Transitions: A Former Lt. Governor Accepts a New Higher-Education Role, Guggenheim Fellows Are Named

Chief executives

Appointments

Keith Cornille, executive vice president and chief student-services officer at Madison Area Technical College, will become president of Heartland Community College on July 1. He will succeed Rob Widmer, who plans to retire.

A. Zachary Faison Jr., general counsel and vice president for external affairs at Tuskegee University, has been named president of Edward Waters College. He will succeed Nathaniel Glover, who plans to retire.

Joseph A. Garcia, president of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education and former lieutenant governor of Colorado, has been named the sole finalist for president of the Colorado Community College System.

Richard J. Koubek, executive vice president and provost of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, will become president of Michigan Technological University on July 1. He will succeed Glenn D. Mroz, who will step down and rejoin the faculty.

Nora Miller, senior vice president for administration and chief financial officer at Mississippi University for Women, will become acting president on July 1. She will succeed Jim Borsig, who plans to retire.

Gen. Glenn M. Walters, 34th assistant commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, will become president of the Citadel. He will succeed Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa, who plans to retire on June 30.

Departures

Thomas W. Keefe, president of the University of Dallas since 2010, will be dismissed at the end of the semester. The university’s Board of Trustees did not give a reason for his removal.

Jabari Simama, president of Georgia Piedmont Technical College since 2012, will step down on May 11. The college is undergoing an investigation of its finances.

Gregory J. Vincent, president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges since 2017, resigned this month, after anonymous allegations that he had plagiarized parts of his dissertation. Patrick A. McGuire, a professor emeritus of economics, will serve as interim president.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Elizabeth A. Dooley, vice provost for teaching and learning and dean of the College of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Central Florida, has become interim provost, replacing Dale Whittaker, who will take the helm as president in July.

Nancy Fey-Yensan, dean of the College of Health and Human Services at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Keene State College on July 1.

Junius J. Gonzales, senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina system, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at the New York Institute of Technology on June 4.

Susana Rivera-Mills, vice provost for academic programs and learning innovation at Oregon State University, will become provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Ball State University on July 1.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Jennifer Chrisler, vice president for alumnae relations and executive director of the alumnae association at Smith College, will become vice chancellor for advancement at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth on May 1.

Michael D. Dake, a professor of cardiothoracic surgery and medical director of the Catheterization and Angiography Laboratories at Stanford University, will become senior vice president for health sciences at the University of Arizona on June 4.

Emily Gerkin Guerrant, former senior vice president for marketing and communications for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, has become vice president and university spokesperson at Michigan State University.

Craig Johnson, vice dean for finance and administration and chief operating officer at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, has been named interim senior vice president for business and finance at the university.

Hikaru Kozuma, associate vice provost for student affairs at the University of Pennsylvania, will become chief student-affairs officer at Amherst College on July 1.

Michael Mancini, chief of staff at State University of New York Empire State College, will become chief of staff at Thomas Edison State University and secretary to its Board of Trustees on May 21.

David B. Mowen, executive vice president for finance and administration at Mary Baldwin University, will become vice president for business affairs and treasurer of Roanoke College in mid-August.

Srinivas Pulavarti, president and chief investment officer at the University of California at Los Angeles Investment Company, will become vice president and chief investment officer at Emory University on July 1.

Robert E. Rood, vice president for finance and administration at Lourdes University, will become vice president for business affairs and treasurer at Daemen College on June 1.

Resignations

William S. Husak, athletics director at Loyola Marymount University since 1998, plans to retire on July 27.

Deans

Appointments

Robert D. Aguirre, senior associate dean of undergraduate programs at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wayne State University, will become dean of the College of Arts and Letters at James Madison University on July 16.

Emily Bonney, interim assistant vice president for academic human resources at California State University at Fullerton, has become interim dean of Pollak Library.

Cathy Carey, head of the economics department at Western Kentucky University, has been named interim dean of the Gordon Ford College of Business.

Neale R. Chumbler, dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Western Kentucky University, will become dean of the College of Health and Public Service at the University of North Texas on July 1.

