Transitions: New President for U. of Idaho, 2019 Guggenheim Fellows Named

Chief executives

Appointments

Allan Belton, acting president of Pacific Lutheran University for nearly two years, has been named to the post permanently.

Paul Ferguson, dean of the School of Science, Technology, and Health at Biola University, will become president of Azusa Pacific University on June 1. He will succeed Jon R. Wallace, who plans to retire.

C. Scott Green, global chief operating and financial officer at the law firm Hogan Lovells, will become president of the University of Idaho on July 1. He will succeed Chuck Staben, who will step down.

Alicia B. Harvey-Smith, executive vice chancellor of Lone Star College, will become president of Pittsburgh Technical College on July 1. She will replace Eileen Riley Steffan, who has served as interim president since Greg DeFeo stepped down in June 2018.

Colleen Perry Keith, president of Pfeiffer University, will become the first female president of Goldey-Beacom College on July 1. She will succeed Gary L. Wirt, who plans to retire.

Mark R. Kennedy, president of the University of North Dakota, has been named the finalist for president of the University of Colorado system. He is expected to succeed Bruce D. Benson, who plans to retire.

Angela D. Sims, a professor of ethics and black church studies and vice president for institutional advancement at the Saint Paul School of Theology, will become president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School on July 1. She will be the first woman to lead the institution and will succeed Marvin A. McMickle, who plans to retire.

Matthew Wilson, a professor of law and former president of the University of Akron, will become president of Missouri Western State University on July 1. He will succeed Robert Vartabedian, who plans to retire.

Resignations

Brian Rosenberg, president of Macalester College since 2003, will step down in May 2020.

Retirements

Drew Bogner, president of Molloy College since 2000, plans to retire in June 2020.

Michael Chipps, president of Northeast Community College since 2012, plans to retire on December 31.

Virginia Schaefer Horvath, president of State University of New York at Fredonia since 2012, plans to retire on July 1.

Cheryl Jensen, president of Algonquin College since 2014, plans to retire at the end of her five-year term.

Carol Leary, president of Bay Path University since 1994, plans to retire on June 30, 2020.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Jennifer Bonds-Raacke, dean of the Graduate School at Fort Hays State University, will become vice president for academic affairs at St. Norbert College on June 3.

Sharon Jones, dean of the Shiley School of Engineering at the University of Portland, will become vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Washington at Bothell on July 15.

Sidney Parrish Jr., interim vice president for academic affairs at Newberry College since July 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

Valerie Smith Senatore, group dean of academic excellence for the Northeast Region of DeVry University, will become provost and chief learning office at Community Colleges of Spokane on July 1.

Brien N. Smith, dean of the Scott College of Business at Indiana State University, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Youngstown State University.

Cheryl Stevens, dean of Ogden College of Science and Engineering at Western Kentucky University, has been named acting provost.

Wayne Vaught, academic dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Utah Valley University.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Corey A. Campbell, dean of students at Keiser University, was named vice president for student affairs at Jefferson Community College.

Kristen English, associate vice president for admission at Monmouth College, has been named vice president for enrollment management.

Eloisa Gordon-Mora, director of special projects at Universidad Ana G. Méndez, in Puerto Rico, has been named university diversity and inclusion officer at the University of Nevada at Reno.

Eric Maguire, vice president and dean of admission and financial aid at Franklin & Marshall College, will become vice president for enrollment at Wake Forest University on July 1.

Kevin B. Mahoney, executive vice president and chief administrative officer at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and executive vice dean for integrative services in the university’s Perelman School of Medicine, will become chief executive of the University of Pennsylvania Health System on July 1.

Amy McCoy, director of compliance at Community Colleges of Spokane, will become chief compliance officer on July 1.

Renee A. Reijo Pera, vice president for research and economic development at Montana State University at Bozeman, will become vice president for research and economic development at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo on August 12.

Lisa Scott, interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion at Luther College, will become vice president for equity, inclusion, and student success on June 1.

