MacCartney Appointed Acting Academic Director of Webster Geneva
October 25, 2021
Webster University Geneva has announced the appointment of Dr. Danielle MacCartney as Acting Academic Director.
MacCartney obtained both her MA in Social Science in 2001 and PhD in Sociology in
2005 from University of California- Irvine in the United States. Her teaching and
research interests include inequality, particularly international LGBT human rights
law and policy, and faculty development. She has published in the Journal of Interpersonal
Violence, Advances in Gender Research, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in
Education, and other sources.
Joining the Geneva campus from Webster University in St. Louis, USA, she brings a wealth of academic service and experience. These include prior appointments as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; director of Criminology and Criminal Justice and chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Department of Law, Crime, and Social Justice. She is also a fellow of the Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies.
MacCartney has served on a number of campus task forces on accreditation, teaching and learning development, and student learning outcomes.
With respect to excellence in teaching and learning, a cornerstone of Webster University worldwide, MacCartney expressed, “My goal as a teacher is to inspire a passion for learning and to give students the tools they need to become lifelong learners. I do this by making learning exciting, relevant, rigorous, and challenging.”
In addition to receiving the William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011, MacCartney also received the Wilma Roswell Messing Jr. Faculty Award in 2019 for undergraduate research development – a project developed across three global campuses of Webster University: Athens, Ghana, and Thailand. She teaches a variety of courses at Webster, including Class, Status, and Power; Deviance and Social Control; and Feminist Criminology.
MacCartney will serve in the role until a search for a permanent academic director is conducted in 2022.