Jean G. Dahlgren will become president of Delaware College of Art and Design
Chief executives
Appointments
Keith Aytch,interim president of Evergreen Valley College since July 2017, has been named president. Aytch had also served as vice president for academic affairs at the college since 2011. He succeeds Henry C.V. Yong, who left to become chancellor of the Yosemite Community College District.
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Jean G. Dahlgren will become president of Delaware College of Art and Design
Chief executives
Appointments
Keith Aytch,interim president of Evergreen Valley College since July 2017, has been named president. Aytch had also served as vice president for academic affairs at the college since 2011. He succeeds Henry C.V. Yong, who left to become chancellor of the Yosemite Community College District.
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Michael Berndt,vice president for academic affairs at Century College, will become interim president of Dakota County Technical College and Inver Hills Community College on July 1. He will replace Tim Wynes, who plans to retire.
Carrie Brimhall,chief academic officer and vice president for academic affairs at Minnesota State Community and Technical College at Fergus Falls, will become president on July 1. She will succeed Peggy Kennedy, who plans to retire.
James P. Burns,dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College, will become president of Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota on July 9. He will succeed Brother William Mann.
John Comerford,president of Blackburn College since 2013, will become president of Otterbein University on July 1. He will succeed Kathy A. Krendl, who plans to retire.
Tim Cook,vice president for instruction at Clark College, will become president of Clackamas Community College on July 1. He will succeed Joanne Truesdell, who plans to retire.
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Jean G. Dahlgren,dean of undergraduate programs at Sage College of Albany at Sage Colleges, will become president of Delaware College of Art and Design on August 1. She will replace John C. Hawkins, interim president, who will return to his position on the Board of Trustees.
Peter Hans,a consultant at APCO Worldwide and former chairman of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, will become president of North Carolina Community College System. He will replace the acting president, Jennifer Haygood.
David L. Poole,vice president for online and professional studies and an associate professor of leadership and management at California Baptist University, will become president of University of Mount Olive on July 1. He will succeed Philip P. Kerstetter, who plans to retire.
Sonya Stephens,acting president of Mount Holyoke College since 2016, will become president on July 1.
Tom Stritikus,deputy director of K-12 Education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has been named president of Fort Lewis College. He will succeed Dene Thomas, who plans to retire this summer.
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Astrid S. Tuminez,regional director for corporate, external, and legal affairs in Southeast Asia for Microsoft, will become the first female president of Utah Valley University this fall. She will succeed Matthew S. Holland, who plans to step down in June.
Retirements
Deborah Budd,chancellor of San Jose/Evergreen Community College District since 2015, plans to retire on July 17. Byron D. Clift Breland, president of San Jose City College, will be interim chancellor.
Vicki L. Riley,president of West Virginia Northern Community College since 2015, plans to retire on June 30. J. Michael Koon, an adjunct professor and former dean of the college’s Weirton Campus, will be interim president.
Founding editor in chief of Education Week dies at 86
Ronald A. Wolk, founding editor in chief and publisher of Education Week, died of congestive heart failure and kidney failure in Rhode Island on April 28. He was 86.
Wolk was a key contributor to the founding of The Chronicle of Higher Education, in 1966. A few years earlier, he had traveled nationwide to evaluate colleges’ need for a national publication on higher education. At the time he was working at the Johns Hopkins University with Corbin Gwaltney, who became a longtime editor and is now chairman of The Chronicle.
In its early years, The Chronicle was owned by the nonprofit organization Editorial Projects in Education Inc. In 1978, the year that The Chronicle was sold to its editors, Wolk became president of the organization.
Three years later, he and Martha K. Matzke founded Education Week, a national publication that covers elementary and secondary education. In 1997, Wolk retired as president, but he continued to serve as board chair until 2011.
Barry A. Russell,president of Las Positas College since 2013, announced his retirement. Roanna Bennie is serving as interim president.
