Carleton College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Northfield, Minnesota, has announced the promotion of six faculty members to the rank of full professor. Three of these promotions were awarded to women.
Mihaela Czobor-Lupp was promoted to professor of political science. Professor Czobor-Lupp started teaching at Carleton as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2010. She is the author or editor of several books, including Imagination in Politics: Freedom or Domination? (Lexington Books, 2014). Dr. Czobor-Lupp is a graduate of the University of Bucharest in Romania. She studied philosophy and social theory at the University of Warwick in England before joining the faculty at the University of Bucharest in 1992, where she was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1996. After a decade of teaching political science and philosophy there, she emigrated to the United States and pursued a second Ph.D. in government at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Amna Khalid was named professor of history at Carleton College. Professor Khalid came to Carleton in 2011 as an assistant professor of history. She has taught courses on South Asia’s colonial history, post-independence relations between India and Pakistan, the political and social history of India’s partition, and the relationship between colonial expansion and the spread of disease. After completing her bachelor’s degree in social sciences with a minor in economics, Dr. Khalid earned a master’s degree in development studies and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Oxford in England. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sussex in England and a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Anna Rafferty was promoted to professor of computer science. Professor Rafferty joined the Carleton computer science department as an assistant professor in 2014. She teaches a wide range of courses, including computer science theory, programming-focused courses, and electives related to artificial intelligence. In her research, Professor Rafferty addresses questions in education and cognition using machine learning tools. Dr. Rafferty holds bachelor’s degrees in feminist studies and symbolic systems and a master’s degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University. She earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.