Jill Fleuriet was named the twenty-third president of Salem Academy and College. She will begin her presidency on July 1.
Salem Academy, an all-girls boarding and day high school, and Salem College, a women’s postsecondary institution, share the same campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. According to the U.S. Department of Education, Salem College enrolls more than 450 undergraduate students and nearly 100 graduate students.
Dr. Fleuriet comes to her new role from the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she has been serving as vice provost for honors education and a professor of anthropology. A cultural and medical anthropologist by training, Dr. Fleuriet focuses her scholarship on health and well-being, care, gender, leadership, and place-making. She is the author of Rhetoric and Reality on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Politics, Home (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
“Salem’s commitment to women’s education — from the Academy through the College — resonates deeply with my own work and values,” said Dr. Fleuriet. “I believe strongly in the power of integrating humanistic inquiry with health and well-being to prepare students not only for careers, but for lives of purpose and impact. I am honored to join this extraordinary community and to help shape its next chapter.”
A graduate of Harvard University, Dr. Fleurit holds a master’s degree from San Diego State University and both a second master’s degree and Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University in California.