Amy S. Fleischer, a professor and chair of mechanical engineering and director of the NovaTherm Research Laboratory at Villanova University, will become dean of the College of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo on July 16.

Dennis George, dean of University College at Western Kentucky University, has been named interim dean of the College of Health and Human Services.

Paul Goldbart, dean of the College of Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will become dean of the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin on August 1.

Robert Lutz, assistant dean of students at Palm Beach Atlantic University, will become dean at the end of the current academic year.

Anuj Mehrotra, senior vice dean and vice dean for faculty development and research at Miami Business School at the University of Miami, will become dean of the School of Business at George Washington University on July 1.

Lisa G. O’Connor, associate dean of the School of Nursing at Quinnipiac University, will become dean on July 1.

Bruce Pinkleton, interim dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, became dean on March 15.

Shawn D. Spencer, associate dean of institutional improvement at Florida A&M University, has been named dean of the School of Pharmacy at the Georgia campus of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Departures

John Accordino, dean of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University since 2017, was removed from that post in the wake of a lawsuit filed against him and other university officials. Wilder, a former governor of Virginia who is on the faculty of the school that bears his name, accused Accordino of harassing Wilder’s assistant. Accordino denies the allegations. He will return as a professor in 2019 after a study-research leave.

Joseph Francisco, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln since 2014, plans to resign on June 30.

Clem Guthro, dean of Pollak Library at California State University at Fullerton since 2017, was dismissed on March 2. The university did not disclose a reason for his departure.

Jeffrey Katz, dean of the Gordon Ford College of Business at Western Kentucky University since 2011, plans to resign on June 30. He will remain as a professor in the management department.

Department chairs

Appointments

Rickhesvar Mahraj, professor of radiology and pediatrics at Pennsylvania State University-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center College of Medicine, has become interim chair of the new department of radiation oncology.

Narsing Rao, professor at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, became chair of the department of ophthalmology on March 26.

Other administrators

Appointments

Maria Lamarca Anderson, former communications officer at Seattle Colleges, has become director of communications at University of Washington at Bothell.

Kenneth Ataga, director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, will become director of the Center for Sickle Cell Disease in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center on July 1.

Doreen Fisher-Bammer, former director of online learning and instructional technology at Northampton Community College, became associate provost of virtual learning at HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, on March 19.

Dustin Fulton, senior equity-assurance administrator and deputy conduct and compliance officer in the office of equity and diversity at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, will become associate director of student affairs for conduct and community standards and student-conduct officer in student-affairs and enrollment services on May 1.

Anne Riker Garlington, a former vice president and senior relationship strategist at PNC Wealth Management, has become senior development officer at Ringling College of Art and Design.

Liza Gennaro, an associate professor of theater, drama, and contemporary dance and head of the musical theatre B.F.A. program at Indiana University at Bloomington, will become director of musical theatre and associate dean of Manhattan School of Music on July 1.

William J. Gradishar, a professor of breast oncology and of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology, and director of the clinical network of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, has been named chief of the division of hematology and oncology in the department of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Jesse Grant, interim dean of students at Bemidji State University, has been named associate vice president for student life and success.

Allan Gray, director of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business at Purdue University, will become executive director on May 1.

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education, associate dean of equity and inclusion at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and director of the Black Male Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles, has become director of the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families.

Audra Langley, an associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Semel Institute and the director of Training, Intervention, Education, and Services for Families at the University of California at Los Angeles, has become co-director of the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families.

Kate Magro, director of workship at Palm Beach Atlantic University, will become assistant dean of students at the end of the current academic year.

Lauren McCaghren, senior director for alumni programs and annual giving at the University of Mobile, has become the first director of the Torch Society, a philanthropic service organization at the university. She will continue to lead alumni programs.

Jill Megredy, registrar at Bethany College from 2010 to 2015, has returned as registrar after receiving her doctorate in education at Southwestern College in Kansas.

Kristen Pedersen, former director of executive and professional education at Portland State University School of Business, became director of continuing and professional education at the College of Graduate and Continuing Studies at Norwich University on March 12.

