Transitions: U. of North Carolina at Charlotte Selects New Chancellor; 2020 Guggenheim Fellows Named

Chief executives

Appointments

Benjamin Ola. Akande, assistant vice chancellor for international affairs–Africa and associate director of the Global Health Center at Washington University in St. Louis, will become president of Champlain College on July 1. He will replace Laurie Quinn, who has served as interim president since July 2019.

Sharon L. Gaber, president of the University of Toledo, has been named chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She will succeed Philip L. Dubois, who plans to retire on June 30.

Mathew B. Johnson, associate dean of the College for Engaged Scholarship and senior fellow and executive director of the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University, has been named president of Albion College, in Michigan. He will succeed Mauri Ditzler, who plans to retire, on July 1.

Susanna Baxter, president of the Georgia Independent College Association, has been named president of LaGrange College. She will succeed Dan McAlexander, who will retire this summer.

Angélica Garcia, vice president for student services at Skyline College, in California, has been named president of Berkeley City College, part of the Peralta Community College District.

Stephen Healey, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Bridgeport, has been named interim president. He replaces Laura Skandera Trombley, who has accepted a position as president of Southwestern University.

Kenneth Long, vice president for administration and finance at East Stroudsburg University, has been named interim president. He will replace Marcia Welsh, who plans to retire.

Kathleen Cieplak Owens, president emerita of Gwynedd Mercy University, in Pennsylvania, will become president of Misericordia University on July 1. She will serve as president until June 30, 2021.

Resignations

Jeff Elwell, chancellor of Eastern New Mexico University has resigned, effective April 24. Patrice Caldwell, vice president for planning, analysis, and governmental relations, has been named interim chancellor.

Brian J. May, president of Angelo State University since 2012, has resigned. Angie Wright, vice president for finance and administration, has been named interim president.

Jeb Spaulding, chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges system, plans to resign.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Kathleen Burns, associate dean for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, has been named interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. She replaces Michael Alexander, who has been named chancellor of the university.

Sonia Cardenas, vice president for strategic initiatives and innovation and interim dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Trinity College, in Connecticut, has been named acting dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs through June 30, 2022.

Mary Clark, deputy provost and dean of faculty at American University, will become provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Denver on July 15.

Christoph Cox, a professor of philosophy at Hampshire College, will become vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty on July 1.

Edward Wright Huffstetler, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Upper Iowa University, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Concord University, in West Virginia.

Debra J. Liebowitz, provost and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University, will become provost at Quinnipiac University on July 15.

James Mayrose, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Buffalo State College (in the SUNY system) since January 2019, has been named to the post permanently.

Sarah Rebecca Thomas, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Earlham College, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean of the university at Transylvania University.

Teresa Kaye Woodruff, dean of the graduate school and associate provost for graduate education at Northwestern University, has been named provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Michigan State University.

Resignations

Kate Miller, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Wyoming, plans to step down on June 30.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Kimberly Chestnut, interim vice president for student affairs at the University of Wyoming, has been named to the post permanently.

Gregg Givens, former senior vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer at DST Systems, in Kansas City, Mo., has been named chief financial officer at Park University.

Monique Guillory, vice president for academic affairs at the College of Saint Elizabeth, has been named chief of staff and chief administrative officer at Morehouse School of Medicine.

Kerri Howell, director of communications and media in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, will become chief communications and marketing officer at the State University of New York college at Geneseo on July 9.

Lisa Landreman, assistant vice president and dean for student life at Roger Williams University, will become vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Willamette University on July 1.

Jake Logan, vice president for advancement at Ball State University and president of the Ball State University Foundation, will become vice president for institutional advancement at the University of Texas at El Paso on May 18.

Mark Montgomery, dean of the School of Public and Human Services at Mohawk Valley Community College, will become chief diversity officer at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute on July 1.

Barbara O’Malley, former chief communications officer at Webster University, has been named chief communications officer at Western University of Health Sciences.

