Nichole Zehnder is the senior associate dean for undergraduate medical education at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. An associate professor of medicine, Dr. Zehnder previously served as the school’s associate dean for educational strategy. She has been a faculty member at the university since 2020.
Dr. Zehnder received her medical degree from the University of Rochester in New York and completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Colorado.
Mary Elise Sarotte is slated to join the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs faculty in January as a full professor of global affairs. She comes to her new appointment from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she was the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies. An expert on the Cold War and its legacy for today’s geopolitics, Dr. Sarotte has held tenured faculty appointments at the University of Cambridge and the University of Southern California.
Dr. Sarotte holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University.
Camille Robcis is the new chair of the department of history at Columbia University. As a full professor of history and French, she specializes in modern European history; gender and sexuality; and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. She has authored two books, including Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Her next book, The War on Gender, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
Dr. Robcis received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and her Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Narcisa Pricope has been tapped to lead the newly established Energy Resilience and Innovation Hub at Mississippi State University, where she serves as a professor of geosciences and associate vice president for research and economic development. Her research focuses on complex socio-ecological systems dynamics, especially centered on understanding and quantifying environmental variability and the vulnerability of populations to environmental changes, especially land degradation.
Dr. Pricope received her bachelor’s degree in geography and English from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She holds a master’s degree in geosciences from Western Kentucky University and a Ph.D. in geography with a minor in environmental engineering from the University of Florida.
Pearl Dowe has been promoted to senior vice provost for academic affairs at Emory University in Atlanta. For the past three years, Dr. Dowe has been the university’s vice provost for faculty affairs. As a faculty member, she serves as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science and African American Studies. Her current scholarship centers on African American women’s political ambition and public leadership.
A graduate of Savannah State University in Georgia, Dr. Dowe holds a master’s degree in political science from Georgia Southern University and a Ph.D. in political science from Howard University in Washington, D.C.