All Entries in the "In Memoriam" Category
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.
In Memoriam: Martha Porter Saxton, 1945-2023
Martha Saxon, an author and long-time faculty member at Amherst College in Massachusetts, died on July 18 at her home in Norfolk, Connecticut.
In Memoriam: Micere Githae Mugo, 1942-2023
A native of Kenya, Dr. Mugo fled her native land to political turmoil and taught at St. Lawrence University. After returning to Africa to teach in Zambia and Zimbabwe, in 1992 she was named a visiting professor at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. A year later, she joined the department of African American studies at Syracuse University where she served for 22 years.
In Memoriam: Elizabeth Mary McCormick, 1963 -2023
At the University of Tulsa College of Law, Professor McCormick founded the Immigrant Rights Project. She was the first associate dean of experiential learning, interim dean in the fall 2001 semester, and served for several semesters as the associate dean of academic affairs.
In Memoriam: Evelyn Boyd Granville, 1924-2023
After serving on the faculty at Fisk University in Nashville, in 1956 Dr. Granville was hired by IBM Corporation and was assigned to work on a contract for NASA. Dr. Granville wrote programs to track orbital trajectories and calculations to ensure the safe re-entry of space vehicles into the atmosphere. She later taught at California State University and the University of Texas at Tyler.
In Memoriam: Evelyn M. Witkin, 1921-2023
Evelyn M. Witkin, a professor emerita at Rutgers University in New Jersey, was a world-renowned geneticist who helped to unlock secrets to how DNA damage and DNA repair affect cancer and aging.
In Memoriam: Grace Chao Auyang, 1940-2023
Dr. Auyang was a long-time faculty member at the University of Cincinnati, where she rose in the ranks to full professor and served as chair of the department of behavioral sciences. She taught courses relating to sociology, psychology, criminology, cultural studies and diversity, and women’s studies.
In Memoriam: Sharon Ann Zimmerman Wilson, 1953-2023
After working as a licensed social worker, Sharon Ann Zimmerman Wilson joined the faculty at Ursuline College in 1990. There she taught hundreds of students who went on to be social workers. She retired after serving on the faculty for 33 years.
In Memoriam: Janie Clarice Park, 1946-2023
In 2005, Dr. Park was named the first woman to lead Chadron State College in Nebraska. She served as president until her retirement in 2012. Earlier in her career, Dr. Park served as provost at Montana State University-Billings for nine years.
In Memoriam: Lena F. Kourkoutis, 1979-2023
An expert in cryo-electron microscopy, Dr. Kourkoutis, an associate professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University, developed a new class of high-resolution, variable-temperature microscopy methods that have the capacity to study the physical, electronic, and atomic structure of materials at picometer precision.
In Memoriam: Ana M. López
Professor López joined the faculty at Tulane University as an assistant professor in 1985. She was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 2014. Since 2000, she had been the director of the university’s Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute.
In Memoriam: Sheila Ruth, 1940-2023
Dr. Ruth joined the philosophy faculty at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 1971. Two years later, she founded the university’s women’s studies program and served as its director until 1985.
In Memoriam: Virginia E. Grabiner, 1945-2023
Dr. Grabiner joined the faculty at Buffalo State University in 1975. At Buffalo State, she founded the women’s studies minor and served as the chair of the sociology department. She retired in 2012 after teaching at the university for 37 years.
