All Entries in the "In Memoriam" Category
In Memoriam: Kaitlyn A. Carter, 1979-2023
In 2003, Kaitlyn Carter joined the access and user services department in the McCabe Library at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. In 2015, she took on her most recent role as head of a newly formed digital initiatives and scholarship department.
In Memoriam: Linda Bassett
Bassett joined the communications and marketing division of Rutgers University in 1989, where she worked to meet the community engagement goals of three Rutgers presidents. She retired in 2017.
In Memoriam: Esperanza Bravo de Varona, 1927-2023
Dr. de Varona began working in the University Libraries division of the University of Miami in the late 1960s. Along with other Cuban Americans who worked for the libraries, Dr. de Varona collected documents, posters, newspapers, maps, books, and anything that had to do with Cuba and the Cuban exile experience. These were later assembled into the University of Miami Libraries’ Cuban Heritage Collection. She retired from the university in 2013.
In Memoriam: Elizabeth Culler, 1948-2023
Dr. Culler served as an adjunct professor in the master’s degree program of marriage and family therapy at Fairfield University in Connecticut and as an associate professor in the master’s program in counseling psychology at Goddard College from 1993 to 1999. Until 2008, she worked at the Yale Child Study Center.
In Memoriam: Patricia Liggins Hill, 1942-2023
Dr. Hill joined the faculty at the University of San Francisco in 1970 as an instructor in English and ethnic studies. Dr. Hill retired as a full professor in 2015 after teaching at the University of San Francisco for 45 years.
In Memoriam: Barbara Ruben Migeon, 1931-2023
In 1963, Dr. Migeon became an instructor in the pediatrics department at Johns Hopkins University. In 1978, she becase the sixth woman to hold the rank of full professor at the medical school. Dr. Migeon retired from the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2020, after serving on the faculty for 57 years.
In Memoriam: Rebecca Margaret Blank, 1955-2023
Dr. Black was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2013 to 2022. In October 2021 Northwestern University announced that Dr. Blank had been selected to serve as its seventeenth president and first woman leader. Last summer, Dr. Blank announced that she would be unable to serve due to her diagnosis of cancer.
In Memoriam: Margaret JoAnne Safrit, 1935-2023
Dr. Safrit had a long career in academia, holding faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, American University in Washington, D.C, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
In Memoriam: Laura M. Whitman, 1964-2023
Dr. Whitman joined the faculty at Yale Medical School in 1997. She served as the associate program director for ambulatory education for the Traditional Internal Medicine Residency from 2004–2013. Later, Dr. Whitman was medical director of the Primary Care Center at Yale New Haven Hospital and then as a medical director of the New Haven Primary Care Consortium.
In Memoriam: Mary Despina Lekas, 1928-2023
Dr. Lekas was the first woman to head the otolaryngology department at Rhode Island Hospital. She was also the first woman to be a professor of clinical otolaryngology at Brown University’s medical school and the first woman to be elected president of the New England Otolaryngological Society.
In Memoriam: Christine M. Cano, 1962-2022
Dr. Cano joined the department of modern languages and literatures at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, 1999. She taught courses on a wide range of language, literature, and culture courses at the university, including courses on French cinema and the contemporary novel.
In Memoriam: Josephine Rachel Broude, 1927-2022
Josephine Broude was executive assistant to the provost at Yale University for over 30 years. During her tenure, she ran the executive office for 10 different provosts of Yale University.
In Memoriam: Sharon Church McNabb, 1948-2022
Professor Church was a studio jeweler who created innovative works made from metal, stone, wood, bone, and other natural elements. Professor Church joined the faculty at what is now the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1979 and remained on the faculty for 35 years retiring in 2014.
In Memoriam: Fannie Gaston-Johansson, 1938-2023
Dr. Gaston-Johansson was a member of the University of Nebraska Medical Center faculty from 1985 to 1993. She joined the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1993. For a time, she held joint appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where she had earned a Ph.D.
In Memoriam: Theresa Mary Malumphy, 1932-2022
Dr. Malumphy held faculty posts at the University of Wisconsin, the University of North Dakota, and the University of Oregon before joining the faculty at the University of Northern Colorado. She taught kinesiology and women’s studies at the University of Northern Colorado for 22 years.
In Memoriam: Shoshana Levy, 1939-2022
Shoshana Levy, a long-time faculty member at Stanford Medical School, died late last year.
In Memoriam: Theresa A. Powell
Theresa A. Powell was vice president for student affairs at Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Powell came to Temple in 2002 after serving as vice president of student affairs at Western Michigan University.
