Laura Mamo is slated to join the Wellesley College faculty in September as the Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women. Dr. Mamo comes to her new appointment from San Francisco State University, where she has been serving as a professor of public health and director of the Health Equity Institute. A scholar of medical sociology, feminist science and technology studies, women’s health, and society, Dr. Mamo is known for her research on reproductive technology and the HPV vaccine.
Dr. Mamo is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, San Francisco.
Janette H. Ok has been named the George Eldon Ladd Chair of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Dr. Ok first joined Fuller Seminary in 2020 after teaching for five years at Azusa Pacific University in California. Her research centers on the Catholic Epistles and early Christian identity formation, with particular attention to Asian American, intersectional, and interdisciplinary approaches to biblical interpretation. She is the author of numerous scholarly publications, including Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer (T&T Clark, 2021).
Dr. Ok is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where she majored in the study of religion and minored in English literature. She holds a master of divinity degree and a Ph.D. in biblical studies (New Testament) from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Shubhra Pasayat is the Dugald C. Jackson Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Pasayat’s research focuses on the design and growth of gallium-nitride and related wide- and ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor materials. Her work contributes to a wide-range of applications, including electric vehicles, high-frequency communications, and optoelectronics.
Dr. Pasayat is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.