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Chief academic officers
Appointments
Kimberly Andrews Espy,senior vice president for research at the University of Arizona, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at San Antonio on June 4.
Monroe Gorden Jr.,interim vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of California at Los Angeles, has been appointed to the position permanently.
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Patricia Sodano Ireland,dean of undergraduate students at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, will become senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Mount Aloysius College on July 1.
Daniel A. Reed,a professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering and former vice president for research and economic development at the University of Iowa, will become senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Utah on July 1.
Retirements
James P. Henderson,vice president for academic and student affairs at the University of Wisconsin system, plans to retire on June 1. Karen R. Schmitt, provost and vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin Colleges, will serve as interim vice president.
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Other top administrators
Appointments
Cynthia Brinker,vice president for university and government relations at the University of Southern Indiana, has become senior vice president for government relations.
Dave Bruno,president and founder of the creative-strategy firm Middle Makers, will become vice president for marketing at Lipscomb University.
Deborah Eldridge,senior vice president at the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, has been named academic vice president at the Teachers College at Western Governors University.
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Mark A. Fuller,dean of the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has been named vice chancellor for development and alumni relations.
Evan E. Lipp
Evan E. Lipp,vice president for enrollment management at Assumption College, will become vice president for admission and financial aid at Endicott College on July 1.
Martin O’Gwynn,vice president for community and corporate engagement at Oklahoma City University, has been named vice president for advancement at North Greenville University.
Kindra Strupp,associate vice president for marketing and communications at the University of Southern Indiana, has become vice president for marketing and communications.
Jaci A. Thiede,vice president for university advancement at Butler University, will become vice president for development and alumni relations at Grinnell College on July 31.
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Donica Thomas Varner,interim general counsel and secretary at Oberlin College, has been named vice president, general counsel, and secretary.
Retirements
Jerry May,vice president for development at the University of Michigan since 2003, will retire at the end of the academic year. Under his direction, the university’s fund-raising campaign, which began in 2011, has already exceeded its $4 billion goal by $330 million.
Deans
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Appointments
Harry Dombroski,an executive at Hunt Consolidated and Hunt Oil Co., has been named dean of the University of Texas at Arlington College of Business.
Debra Feakes,professor and associate chair of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Texas State University, will become dean of the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Indianapolis on July 1.
Donald A. Godwin,interim dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of New Mexico since 2017, has been named dean.
Rabbi Jonathan L. Hecht,who has served Temple Chaverin on Long Island since 1992, will become dean of the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion on July 1.
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Adriel A. Hilton,director of the extended campus at Myrtle Beach Metropolitan at Webster University, will become dean of students and diversity officer at Seton Hill University on June 1.
Paul E. Jensen,interim dean of Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business, was named dean in early April.
Norman W. Jones,interim dean and director of Ohio State University at Mansfield since July 2017, has been named dean and director.
Dennis W. Kelly,interim president of Smithsonian Enterprises, will become the inaugural dean of the Q. William Hammack, Jr. School of Business at Oglethorpe University on October 15.
John A. Kuykendall III,associate professor of education and director of the School of Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will become dean of the School of Education at the University of Indianapolis on July 1.
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Thomas LaVeist,a professor and chair of health policy and management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, has been named dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University.
Kenneth Lord,a professor of marketing and former dean of the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics at California State University at Northridge, will become dean of the Eastern Michigan University College of Business on July 1.
Robert H. McDonald,a librarian and associate dean of research and technology strategies at Indiana University at Bloomington, will become dean of university libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder on August 1.
Laura Mosqueda,interim dean of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, will become dean on May 1.
Zachary Newell,a reference and instruction librarian at Salem State University, has been named dean of the Booth Library at Eastern Illinois University.
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Constance Relihan,associate provost for undergraduate studies Auburn University, will become dean of University College at Virginia Commonwealth University on July 9.
Cesarina Thompson,dean of the School of Health Sciences at American International College, will become dean of the University of Hartford College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions on July 1.
