Three Women Faculty Members at Middlebury College Promoted and Awarded Tenure

Drs. Stein, Clinton, and Shapiro

The board of trustees of Middlebury College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Vermont, has promoted four faculty members from assistant to associate professor. The four were also granted tenure. Three of those promoted and awarded tenure are women.

Maggie Clinton was promoted to associate professor of history. She joined the faculty at Middlebury in 2009. Dr. Clinton teaches courses on modern Chinese and East Asian history and culture. Her book Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937 will be published in April by Duke University Press. Dr. Clinton is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where she majored in history and East Asian studies. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from New York University.

Shawna Shapiro is the first faculty member in Middlebury College’s writing program to be granted tenure. Dr. Shapiro also teaches in the college’s linguistic program. She joined the faculty at the college in 2009. Dr. Shapiro is the co-author of Fostering International Student Success in Higher Education (TESOL Press, 2014). A graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, Dr. Shapiro holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English language and rhetoric from the University of Washington.

Louisa Stein was named an associate professor in the department of film and media studies. She joined the Middlebury College faculty in 2010 after teaching for four years at San Diego State University. Dr. Stein is the author of Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age (University of Iowa Press, 2015). A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dr. Stein earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in cinema studies at New York University.