Six Women Academics Awarded Endowed Faculty Positions

Naima Kaabouch has been named the Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor at the University of North Dakota. She currently serves as a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative, and lead of the Cybersecurity & Data Chain in the Research Institute for Autonomous Systems.

Dr. Kaabouch holds a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Paris in France.

Emily S. Barrett has been named the George G. Rhoads Endowed Legacy Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is a professor and vice chair of the department of biostatistics and epidemiology in the Rutgers School of Public Health. She also serves as co-director of the Maternal-Child Environmental Health Lab and the Human Exposures and Outcomes Research Core.

Dr. Barrett is a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts where she majored in biology. She holds a Ph.D. in biological anthropology from Harvard University.

Jenn Jacobs has been appointed the Dr. M. Nadine Zimmerman Professor at Northern Illinois University. She has been with the university since 2016 as a faculty member in the department of kinesiology and physical education. Her research interests include sport for incarcerated populations, international sport for social change, and sport for development.

Dr. Jacobs is a graduate of the University of Illinois where she majored in kinesiology. She holds a master’s degree in sport psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Northern Illinois University.

Jessica Fay has been named to the Jo Rowan Chair in Dance at Oklahoma City University. She currently serves as a professor and chair of the ballet department. She is also the academic advisor and choreographer for the Oklahoma City University Star Dance Company.

Fay is a two-time graduate of Oklahoma City University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in dance performance and a master of fine arts degree in dance.

Kristin Goss has been appointed the Susan B. King Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University in North Carolina. She has been with the university since 2005, currently serving as director of the undergraduate “Duke in DC” program and director of the Duke Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism. She has authored numerous books including The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Dr. Goss completed her undergraduate education at Harvard University where she double-majored in history and literature. She received a master of public policy degree from Duke University, and returned to Harvard University to receive a Ph.D. in government.

Mila Getmansky Sherman has been named the Fuller and Meehan Endowed Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has been with the university for two decades, currently serving as a professor of finance and associate director of the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets.

Dr. Sherman received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering with a minor in economics and a Ph.D. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.