Kirk I. Swenson, vice president for college advancement at Dickinson College, will become vice chancellor for university advancement at the University of North Carolina at Asheville on June 1.

Michael Taberski, vice president for student affairs at New England College, will become vice president for student and campus life at the State University of New York College at Geneseo on July 9.

Baishakhi Taylor, vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Middlebury College, will become dean of the college and vice president for campus life at Smith College on July 1.

Retirements

Susan Baxter, executive director of the California State University program for education and research in biotechnology, plans to retire on May 1.

Scott C. Malpass, chief investment officer at the University of Notre Dame, plans to retire on June 30 after 32 years in the job.

Deans

Appointments

Amjad Ali, associate dean and professor of information technology and cybersecurity in the School of Applied Science and Technology at Thomas Edison State University, will become dean of the School of Informatics, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Robert Morris University on June 1.

Timothy A. Barbari, a professor of biomedical engineering and former associate provost for graduate affairs at Boston University, has been named dean of graduate studies at the Colorado School of Mines.

Polly D. Boruff-Jones, dean of the library at Indiana University at Kokomo, will become dean of university libraries at Oakland University on July 1.

Hansel Burley, chair of the department of educational psychology and leadership and a professor of educational psychology in the College of Education at Texas Tech University, will become dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of New Mexico on July 1.

Leslie Cornick, associate dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at Eastern Washington University, will become dean of the School of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at the University of Washington at Bothell July 1.

Larry Cunningham, associate dean for assessment and institutional effectiveness and director of the Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at St. John’s University School of Law, in New York, has been named dean of the Charleston School of Law.

Stephanie Dance-Barnes, interim associate provost and dean of the University College of Lifelong Learning and associate professor of cell and molecular biology at Winston-Salem State University, will become dean of the College of Science and Health at DePaul University on July 1.

Thomas Donley, a professor of economics and associate dean in the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University, will become interim dean of the college on July 1.

William V. Giannobile, a professor and chair of periodontics and oral medicine in the School of Dentistry at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has been named dean of Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine.

Andrea Goldsmith, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, will become dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University on September 1.

Cassandra Hill, associate dean of academic affairs at Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, will become dean of the College of Law at Northern Illinois University on July 1. She will be the first African-American woman to lead the law school.

Brian Madison Jones, dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Johnson C. Smith University, has been named dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Citadel.

Deborah Keyek-Franssen, associate vice president for digital education and engagement at the University of Colorado system, has been named associate vice president and dean of continuing and online education at the University of Utah.

Mary Koithan, associate dean of student and community engagement in the College of Nursing at the University of Arizona, has been named dean of the College of Nursing at Washington State University.

Evan Leach, interim dean of the College of Business and Public Management at West Chester University, in Pennsylvania, has been named to the post permanently.

Mark Leid, a professor and the associate dean for research in the College of Pharmacy at Oregon State University, has been named dean of the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Washington State University.

Kemper E. Lewis, chair of the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), has been named dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Natasha Vijay Munshi, associate dean of graduate business in the School of Economics and Business Administration at Saint Mary’s College of California, will become dean of the W. Fielding Rubel School of Business at Bellarmine University on August 1.

Camille Nelson, dean of the Washington College of Law at American University, will become dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii-Manoa on August 1.

Melissa Odegard-Koester, a professor and chair of the department of psychology and counseling at Southeast Missouri State University, has been named interim dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Jodi Sandfort, a professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, has been named dean of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington.

Micheal T. Stratton, a professor of management and chair of the department of management and accountancy at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, will become dean of the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College & State University on July 1.

Alice Suroviec, a professor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry at Berry College, has been named dean of the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences.

John E. Taylor, a professor of law at West Virginia University, has been named interim dean of the College of Law.

Stuart Tedders, interim dean of the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University since July 2019, has been named to the post permanently.

John Toscano, a professor of chemistry and vice dean for natural sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, will become interim dean of the university’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences on July 1.

Resignations

Susan Jaffe, dean of the School of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, will step down on June 5 to become artistic director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre.

Will Norton, dean of the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi, plans to step down and return to the faculty on May 11.

