New Administrative Duties for Seven Women in Academia

Marta Caminero-Santangelo was named acting vice provost for faculty development at the University of Kansas. She is a professor of English at the university and has served on the faculty there since 1997.

Professor Caminero-Santangelo is a graduate of Yale University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Caminero-Santangelo is the author of The Madwoman Can’t Speak: Or Why Insanity Is Not Subversive (Cornell University Press, 1998) and On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity (University Press of Florida, 2009).

W. Cherry Li-Bugg was appointed vice chancellor for educational services and technology for the North Orange County Community College District in California. She has been serving as dean of learning resources and educational technology at Santa Rosa Junior College.

Dr. Li-Bugg is a graduate of Shanghai International Studies University in China. She holds two master’s degrees from the University of Texas and a doctorate in community college leadership from Colorado State University.

Kristine Miller was named director of the University Honors program at Utah State University. She is an associate professor of English at the university and has served on the faculty for the past 18 years.

Dr. Miller is the author of British Literature of the Blitz: Fighting the People’s War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, all from the University of Michigan.

AnnaLisa Nash was named export control officer for the Office for Research and Creative Activity at North Dakota State University. She is a former trial attorney for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Nash is a graduate of George Washington University, where she majored in international affairs. She earned a law degree at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Meredith Weenick was appointed vice president for campus services at Harvard University. She is the former chief financial officer for the City of Boston and she was a policy adviser to former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.

Weenick holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kim Taylor was named vice president and general counsel at the University of Chicago. She is a partner in the law firm Hilton & Bishop in Falmouth, Massachusetts. She is a former equity partner of Kirkland & Ellis in the firm’s New York City office.

Taylor is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California Hastings College of Law.

Rhonda Reger was appointed director of research for the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She is a professor of strategic management and entrepreneurship at the university.

Dr. Reger is a graduate of Texas A&M University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.