Jared Tice,dean of students at Barton College, will become dean of students at Catawba College on June 1.
Deborah Ward
Deborah Ward,a clinical professor and former associate dean of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at University of California at Davis, will become interim dean on August 1.
Kimberly Yuracko,professor of law at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, will become dean of the law school on September 1.
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Departures
William Ball,dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine since 2015, plans to step down on August 1.
Angelique EagleWoman,dean of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University, in Ontario, since 2016, plans to step down. EagleWoman, who was a law professor at the University of Idaho before joining Lakehead, complained of “systemic discrimination” from the administration and cited that as the primary reason for her resignation.
Bradley J. Hamm,dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University since 2012, plans to step down. He will return as a tenured faculty member in 2019 after a sabbatical.
Robert Kvam,dean of the College of Fine Arts at Ball State University since 2000, plans to step down on December 30 and retire in June 2019.
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Other administrators
Appointments
Gary G. Bennett,a professor of psychology and the founding director of the undergraduate major in global health at Duke University, will become vice provost for undergraduate education on July 1.
Michael G. Chiorazzi,associate dean for information services, director of the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, and a professor of law and information resources and library science at the University of Arizona, will become associate dean for information services and director of the Law Library at the University of Miami School of Law on July 2.
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William B. Crow,educator in charge of teaching and learning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will become director of the Lehigh University Art Galleries and a professor of practice in the department of art, architecture, and design on August 1.
Adriene (Alex) Davis,dean of economic and work-force education for academic affairs at Los Angeles City College, has been named assistant vice chancellor for economic and work force development at Rancho Santiago Community College District.
Michelle Deutchman,national campus counsel at the Anti-Defamation League, will become the first executive director of the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement at the University of California at Irvine.
Deb Fiddelke,senior director of global government relations at SC Johnson, became chief communication and marketing officer at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln on April 30.
Keith Madore,director of institutional advancement and community engagement at Asnuntuck Community College, has been named executive director of the Tunxis Community College Foundation.
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Rick Margo,interim director of the Higher Education Center at Texas A&M University, has become director of operations.
Katherine McComas,a professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, will become vice provost for engagement and land-grant affairs on July 1.
Mary Miller,a professor of history of art and senior director of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at Yale University, has been named director of the Getty Research Institute.
Pierre Berastaín Ojeda,assistant director of the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities, will become director of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response at Harvard University in June.
Thomas C. Priester,interim dean of the Wyoming County Campus Centers of Genesee Community College, has become associate dean.
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Adolfo Santos,dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Georgia Gwinnett College, will become assistant provost of Texas A&M University on July 1.
Donald C. Sawyer III
Donald C. Sawyer III, associate professor of sociology at Quinnipiac University, has been named associate vice president and chief diversity officer at Quinnipiac University.
Mike Sherman,former vice provost at Ohio State University and former provost at the University of Akron, has been named special assistant to the president at Youngstown State University and will oversee the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Planning.
Faculty
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Appointments
Jerry Abramson,executive in residence and faculty member at Bellarmine University who was previously mayor of Louisville, lieutenant governor of Kentucky, and deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs at the White House, will become executive in residence at Spalding University on June 1.
Robin Reed,a television anchor at WDBJ in Roanoke, will become a professor of practice in the department of communication at Virginia Tech in the fall of 2018.
Fellowships
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Academy of Arts and Sciences
Anthony P. Monaco,president of Tufts University, and Joanne Berger-Sweeney, president of Trinity College, in Connecticut, are among the 177 newly elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The complete list is at www.amacad.org.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded the following 31 Andrew Carnegie Fellows stipends of up to $200,000 each for their research and writing in the humanities and social sciences.
