Two members of the Carleton College faculty have been awarded tenure by the Board of Trustees, as announced by Elizabeth McKinsey, dean of the college.

Kathleen Ryor, assistant professor of art history, earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in art history and a Ph.D. in Far Eastern art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She taught at Hood College and St. Mary’s College of Maryland before joining the Carleton faculty in 1996. She has studied extensively in China at such institutions as Beijing University, National Taiwan Normal University and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.

Ryor holds a new position in Asian art history, and she has developed a full curriculum in the field. She teaches courses in Chinese painting and calligraphy, Japanese prints, Buddhist art, art and architecture of sacred cities and ancient to modern Chinese art. She is active in Carleton’s Asian studies and cross cultural studies programs, as well as the women’s and gender studies program. Her scholarly work focuses on the career and work of the Ming dynasty artist Xu Wei, and she has served as a consultant on establishing Asian art history programs at several other colleges and universities.

Jenny Bourne Wahl, associate professor of economics, earned a bachelor’s degree in economics summa cum laude in three years from Indiana University, and received a doctorate in mathematical and labor economics, public finance and economic history from the University of Chicago. She worked for three years for the Office of Tax Analysis of the U.S. Treasury Department and conducted research in international banking, insurance, foreign exchange and wealth estimation. A tenured associate professor at St. Olaf College, she first came to Carleton as a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor in 1997. She was named associate professor of economics at Carleton in 1998.

Wahl teaches courses in microeconomics, labor economics, price theory, law and economics and American economic history. She has written two books, and published scholarly articles on taxation, labor law, literature and law, economics and law and income and wealth issues. She contributes regularly to newspapers, is a member of the Star Tribune’s board of economists, and serves as a consultant to the Internal Revenue Service.