Lindsay Lally has been named the Pulte Homes Professor in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech. Currently holding the rank of associate professor of practice, she facilitates the senior construction engineering and management capstone experience, helping students apply their knowledge to real-world projects. Earlier in her career, Lally was a project manager for Draper Aden Associates, where she led a variety of land development projects.
Lally holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in civil engineering from Virginia Tech.
Diana Robertson has been named the Bozza Family Penn First Plus Faculty Co-Director at the University of Pennsylvania. A Penn Wharton School faculty member since 2008, she currently holds the Samuel A. Blank Professorship of Legal Studies and Business Ethics. For the past six years, she has been Wharton’s vice dean and director of the undergraduate division. In her new role, Dr. Robertson will lead Penn First Plus, a program dedicated to supporting first-generation and low-income undergraduate students.
A graduate of Northwestern University in Illinois, Dr. Robertson earned her master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Kate Richmond is the inaugural Dr. Ronald F. Levant Endowed Professor in Psychology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She has been a faculty member with the college for nearly two decades, currently serving as a full professor and director of the women and gender studies program. Her research centers on multicultural psychology, gender ideology, men and masculinity, transgender resiliency, feminist therapy, and trauma.
Dr. Richmond is a graduate of Muhlenberg College and earned her Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
Joanne B. Freeman is the Alan Boles Class of 1929 Professor of History at Yale University. A Yale faculty member since 1997, she currently holds a joint appointment in American studies. As a scholar, she studies early American history and political culture, as well as the life and times of Alexander Hamilton. Her most recent book is The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2018).
Dr. Freeman is a graduate of Pomona College in California, where she majored in English literature. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia.
Nina Rowe was recently named the John L. Marion Professor in Art History, Painting and Sculpture at Fordham University in New York. As a scholar, she specializes medieval art, illuminated manuscripts, medievalism, historiography, and Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages. Her research has led to several publications, including The Illuminated World Chronicle: Tales from the Late Medieval City (Yale University Press, 2020).
Dr. Rowe holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College in Ohio, a master’s degree from the University of Texas, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Illinois.