Kristy Pierce, a physical-education teacher and former high-school volleyball coach in Illinois with a 939-206-10 career record, has been named head coach for women’s volleyball at Rock Valley College.

Nancy Rice, a professor of biology at Western Kentucky University, has been named acting executive director of the Honors College.

Shawn L. Rickenbacker, a visiting professor at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and cofounder of the research and design consulting firm Urban Data + Design, has become director of the J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures at City College of the City University of New York.

Amanda (Mimi) Tinkler, interim executive director of the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation, has become executive director.

Susan Mace Weeks, dean of the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Texas Christian University, has been named the university’s vice provost.

Lora Wey, former executive director of annual giving and director of development for the Milner Library at Illinois State University, has become assistant vice president for strategic philanthropy at Ringling College of Art and Design.

John S. Wilson, a president in residence at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and a former president of Morehouse College, has become senior adviser and strategist on diversity and inclusion initiatives for President Drew G. Faust of Harvard.

Retirements

Jeffrey G. Eisenbarth, vice president for business and finance and treasurer at Rollins College, plans to retire on May 31.

Joe Ferguson, executive director of the University of Houston System Information Technology Shared Services at University of Houston-Victoria, retired on March 20 after 43 years with the University of Houston system.

Faculty

Appointments

The Rev. Kevin FitzGerald, an associate professor of oncology at Georgetown University who holds a chair in Catholic health-care ethics in the university’s Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, will become an associate professor in the department of medical education at Creighton University School of Medicine on August 1.

Ebetuel (Beto) Pallares, investor-in-residence at the Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, was named to an endowed chair in entrepreneurship.

Azim Shariff, an associate professor of psychology and social behavior at the University of California at Irvine, will become the holder of a research chair in moral psychology at the University of British Columbia in July.

Christos Teazis, a professor at the University of Ankara, is a visiting professor at the University of Maine at Farmington for the spring 2018 semester.

Venkatesh Uddameri, director of the Water Resources Center and a professor in the department of civil, environmental and construction engineering in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering at Texas Tech University, has become editor in chief of the Journal of American Water Resources Association.

Retirements

John Scott, a professor at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, retired on April 10 after 40 years of teaching at both the Lansing, Michigan and Tampa Bay, Florida campuses.

Guggenheim fellows

About two-thirds, or 115, of the 175 scholars, artists, and scientists named as John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2018 Fellows work at higher-education institutions. Those 115 fellows are listed below, with their academic affiliation and the subjects of their projects.

Dennis Adams, a professor in the School of Art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, fine arts.

Esther Allen, a professor of modern languages and comparative literature at the City University of New York’s Bernard M. Baruch College, translation of The Silentiary and The Suicides, two novels by Antonio di Benedetto.

Carol Anderson, a professor of African-American studies at Emory University, “The Second: Race, Guns, and a Most Deadly Double-Standard at the Core of Our Fundamental Rights.”

Christopher A. Bail, an associate professor of sociology and public policy at Duke University, “Disrupting Social-Media Echo Chambers.”

Eugene Birman, a research assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, music composition.

Charles L. Bosk, a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, “Mistakes Were Changed: Medical Error Over Four Decades.”

Alain Bresson, a professor of classics at the University of Chicago, “Why Coinage? Money, Society, and Economy in the Ancient Greek World.”

Anna Brickhouse, a professor of English and American studies at the University of Virginia, “Earthquake Aesthetics.”

C. Jean Campbell, a professor of art history at Emory University, “Pisanello’s Pararga: Imitative Practice and Pictorial Practice in 15th-Century Italy.”

Arup K. Chakraborty, a professor at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Induction of Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Against Highly Mutable Pathogens.”

Joyce E. Chaplin, a professor of early American history at Harvard University, “The Franklin Stove: Heat and Life in the Little Ice Age.”

Phillip Chen, a professor of art at Drake University, “Cultural Discourse in Print Media.”

Rita Chin, a professor of history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “Invisible Labor: A History of Female Migrant Domestics in Postcolonial Europe.”

