Seven Women Appointed to Endowed Faculty Positions

Fiona Doherty has been named the Nathan Baker Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She has been on the Yale faculty since 2011, serving as a tenured clinical professor of law. Currently, she also serves as the law school’s deputy dean for experiential education.

Professor Doherty holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a juris doctorate from Yale Law School.

Madhuri Kango-Singh has been appointed to the Schuellein Chair in the Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Dayton in Ohio. She is a professor of biology and has spent the past five years as director of the university’s graduate program in biology.

Dr. Kango-Singh completed her undergradaute education at Vikram University in India. She received her master’s degree and Ph.D. in genetics and cancer biology from Devi Ajilya University in India.

Meryl “Mimi” Winick has been named the Powell-Edwards Professor for Religion and the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. Earlier in her career, she served as a visiting research associate in the women’s studies in religion program at Harvard Divinity School. She was also an inaugural fellow for the Transcendence and Transformation initiative in Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions.

Dr. Winick holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Lisa Gabel has been named the William C. ’67 and Pamela Rappolt Professor in Neuroscience at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. She has been a faculty member with the college since 2006, and was promoted to full professor five years ago. In addition to her teaching role, she currently serves as dean of natural sciences.

Dr. Gabel earned her master’s degree in psychology and behavioral neuroscience and her Ph.D. in physiology and neurobiology from the University of Connecticut.

Ladda Thiamwong has been appointed as the inaugural Florida Blue Endowed Professor for Healthy Communities in the College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida. She has been a professor with the university for the past eight years. Outside of her academic role, she has served on the city of Orlando’s Mayor’s Committee on Livability and Health Aging since 2019.

Dr. Thiamwong holds three degrees in nursing from two institutions in Thailand: a bachelor’s degree from Boromarajonani College of Nursing Songkhla, as well as a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Mahidol University.

Ebony McGee has been named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. A trained electrical engineer, she has served as a professor of innovation and inclusion in the STEM ecosystem within the university’s School of Education and Public Health and department of mental health for the past year. Prior to her current role, she spent 11 years on the faculty at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dr. McGee is a summa cum laude graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she majored in electrical engineering. She holds a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction and mathematics education from the University of Illinois Chicago.

Marlyse Baptista has been appointed the President’s Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty, she served as the Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics in the department of linguistics and the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Baptista completed her undergraduate degree and master’s degree in Anglophone literatures and civilizations from the Université de Bordeaux III in France. She received a second master’s degree in English as a second language from the University of Massachusetts Boston, as well as a third master’s degree and Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University.