emerita

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"Right away, I knew it was something really special," says Voight, curator emerita of invertebrates at the Field Museum in Chicago and the lead author of the study describing the new species.

From Science Daily • May 25, 2026

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 chose choreographer Robert Battle as her successor and served as the company’s artistic director emerita until her death.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 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