Five Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships

Lori K. Pearson was appointed the David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She has served on the faculty at the college since 2003. Professor Pearson is the author of Beyond Essence:  Ernst Troeltsch as Historian and Theorist of Christianity (Harvard Divinity School, 2008).

Professor Pearson is a graduate of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in theology from Harvard Divinity School.

Anastasia Muliana was named the G. Paul ’54 Professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University. She has been serving as a Cain Faculty Fellow at the university.

Dr. Muliana is a graduate of the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia, where she majored in civil engineering. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in structural engineering and mechanics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Kate Ponto was appointed to the Wimberly and Royster Research Professorship in the department of mathematics at the University of Kentucky. She has served on the faculty at the university since 2010.

Professor Ponto is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she majored in mathematics. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago.

Bernadette Atuahene is the Damon J. Keith Distinguished Visiting Professor at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit for the current academic year. She is on the faculty at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Professor Atuahene is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a master’s degree from Harvard University and a juris doctorate from Yale Law School.

Gladys McCormick has been named to the Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York. She is the author of The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

A native of Costa Rica, Professor McCormick holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.