Kerry Witcher, interim vice president for development and alumni affairs and president of the Foundation at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, has been named to the post permanently.

Resignations

Kelley Erstine, vice president for university relations and chief of staff at the University of Central Arkansas, plans to step down on August 15.

Retirements

Stephen Hannabury, executive vice president of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, has been named executive vice president emeritus.

Deans

Appointments

Tania Basta, professor and chair of social and public health at Ohio University, has been named dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Western Kentucky University.

Tim Blumentritt, interim dean of the College of Professional Education at Kennesaw State University since April 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

Hong Cheng, professor and director of the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University, will become dean of the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago on July 1.

Patrick Delafontaine, dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri at Columbia, has been named executive dean of the School of Medicine at Tulane University.

Tan Dun, composer and conductor who has lead many orchestras, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will become dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music on July 1.

Dave Ferguson, interim dean of the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University, will become permanent dean on July 1.

Stephen Ferris, dean of the College of Business at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, will become dean of the Miller College of Business at Ball State University on July 1.

Leslie Grinage, associate dean of students in the Division of Student Life at Davidson College, will become dean of the college at Barnard College in August.

David W. Hahn, chair of the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Florida, will become dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona on July 1.

Lawrence O. Hamer, associate provost for research and diversity at DePaul University, will become dean of the College of Business at Purdue University Northwest on July 1.

Tim Jares, professor and chair of finance in the Kenneth W. Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado, has been named dean of the the College of Business and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Todd S. Jokl, campus dean of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts at the University of New Haven, will become dean of College of Art and Design at Rochester Institute of Technology on August 5.

Peter Kingstone, professor and head of the department of politics and development at King’s College London, will become dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University on July 22.

Glen S. Krutz, senior vice provost at the University of Oklahoma, has been named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oklahoma State University.

Rachel Kyte, chief executive of the international organization Sustainable Energy for All and the special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for Sustainable Energy for All, will become the first female dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University on October 1.

Marianne W. Lewis, dean and professor of management at Cass Business School in City, University of London, will become the first female dean of the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati on July 1.

Shawn Long, senior associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will become dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kennesaw State University on July 15.

Susan Lozier, a professor of ocean sciences at Duke University, has been named dean of the College of Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Amy B. McLellan, professor of taxation in the graduate program and director of online education at the University of Denver, has been named dean of the Braden School of Taxation and director of the LLM Taxation and Estate Planning programs at Golden Gate University.

Jonathan H. Millen, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Rider University, will become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New England on July 1.

Charles Mouton, acting dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, has been named executive vice president and provost and dean of the School of Medicine.

Chris Nesmith, interim dean of the University of South Carolina-Salkehatchie, has been named to the post permanently.

Paul Pavlou, senior associate dean for faculty research, doctoral programs, and strategic initiatives at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, will become dean of the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston on July 1.

Glenda M. Prime, professor and chair of the department of advanced studies, leadership and policy at Morgan State University, has been named dean of the School of Education and Urban Studies.

Daniel Pullin, dean of the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, has been named dean of the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University.

Karen Richardson, dean of admissions and enrollment management at Tufts University, will become dean of admission at Princeton University on July 1.

Micheal W. Salisbury, chair of the department of agriculture at Angelo State University, will become dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research on June 1.

Carolyn Schmies, instructor and chair of communication studies at the Fort McIntosh campus of Laredo Community College, has been named dean of the South Campus.

Christopher Shook, dean of the College of Business at the University of Montana at Missoula, will become dean of the Gordon Ford College of Business at Western Kentucky University on July 1.

Jennifer Simpson, director of the leadership program at University of the Cumberlands, has been named dean of the Graduate School.

Lee Skinner, associate dean of the faculty and professor of Spanish at Claremont McKenna College, will become dean of the Newcomb-Tulane College at Tulane University on July 1.