Yuen Yuen Ang, an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “Unlikely Successes: Building Markets Despite or Using Constraints in Poor Countries”
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Shahzeen Attari, an associate professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University at Bloomington, “Motivating Climate Change Solutions by Fusing Facts and Feelings”
Yarimar Bonilla, an associate professor of anthropology and Latino and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, “Shattered Futures: Puerto Rico in the Wake of Disaster”
Diana M. Bowman, an associate professor of law at Arizona State University, “Three Parent Families: The Ethical and Legal Issues Raised by Advances in Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
Crystal Chambers, an associate professor of educational leadership at East Carolina University, “Rural Students and College Choice — An Exploratory Analysis”
Charles E. Cobb, Jr., a former visiting professor of Africana studies at Brown University, “Get in the Way — Protest, Politics and the Movement for Black Lives”
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Sarah Zukerman Daly, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, “Voting for Victors: Why Violent Actors Win Elections”
Baruch Fischhoff, a professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, “Decisions”
Stephanie Foote, a professor of English at West Virginia University, “The Art of Waste: Narrative, Trash, and Contemporary Culture”
Lily Geismer, an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College, “Doing Good: Public Policy and the Market from the War on Poverty to the Clinton Foundation”
Daniel Gillion, an associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, “The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy”
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Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, “College for All? Hunger, Homelessness, and American Higher Education”
Grace Elizabeth Hale, a professor of American studies and history at the University of Virginia, “Reckoning: How the Southern Past Haunts the Present and Limits the Democratic Future”
Elizabeth Hinton, an assistant professor of history and African and African-American studies at Harvard University, “The New New Frontier: Inequality, Underdevelopment, and Policing in an American City”
Margaret D. Jacobs, a professor of history and director of women’s and gender studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, “Does the United States Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?”
Christopher Korpela, an assistant professor and director of the Robotics Research Lab at West Point, “Teaching Ethics of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems”
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Erika Lee, director of the Immigration History Research Center and a professor of immigration history at the University of Minnesota, “Fear of the Stranger: A History of American Xenophobia”
Talitha LeFlouria, an associate professor of African and African-American studies at the University of Virginia, “The Search for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America”
Jennifer Karas Montez, an assistant professor of sociology at Syracuse University, “Political Economy and Death: Deregulation, Devolution, and Death in America”
Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government at Dartmouth College, “Increasing Media Trust and Countering Misinformation in the Era of ‘Fake News’”
John Osburg, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Rochester, “Spiritual Crisis and Moral Transformation in Contemporary China”
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Eyal Press, a journalist and fellow with the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, “Dirty Work”
Judith Resnik, a professor of law at Yale University, “The Impermissible in Punishment: Whipping, Isolating, Disenfranchising — and Imprisoning”
Sarah T. Roberts, an assistant professor of information studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, “Behind the Screen: Digitally Laboring in Social Media’s Shadow World”
Scott D. Sagan, a professor of political science at Stanford University, “Ethics, Nuclear Weapons, and Public Opinion”
Rachel Sherman, an associate professor of sociology at the New School, “Common Sense About the Common Good: Rethinking Entitlement in America”
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Beth Simmons, a professor of law, political science, and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, “Structures and Sentiment: Understanding Anxieties About International Borders in the Modern World”
Prerna Singh, an assistant professor of political science and international studies at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, “The Control of Contagion: States, Societies and Infectious Disease Across China and India”
Ganesh Sitaraman, a professor of law at Vanderbilt University, “Public Options”
Peter Swire, a professor of law and ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business, “Protecting Human Rights and National Security in the New Age of Data Nationalism”
Sharon K. Weiner, an associate professor and director of doctoral studies at the School of International Service at American University, “The Social Structure of Nuclear Deterrence and Strategic Stability”
The National Humanities Center has awarded a total of $1,400,000 in grants to 39 fellows who will pursue their research at the Center.
