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Williams Announces Tenure for Four Faculty Members
03:20PM / Wednesday, January 13, 2016
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Following the recommendation of the Committee on Appointments and Promotions, the Williams College Board of Trustees Executive Committee has voted to promote four faculty to the position of associate professor with tenure.

The vote will be ratified by the full board in January and the promotions will take effect July 1 for Jacqueline Hidalgo, Latino/a studies and religion; Sarah Jacobson, economics; Luana Maroja, biology; and Will Olney, economics.

Hidalgo came to Williams in 2008 as a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow; she was named an assistant professor in 2010, the same year Jacobson, Maroja, and Olney joined the faculty.

Hidalgo teaches courses including Latina/o Identities: Constructions, Contestations, and Expressions; U.S. Latina/o Religions; Revolt and Revelation in the Twentieth-Century Americas; Utopias and Americas; Reel Jesus: Reading the Christian Bible and Film in the U.S.; Scriptures and Race; California: Myths, Peoples, Places; Racial and Religious Mixture; and Queer Temporalities. She currently serves on the Committee on Educational Affairs.

Jacobson teaches courses on microeconomics and environmental and resource economics, both at the undergraduate level and in the master’s program at Williams’ Center for Development Economics. She currently serves on the Campus Environmental Advisory Committee. She earned her B.S. in engineering from Harvey Mudd College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University.

 An evolutionary biologist, Maroja studies the evolution of barriers to gene exchange. Her research asks how reproductive isolation evolves and how lineages eventually become distinct. Her focus on recently diverged species endeavors to understand the genetic changes behind barriers to gene exchange and speciation. Her work has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology; Genes, Genomes, Genetics; Nature; and PLoS One, among others. She was a recent recipient of a grant from the Hellman Family Foundation.

 Olney teaches courses on macroeconomics and international economics at both the undergraduate level and in the master’s program at the Center for Development Economics. He earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, and he has held visiting positions at the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Pompeu Fabra. At Williams, he has served on the Athletics Committee, the Schapiro-Hollander Users Committee, and as the economics department’s library liaison.

 

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