Steven L. Small, professor and chair of neurology at the University of California at Irvine, has been named dean of the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Josh Speer, chair of the department of engineering technologies in the Terre Haute Service Area of Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, has been named dean of the School of Advanced Manufacturing, Engineering, and Applied Sciences in the college’s Kokomo Service Area.

Douglas A. Sweeney, professor and chair of church history and the history of Christian thought at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, will become dean of the Beeson Divinity School at Samford University on July 1.

Janis Terpenny, head of the industrial and manufacturing engineering department at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, will become dean of the Tickle College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville on August 1.

Emory H. Woodard, associate professor of communication and coordinator of media studies at Villanova University, will become dean of graduate studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in June.

Resignations

Thomas Landers, dean of the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma at Norman since 2005, plans to step down on August 15.

Christoph Lindner, dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon, plans to step down to become dean of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at the University College of London.

Ken Paulson, dean of the College of Media and Entertainment at Middle Tennessee State University, plans to step down in August.

Retirements

Bryan Slinker, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University, plans to retire by the end of the year.

Other administrators

Appointments

Stephen Allegretto, director of financial compliance and reporting at Quinnipiac University, has been named associate vice president for finance and controller.

Patrick Carpenter, an adjunct faculty member in the sociology department and former director of annual giving at Elms College, has been named director of institutional advancement at Holyoke Community College.

Brian Daniels, director of internal audit at Virginia Tech, has beeen named chief audit and compliance officer at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Walter Gantz, a professor in the Media School at Indiana University at Bloomington, will become associate dean of the school on July 1.

Erika George, a professor of law at the University of Utah, has been named director of the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center.

Jennifer Hamer, vice provost for diversity and equity and director of the multicultural scholars program at the University of Kansas, will become associate vice provost for faculty affairs-faculty development at Pennsylvania State University at University Park on July 1.

Betsy P. Huang, associate professor of English at Clark University, will become associate provost and dean of the college on June 1.

Courtney J. Martin, deputy director and chief curator at the Dia Art Foundation, has been named director of the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University.

Jon McCullers, professor and chair of the department of pediatrics in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and pediatrician-in-chief of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, has been named interim senior executive associate dean of clinical affairs and chief operating officer for the college in addition to his other roles.

Liza Morris, interim assistant vice president for planning and university architect at Virginia Tech, has been named to the post permanently.

Kevin Thomas, director of retention and student success at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, will become associate vice president for enrollment management at the University of Central Arkansas on July 1.

T. Barton Thurber, associate director of collections and exhibitions at the Princeton University Art Museum, will become director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and lecturer of art at Vassar College on August 5.

Resignations

Hyung Tai Kim, senior associate dean of clinical affairs in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University, will step down to become president of Mercy Health Saint Mary’s Hospital, in Grand Rapids, Mich., on May 6.

Retirements

Jeff B. McCracken, director of public safety and chief of police at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, plans to retire on July 1.

Guggenheim Fellowships

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced this year’s fellows. Of the 168 fellows named this year, 114 are in academe. The academic fellows are listed below with their academic affiliation and the subjects of their projects. The full list of 2019 fellows can be found here.

Rachel Adams, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, “Anatomies of Care: Narrative and the Art of Interdependency”

Ann Cooper Albright, a professor of dance at Oberlin College, “Simone Forti: Improvising a Life”

Cecilia Aldarondo, an assistant professor of film at Skidmore College, film-video

Branka Arsic, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, “Ambient Life” and “Melville: Materialism and the Ethereal Enlightenment”

William Balée, a professor of anthropology at Tulane University, “A Guide to Historical Ecology of the Lower Amazon”

Yevgeniya Baras, a faculty member in the department of visual and studio arts at Sarah Lawrence College, fine arts

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, “Seven Insights about the Brain”

Lauren Benton, a professor of history and law at Vanderbilt University, “Legalities of Small Wars in European Empires, 1400-1900"

