Three Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments

Professor Shima Clarke of Clemson University in South Carolina was given the added duties as the interim associate dean of undergraduate and graduate studies for the university’s newly formed College of Architecture, Art, and Construction. Dr. Clarke joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1998 and was promoted to full professor in 2013. Her research has focused on construction education, integrated project delivery, sustainability, structures, and construction safety.

Dr. Clarke holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees and a Ph.D., all in civil engineering and all from the University of Tennessee.

J. Anna Cabot, a clinical associate professor was appointed director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Houston. Before joining the University of Houston Law Center, Cabot taught at the American University Washington College of Law and the University of Connecticut School of Law. She also worked at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies in San Francisco.

Cabot is a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts, where she majored in physics. She holds a juris doctorate from American University in Washington, D.C.

Camille Leclère-Gregory is a new assistant professor of French and Francophone studies and director of the Institut d’Avignon at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Dr. Leclère-Gregory’s work centers on theater as a representation of society, particularly the portrayal of non-conforming characters.

Dr. Leclère-Gregory earned a bachelor’s degree at Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour in France. She holds a master’s degree from Université Bordeaux-Montaigner in France and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.