Julia Christensen, an associate professor of integrated media arts at Oberlin College, fine arts.

Erik M. Conway, a historian of science and technology at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, “Inventing the Magic of the Marketplace” (jointly with Naomi Oreskes).

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, a playwright in residence at Bard College, drama and performance art.

Sienna R. Craig, an associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, “The Ends of Kinship: Care and Belonging Between Nepal and New York City.”

Theo Davis, a professor of English at Northeastern University, “Sensations of Freedom: Somatics and Personal Development in American Literature.”

Will Dichtel, a professor of chemistry at Northwestern University, “Precise Control of Polymerization in Two Dimensions.”

Edward Dimendberg, a professor of humanities and European languages and studies at the University of California at Irvine, “The Los Angeles Project: Architectural and Urban Theories of the City of Exception.”

Craig Drennen, an associate professor and graduate director at the Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University, fine arts.

Moon Duchin, an associate professor of mathematics at Tufts University, “Geometry of Gerrymandering.”

Kathleen DuVal, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Masters of the Continent: How American Indian Nations Ruled North America Into the 19th Century.”

Carol Dysinger, an associate professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, film-video.

Bart D. Ehrman, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Invention of Heaven and Hell.”

Carl Elliott, a professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, “Lonesome Whistle: Exposing Wrongdoing in Research on Human Subjects.”

Alexey Fedorov, a professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University, “Solving the Mysteries of Pliocene Warmth: Rethinking the Global Ocean Conveyor.”

Lukas Felzmann, a lecturer in art at Stanford University, photography.

Ada Ferrer, a professor of history and Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University, “Cuba: An American History.”

Aaron Spencer Fogleman, a professor of history at Northern Illinois University, “Immigrant Voices: European and African Stories of Freedom, Unfreedom, and Identity in the Americas Through Four Centuries.”

Mark Franko, a professor of dance at Temple University, “Serge Lifar and the Crisis of Neoclassicism.”

Paul Friedland, a professor of history at Cornell University, “A World Without Race: The Dream of a Universal Republic in the Revolutionary French Caribbean, 1794-1802.”

Roxane Gay, an associate professor of English at Purdue University, “TV Guide.”

Amy Gerstler, a professor of English at the University of California at Irvine, poetry.

Kate Gilmore, an associate professor of art and design at the State University of New York College at Purchase, fine arts.

Nile Green, a professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles, “Global Islam: What Is It, and Where Did It Come From?”

Lenore A. Grenoble, a professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago, “Living the Good Life? Language Vitality, Urbanization, and Well-Being in the Arctic.”

Alison Griffiths, a professor of film and media studies at the City University of New York’s Bernard M. Baruch College, “Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film.”

Irena Grudzinska Gross, an associate professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, “Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, a Biography.”

Martin Hägglund, a professor of comparative literature and humanities at Yale University, “This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom.”

Charlie Hailey, a professor of architecture at the University of Florida, “Places Built of Air: Porch Stories From Stoop to Stoa.”

Peter A. Hall, a professor of European studies at Harvard University, “Renegotiating the Social Contract: The Politics of Economic Growth and Decline.”

Joel F. Harrington, a professor of history at Vanderbilt University, “Hans Staden and the German Counternarrative of New World Cannibalism.”

Saidiya Hartman, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments.”

Sally Haslanger, a professor of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Doing Justice to the Social.”

Christy L. Haynes, a professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, “Characterization of the Molecular Corona Acquired by Technologically Relevant Engineered Nanoparticles in Environmental Matrices.”

John Heil, a professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, “Appearance in Reality.”

Stefan Helmreich, a professor and chair of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Book of Waves: An Anthropologist Reads Physical Oceanography.”

Eliza Hittman, an assistant professor of film and video at the Pratt Institute, film-video.

Martha Hodes, a professor of history at New York University, “Hostage in the Desert: An Inquiry Into History and Memory.”

Brooke Holmes, a professor in the humanities at Princeton University, “The Tissue of the World: Sympathy and the Idea of Nature in Greco-Roman Antiquity.”