Susanna Berger, an assistant professor of art history at the University of Southern California, “Visual Expertise and the Aesthetics of Deception in Early Modern Italy”

Hester Blum, an associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, “Ice Ages”

Michael K. Bourdaghs, a professor of East Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago, “From Postwar to Cold War: Japanese Culture in the Age of Three Worlds”

Julia Bryan-Wilson, a professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of California at Berkeley, “Louise Nevelson: Modernist Drag”

Ian Burney, a professor of the history of science, technology, and medicine at the University of Manchester, “A History of Innocence: Erle Stanley Gardner, the Court of Last Resort, and the Pursuit of Wrongful Conviction in Cold War America”

Agnes Callard, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, “The World Socrates Made”

David Carey, a professor and chair of history at Loyola University Maryland, “Pandemic Politics in Guatemala and Ecuador, 1900-1950: Race, Healing, and Public Health”

Edward Carey, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, fiction

Cyrus Cassells, a professor of English at Texas State University, poetry

Christiane Cegavske, an assistant professor of animation at Kansas City Art Institute, film-video

Alexandra Chasin, an associate professor of literary studies at New School, “The Family of UnMan”

Gennaro Chierchia, a professor of linguistics at Harvard University, “Origins of Meaning: Quantifiers and the Spontaneous Logicality of Language”

Michael W. Clune, a professor of humanities at Case Western Reserve University, “A Defense of Judgment”

Catherine Conybeare, a professor of Greek, Latin, and classical studies at Bryn Mawr College, “Augustine the African”

Mark Danner, endowed chair in journalism and English at the University of California at Berkeley, “The Intellectual: Robert Silvers and the New York Review of Books”

Brian DeLay, an associate professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, “Means of Destruction: Guns, Freedom, and Domination in the Americas”

Neal K. Devaraj, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California at San Diego, “Synthesizing Artificial Cells”

Janine di Giovanni, a senior fellow in the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University, “The Vanishing: Christianity in an Age of Intolerance”

Camille T. Dungy, a professor of English at Colorado State University at Fort Collins, poetry

Pascaline Dupas, an associate professor of economics at Stanford University, “Local Governance, Local Finance, and Public Service Provision in Urbanizing Africa”

Glenn Dynner, a professor and chair of religion at Sarah Lawrence College, “Hasidism as a Culture of Resistance in Interwar and Nazi-Occupied Poland”

Miguel P. Eckstein, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of California at Santa Barbara, “Eye Movements to Faces after Recovery from Congenital Blindness”

Georg Essl, a visiting research professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, “Topological Sound Synthesis”

Jed Esty, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, “Cold War Victorians: How the British Imagination Shaped American Power”

Suzanne Farrin, a professor of music at the City University of New York Hunter College and the Graduate Center, music composition

Massimo Franceschetti, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California at San Diego, “A Wave Theory of Information”

Alexander R. Galloway, a professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University, “The Crystalline Medium: Computation and Its Consequences”

Marjorie Garber, a professor of English and visual and environmental studies at Harvard University, “Shakespeare in Bloomsbury”

Jennifer Garza-Cuen, an assistant professor and director of photography at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, photography

Carmen Giménez Smith, a professor of English at Virginia Tech, poetry

Hugh Gusterson, a professor of anthropology and international affairs at George Washington University, “Tinkering with Armageddon: Nuclear Weapons Science after the Cold War”

Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland at College Park, “Algorithms for (BIG) Graphs and Algorithmic Game Theory”

Michael Helm, an associate professor of English at York University, fiction

Lawrence P. Jackson, a professor of English and history at the Johns Hopkins University, “Christmas in Baltimore”

David Jerison, a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Free Boundaries and Interfaces in Partial Differential Equations”

Richard R. John, a professor of history and communications at Columbia University, “A History of the American Antimonopoly Tradition”

Matthew Johnson, a professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, “An Archaeology of the English in the Atlantic World”

Daniel Alexander Jones, head of playwriting program and an associate professor of theatre and visual arts at Fordham University, drama & performance art

