Four Women Selected for Endowed Faculty Appointments

Joanna Ryan has been named the Hooper Danley Faculty Fellow at the University of North Dakota. She has been with the university for the past four years, serving as an assistant professor in the department of teaching, leadership, and professional practice. She also serves as coordinator of the applied behavioral analysis program.

Dr. Ryan received her bachelor’s degree in computer science and master’s degree in special education from Texas State University. She holds a Ph.D. in special education from the University of Utah.

Mary-Hunter McDonnell has been named the inaugural Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Associate Professor in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty at the university in 2015 as an assistant professor of management and earned tenure five years later. In addition to teaching, she serves as the faculty co-director of the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics.

Dr. McDonnell is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in philosophy. She holds a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in management and organizations from Northwestern University.

Vahideh Manshadi has been appointed as the Michael H. Jordan Professor of Operations at the Yale School of Management. She holds several roles with Yale including research director for operations research at the Center for Algorithms, Data, & Market Design and head of the Ph.D. program in operations.

Dr. Manshadi earned her master’s degree in statistics and electrical engineering and her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in California.

Cynthia Fraga Rizo has been named to the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an associate professor in the School of Social Work, where she teaches in the master of social work degree and doctoral degree programs.

Dr. Fraga Rizo received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and master of social work degree from Florida International University. She holds a Ph.D. in social work form the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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