Catherine Emihovich

Catherine Emihovich (died August 21, 2021) was an American academic. She was the former dean and faculty member of the University of Florida College of Education. In May 2002, she was selected as the 12th dean of the college and the first woman to hold that position. She presented over 100 papers at key educational conferences.

Education Emihovich held a Bachelor's degree in speech from Syracuse University, a Master's degree in measurement and statistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a Doctorate in educational psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Career After graduating from Syracuse University of New York, Emihovich taught in Buffalo, New York for four years. She returned to school before moving to Columbia in 1982 to be an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina. Five years later, she joined the educational research faculty at Florida State University. She returned to SUNY at Buffalo for six years beginning in 1994 as a professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology before she was picked to be dean at California State University at Sacramento.

She also initiated remodels for several areas of Old and New Norman, and improved the UF IT department, which were paid for through five million dollars obtained from fundraising. With the extra space, she established DE and Lastinger Center office spaces. the REM/OER complex, the Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies, space for faculty research commons, and the staff lounge

Research Throughout her career, Emihovich was known for her many research papers. Growing up in a segregated neighborhood, she was interested in research on race in education at an early age.

Selected publications

Throughout her career, Emihovich wrote many academic books and texts. She was a past editor of Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

Personal life Emihovich was diagnosed with brain cancer in mid-2019 and died on August 21, 2021.