Four Women Scholars Selected for New Faculty Positions

Yue Wang has been appointed associate dean for research in the College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences at Clemson University in South Carolina. A Clemson faculty member for more than a decade, she currently serves as the Warren H. Owen-Duke Energy Professor and director of the Intelligent and Interdisciplinary Research laboratory in the department of mechanical engineering. She also serves as a program director with the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Wang is a graduate of Shanghai University in China, where she majored in mechanical engineering and automation. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.

Margo Brooks Carthon has been named director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Tyson Family Endowed Term Chair for Gerontological Research, a full professor of nursing, and the associate director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research. Throughout her career, she has conducted extensive research on the empirical relationships between the quality of nursing care and racial inequities in outcomes.

Dr. Brooks Carthon earned her bachelor’s degree from North Carolina A&T State University. She holds a master of nursing degree in psychiatric and adult health from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.

Rebecca Sheehan has been named associate dean for academic affairs in the Graduate College at Oklahoma State University. She first joined the university’s faculty in 2012 and has served as a full professor of geography since 2022. As a scholar of cultural historical geography, she specializes in critically examining public spaces. Her recent work has focused on Confederate monument removal.

Dr. Sheehan holds a bachlor’s degree in landscape architecture from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She earned a master’s degree in applied geography from Texas State University and a Ph.D. in geography from Louisiana State University.

Jessica Folkart has been appointed chair of the department of modern and classical languages and literatures at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is a full professor of Spanish who has taught at Virginia Tech for almost three decades. She is the author of two books: Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity (Bucknell University Press, 2014) and Angles on Otherness in Post-Franco Spain: The Fiction of Cristina Fernández (Bucknell University Press, 2022).

Dr. Folkart is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, where she double majored in Spanish and international relations. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Kansas.