Two New Women Provosts at State Universities

Emily Roxworthy was named provost of Earl Warren College, one of six undergraduate colleges at the University of California, San Diego. She has been serving as interim associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity and equity and a professor of theatre at the university.

Professor Roxworthy is the author of The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity in World War II (University of Hawaii Press, 2008).

Kate Miller was appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Wyoming. Since 2009, Dr. Miller has served as dean of the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University in College Station. Earlier, she was associate dean of the College of Science at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Dr. Miller is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University in New Jersey, where she majored in geological and geophysical sciences. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in geophysics from Stanford University in California.