A Trio of Women Faculty Members in New Roles

Amy Milligan, who holds the Batten Endowed Professorship in Jewish Studies and is an assistant professor of women’s studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, is being given the added duties as director of the Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding at the university.

Dr. Milligan joined the Old Dominion faculty this past fall. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Pennsylvania State University.

Rashida K. Braggs was promoted to associate professor of Africana studies at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She was also granted tenure. Dr. Braggs is the author of Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Paris (University of California Press, 2016).

Dr. Braggs is a graduate of Yale University. She holds a master’s degree from Boston University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Gwyn E. Campbell, a professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, has been given the added duties of associate dean of the college. She will begin in this new role on July 1. Professor Campbell joined the faculty at Washington and Lee in 1985.

Dr. Campbell is a summa cum laude graduate of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She holds a master’s degree in Spanish from the University of Western Ontario, and a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Spanish from Princeton University in New Jersey.