Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, has announced the appointments of three faculty members to endowed professorships.
Nina Kushner, associate professor of history, has been appointed the Jacob and Frances I. Hiatt Professor of History. Dr. Kushner, joined the faculty in 2005 and is co-chair of the department of history. She is a specialist in early modern and eighteenth-century European social and cultural history, with an emphasis on France, women, gender, and the history of sexuality. Dr. Kushner is the author of Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Cornell University Press, 2013). A graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Dr. Kushner holds two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in European history from Columbia University.
Shelly Tenenbaum, longtime professor of sociology, is the inaugural holder of the Betty J. Singer ’71 Professorship in Jewish Studies. Professor Tenenbaum’s research focuses on ethnic enterprise, mutual aid, gender, education, and identity and intersects the broad areas of sociology of American Jews and historical sociology. She is the author of A Credit to Their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880-1945 (Wayne State University Press, 1993). Dr. Tenenbaum is a graduate of Antioch College in Ohio, where she majored in political science. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic studies from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Terrasa Ulm, associate professor in the Becker School of Design & Technology, has been named the inaugural holder of the E.C.A. and Mary Becker Professorship. Ulm has been an emergent media artist, game developer, and professor of interactive media for over 15 years. Ulm is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. Ulm went on to earn a master of fine arts degree from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a master’s degree in interactive media at the Parsons School of Design at The New School.