Ron Jude, an associate professor of photography at the University of Oregon, photography

Mark Jurdjevic, a professor of history at York University at Glendon, “Desperation’s Remedies”

Ari Kelman, a professor of history at the University of California at Davis, “For Liberty and Empire: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars”

Ibram X. Kendi, a professor of history and international relations and founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, “Bones of Inequity: A Narrative History of Racist Policies in America”

Kevin M. Kruse, a professor of history at Princeton University, “The Division: John Doar, the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Movement”

Kathya Maria Landeros, an assistant professor of photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, photography

Fabienne Lasserre, a professor of painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, fine arts

Elisabeth Le Guin, a professor of musicology and music at the University of California at Los Angeles, “El Cancionero de Santa Ana”

Hong Liu, a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Chaos and Turbulence”

Michelle Lopez, an assistant professor of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, fine arts

Carmen Maria Machado, writer-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania, fiction

Matteo Maggiori, an associate professor of economics at Harvard University, “Global Bond Markets”

J. G. Manning, a professor of history and classics at Yale University, “Volcanoes, Nile Variability, and the Course of Egyptian History: the Historical and Human Dimension of Climate Change”

Guadalupe Maravilla, an assistant professor of sculpture an extended media at Virginia Commonwealth University, fine arts

Daniel Joseph Martinez, a professor of art at the University of California at Irvine, fine arts

Shane McCrae, an assistant professor of writing at Columbia University, poetry

Anne McNeil, a professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “A Second Life: Reimagining the Plastic Lifecycle with Chemistry”

Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza, an associate professor and drawing coordinator at Pasadena City College, fine arts

Christopher Merrill, director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, “The Trials of Roger Williams: A Biography”

Suzanne Mettler, a professor of American institutions at Cornell University, “One Nation, Divided: How Polarization Affects American Democracy, Past and Present”

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, a professor of English at the University of California at Davis, “Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion, 1830s-1930s”

Seth Mnookin, director of the graduate program in science writing and a professor of comparative media studies and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Science, History, and Future of Aging”

Erik Mueggler, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “Literacy, Sovereignty, and Bondage in a Qing Native Hereditary Chieftainship”

Per A. Mykland, a professor of statistics and finance at the University of Chicago, “Unified Statistical Inference for High Frequency Data”

Constance Allen Nathanson, a professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University, “Blood, Politics, and Death”

Scott Reynolds Nelson, a professor of history at the University of Georgia, “From the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution: Food and the Fate of Empire”

Andrew Newman, an associate professor of English and history at Stony Brook University, “Literature and the American Way: A History of the High-School Canon”

Todd H. Oakley, a professor of ecology evolution at the University of California at Santa Barbara, “Sea Fireflies to Connect Genes and Biodiversity”

Catherine Opie, a professor of photography at the University of California at Los Angeles, photography

Sylvan Oswald, an assistant professor of playwriting at the University of California at Los Angeles, drama & performance art

Gerard Passannante, an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland at College Park, “God is in the Detail: Cosmic Order and the Sense of Scale”

John Durham Peters, a professor of English and film and media studies at Yale University, “Weather Media in the Modern World”

Adriana Petryna, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, “What is a Horizon? Abrupt Climate Change and Human Futures”

Robert B. Pippin, a professor of social thought and philosophy at the University of Chicago, “Idealism and Anti-Idealism in Modern European Thought”

Sam Pluta, an assistant professor of music at the University of Chicago, music composition

James I. Porter, a professor of rhetoric and classics at the University of California at Berkeley, “Literary Aesthetics after Aristotle”

Matthew Porterfield, a lecturer in film production and theory at the Johns Hopkins University, film-video

Janet L. Pritchard, a professor of photography at the University of Connecticut, photography

Lincoln Quillian, a professor of sociology at Northwestern University, “Hiring Discrimination in North American and European Labor Markets: A Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments”

