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Faculty Promoted, Awarded Tenure at April Board Meeting

May 5, 2025

At their April meeting, the Bryn Mawr College Board of Trustees voted to confirm the reappointment with tenure of Assistant Professor of Sociology Nora E. Taplin-Kaguru and promoted Airea D. Matthews to Professor.

Nora E. Taplin-Kaguru

Nora E. Taplin-Kaguru joined the College in 2022. She earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching include the areas of social theory, the sociology of social media, and urban sociology.

Nora E. Taplic-Kaguru

Airea D. Matthews

Dee Matthews joined Bryn Mawr College in 2017. She earned her M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Michigan. Matthews was Philadelphia's Poet Laureate from 2022–23. Her book of poetry "Bread and Circus" won the 2023 Los Angeles Book Times Prize, and in 2024, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow.

Airea Dee Matthews
Recent Book: Bread and Circus

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