Two Women Join the Faculty at Macalester College

Macalester College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in St. Paul, Minnesota, has named two women to its faculty.

Victoria Malawey was appointed assistant professor of music. She had held a similar post at Kenyon College in Ohio. Dr. Malawey is a graduate of Roosevelt University’s Chicago Musical College. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Karin Velez is a new assistant professor of history at Macalester College. She was an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in Boston. Dr. Velez is a graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. One of her teaching assignments this year is the course, “Pirates, Missionaries, and Translators: Between Atlantic Empires, 1450-1800.”