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Four finalists have been selected in a search to replace interim Dean of the College of Fine Arts Jim Linnell, who suffered a spinal cord injury in Mexico over the winter break, the New Mexico Daily Lobo reported.

Linnell announced last semester that he would be stepping down as dean in June, and a search committee formed last fall received numerous applications from around the country, settling on four finalists, the Daily Lobo said.

The finalists are: Judith Thorpe, professor and head of the Art & Art History Department at the University of Connecticut’s School of Fine Arts; Ronald Shields, professor and chair of the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University; Kymberly Pinder, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has served as graduate program head and department chair; and Sanjit Sethi, director of the Center for Art and Public Life and the Barclay Simpson chair of community art at California College of the Arts.

Linnell underwent surgery at the UNM Hospital trauma center on Dec. 29 after receiving initial medical care in Mexico, family members said in a statement.

The statement went on to say that the surgery was successful, that Linnell is in stable condition and will soon begin rehabilitation at a spinal injury clinic in Denver, the Daily Lobo said.

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