In Memoriam: Susan S. Smyth, 1965-2022
Dr. Smyth began her tenure as dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on June 1, 2021, and continue to work until a few days before her death. Before coming to the University of Arkansas, she was the chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the director of the Gill Heart and Vascular Institute at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
In Memoriam: Mary Ruth Morris Stone, 1942-2022
Stone taught in public and private K-12 schools and served on the faculty at Lee University on three different occasions. She also taught at the College of Saint Mary, Metropolitan Technical Community College, the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and the School of Christian Ministry and Patten University in California.
In Memoriam: Irmgard Joan Lorch Staple, 1923-2022
Dr. Staple moved to the United States in 1963 to join the faculty at the Center for Theoretical Biology at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York. She joined the faculty at Canisius College in 1973 and served as professor and chair of the department of biology.
In Memoriam: Nan H. Johnson, 1930-2022
Nan Johnson, a politician and the founder of the Susan B. Anthony Center at the University of Rochester, died late last month at her home in Pasadena, California. She was 92 years old. A native of Pittsburgh, Johnson was a graduate of Barnard College in New York City, where she majored in political science. After […]
In Memoriam: Marie Smith Davidson, 1937-2022
Dr. Davidson joined the College of Education at the University of Maryland in 1971. In 1978, she served as the acting associate dean for graduate students and research before becoming the assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs in 1982. After six years, she went on to become the executive assistant and then chief of staff to the university president, William E. Kirwan.
In Memoriam: Lorie A. Vanchena, 1961-2022
After earning a Ph.D. in German studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Vanchena joined the faculty at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She joined the faculty at the University of Kansas in 2008. There, she served as director of the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies.
In Memoriam: Lorna Marie Irvine, 1936-2022
After earning a Ph.D. at American University in Washington, D.C.. Dr. irvine, a native of Ottawa, Ontario, was hired as an assistant professor of English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She was eventually promoted to full professor of English, Canadian studies, women and gender studies, and cultural studies.
In Memoriam: Nanxiu Qian, 1947-2022
Nanxiu Qian was a professor of Chinese literature in the School of Humanities at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She taught at the university for nearly 30 years.
In Memoriam: Bobbie Brown Knable, 1936-2022
Knable joined the staff at Tufts University in 1970 beginning as an instructor in the English department. In 1980 she was appointed dean of students and remained in that role until her retirement in 2000.
In Memoriam: Julia Reichart, 1946-2022
Reichart joined the faculty at Wright State University in 1985 and taught film studies there for more than a quarter century. She was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one.
In Memoriam: Willa Elaine Johnson, 1957-2022
Dr. Johnson taught at the University of Mississippi for 23 years. Colleagues remember her as a “renaissance woman” who was an expert in many disciplines, fluent in multiple languages, and an artist.
In Memoriam: Catherine Ann Schuler, 1952-2022
Dr. Schuler did extensive field research in Finland and Russia and was considered an authority on Russian theater. She taught in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland before joining the department of women, gender, and sexuality studies in 2011.
In Memoriam: Mary Ann Swedlund Knudten, 1935-2022
After teaching at Marquette University, in 1980 Mary Knudten was named dean and CEO of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha. She served in that position until her retirement in 1999.
In Memoriam: Mae Coates King, 1938-2022
Dr. King, professor emerita of political science at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was the first African American senior staff associate of the American Political Science Association. She was a founding member of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and a former president of the International Association of Black Professionals in International Affairs.
In Memoriam: Monica Berlin, 1973-2022
A member of the Knox faculty since 1998, Professor Berlin made a significant impact on the Knox College community with her courses on creative writing, poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and modern, contemporary, and 21st-century American literature.
In Memoriam: Janet Mulder Mueller, 1938-2022
A member of the University faculty for nearly four decades, Dr. Mueller was the first woman to lead an academic division at the University of Chicago. In her first four years on the faculty, Mueller had been the only woman teaching in the department of English.
In Memoriam: Kathy Cutshaw, 1947-2022
Kathy Cutshaw served as the vice chancellor for administrative, finance, and operations at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa under six chancellors from January 2005 until her retirement in August 2019.
In Memoriam: Susan Ellen Dunn Duncan, 1959-2022
Dr. Duncan started her career at Virginia Tech in 1990 when she was the first woman hired as an assistant professor in the department of food science and technology.Dr. Duncan taught at Virginia Tech for 32 years.