Shari Huhndorf, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at Berkeley, “Indigeneity and the Politics of Space: Gender, Geography, Culture.”

Nancy Rose Hunt, a professor of history and African studies at the University of Florida, “Ideation as History: Dream Collectors and Picture Archives From Post-1968 Urban Congo.”

Sabine Hyland, a reader in social anthropology at the University of St. Andrews, “Hidden Texts of the Andes: Deciphering the Cord Writing (‘Khipu’) of Peru.”

Robert B. Jackson, a professor of earth-system science at Stanford University, “A Global Picture of Plants, Soils, and Resource Uptake by Depth.”

Edward Jacobs, a professor of music at East Carolina University, music composition.

Tyehimba Jess, a professor of English at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island, poetry.

Scott Johnson, an associate professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma, “Syriac: A Cultural Biography.”

Branden W. Joseph, a professor of modern and contemporary art at Columbia University, “Forms of Life: Kathy Acker, Jack Smith, Lee Lozano, and Carolee Schneemann.”

Jane Kamensky, a professor of history and Pforzheimer Foundation director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University, “Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History From Below.”

Ilya Kaminsky, a professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University, poetry.

Eleanor Kaufman, a professor of comparative literature, English, and French and Francophone studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, “Structure: A Counterhistory of 20th-Century French Philosophy.”

Martin Kern, a professor in Asian studies at Princeton University, “Performance, Memory, and Authorship in Ancient China: The Formation of the Poetic Tradition.”

Thomas Miller Klubock, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, “Nation of Rivers: A History of Water and Water Wars in Modern South America.”

Shri Kulkarni, a professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, “Exotic Cosmological Explosions.”

Elizabeth Lapensée, an assistant professor of media and information at Michigan State University, fine arts.

Chris Larson, an associate professor of art at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, fine arts.

Wai-yee Li, a professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University, “The Paradoxes of Things: Life and Art in Late Imperial China.”

Devoney Looser, a professor of English at Arizona State University, “Sister Novelists Before the Brontës: The Misses Porter, Fame, and Misfortune in Early 19th-Century Britain.”

Eric Lyon, an associate professor of practice at Virginia Tech, music composition.

Pradip Malde, a professor of art at Sewanee: The University of the South, photography.

Dunya Mikhail, a special lecturer in modern languages and literatures at Oakland University, poetry.

Nicole Miller, an acting associate professor of visual arts at the University of California at San Diego, fine arts.

Robert G. Morrison, a professor of religion at Bowdoin College, “An Economy of Knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean.”

Nicholas Muellner, an associate professor and a co-director of the image-text M.F.A. program and Image Text Ithaca Press at Ithaca College, photography.

Thomas S. Mullaney, an associate professor of Chinese history at Stanford University, “Hot-Metal Empire: Type Design, Script, and Colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.”

Christian Lee Novetzke, a professor of international studies at the University of Washington, “Devotion, Democracy, and Dissent: Religion and a Vernacular Public Ethics in India.”

Naomi Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, “Inventing the Magic of the Marketplace” (jointly with Erik M. Conway).

Stratis Papaioannou, an associate professor of classics and director of the medieval-studies program at Brown University, “A History of Byzantine Literature.”

Aniruddh D. Patel, a professor of psychology at Tufts University, evolutionary music cognition.

Mika Pelo, an associate professor of music at the University of California at Davis, music composition.

Nicolás Pereda, an assistant professor and director of the Rutgers Filmmaking Center at Rutgers University, film-video.

Ekaterina Pravilova, a professor of history at Princeton University, “Political Money: A History of the Russian Ruble, 1768-1917.”

Ariel D. Procaccia, an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, “Algorithms for Participatory Democracy.”

Lisa Randall, a professor of science at Harvard University, “Black-Hole Mergers and Their Environment.”

Srikanth Reddy, an associate professor of English at the University of Chicago, poetry.

Jesse Ribot, a professor of geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Climate of Anxiety: African Emigration Under a Changing Sky.”

