Johanna Burton has been named Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. With over 15 years of experience in museum leadership, she currently serves as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Earlier, she was director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University in New York.
Burton holds a master’s degree in art history from Princeton University, a second master’s degree in performance studies from New York University, and a third master’s degree in art history, criticism, and theory from Stony Brook University.
Elizabeth Hinton has been named the Class of 1954 Professor of History and Black Studies at Yale University. A faculty member since 2020, she currently leads the Yale Institute on Incarceration and Public Safety. Her research on the persistence of poverty, racial inequality, and urban violence in the twentieth-century United States has led to several scholarly publications, including her most recent book, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s (Liveright, 2021).
A graduate of New York University, Dr. Hinton holds two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Columbia University.
Christine Dinh has been named the George Lerner University Chair in Otolaryngology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is the first woman in her department to be named to an endowed chair. Currently, she holds several leadership roles at the Miller School, including director of the Vestibular Schwannoma Research Laboratory, co-director of the Auditory Brainstem Implant Program, and vice chair of academic affairs for the otolaryngology department. Her research centers on Schwann cell biology, vestibular schwannoma, and auditory disorders.
Dr. Dinh received her bachelor’s degree and medical degree from the University of Miami.