The appointments are Ashley Leak Bryant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Thessalia Merivaki at Washington State University, Jametta Davis at Hampton University, Kate Bundorf at Duke University, Volha Charnysh at MIT, and Kiana Dibo-Armstrong at Savannah State University.
The new deans are Geeta Swamy at Boston University's Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Ashley S. Dukes at the Americus campus of South Georgia Technical College, and Merritt McAlister at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law.
Here is this week’s roundup of higher education administrators who have been appointed to new positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
The new tenured or tenure track faculty are: Radhika Govindrajan in anthropology, Christina Yi in East Asian languages and cultures, Simone Pinet in Latin American and Iberian cultures, Amaryah Shaye Armstrong in religion, Erin Doherty in biological sciences, and Aya Goldshtein in ecology, evolution, and environmental biology.
The five women joining the tenure-track faculty at Hamilton College are Paule Carbonnel in French and Francophone studies, Nahomi Esquivel in history, Hannah Rhodenhiser in economics, Lena Trüper in German studies, and Yelsy Hernández Zamora in Hispanic studies.
Sarah Bruhn, Jessica Ghai, and Sara Harvel recently joined the faculty of the teaching & learning department in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University.
Melissa Napolitano is the inaugural dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. Mahalley Allen was appointed interim dean of the College of Communication and Education at California State University, Chico and Valentina Salotti was named dean of the John M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.
The appointments are Caroline Nobo at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, Felicia Ellzy-Smith at Dutchess Community College in New York, and Atia Garrett-Washington at Dillard University in New Orleans.
Camille A. Brown was named the Claude and Alfred Mann Endowed Artist in Dance at the University of Southern California. Lauren Massimo is the Anthony Buividas Chair in Gerontology at the University of Pennsylvania and Ashley Valanzola is the David P. Angel Endowed Professor in Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism Studies at Clark University.
Ellen Ziliak now serves as the university-wide dean of faculty. There are three new assistant provosts: Julie Cowgill, Olga Lambert, and Cheryl Mascarenhas.
