3 Faculty Members Honored With University Professor Reappointments

Three faculty members have been reappointed to the rank of University Professor, the University’s most senior and selective academic status [PDF]. The honor recognizes exceptional scholarship and innovative academic and professional activity.

The faculty members are:

• Dympna Callaghan, William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the College of Arts and Sciences
• J. Michael Haynie, vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation, executive dean of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship
• Jennifer Karas Montez, Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar in Aging Studies and director of the Center for Aging and Policy Studies in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Callaghan has published widely on the playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. She has held distinguished fellowships on three continents, including the Folger, Huntington and Newberry Libraries, the Getty Research Centre and the Bogliasco Center for Arts and Humanities. She is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, a core editorial team member of A/S/I/A (Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive), lead editor of the A/S/I/A gender collection and co-editor of the Palgrave Shakespeare book series. In 2012-13, she served as president of the Shakespeare Association of America. Currently, she is writing about the relationship between poetic fluency and freedom of speech and Shakespeare in the American Civil War.

Haynie, a senior member of the University’s leadership team for more than a decade, is a leading scholar of innovation, entrepreneurial decision-making and business strategy, and is responsible for a diverse portfolio of academic programs, innovation initiatives and administrative functions. In 2011, he founded the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families as the nation’s first interdisciplinary academic institute created to advance the policy, economic and wellness concerns of veterans and their families. Today, the institute’s national training programs serve 25,000 transitioning service members, veterans and military spouses annually. In 2021, he was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal for his leadership of the University’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was also part of the statewide team that brought Micron Technology’s new, $100 billion production facility to Syracuse.

Montez has extensive expertise in demography, political economy, population health and life course and aging topics. Her research examines the large and growing inequalities in adult mortality across education levels and geographic areas within the United States, including why those trends are particularly worrisome for women, for people without a college degree and for those living in states in the South and Midwest. She also studies whether and why experiences in childhood, such as poverty and abuse, have enduring consequences for health during later life.

She is co-director of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab in the Maxwell School, and is a faculty associate of the Aging Studies Institute and a research affiliate at the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health and the Center for Policy Research.

Fewer than 20 individuals have been recognized as University Professors. Appointments are made by the Chancellor and the Board of Trustees.