Other administrators

Appointments

Juliette Bianco, deputy director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, will become director of the Weatherspoon Art Museum and adjunct faculty in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro on September 1.

Abigail Feder-Kane, senior director of development at Sarah Lawrence College, has been named director of development and external relations for the City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.

Zuleima Karpyn, a professor of petroleum and natural-gas engineering at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, will become associate dean of graduate education and research in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences on July 1.

Joshua Reaves, interim director of University Theatre at North Carolina State University since June 2018, has been named to the post permanently.

Resignations

Jane M. Sovern, deputy general counsel for the City University of New York, has stepped down to join the higher-education practice of the New York City-based Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC.

Faculty

Appointments

Lauren Benton, a professor of history and law at Vanderbilt University, will become a professor of history at Yale University on July 1.

David Dutton, a large-animal veterinarian at Hill Country Equine, has been named a professor of surgery in the School of Veterinary Medicine at Texas Tech University.

Sheena Greitens, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri at Columbia and former first lady of Missouri, has been named to a new position in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

June Han, a harpist who has served on the faculties of Yale School of Music, Columbia University’s Music Performance Program, and the Juilliard School Pre-College Division, will join the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.

Guggenheim Fellows

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced this year’s fellows. Of the 175 fellows named this year, 124 are in academe. They are listed here with their academic affiliation and the subjects of their projects. The full list of 2020 fellows can be found on the foundation’s website.

Arturo Arias, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation professor in the humanities in the department of Spanish literature and culture at the University of California at Merced, “Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Mexican Indigenous Narratives”

Lawrie Balfour, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, “Imagining Freedom: Toni Morrison and the Work of Words”

J Stoner Blackwell, a faculty member at Bennington College, fine arts

Edyta M. Bojanowska, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Yale University, “Empire and the Russian Classics”

Pia Borg, associate director of experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts, film/video

Jenny Boully, an associate professor of English and creative writing at Columbia College Chicago, general nonfiction

Mark Philip Bradley, a professor of history at the University of Chicago, “When the World Went South: A History of the Global South and the Making of Our Times”

Diane K. Brentari, a professor of linguistics and co-director of the Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language at the University of Chicago, “Observing the Creation of Language”

Taylor Brook, a core lecturer in music at Columbia University, music composition

Lisa Brooks, a professor of English and American studies at Amherst College, “Tracking Molsemsis: An Indigenous and Environmental History of Eastern Coyote”

Amy Nelson Burnett, a professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, “The Religious Republic of Letters: Correspondence Networks in Reformation Germany”

Sarah Buss, a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “How to Be Coherent and How Coherent to Be”

Robert Campany, a professor of Asian studies at Vanderbilt University, “Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE”

James T. Campbell, a professor of U.S. history at Stanford University, “Freedom Now: The Mississippi Freedom Movement in History and Memory”

Hector Carrillo, a professor of sociology at Northwestern University, “The Afterlife of Documents: Identity, Mobility, and the Genealogical Imagination”

Oscar Cásares, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, fiction

Anne Cattaneo, a faculty member at Juilliard School, “Heinrich von Kleist: An Appreciation for American Readers”

Liz Cohen, an associate professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University, photography

Chico Colvard, an assistant professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, film/video

Dilip da Cunha, an adjunct professor of architecture at Columbia University and lecturer in urban planning and design at Harvard University, “Ocean of Rain”

Guillermina De Ferrari, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, “Broken Tropics, Arts of Contingency”

Michael Dickman, a lecturer in creative writing at Princeton University, poetry

Jennifer Doudna, a professor of chemistry and molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley, “Genome Editing in the Biosphere”

Yaacob Dweck, a professor of history at Princeton University, “Rabbinic Reactionaries in the Sephardic Diaspora: Notes on a Social Type”

David Dyzenhaus, a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto, “The Politics of Legal Space”

Dyan Elliott, a professor of history at Northwestern University, “The Quick and the Dead: the Medieval Church and the Exhumation of Christians”

Marti Epstein, a professor of composition at Berklee College of Music, music composition

Kate Flint, a professor of art history and English at the University of Southern California, “The Long Today: Victorian Culture and Environmental Change”

Elina Gertsman, a professor of art history and art at Case Western Reserve University, “Withdrawal and Presence: Visualizing Medieval Abstraction”

David Gompper, a professor in the Voxman School of Music at the University of Iowa, music composition

Robert Gooding-Williams, a professor of African American studies, philosophy, and African American and African-diaspora studies at Columbia University, “Du Bois’s Political Aesthetics: The Moral Psychology of White Supremacy and the Ends of Beauty”

Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, “First Explore, Then Exploit: Formulating a Cognitive, Computational, and Evolutionary Theory of Childhood”

Eric Gottesman, an assistant professor of photography at the State University of New York College at Purchase, photography

Garth Greenwell, a visiting assistant professor in the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, fiction

James Grier, a professor of music history at the University of Western Ontario, “The Foundations of Musical Literacy in the Medieval West 800-1100: Oral and Written Transmission of Early Plainsong”

Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “How Much Money Can We Save by Eradicating Hepatitis C?”

Anna Grzymala-Busse, a professor of politics at Stanford University, “The Medieval Religious Origins of the European State”

Tyrell Haberkorn, an associate professor of Asian languages and cultures at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, “Dictatorship on Trial in Thailand”

Leor Halevi, an associate professor of history and associate professor of law at Vanderbilt University, “Everyday Salafism in an Entangled World: The Saudi Spirit of Global Exchange in the Century of Bin Baz”

Janice N. Harrington, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, poetry

Leslie Hewitt, an associate professor of art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, fine arts

José-Luis Hurtado, an associate professor of music theory and composition at the University of New Mexico, music composition

Sabine Iatridou, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Quexistentials and Their Significance for Linguistic Theory”

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, an associate professor of practice in the department of theater and dance at the University of Texas at Austin, drama and performance art

Patrick Jagoda, a professor of English and cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago, “Story Lab: Collaborative Narrative Methods for a Transmedia Era”

Christopher Jarzynski, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Maryland at College Park, “Nanoscale Thermodynamics Beyond Idealizations”

Steffani Jemison, an assistant professor of media in the department of art and design at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, fine arts

Lacy M. Johnson, an assistant professor of English in creative writing at Rice University, general nonfiction

Susan Juster, a professor of history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “A Common Grave: A Material History of Catholics in English America”

Benjamin Kahan, an associate professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, “Sexual Aim and Its Misses”

Vera Keller, an associate professor of history at the University of Oregon, “Curating the German Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major (1634-1693) and the Experimental Century”

Alex Ketley, lecturer in theater and performing studies at Stanford University, choreography

Osman Khan, an associate professor in the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, fine arts

Mark LeVine, a professor of history at the University of California at Irvine, “The Kakuma Sound: Rerooting the Past, Composing the Future”

Yiyun Li, a professor of creative writing at Princeton University, fiction

Steve Locke, a professor of painting at Pratt Institute, fine arts

Valeria Luiselli, writer-in-residence at Bard College, fiction

Alexandre Lunsqui, an assistant professor of music at São Paulo State University, music composition

Andrej Lupták, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, and molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of California at Irvine, “Regulation of the Transcriptome by Light”

Jian Ma, an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, “Algorithms for Comparing Genome Organization”

Frank Magilligan, a professor of geography at Dartmouth College, “Watershed Moments: Science, Values, and American Rivers”

Christian Marois, an adjunct associate professor and research officer of physics and astronomy at the University of Victoria, “Enabling Key Technologies and New Discoveries for Imaging Another Earth”

Jenny McPhee, a clinical assistant professor and academic director of the Center for Applied Liberal Arts at New York University, “A New Translation of Elsa Morante’s First Novel, Menzogna e sortilegio (1948)”

Philip Metres, a professor of English at John Carroll University, poetry

Bernadette Meyler, a professor of law and associate dean of research and professor (by courtesy) of English at Stanford University, “Common Law Originalism: The Constitution’s Contested Meanings”

Shaylih Muehlmann, an associate professor and Canada research chair in the department of anthropology at the University of British Columbia, “Women’s Activism Against Drug War Violence”

Angel Nevarez, a faculty member in the School of Art at the New School, fine arts (jointly with Valerie Tevere)

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, a professor of English at the University of Mississippi, poetry

Sigrid Nunez, a faculty member in the creative-writing program in the New School’s Schools of Public Engagement, fiction

Lisa Olstein, a professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, poetry

Chris Otter, an associate professor of history at Ohio State University, “The Technosphere: A Deep Human History”

Clifford Owens, guest faculty in visual and studio art at Sarah Lawrence College, fine arts

Josh Pacewicz, an associate professor of sociology and urban studies at Brown University, “Architects of the Divided States: Legislators, Lobbyists, and Advocates in Polarized Times”

Sarah Parcak, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, “Surviving Collapse: The Global History of Human Resilience”

Jennifer Pastor, a professor in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California at Irvine, fine arts

H. Glenn Penny, a professor of history at the University of Iowa, “Beyond Colonial Questions: Being German in Guatemala from the 1880s through the 1980s”

Nathaniel Persily, a professor of law at Stanford University, “Securing a Democratic Digital Future”

Helen Phillips, an associate professor of English at the City University of New York Brooklyn College, fiction

Kim Phillips-Fein, a professor of history at New York University, “Defending Inequality: The American Business Tradition”

David A. Pietz, a professor of history at the University of Arizona, “Death and Life on the Yangtze: Extinction, Conservation, and Environmental Change in Modern China”

Tahera Qutbuddin, a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Chicago, “Ali ibn Abi Talib: Life, Teachings, and Eloquence of the Sage of Islam”

Kavita Ramanan, a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University, “High-Dimensional Interacting Random Processes”

Eric Rebillard, a professor of the humanities in the department of classics at Cornell University, “Redescribing the Triumph of Christianity”

Camille Robcis, an associate professor of French and history at Columbia University, “The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation”

Lawrence Rosenwald, a professor of English at Wellesley College, “Towards a Pacifist Criticism”

Tina Satter, a playwright and visiting artist at Sarah Lawrence College, drama and performance art

Rebecca Saxe, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Why We Punish”

Susanna Schellenberg, a professor of philosophy and cognitive science at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, “The Neural Basis of Perception: Discrimination, Information-Processing, and Biases”

Katy Schimert, an associate professor and head of ceramics at Rhode Island School of Design, fine arts

Erica Schoenberger, a professor of environmental health and engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, “Where Did Capitalism Come From? A Revised History”

Melissa Schwartzberg, a professor of politics at New York University, “Judging Democracy: Jurors, Voters, and the Construction of Equal Citizens”

Jeffrey Sconce, an associate professor of radio, television, and film at Northwestern University, “Paracosmic Media”

David Sepkoski, chair and a professor of the history of science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “The Politics of Human Nature: Biological Determinism From Sociobiology to the Human Genome”

Yevgeniy Sharlat, an associate professor of composition at the University of Texas at Austin, music composition

Mukul Sharma, a professor of earth science at Dartmouth College, “Utilizing Clay Minerals to Remove Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”

Pradeep Sharma, a professor and chair of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, “Why Do Some People Hear Music Better Than Others? An Engineering and Physics Perspective”

Lesley A. Sharp, a professor of anthropology at Barnard College, “Dying Behind Bars: Male Inmate Caregivers and the Prison Hospice Movement in America”

Anna Shternshis, a professor of Yiddish studies and director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, “Last Yiddish Heroes: A Lost and Found Archive of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union”

Daniel Jordan Smith, a professor of anthropology at Brown University, “Infrastructural Deficiency, State Complicity, and Entrepreneurial Citizenship in Nigeria”

Rachel Louise Snyder, an associate professor of literature at American University, general nonfiction

