Members

Kathleen Murray

Board of Directors

Kathleen Murray

Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Macalester College

Kathleen Murray is Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Macalester College. She joined the Macalester administration in the Summer of 2008 after spending three years as Provost at Birmingham-Southern College and the previous nineteen years at Lawrence University in Wisconsin, first as a member of the piano faculty, then as Dean of the Conservatory of Music, and finally as Dean of the Faculty. She holds degrees in piano and piano pedagogy from Illinois Wesleyan University, Bowling Green State University, and Northwestern University, and is a frequent performer, clinician, and adjudicator both nationally and internationally. She is a member of the Music Teachers National Association and served as a member of their Board of Directors from 2002-2004. An Associate Editor for Keyboard Companion magazine from 2000-2005, she has contributed articles to Keyboard Companion and to the journals of the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy. Dr. Murray is recorded on the CRI label.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2013, Committees, Members

Karen Erickson

Board of Directors

Karen Erickson

Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Southern New Hampshire University

Karen Erickson

Karen Erickson, Ph.D., M.A. (Harvard); B.A. (Stanford) is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Southern New Hampshire University. Previously, Dr. Erickson was on the political science faculty (emerita) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she also directed Arctic Affairs in the office of the Provost and a program in Science, Education, and Public Policy at the International Arctic Research Center. She has been a policy adviser to a number of Arctic organizations, and was a founder of the University of the Arctic. Her publications cover a wide range of subjects, including environmental policy, international relations, education in rural Alaska, and Arctic politics. A winner of two Fulbright awards, Dr. Erickson has held fellowships with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, the Scholar’s Roundtable of NYU School of Law, and the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education. She was recently elected a SENCER Leadership Fellow by the Fellowship Board of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2012, Members, Other Program Planning Committee

Nayef Samhat

Board of Directors

Nayef Samhat

Provost, Kenyon College

Nayef Samhat, a native of Detroit, Michigan, holds a B.A. in international affairs from George Washington University’s School of International and Public Affairs, a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.

Nayef specializes in international relations theory and international political economy. He also studies the politics of the Middle East, particularly international relations in the Middle East. Samhat has published in Millenium: Journal of International Studies, International Politics, Global Society, and Policy Studies Journal. He also contributed to the anthology Global Society in Transition: An International Politics Reader. And he is the author of Democratizing Global Politics with Rodger Payne of the University of Louisville.

Prior to coming to Kenyon, Samhat taught at Centre College (1996- 2009) where he also served as as program chair, division chair, and associate dean.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2013, Members

Charlotte Borst

Board of Directors

Charlotte Borst

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Whittier College

Charlotte Borst

Charlotte G. Borst is a professor of history, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of the Faculty at Whittier College in Whittier, California. She has had a substantial administrative career at a number of liberal arts colleges—prior to joining Whittier College in 2009, she was Provost and Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee from 2006-2008, and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Union College in Schenectady, New York, from 2001 to 2006. She also has had faculty and administrative experience at several research universities—she was Chair of History at Saint Louis University and a faculty member in the history department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she also served as Executive Director of Historical Collections.

Borst’s research has focused upon the history of the intersection of gender and race in American health care. She has published widely on the history of midwifery and obstetrics in the United States and the history of medical school admissions in the twentieth century. Her areas of teaching have included the history of American medicine and public health, Gender and Health in American history, American women’s history, American social and intellectual history, historiography, and the American history survey. She holds the B.A. in biology from Boston University, an M.A. in history from Tufts University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Science and Medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Category: About, Board of Directors, Class of 2012, Committees, Governance and Board Development Committee, Members