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3 Faculty Members Honored With University Professor Reappointments

Reappointed faculty members are recognized for advancing scholarship, leadership and interdisciplinary innovation across campus.
Diane Stirling Sept. 4, 2025

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Three faculty members have been reappointed to the rank of University Professor, the University鈥檚 . The honor recognizes exceptional scholarship and innovative academic and professional activity.

The faculty members are:

  • , William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the
  • , vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation, executive dean of the and Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship
  • , Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar in Aging Studies and director of the聽 in the
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Dympna Callaghan

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聽Palgrave Shakespeare聽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.

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J. Michael Haynie

Haynie, a senior member of the University鈥檚 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 as the nation鈥檚 first interdisciplinary academic institute created to advance the policy, economic and wellness concerns of veterans and their families. Today, the institute鈥檚 national training programs serve 25,000 transitioning service members, veterans and military spouses annually. In 2021, he was awarded the Chancellor鈥檚 Medal for his leadership of the University鈥檚 response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was also part of the statewide team that brought Micron Technology鈥檚 new, $100 billion production facility to Syracuse.

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Jennifer Karas Montez

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 and a research affiliate at the and the .

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