Four Women Awarded Tenure and Promoted to Associate Professor at Williams College in Massachusetts

Julie Blackwood has been promoted to an associate professor of mathematics. Her research interests lie at the intersection of mathematics and ecology, developing mathematical models for analyzing large populations of organisms, and the effect of their behavior in their environment.

Dr. Blackwood holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of California, Davis.

Jessica Fisher has been promoted to an associate professor of English. She is the author of Frail-Craft (Yale University Press, 2007) and Inmost (Nightboat Books, 2012).

Dr. Fisher holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and a master’s degree and Ph.D. both in English from the University of California, Berkeley.

Aparna Kapadia has been promoted to an associate professor of history. She is a historian of South Asia and the author of In Praise of Kings: Rajputs, Sultans and Poets in Fifteenth-Century Gujarat (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Dr. Kapadia holds a bachelor’s degree in history from St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai, India, a master of arts and a master of philosophy degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Anjuli F. Raza Kolb has been promoted to an associate professor of English and comparative literature. Her research and areas of interest include colonial and postcolonial literature and theory, comparative literature, cultural criticism, Asian studies, women’s gender and sexuality studies, and history and philosophy of science.

Dr. Kolb holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College and two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. all in English and comparative literature from Columbia University.