Antonis Rokas, a professor of biological sciences and biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University, “Hidden No More: How Fungi Are Expanding Evolution’s Paradigms.”

Annabeth Rosen, a professor and co-chair of the department of art and art history at the University of California at Davis, fine arts.

Nadia Sablin, an assistant professor of art at the State University of New York at New Paltz, photography.

Felipe Salles, an associate professor of music at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, music composition.

Robert J. Sampson, a professor of the social sciences at Harvard University, “Becoming Marked: Navigating the Social Transformation of Crime and Punishment in America.”

Margo Sawyer, a professor of sculpture and extended media at the University of Texas at Austin, fine arts.

Carl Schimmel, an associate professor of music theory and composition at Illinois State University, music composition.

Jeremy Schipper, a professor of religion at Temple University, “Denmark Vesey’s Bible: Biblical Interpretation and the Trial That Changed a Nation.”

Vivien A. Schmidt, a professor of European integration and of international relations and political science at Boston University, “The Rhetoric of Discontent: A Transatlantic Inquiry Into the West’s Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.”

Lee Anne Schmitt, a faculty member in the film-directing program at the California Institute of the Arts, film-video.

David Schutter, an associate professor of visual art at the University of Chicago, fine arts.

Marci Shore, an associate professor of history at Yale University, “Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes From Central Europe.”

Nandini Sikand, an associate professor of film and media studies at Lafayette College, film-video.

Jessica Silbey, a professor of law at Northeastern University’s School of Law, “Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Justice in the Internet Age.”

Anya Krugovoy Silver, a professor of English at Mercer University, poetry.

Brett Story, an assistant professor of image arts at Ryerson University, film-video.

Nicolas Tackett, an associate professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, “The Rise of the Chinese Meritocracy: The Transformation of Elite Culture in 10th-Century China.”

Edriss S. Titi, a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University at College Station, mathematical analysis of climate models.

Stefania Tutino, a professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles, “A Fake Saint, an Ambitious Jurist, and the True Church: Story of a Forgery in 17th-Century Italy.”

Deb Olin Unferth, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, fiction.

Ian van Coller, an associate professor of photography at Montana State University at Bozeman, photography.

Archana Venkatesan, an associate professor of comparative literature and religious studies at the University of California at Davis, “Poetry Makes the World: The Festival of Recitation at Visnu Temples in Tamil Nadu.”

Michael T. Woodside, a professor of physics at the University of Alberta, “Exploring How Evolution Shapes Protein Folding in Single Molecules.”

Edward Wright-Rios, a professor of history at Vanderbilt University, “Devotion in Motion: Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico.”

Fei Xu, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, “Rational Constructivism: A New Approach to Cognitive Development.”

Charles Yang, a professor of linguistics and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, “Counting to Infinity.”

David Yearsley, a professor of music at Cornell University, “Sebastian Laughs: J.S. Bach as Musical Humorist.”

Anne D. Yoder, a professor of evolutionary biology at Duke University, “Building and Saving Trees in Madagascar.”

Organizations

Appointments

Alice W. Hunt, a former president of Chicago Theological Seminary, will become executive director of the American Academy of Religion on July 1.

Micheal T. Stratton, associate professor of management and chair of the department of management and accountancy at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, will become president of the Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society in June 2019.

Gregor Thuswaldner, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of humanities at North Park University, has become president of the Austrian Studies Association and chief-executive liaison to and ex-officio board member of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Deaths

Msgr. Charles E. Lang, president of Mount St. Clare College, in Iowa, from 1986 to 1991, died on April 5. He was 85. He was also a former senior administrator at Loras College. Mount St. Clare has since changed hands and been closed.

John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University from 2005 to 2016 and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater from 1999 to 2005, died on April 2. He was 70. During his tenure at Central Connecticut, minority enrollment and graduation rates increased. In 2003 he published the first ranking of “America’s Most Literate Cities,” which led to his becoming co-author of World Literacy: How Countries Rank and Why It Matters (Routledge, 2016), with Michael C. McKenna.

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