Tag: Carleton College

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.

Stacy Beckwith, Nancy Cho, and Sernea Zabin have been promoted to endowed faculty positions at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

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 [email protected].

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.

Kishwar Rizvi has been appointed the Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, Islamic Art, and Architecture at Yale University. Amber Wiley will join the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design as the inaugural Matt and Erika Nord Director of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites and Silvia López was named the Maxine H. and Winston R. Wallin professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Deborah Gross was appointed the Charles “Jim” and Marjorie Kade Professor of the Sciences at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Melynda J. Price has been appointed as the inaugural J. David Rosenberg Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky and Katja Seim was appointed the inaugural Sharon Oster Professor of Economics and Management at Yale University.