emerita

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The author, a professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago, has written not a conventional history, but, a far more subtle enterprise, a history of feeling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

While some cardinals will think the most important part is following divine guidance, others will have anxiety over making a quick decision, says Tina Beattie, professor emerita of Catholic studies at the University of Roehampton.

From BBC • May 1, 2025

She’s a professor emerita of city and regional planning at UC Berkeley, and she studies the aftermath of fires.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025

“Pregnant women have become essentially untouchables,” said Sara Rosenbaum, a health law and policy professor emerita at George Washington University.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2024

No sooner had the "lady," as Byron was pleased to call her, played her part as decoy, than she was discharged as emerita.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley