All Entries in the "In Memoriam" Category
In Memoriam: Natalie Zemon Davis,1928-2023
Dr. Davis, a 2003 recipient of the National Humanities Medal, joined Princeton’s faculty in 1978 and transferred to emeritus status in 1996. She directed the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies from 1990 to 1994 and was a founder of the Program in Women’s Studies
In Memoriam: Estelle Ackerman Fishbein, 1934-2023
Estelle Fishbein, the first woman to serve as general counsel at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Fishbein retired as general counsel in 2004, after 29 years in the post.
In Memoriam: Marie Isabel Charles, 1926-2023
In 1973, Dr. Charles was appointed assistant dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame just a year after women were first admitted. In 1976, she became the first woman to serve as a dean at the University of Notre Dame. In 1982 Dr. Charles was appointed assistant provost and director of international studies at Notre Dame.
In Memoriam: Diana Elizabeth Edelman Kleiner, 1947-2023
Diana Kleiner was the Dunham Professor of the History of Art and Classics, Emerita at Yale University. She was an acclaimed art historian known for her expertise on the art and architecture of the ancient Romans.
In Memoriam: Catherine Ann Pierre, 1970-2023
Pierre arrived at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 2003 as associate editor of Johns Hopkins Magazine, becoming its editor in 2007. She then served as editorial director of the university’s central communications office, interim vice president for communications, director of communications, and senior director of integrated marketing.
In Memoriam: Betty Rasberry McCommas, 1931-2023
She taught at Ouachita Baptist University her entire career, retiring in 1998 after 44 years of service.
In Memoriam: Emily Honig, 1953-2023
Dr. Honig taught at Lafayette College and Yale University, before joining the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1992 where she would teach for the next 28 years.
In Memoriam: Janet Martin, 1938-2023
After four years as an instructor and assistant professor at Harvard University, including a year as a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Dr. Martin spent the rest of her academic career at Princeton. She joined the Princeton faculty in 1973, where she taught for 37 years.
In Memoriam: Anne Alice Skleder, 1965-2023
Anne Skleder, the tenth president of Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, and the first women president in its 145-year history, has died in Atlanta after a lengthy battle with leukemia.
In Memoriam: Sandra Williams Rackley, 1937-2023
Dr. Rackley began her career by joining the faculty of Florida A&M University. She later moved to Florida State University to join the faculty in the College Communication. There she served as associate dean and later dean of undergraduate studies.
In Memoriam: Karin Woodruff Jackson, 1940-2023
In 1974, Jackson began teaching courses in women’s studies at the University of Southern Maine. She went on to teach for 10 years at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine, and later for 20 years at the University of Maine at Augusta.
In Memoriam: Mei-Yau Shih, 1958-2023
A native of Taiwan, Dr. Shih joined the Center for Teaching & Learning at the University of zmsssachusetts Amherst in 1998 to direct the TEACHnology Fellowship. An industrious and insightful proponent of effective teaching, she consulted with hundreds of faculty members on course design.
In Memoriam: Dianne Jemison Pollard
In addition to her service as dean of the Honors College at Texas Southern University, Dr. Jemison Pollard was chair of the department of fine arts at the university for 10 years. She also was an award-winning university stage director who directed over 50 productions.
In Memoriam: Alice L. Laffey, 1944-2023
Dr. Laffey was the first woman to earn a doctoral degree in sacred scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. She then taught for 35 years at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
In Memoriam: Constance Parry Faulkner, 1936-2023
Dr. Faulkner taught political economy, cultural and women studies, and social theory at Fairhaven College, Western Washington University, from 1968 to her retirement in 1990. She also taught at the University of Utah.
In Memoriam: Evelyn Fox Keller, 1936-2023
Dr. Keller joined the MIT faculty in 1992 after teaching at a large number of prestigious institutions. That year, she received a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award for her scholarship. The foundation called her “a scholar whose interdisciplinary work raises important questions about the interrelationships among language, gender, and science.”
In Memoriam: Francine Oputa, 1953-2023
During her 30-year career at Fresno State, Dr. Oputa served as director of the Center for Women and Culture and director of the Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute. She retired as director of the Cross Cultural and Gender Center in 2021.
In Memoriam: Orinthia T. Montague, 1967-2023
In 2021, Dr. Montague was named the fourth president of Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, Tennessee. Previously, she was the fourth president of Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, New York, from 2017 to 2021.
In Memoriam: Sheila Susan Moriber Katz, 1943-2023
Sheila Moriber Katz was a professor and former dean of Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. As a young faculty member at the medicl school, she discovered the bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s disease,
In Memoriam: Carol Clancey Harter, 1941-2023
After serving on the faculty and later as vice president and dean of students at Ohio University, Dr. Harter was named president of the State University of New York at Geneseo. She became the first woman president of UNLV in 1995 and served in that role for 11 years.
In Memoriam: Carol Robles-Román, 1962-2023
One of the two longest-serving deputy mayors in the history of the city of New York, Robles-Román served as general counsel to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg during his 12 years in office. Robles-Román also served on the City University of New York board of trustees for 14 years and was most recently general counsel and dean of the faculty at Hunter College in New York City.
In Memoriam: BeEtta L. Stoney, 1959-2023
Dr. Stoney joined the Kansas State community in 1999 as a race equity coordinator and technical consultant with the College of Education’s Midwest Equity Assistance Center. She was subsequently hired as an assistant professor of secondary education with the college in 2000 and was promoted to associate professor in 2005.
Dr. Stoney served as Kansas State’s faculty athletics representative for 13 years from 2010 to 2023.
In Memoriam: BettyAnn Kevles, 1938-2023
Before coming to Yale University as a senior lecturer in 2001, Kevles taught at the Westridge School and at the Art Center College of Design, both in Pasadena, California. At Yale, Kevles taught seminars on a variety of subjects, including the history of medical imaging, human-animal relations, and animal behavior.
In Memoriam: Laura Jeanne Stanley Quaynor, 1982-2023
Dr. Quaynor joined the Johns Hopkins community in August 2019 as an assistant professor in the school’s doctor of education program and rose quickly through leadership ranks, being named an associate professor and chair of the department of advanced studies in education in 2022.
In Memoriam: Kimberley Jessica Johnson Evans, 1973-2023
Dr. Evans joined the Duke University family in 1998 as an internal medicine resident and was named a fellow in nephrology in 2001. She joined the faculty in 2003 and became assistant professor of medicine in 2008.
In Memoriam: Amy Lohmann
Dr. Lohmann’s journey at UCLA began as a student in the nursing school’s Dual Primary Care PNP/CNS program. After graduating in 2005, Drt. Lohmann went on to practice as a pediatric nurse practitioner at Facey Medical Foundation and at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She returned to UCLA in 2012, this time as a faculty member.
In Memoriam: Luciana Antonia Opassi Bohne, 1939-2023
Between 1977 and her retirement in 2014, Professor Bohne taught courses in film, world literature, English, and women’s studies at a number of educational institutions, including Allegheny College, Mercyhurst University, and Penn State Behrend. At Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, she was tenured and taught for more than two decades, rising to the rank of University Professor.
In Memoriam: Ulku Ulkusal Bates, 1938-2023
A native of Romania, Dr. Bates began teaching career at Oakland University in Michigan, and the University of Michigan, where she taught Islamic and Chinese art history. In 1971, she joined the faculty at Hunter College in New York City and served on the faculty there for 37 years.
In Memoriam: Gale Aileen Harrison, 1945-2023
Dr. Harrison began her teaching career at Floyd Junior College in Rome, Georgia, which is now Georgia Highlands College. In the late 1980s, she joined the political science department at what is now Georgia Southern University in Statesboro
In Memoriam: Mary A. Kilbourne Matossian, 1930-2023
Mary Kilbourn Matossia was a noted historian who was an expert on Armenia. She taught for 31 years at the University of Maryland.
In Memoriam: Beverly Prosser Gelwick, 1932-2023
Dr. Gelwick’s research focused on the study of women’s leadership roles in society and illuminated the challenges faced by women in higher education and the workforce. She directed the student counseling program at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, the University of New Hampshire, and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
In Memoriam: Pamela Corela Smith, 1970-2023
A dedicated administrator, faculty member, and colleague, Dr. Smith’s 22-year career at the university included stints serving as interim dean of the College of Business from 2021 to 2022; associate dean of administration and faculty from 2019 to 2023; and associate dean for graduate studies from 2016 to 2019.
In Memoriam: Christine Lillian Krueger, 1957-2023
During her 35-year tenure at Marquette University, Professor Krueger taught Enlgish and served as director of the University Core of Common Studies and president of the scholarly organization Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. She retired in 2020.
In Memoriam: Eleanor Hope-McCarthy, 1933-2023
A lifelong teacher, Hope-McCarthy spent most of her career as a professor at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Massachusetts. She took pride in teaching and was committed to never teaching the same syllabus twice.
In Memoriam: Barbara J. Braden, 1943-2023
Dr. Braden, who served on the faculty at Creighton University in Omaha for 37 years, developed a tool to assess the risk for skin breakdown in elderly and bedridden patients, to reduce the pain, suffering, and expense associated with patient care. The assessment tool she introduced in 1987 is now known worldwide as the Braden Scale.
