Officers

President: Phoebe Lohstroh

Phoebe Lostroh is a molecular microbiologist.  After pursuing undergraduate work at Grinnell College, she earned a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Harvard University in 2001.  She joined the faculty at CC in 2003.  Her research investigates genetic exchange among soil bacteria and she has written textbooks in virology and microbiology.  Her public outreach activities include performing and directing for Science Riot, a non-profit that uses stand-up comedy as a vehicle for humanizing scientists and delivering scientific content to the general public. Phoebe joined AAUP in 2010 and was elected president of the CC chapter in 2023.

Vice President: Celeste Diaz Ferraro

I joined AAUP in 2024, soon after arriving at CC following a career as a practitioner in public advocacy, international development, social entrepreneurship. I’m completing my PhD in management and organization studies at the University of Texas – San Antonio, where my research centers on the institutional infrastructures that embed moral values in emerging fields and entrepreneurial ecosystems. As a first-gen grad, I sought out CC because I’ve experienced firsthand how transformative a liberal arts education can be in cultivating the moral imagination necessary for building more just institutions. Whether as an advocate, teacher or researcher, I’ve learned meaningful change requires both protecting spaces for difficult questions and actively dismantling the structures that determine whose questions get heard. I believe these aren’t separate projects but deeply intertwined, and AAUP’s work on shared governance is essential to ensuring faculty voice in shaping an institution that lives out its values.

Representative: Tomi-Ann Roberts

Tomi-Ann Roberts earned her undergraduate degree at Smith College, and her PhD in psychology at Stanford University. She joined the faculty at CC in 1993. Her research, teaching, and advocacy in the areas of gender, emotions and aesthetics, center on her Objectification Theory, which examines the sexual objectification of girls and women, self-objectification, and the consequences of these for their embodied wellbeing. She leverages feminist psychological science as a consultant and an expert witness in legal cases involving objectification as a form of gender discrimination in the pursuit of reproductive and gender justice. Tomi-Ann joined AAUP in the 1990s and has been a member, on and off, for 20 or so years. She joined the CC AAUP board three years ago.

Past-President: John Horner

I’ve been an official member of the AAUP on and off for 25 years, and served as President of the CC-local chapter in the academic years from 2022-24. I’ve been a member of the CC faculty for 38 years and in that time seen many changes in the institution. Some of those changes have been in our relationship with the students. However, that relationship remains fundamentally the same as when I began teaching at CC. Teaching is still the faculty’s highest calling. The more concerning change at CC is with the faculty’s relationship with the administration. I firmly believe that any institution of higher-ed must have shared governance to function at its best, and have worked in my tenure on the AAUP to strengthen both academic freedom at the college and our faculty governance structure.