A Trio of Women Appointed to Endowed Professorships

Ebonya Washington has been named the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University. She was the university’s Henry Kohn Associate Professor of Economics.

Dr. Washington holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Catherine Kling has been named a Tisch University Professor at Cornell University. She joined the faculty in July as a professor of environmental, energy, and resource economics and as the director at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

Dr. Kling holds a bachelor’s degree in business and economics from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.

Vilma Navarro-Daniels has been named the Marianna Merritt and Donald S. Matteson Distinguished Professor in Foreign Languages and Cultures at Washington State University. She has been a faculty member at the university since 2003.

Dr. Navarro-Daniels holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso in Chile, a master’s degree in social science from Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. both in Spanish from the University of Connecticut.