Amelia Kraehe is vice dean of the Arizona arts division in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona. A professor of art and visual culture education, Dr. Kraehe has been a faculty member with the university since 2018. She previously served as associate vice president for organizational excellence and impact. Her scholarship centers on the development of professional identity and capacity within educational and cultural institutions.
Dr. Kraehe is a graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in studio art and economics. She holds a master’s degree in art education and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jamal Cyrus is a new assistant professor of sculpture at the School of Art of the University of Houston. His work draws on the creative strategies of collage and assemblage, and explores the evolution of African American identity within Black political movements and the African diaspora.
Cyrus earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Houston. He then studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and earned a master of fine arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Grisha Coleman is a new full professor in the Music and Theater Arts Section of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research explores tensions between our physiological, technological, and ecological systems; human movement, our machines, and the places we inhabit. Professor Coleman has taught at Northeastern University in Boston and Arizona State University.
A graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Professor Coleman earned a master of fine arts degree in music composition and integrated media from the California Institute of the Arts.
Nicholas Ball was promoted to professor of chemistry at Pomona College in California. A faculty member since 2015, Professor Ball serves as coordinator of the college’s environmental analysis program. His research is focused on developing methodologies to make and activate sulfur fluorides.
Professor Ball holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Michigan. He completed postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology.
Ashanti Jones was promoted from interim director to permanent director of the Marjorie S. Price Doctor of Physical Therapy program at the University of Louisiana Monroe. A faculty member with the university since 2020, she previously served as the program’s associate director. Throughout the past six years. Also, Dr. Jones has served as director of clinical education, admissions chair, and neuro curriculum coordinator. Before entering academia, she practiced as a physical therapist in a variety of clinical settings.
A graduate of Dillard University in Louisiana, Dr. Jones holds a master of physical therapy degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch, a doctor of physical therapy degree from the University of the Incarnate Word in Texas, and an educational doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Louisiana Monroe.
