Samantha Power has received a joint appointment as the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and as the William D. Zabel ’61 Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School. Her appointment marks a return to Harvard, where she previously taught from 2017 to 2021. More recently, she served in the Biden administration as the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Professor Power holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University and a juris doctorate from Harvard.
Hannah Pollin-Galay has been named the Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies and director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She will hold faculty appointments in the university’s department of Judaic and Near Eastern studies and the department of history. For the past five years, she has served as head of the Jona Goldrich Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
Dr. Pollin-Galay earned her bachelor’s degree in Yiddish studies and English literature from Columbia College and her Ph.D. in history from Tel Aviv University.
Misty Gamble has been named the Steven Mayes Professor of Visual Arts at West Texas A&M University. A faculty member since 2020, she is the founder of Studio Nong: International Sculpture Collective and Residency Program. As an artist, she creates life-size ceramic figurative sculptures and installations of multiple ceramic cast figures, focusing attention on issues surrounding eco-feminism.
Professor Gamble received her master of fine arts degree from San Francisco State University.