Dean Rader, a professor of English at the University of San Francisco, poetry

Henry S. Richardson, a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, “The Division of Moral Labor”

Matthew Ricketts, a lecturer in music humanities at Columbia University, music composition

Katharina Rosenberger, a professor of music at the University of California at San Diego, music composition

Helena Rosenblatt, a professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center, “An Intellectual Biography of Madame de Staël”

Edmund Russell, a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, “United by Lightning: The U.S. Transcontinental Telegraph of 1861"

Lena Salaymeh, an associate professor of law at Tel Aviv University, “Revolutionary Islamic Law”

Aki Sasamoto, an assistant professor of sculpture at Yale University, fine arts

Ronald Schechter, a professor of history at the College of William & Mary, “The Secret Library of Marie Antoinette”

Peter J. Schmelz, an associate professor of musicology at Arizona State University, “Intimate Histories of the Musical Cold War”

Helen Schulman, a professor of writing at the New School, fiction

Lloyd Schwartz, a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, poetry

Jim Shrosbree, a professor of art at Maharishi University of Management, fine arts

Brad Snyder, a professor of law at Georgetown University, “Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, Judicial Restraint, and the Creation of the Liberal Establishment”

Miriam Solomon, a professor of philosophy at Temple University, “Evidence and Values in DSM 5.x”

Snezana Stanimirovic, a professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, “Nature vs. Nurture--Why is Star Formation So Inefficient?”

Thorsten Trimpop, an assistant professor of film, video, new media, and animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, film-video

Hong-An Truong, an associate professor of art and art history and director of graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, fine arts

Richard Tuck, a professor of government at Harvard University, “Active and Passive Citizens”

Fatimah Tuggar, an associate professor of foundation studies at Kansas City Art Institute, fine arts

Luis Alberto Urrea, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, fiction

James Vernon, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, “Heathrow: A Global History of Neoliberal Britain”

Ilya Vinitsky, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Princeton University, “The Absolute Faker: The American Dreams of a Russian Con Man”

Lothar von Falkenhausen, a professor of Chinese archaeology and art history at the University of California at Los Angeles, “The Economy of Late Bronze Age China (ca. 1000-250 BCE) Archaeological Perspectives”

Ittai Weinryb, an associate professor of art history in the Graduate Center at Bard College, “Art and Frontier”

Matthew White, an associate professor of music at Coastal Carolina University, music composition

Carmen Winant, chair of studio art at Ohio State University, photography

Patricia J. Wittkopp, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change”

Deborah Zlotsky, an associate professor of experimental and foundation studies at Rhode Island School of Design, fine arts

Deaths

David Brion Davis, a professor emeritus of history at Yale University, died on April 14. He was 92. An influential scholar of American slavery, he wrote multiple books on the topic. He won the National Book Award for history in 1976 for The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Cornell University Press, 1975). Davis also served as the founding director of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

Catherine R. Gira, president emerita of Frostburg State University, died on March 26. She was 86. Gira led Frostburg State from 1991 to 2006. Before taking the helm there, she was a faculty member in English, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and provost at the University of Baltimore.

Roland Hill Nelson Jr., professor emeritus of education administration and leadership at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, died on March 21. He was 90. Nelson also served as president of Marshall University from 1968 to 1970, before he joined the faculty at Greensboro, where he stayed until his retirement in 1985.

Sydel Silverman, an anthropologist who taught at City University of New York Queens College and Graduate Center, died of cancer on March 25. She was 85. Silverman taught at Queens College from 1962 to 1975 and at the Graduate Center from 1975 to 1986. She wrote books on anthropology, including Beast on the Table: Conferencing with Anthropologists (AltaMira Press, 2002), and edited or co-edited others.

Donald Stewart, president of Spelman College from 1977 to 1986, died on April 7. Stewart was also president of the College Board from 1986 until 1999 and was appointed to the Commission on Presidential Scholars by President Barack Obama in 2010.

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