Joni Adamson, a professor of English and environmental humanities at Arizona State University, “Desirable Futures: Cosmos, Canon, and Constellations of Practice in the Environmental Humanities”
Audrey L. Anton, an associate professor of philosophy at Western Kentucky University, “Aristotle’s Vice”
Weihong Bao, an associate professor of film and media and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of California at Berkeley, “Background Matters: Set Design and the Art of Environment in Modern China”
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Juliana Barr, an associate professor of history at Duke University, “La Dama Azul: A Native Story of Colonialism”
Andrea Brady, a professor of poetry at Queen Mary University of London, “Poetry and Bondage: A New History of Lyric”
Lisa Earl Castillo, an independent scholar of African diaspora studies, “Between Memory, Myth and History: Atlantic Voyages in the Rise of an Afro-Brazilian Temple (Bahia, Brazil, 1810-1910)”
James Chappel, an assistant professor of history at Duke University, “Old Volk: The Invention of Old Age in a Global Germany”
Lanlan Du, an associate professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, “Affective Dimensions of Precarity in Contemporary Chinese and English Fiction”
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Bart Ehrman, a professor of religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Invention of Heaven and Hell”
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, “An Ambiguous Past: Fascism, the Resistance and ‘Structures of Feeling’ in Italy (1943-1945)”
Mia Fuller, an associate professor of Italian studies at the University of California at Berkeley, “Mussolini Threshing Still: Inertia Memoriae, Italy, and Fascist Monuments”
Paul Fyfe, an associate professor of English language and literature at North Carolina State University, “The Age of Transmission: From Victorian Media Cultures to the Digital Humanities”
Rebecca Anne Goetz, an associate professor of history at New York University, “Captive Archipelagos: Native Enslavement in the Greater Caribbean, 1492-1792"
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Trudier Harris, professor of American literature at the University of Alabama, “Ungraspable?: Depictions of Home in African American Literature”
Frances S. Hasso, an associate professor of gender, sexuality and feminist studies at Duke University, “Palestinian Perinatal and Young Child Death during the British Mandate”
Marie Hicks, an assistant professor of history at the Illinois Institute of Technology, “Queer Users and the Digital State: A Prehistory of Algorithmic Bias”
Meta DuEwa Jones, an associate professor of African-American literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , “Black Visionary Alchemy: How Poets & Artists Map Diaspora Memory”
Tait Keller, an associate professor of history at Rhodes College, “A Global Environmental History of the First World War”
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Claudia Leal, an associate professor of history at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, “National Parks in Colombia: A History of Territorial State Building, 1940-2010"
Huaqiang Li, faculty member in the history of art and architecture at Fudan University, “Design, Ideology, and Communication: A Visual Culture Study on Chinese Left-wing Literary Publications (1928-1937)”
Anton M. Matytsin, an assistant professor of history at Kenyon College, “A History of History: The Académie des inscriptions and the Remaking of the Past”
Robert G. Morrison, a professor of religion at Bowdoin College, “An Economy of Knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean”
Gretchen Murphy, a professor of English language and literature at the University of Texas at Austin, “Disestablishing Virtue: Federalism, Religion, and New England Women Writers”
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Alka Patel, an associate professor of history of art and architecture at the University of California at Irvine, “India, Iran and Empire: The Shansabanis of Ghur, c. 1150-1215"
Kennetta Hammond Perry, an assistant professor of history at East Carolina University, “David Oluwale and the Alchemy of Policing Blackness in Britain”
Aretha Phiri, a lecturer in English language and literature at Rhodes University, South Africa, “Interrogating Blackness, Locating ‘Africanness’: Call-and-Response in the Works of Toni Morrison and Zoë Wicomb, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Taiye Selasi”
Matthew Rubery, a professor of modern literature at Queen Mary University of London, “Reader’s Block: Testimonies of Neurological Reading Disorders”
Julie Velásquez Runk, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia, “Entangled Rosewood: Loss, Being, and Belonging”
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Honor Sachs, an assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder, “Freedom by a Judgment: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family”
Ricardo Salles, a researcher in philosophy at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, “The Ancient Stoic Proofs of the Intelligence of the Cosmos and Their Platonic Background”
Franziska Seraphim, an associate professor of history at Boston College, “Geographies of Justice: Japan, Germany, and the Allied War Crimes Program”
