Mills Matters Fresh faculty bring scholarly skills and teaching talent Mills continues to invest in academic excellence and quality teaching with the addition this fall of the following new faculty members: Audrey Calefas-Strebelle, assistant
Meryl Faith Bailey
Jennifer E. Smith
Carol Theokary
professor of French and francophone studies, received her BA in history and
Harvard Law School, and her MA and PhD
postdoctoral work at the Center for
art history as well as her MA in French
in art history at UC Berkeley.
Society and Genetics in the Department
Amy Franceschini will join the faculty
and American history at Sorbonne
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at
University in Paris. She studied Turkish
as assistant professor of studio art,
the University of California, Los Angeles,
at Bogazici University in Istanbul and
with a focus in new genres, in spring
where she received an Innovative
completed her PhD in French at Stanford
2013. With a BFA in photography from
Courses in Undergraduate Education
University in June. She has previ-
San Francisco State University and an
grant award. Smith earned her doctor-
ous teaching experience at Stanford
MFA from Stanford, her works focus on
ate in 2010 at Michigan State University,
University and Notre Dame de Namur.
themes of sustainability and community
where she studied social ecology of
and perceived conflicts between humans
spotted hyenas. Her research focuses on
professor in fall 2011, returns as assistant
and nature. She has taught at Stanford,
the interface of behavior, physiology,
professor of art history with specializa-
California College of the Arts, San
ecology, and evolutionary biology.
tion in late Italian Renaissance art and
Francisco Art Institute, and UC Berkeley.
Meryl Faith Bailey, a visiting assistant
Assistant Professor of Biology Jennifer
architecture in Venice. She received her BA in anthropology at Harvard, her JD at
E. Smith comes to Mills following
Reunion ’12
September 27–September 30 Convocation on September 28
Join your classmates for a weekend of friendship and fun. See alumnae.mills.edu/reunion, or contact alumnae-relations@mills.edu or 510.430.2123.
Celebrating alumnae from class years ending in 2 or 7, including the Golden Girls of 1962
In Celebration of Julia Morgan
The Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business welcomes its first tenuretrack faculty hire: Assistant Professor of Business Carol Theokary earned her doctorate of business administration in 2010 from the School of Management at Boston University, where she specialized in operations and technology management with a minor in economics. She earned her MS in computer and communications engineering in Lebanon and worked for several years as an engineer in the telecommunications industry. Theokary has been a visiting assistant professor in the Mills MBA Program, teaching operations management and quantitative methods and supervising students in their management practicums. Former Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Ann Murphy has been promoted to assistant professor, a tenure track
As part of a statewide festival honoring Julia Morgan, Reunion 2012 includes an exhibition of the architect’s drawings and photographs of the buildings she designed for the campus.
position, as has Jay Gupta, assistant
Come enjoy an opening reception on Friday and tours led by Campus Architect Karen Fiene of the five Morgan–designed Mills buildings on Friday and Saturday.
Look for more news on this appointment
professor of philosophy. As we went to press, Chiu-Hung Chen was confirmed as the Peng Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature. in the next issue.