Two Women Awarded Tenure at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University, the highly rated liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, has awarded tenure to two women scholars.

Lois Brown is a professor of American studies and a professor of English. She joined the faculty at Wesleyan earlier in this academic year. Previously, she was the Elizabeth Small Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She first joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke in 1998.

Professor Brown is a graduate of Duke University and holds a Ph.D. from Boston College.

Constance Leidy is an associate professor of mathematics. She has served on the Wesleyan faculty since 2007. Before coming to Wesleyan, she was the Rademacher Instructor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Dr. Leidy is a graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans. She earned a Ph.D. at Rice University in Houston.