Dr. Klotz has served as a professor of political science at Syracuse University for over two decades. The author of several books, she conducts extensive research on international norms, migration, and foreign policy.
The women appointed to diversity posts are Marsha McGriff at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, JeffriAnne Wilder at Oberlin College in Ohio, and Eliza Yellow Bird at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Perloff was a professor emerita of English with Stanford University, where she taught for 14 years. She was a scholar of contemporary and experimental poetry, authoring over a dozen books throughout her lifetime.
After serving as interim provost for the past year, Dr. Laura Stultz has been officially appointed provost of Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. She has been a faculty member with the college for over two decades.
Sarah Mangelsdorf has been reappointed president of the University of Rochester. During her first term, the university experienced record undergraduate applications, research expenditures, and fundraising efforts.
McDougall has served as the chief academic officer at the Beaver campus since 2014. Before coming to Penn State Beaver, she was an associate professor of art at the Stark campus of Kent State University in Ohio.
Hilda McMackin, director of research administration systems and reporting at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, has been recognized with the 2023 Mentoring Award from the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP).
Knable joined the staff at Tufts University in 1970 beginning as an instructor in the English department. In 1980 she was appointed dean of students and remained in that role until her retirement in 2000.
After earning a Ph.D. in anthropology, Dr. Lewis conducted fieldwork together in Baluchistan, a remote region of Pakistan. She later joined the faculty at the University of Vermont and taught there for 30 until her retirement in 2001.
The leading feminist scholar bell hooks, the Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College in Kentucky, died at her home in Berea on December 15 at the age of 69.
The four women appointed to endowed positions are Elizabeth Gregory at the University of Houston, Karinda Brown at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, Janet Loebach at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and Valerie Hotchkiss at Oberlin College in Ohio.
The new deans are Rose Cuison-Villazor at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey, Ramona Denby-Brinson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cecilia Konchar Farr at West Liberty University in West Virginia, Danielle Dennis at the University of Rhode Island, Karen C. Goff at Oberlin College in Ohio, Pamela Padilla at the University of North Texas, and Melissa Lubin at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
