Five Women Scholars Promoted and Granted Tenure at Williams College

WilliamsWilliams College, the highly rated liberal arts institution in Williamstown, Massachusetts, recently announced the awarding of tenure and the promotion to associate professor for nine faculty members. Five of those promoted and awarded tenure are women.

JeannieA_150x250Jeannie Albrecht is an associate professor of computer science. Her research focuses on energy monitoring and management systems. Dr. Albrecht joined the Williams College faculty in 2007. She is a graduate of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and holds a master’s degree from Duke University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego.

lgilbertLisa Gilbert was promoted to associate professor of geosciences. Her area of speciality is undersea volcanoes and mid-ocean ridges. Dr. Gilbert has been teaching at Williams since 2002. She is graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

HolzapfelAmy Holzapfel is an associate professor of theater. Her work concentrates on nineteenth-century theater. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama: Acts of Seeing (Routledge, July 2013). She joined the Williams faculty in 2007. Dr. Holzapfel holds a master of fine arts degree and a doctor of fine arts degree from the Yale School of Drama.

sl2Sara LaLumia is an associate professor of economics whose research focuses on income and taxation policies. She joined the Williams faculty in 2007. Dr. LaLumia is a graduate of Youngstown State University in Ohio and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

awilcoxAmanda Wilcox was promoted to associate professor of classics. She is the author of The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome: Friendship in Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012). Dr. Wilcox has taught at Williams since 2006. She is a graduate of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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