Three Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointment of Women to Dean Positions

Vickie Mazer has joined McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland, as the new dean of graduate and professional studies. For the past 13 years, Dr. Mazer served as the director of graduate services at Frostburg University in Maryland.

Dr. Mazer received both a bachelor’s degree in physical education and a master’s degree in exercise physiology from West Virginia University. She earned a doctoral degree in educational leadership from Frostburg University.

Maria Galli Stampino recently began an internship as dean of undergraduate affairs at the University of Miami in Florida. She was senior associate dean of faculty affairs and diversity in the College of Arts and Sciences. Earlier, she has taken a one-year leave of absence from the University of Miami to serve as vice president and dean of academic affairs at the American University of Rome.

Dr. Stampino holds a master’s degree in American studies from the University of Kansas. She earned a Ph.D. in Italian at Stanford University.

Deborah Uman is the new dean of the Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, effective January 1. She has been serving as a professor and chair of the department of English at St. John Fischer College in Rochester, New York. She is the author of Women as Translators in Early Modern England (University of Delaware Press, 2012).

Dr. Uman received her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Yale University. She earned a master’s degree and a P.D. in English literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder.