Madeleine Dobie is chair of the department of French at Columbia University. Dr. Dobie, a professor of French and comparative literature, has served as director of French graduate studies and French graduate admissions and as graduate placement officer at Columbia. Her teaching and research areas include Francophone/postcolonial literatures and cinemas of France, the Maghreb, the Middle East, and the Caribbean as well as the cultural dimensions of migration and diaspora. She also studies eighteenth-century French culture, particularly with regard to orientalism, colonialism, and the history of slavery.
Dr. Dobie earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and modern languages from the University of Oxford in England and her Ph.D in French from Yale University.
Ruth L. Bush is a new professor of academic clinical medicine and the vice dean for undergraduate medical education in the Cape Fear Valley Health School of Medicine at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. A vascular surgeon by training, Dr. Bush has more than two decades of experience in clinical practice, academic medicine, and medical education. She has held academic leadership roles at Texas A&M University, the University of Houston, and the University of Texas Medical Branch.
A graduate of Cornell University, Dr. Bush earned a master of public health degree and a medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds a juris doctorate from William Howard Taft University in Denver.
Dana Hogan is a new assistant professor of history of art and architecture at Middlebury College in Vermont. As a scholar, she focuses on early modern women, the Renaissance Mediterranean, and digital humanities. Her research interests include women in early modern art, cross-cultural exchange, and self-fashioning strategies in literature and art.
Dr. Hogan is a graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts, where she majored in art history and comparative literature. She holds a master’s degree in Renaissance art history from Syracuse University, a master’s degree in Italian Renaissance art from Syracuse University Florence, and a Ph.D. in art history, criticism, and conservation from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Maya Binyam has officially joined the Claremont McKenna College faculty as an assistant professor of literature, following two years as a visiting lecturer at the college. Binyam is the author of the award-winning novel Hangman (Farrar, Straus, and Girous, 2023). Earlier in her career, she taught in The New School’s creative publishing and critical journalism program.
Binyam is a graduate of Yale University.
Laura Dzurec is associate dean for academic affairs in the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work centers on nursing education, psychiatric and mental health, family, communications, and workplace dynamics. She has conducted extensive research on workplace bullying and the contexts for which it transpires. Earlier in her career, Dr. Dzurec was dean of the School of Nursing at Widener University in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Dzurec is a graduate of the University of Connecticut. She holds a master’s degree from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in nursing from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Meike van der Heijden is the inaugural faculty fellow for the Integrated Health Sciences and Research experience at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion. Dr. van der Heijden is an assistant professor and neuroscientist whose lab focuses on cerebellar function in health and disease. In her new role, she will serve as a faculty ambassador and advisor, helping strengthen opportunities for faculty engagement while supporting the undergraduate research program’s continued growth and development.
Dr. van der Heijden received her bachelor’s degree in psychobiology from the University of Amsterdam and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
Eun-song Koh has officially joined the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music as an assistant professor of violin. She has served as a guest faculty member since 2025. Koh has extensive performance experience and a strong record of developing young musicians at the pre-collegiate and collegiate levels. Her teaching emphasizes the integration of technical proficiency, musical expression, and the discipline and resilience necessary for a successful career in music.
Koh holds a bachelor of music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a master of music degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Theresa Werner was appointed chief of the division of oncology in the department of internal medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Werner, the Karen H. Huntsman Presidential Endowed Chair, serves as an investigator with the university’s Huntsman Cancer Institute. She specializes in adult medical oncology, particularly gynecologic malignancies.
Dr. Werner earned her bachelor’s degree and her medical degree from Indiana University. She completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at the University of Utah.