Five Women Selected for Endowed Faculty Appointments

Daniela Arias-Rotondo has been named to the Roger F. and Harriet G. Varney Endowed Chair in Natural Science at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. She is an assistant professor of chemistry who teaches courses on inorganic chemistry, molecular structure, and transition metals. Her research specializes in photoactive complexes of first-row transition metals.

Dr. Arias-Rotondo holds a bachelor’s degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

Hannah Feldman has been appointed as the Katherine Stein Sacs, CW’69, and Keith L. Sachs W’67 Associate Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. As an art historian and theorist, she studies contemporary art and visuality, urban space, and decolonization and decoloniality. She is the author of From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962 (Duke University Press, 2014).

Dr. Feldman received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Sharrona Pearl has been named the inaugural Andrews Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at Texas Christian University. She comes to her new role from Drexel University in Philadelphia, where she held appointments in bioethics, history, and science studies. She is a historian of science and medicine who researches bodies, particularly the face, from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Dr. Pearl is a graduate of York University in Canada, where she majored in humanities and science studies. She holds a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University.

Emily Satterwhite has been named the Edward S. Diggs Professor of Humanities at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has been with Virginia Tech since 2005, currently serving as a professor of religion and culture and co-director of the Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia project. She is the author of Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction Since 1878 (University of Kentucky Press, 2011).

Dr. Satterwhite earned her bachelor’s degree from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky and her Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Erica Fuchs has been appointed as the Kavčić-Moura Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to her primary appointment, she is an affiliate with the department of materials science and engineering and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Her research focuses on the development, commercialization and global manufacturing of emerging technologies, and national policy in that context.

Dr. Fuchs is a three-time graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering, a master’s degree in technology policy, and a Ph.D. in engineering systems.