UMass ADVANCE Announces 2020-21 Faculty Fellows

UMass ADVANCE is pleased to announce the 2020-2021 cohort of ADVANCE Faculty Fellows. The 39 selected faculty, each representing different departments, will be partnering with the UMass ADVANCE leadership team to promote gender equity for faculty at UMass. Through a combination of research, programming, and interventions UMass ADVANCE seeks to understand and address systemic and intersectional inequalities to lay the groundwork for

a fairer, more equitable, diverse and inclusive campus.

ADVANCE’S theme for the upcoming program year is “Inclusion and Equity Amid COVID-19.”

“We look forward to engaging this year’s fellows,” said Laurel Smith-Doerr, principal investigator for the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Grant and Program. “The ADVANCE Faculty Fellows play a critical role in the work we are doing. Together we will learn from each other at a time when departments and colleges are striving to create and sustain not only gender equity for their faculty, but new priorities for addressing systemic racism in the sciences.”

The 2020-2021 Faculty Fellows are:

Lara Al-Hariri, chemistry
Whitney Battle-Baptiste, anthropology
Katherine Boyer, kinesiology
Joshua Braun, journalism
Marta Calas, management
Isla Castañeda, geosciences
Jacqueline Castledine, University Without Walls
Nathan Chan, resource economics
Lorraine Cordeiro, nutrition
Bryan Coughlin, polymer science and engineering
Paul Dennis, music and dance
Seth Donahue, biomedical engineering
Marco Duarte, electrical and computer engineering
Isabel Espinal, library
Debbie Felton, classics
Kimberley Geissler, health promotion and policy
Devon Greyson, communication
Owen Gwilliam, mathematics and statistics
Rebecca Hamlin, political science
Korina Jocson, student development
Fidan Kurtulus, economics
Li-Jun Ma, biochemistry and molecular biology
Narges Mahyar, computer sciences
Lynne McLandsborough, food science
Sarah Pallas, biology
Kara Peterman, civil and environmental engineering
Sarah Poissant, communication disorders
Alexandra Pope, astronomy
Darrel Ramsey-Musolf, landscape architecture and regional planning
Pari Riahi, architecture
Jessica Schiffman, chemical engineering
Memnun Seven, nursing
Mila Sherman, finance
Enrique Suarez, teacher education and curriculum studies
Brokk Toggerson, physics
Don Tomaskovic-Devey, sociology
Linda Tropp, psychological and brain sciences
Laura Vandenberg, environmental health sciences
Yanfei Xu, mechanical and industrial engineering

For more information on UMass ADVANCE go to: https://www.umass.edu/advance/.