Six Women Professors Take on New Roles at Universities

Jill Drouillard has been promoted to director of the Women’s College at Mississippi University for Women. She has served as an assistant professor of philosophy and women’s gender, and sexuality studies for the past five years. Earlier this year, she published her first book, Feminist Heidegger: Sex, Gender, and the Politics of Birth (State University of New York Press, 2025).

Dr. Drouillard is a graduate of Goucher College in Baltimore, where she double-majored in philosophy and women’s studies. She holds a master’s degree in gender studies from the London School of Economics, a master’s degree in practical philosophy from the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée in France, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Université Paris Sorbonne IV in France.

Carrie Geiger has been appointed director of the P. K. Yonge Developmental Research School in the College of Education at the University of Florida. A faculty member with the college since 1999, she has been an administrator at P. K. Yonge for the past 13 years. Currently, she serves as the research school’s secondary school principal.

Dr. Geiger holds a bachelor’s degree in political science, a master’s degree in elementary education, and a doctorate in educational leadership all from the University of Florida.

Renata Engel has been selected to serve as interim vice president for Commonwealth Campuses at Pennsylvania State University. A Penn State faculty member since 1990, she currently teaches as a professor of engineering mechanics and engineering design. She has served in several administrative capacities, including her current role as vice provost for online education.

Dr. Engel is an alumna of Penn State, where she majored in engineering science. She holds a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from the University of South Florida.

Cicilia Yudha has joined the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Nevada-Reno as a professor of piano. She previously served as an associate professor of piano at Youngstown State University in Ohio. A versatile soloist and chamber musician, she has performed and taught master classes at institutions around the world.

Dr. Yudha holds a doctorate in piano performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Jami Fukui has been appointed chief of clinical breast oncology for the Ka Ê»Umeke Lama initiative at the University of HawaiÊ»i Cancer Center. In this role, she will oversee all of the center’s research efforts related to breast cancer. An associate professor at the university’s John A. Burns School of Medicine, Dr. Fukui studies various aspects of cancer care, with an emphasis on reducing health disparities.

Dr. Fukui received her medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Allison Harris has earned the distinction of University Professor at Illinois State University. She has taught in the department of physics since 2013 and achieved the rank of full professor in 2021. In her work, she researches computational methods of charged particle collisions, ultrafast physics, and biophysics.

A graduate of Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, Dr. Harris earned her Ph.D. from the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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