Matthew J. Smith, a professor of history at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, “Onward Forward: A Social History of Jamaican Music, 1950ñ1980"
Lisa Tatonetti, a professor of indigenous studies at Kansas State University, “Indigenous Knowledges Written by the Body: Female, Two-Spirit, and Trans Masculinities”
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Joseph E. Taylor III, a professor of history at Simon Fraser University, “Forty-Seven Percent of the West: Congressional Conservation during the Long Progressive Era”
Abraham Terian, a professor of classics at Saint Nersess Armenian Seminary, “Philo of Alexandria: On Providence I-II. Critical Text, Translation, and Commentary”
Ted Underwood, a professor of English language and literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “A Perspectival History of Fiction in English, 1800-2008"
Peter B. Villella, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “Of Ruin and Rebirth: The Construction of Aztec History, 1531ñ1625"
Richard K. Wolf, a professor of music and south Asian studies at Harvard University, “The Nightingale’s Despair: Music and Moral Being in Greater Central Asia”
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Yan Xu, faculty member in Asian studies at Fudan University, “Reexamining Cao Zhi(192-232): The Issue of Canonization in Chinese Literary History”
Organizations
Appointments
Glen Brewster,a professor of English at Westfield State University, has been named president of the Sigma Tau Delta international English honor society.
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Marie Cini,higher-education lead for Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges, will become president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning on July 1. She will replace Pamela Tate, who will become chief national partnerships officer at Strada Education Network.
James Mabry,president of Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts, has joined the Board of Directors of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship.
Heterodox Academy announced the recipients of its Open Mind Awards. Listed below are the individuals working in higher education who received awards.
Robert P. George, a professor of jurisprudence and the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, received a Leadership Award.
Karina Schumann, an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, received an Exceptional Scholarship Award.
Cornel West, a professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University and professor emeritus at Princeton University, received a Leadership Award.
Other Awards
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Shirin Antia,a professor of disability and rehabilitation at the University of Arizona College of Education, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of College Educators — Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Walter G. Bumphus,president and chief executive of the American Association of Community Colleges, has received the 2018 President’s Award from the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations.
David Gramling,an associate professor of German studies at the University of Arizona, has received the American Association for Applied Linguistics’ 2018 Book Award for The Invention of Monolingualism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).
Linda Kurokawa,director of community education and work-force development at MiraCosta College, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Community and Continuing Education.
Cynthia Lindquist,president of Cankdeska Cikana Community College, has been named the Tribal College and University Honoree of the Year by the American Indian College Fund.
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Janet Napolitano,president of the University of California system, has received the 2018 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award from the American Council on Education.
Deaths
Meredith Chapman,assistant vice president for marketing and creative services at Villanova University and former director of digital communications at the University of Delaware, died on April 23. She was 33. She ran for the Delaware state senate in 2016.
Bright M. Dornblaser,professor emeritus and director of the master-of-healthcare-administration program in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health from 1967 to 1980, died on April 13. He was 92.
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Karen J. Saywitz, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles since 1999, died of cancer on March 17. She was 61. She held various roles at the university since starting as an assistant professor in 1986, including director of child and adolescent psychology. A fellow of the American Psychological Association since 2009, she won the 2018 Lifetime Advocacy Award and was president of the Division of Child, Youth, and Family Services in 2000.
Bob Schermerhorn,head basketball coach at Riverside Community College from 1989 to 1997, died on April 23. He was 75. After serving nine years as coach, he became athletics director at Riverside Community College until 2005. Over his long career with college basketball, he worked at Arizona State University, Southern Utah University, the University of California at Irvine, Holy Cross College, Orange Coast College, Fullerton College, and Chaffey College.