Longo holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Montana. She earned a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sarah A. Goldstein is a new assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine. She is an expert in cardiovascular disease with training in cardio-obstetrics and adult congenital heart disease.

Dr. Goldstein is a graduate of the University of Virginia. She earned her medical degree at the University of North Carolina.

Ann Austin, University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University has been assigned the added duties of interim associate provost and assistant vice president for faculty and academic staff affairs. She joined the faculty in 1991 and was serving as interim dean of the College of Education for the past year. Earlier, she was associate dean for research in the College of Education.

Dr. Austin is a magna cum laude graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where she majored in history. She holds a master’s degree in higher/postsecondary education from Syracuse University in New York, a master’s degree in American culture from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. from the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Michigan.

Roze Hentschell, professor of English and senior associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University, has been named interim chief academic officer of the Colorado State University System for the 2022-23 academic year. She is the author of St. Paul’s Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Professor Hentschell is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Lori Hunter, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, was appointed director of the Institute of Behavioral Science at the university. Dr. Hunter joined the faculty at the university in 2000. Since 2017, she has served as director of the Institute of Behavioral Science’s Population Program and the University of Colorado Population Center.

Professor Hunter is a graduate of the University of Washington. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Marianne M. Kim, a professor in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, was named associate director of the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at the university. She joined the faculty in 2006 and teaches courses on choreography and performance art.

Professor Kim is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she majored in theater. She holds a master of fine arts degree in choreography and technology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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