Wintner taught German and English at Haverford College in Pennsylvania for more than 40 years. During this time, she was active in the college's writing program, helping first-year students acclimate to the rigors of college-level writing.
The three women promoted to full professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota are Mihaela Czobor-Lupp in political science, Amna Khalid in history and Anna Rafferty in computer science.
Dr. King, the American Cancer Society Professor of Medical Genetics and Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, was honored by the National Academy of Sciences for her outstanding use of forensic genetics to reunite families torn apart by violence from around the world.
Carleton College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Northfield, Minnesota, has promoted Sonja Anderson to associate professor of religion, Summer Forester to associate professor of political science, and Meredith McCoy to associate professor of American studies and history. All three women were awarded tenure.
Dr. Pietenpol has been a faculty member with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee for the past three decades. She currently serves as executive vice president for research and chief scientific and strategy officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Abu-Lughod’s work, strongly ethnographic and mostly based in Egypt, has focused on three broad issues: the relationship between cultural forms and power; the politics of knowledge and representation; and the dynamics of women’s and human rights, global liberalism, and feminist governance of the Muslim world.
Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, recently announced the appointment of nine scholars to endowed professorships. Seven of these appointments went to women.
Dr. Rundell Singer is currently the vice president for academic affairs and provost at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, where she is also a professor in the department of biology. Before joining Rollins College in 2016, Dr. Rundell Singer served as the director for the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation.
Dina Zavala has been named the inaugural vice president for inclusion, equity, and community at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Altheia Richardson has been named chief diversity officer at Newberry College in South Carolina and Monae Roberts is the inaugural chief diversity officer for the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative 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 four women who have been appointed to endowed chairs are Nicole Uphold at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, Emily Sarver at Virginia Tech, Juanita Johnson-Bailey at the University of Georgia, and Jennifer Ross-Wolff at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
