Promotions for Two at Smith

The Smith College Board of Trustees voted recently to promote two members of the faculty.

John Davis, Priscilla Paine Van der Poel associate professor of art history, was promoted to the rank of professor. Davis has been a member of the Smith faculty since 1992. He specializes in American art and architecture and is the author of the award-winning book "The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture." Davis received the bachelor's degree from Cornell University and the master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University.

Michelle Joffroy, instructor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, was promoted to the rank of assistant professor. Joffroy specializes in 20th century Spanish-American literature. She received the bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts and the master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Arizona. She has been affiliated with Smith since 1996, when she was awarded a Mendenhall Fellowship for study towards the doctoral degree.

Both promotions take effect July 1.

May 20, 1999