Bucknell University, the highly rated liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has announced the promotion of three women to the rank of full professor.
Tammy Hiller was promoted to full professor of management. She has been on the Bucknell faculty since 1994. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in marketing, she began a career in business working at General Foods. She then studied at Harvard Business School and returned to Chapel Hill to earn a doctorate in organizational behavior.
DeeAnn Reeder was promoted to full professor of biology. She joined the Bucknell faculty in 2005 after conducting postdoctoral research at Boston University. Dr. Reeder is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in animal behavior from the University of California, Davis. She is the co-editor of Mammal Species of the World, A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), now in its third edition.
Virginia Zimmerman is a full professor of English. She specializes in Victorian literature and culture and also in children’s literature from the nineteenth century to the present. She is also the author of a novel for young readers. Professor Zimmerman holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.