Receiving appointments to endowed professorships are Nancy Burke at the University of California, Merced, Anna Mueller at Indiana University in Bloomington, and Jennifer Hevelone-Harper at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.
Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock, communication studies professor and director of performance studies at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has been named the recipient of the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies from the National Communication Association.