Carleton College in Minnesota Appoints Three Women Professors to Endowed Positions

Stacy Beckwith has been named the W.I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Since 2008, she has served as director of Carleton College’s Judaic studies program. In 2010, she helped to develop the college’s department of Middle Eastern languages and the Middle East studies minor. Her scholarship centers around how medieval and early modern Iberian Jews and Catholic converts appear in historical fiction written in Spain today. She has published several academic volumes, including Charting Memory: Recalling Medieval Spain (Routledge, 2019).

Dr. Beckwith received her bachelor’s degree in international relations and Hebrew from the University of Toronto and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Minnesota.

Nancy Cho has been named the Class of 1941 Professor of English and the Liberal Arts. She has been a member of the Carleton College faculty for nearly three decades. Throughout her tenure, she has held several leadership roles including chair of the English department and director of the American studies program. Her research focuses on Asian American literature and on the work of playwrights of color during and after the civil rights movement.

Dr. Cho holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan.

Serena Zabin has been named the Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of History and the Liberal Arts. Her career with Carleton began in 2000 as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. She has served as a full professor since 2015. A scholar of early American history and gender and women’s history, she has published several books, including The Boston Massacre: A Family History (Mariner Books, 2020).

Dr. Zabin is a summa cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College in Maine, where she majored in classics. She holds a master’s degree in Latin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in early American history from Rutgers University in New Jersey.