Helen Solterer, a professor of French and Francophone studies and Romance studies at Duke University, “Timely Fictions: An Early and Modern Almanac in French”

Cammie Staros, a lecturer in art at California State University at Long Beach, fine arts

Susan Steinberg, a professor and chair of English at the University of San Francisco, fiction

A.L. Steiner, a senior critic at the Yale School of Art, film/video

Douglas W. Stephan, a professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto, “Activation of Strong Bonds by Frustrated Lewis Pairs”

Andrew Strominger, a professor of physics at Harvard University, “Resolving the Black Hole Information Paradox”

Catherine Sullivan, an associate professor of visual arts at the University of Chicago, film/video

Barbara Takenaga, a professor emerita of art at Williams College, fine arts

Brian Teare, an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia, poetry

Valerie Tevere, a professor of media culture at the City University of New York College of Staten Island, fine arts (jointly with Angel Nevarez)

Michael J. Therien, a professor of chemistry at Duke University, “Ambient-Temperature Spintronic Materials and Devices Enabled by Soft Matter”

Rick Valelly, a professor of political science at Swarthmore College, “Uncle Sam’s Closet: Lesbian and Gay Enfranchisement and the American State”

Chris E. Vargas, an assistant professor in the College of Fine and Performing Arts at Western Washington University, fine arts

Shannon Walsh, an associate professor of theater and film at the University of British Columbia, film/video

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, a professor of art history at the University of California at Davis, “City of 1,001 Churches: Architecture, Destruction, and Preservation at a World Heritage Site”

Caroline Weber, a professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College, “Swan Song: Belle Epoque Society and the Legends of Lost Time”

Martin H. Weissman, a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, “Visualizing Prime”

Noah Whiteman, an associate professor of integrative biology at the University of California at Berkeley, “Most Delicious Poison: How Plant Toxins Changed the World”

Amy Wilentz, a professor of English at the University of California at Irvine, general nonfiction

Emily Wilson, a professor of classical studies and graduate chair in the program of comparative literature and literary theory at the University of Pennsylvania, “Verse Translation of the Iliad”

Pamela Wojcik, a professor of film, television, and theater at the University of Notre Dame, “Unhomed: Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema”

Donald Reid Womack, a professor of composition and theory and a faculty member in the Center for Japanese Studies and Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, music composition

Reggie Workman, an associate professor in the College of Performing Arts at the New School, music composition (jointly with Maya Milenovic Workman)

Muhammad Hamid Zaman, a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, “Resistance and Refugees: Analyzing the Drivers of Antimicrobial Resistance in Refugee Camps in Lebanon and Uganda”

DEATHS

Martha Banta, a professor emerita of English at the University of California at Los Angeles, died on March 31. She was 91. Banta served as associate editor of the Columbia Literary History of the United States, editor and contributor to The Harper American Literature anthology, and editor of the Modern Language Association’s journal, PMLA. She taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Washington before she arrived at UCLA in 1983.

David S. Boe, a professor of organ and dean of the conservatory at Oberlin College, died of Covid-19 on April 28. He was 83.

Ron Calgaard, president emeritus of Trinity University, in Texas, died on April 10. He was 82. Calgaard was the longest-serving president in the university’s history, from 1979 until 1999.

William B. Helmreich, a professor of sociology at City College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, died on March 28. He was 74. He wrote several books, including Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America (1992).

Donald Kennedy, president emeritus of Stanford University, died of Covid-19 on April 20. He was 88. Kennedy led Stanford from 1980 until 1992. He joined the biology faculty in 1960, left in 1977 to become commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under President Jimmy Carter, and returned to Stanford as provost in 1979. After he stepped down as president, Kennedy served as editor-in-chief of Science for eight years before returning to the faculty.

Virgil Nelson, a former professor of math at North Platte Community College, died on March 30. He was 86. Nelson was one of the first two instructors hired when the college, then called North Platte Junior College, was formed, in 1965.

Abigail Thernstrom, a former member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and a vocal opponent of affirmative action, died on April 1. She was 83.

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