Breaking News
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Brooke Barnett Named the Sixteenth President of Rollins College
Dec. 18, 2024 - Currently, Dr. Barnett serves as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. She first joined the university in 2019 as a professor of communication and dean of the College of Communication. She will become president of Rollins College in July. -
Soyica Diggs Colbert Selected to Lead Academic Affairs at Georgetown University
Dec. 18, 2024 - A Georgetown faculty member for more than a decade, Dr. Colbert has been serving as the inaugural vice president for interdisciplinary studies and the Idol Family Professor in the department of Black studies and the department of performing arts. -
Sarah Feldner Named Acting Provost at Marquette University
Dec. 18, 2024 - Dr. Feldner has been a faculty member with Marquette University in Milwaukee for over two decades. A full professor of communication, she has served as dean of the Diederich College of Communication for the past four years. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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Unconscious Gender Bias Against Women Professors Persists in Student Evaluations
Dec. 18, 2024 - Across several alternative methods of evaluations, students are more likely to negatively review women professors than male faculty. -
By Age 6, Children Develop Gender Stereotypes About Boys’ and Girls’ STEM Aptitudes
Dec. 18, 2024 - A new study has found that by age 6, children are more likely to believe boys are better than girls at computing, engineering, and physics. However, they are more likely to believe girls are better at math and biology. -
The Large Gender Gap in Doctoral Awards in Specific Disciplines
Dec. 18, 2024 - While women earned 47 percent of all doctorates awarded by universities in the United States, there was a huge gender gap in many specific disciplines. - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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New Faculty Appointments for Four Women in Academia
Dec. 19, 2024 - The new appointments for faculty memers are Jamie Wong at Princeton University in New Jersey, Emily Sandoz at the University of Louisiana Lafayette, Carrie Hammer at North Dakota State University, and Catherine Gavin Loss at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. -
A Trio of Women Selected for Dean Appointments at Universities
Dec. 19, 2024 - The new deans are Neeru Deep at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, Kelli Feldman at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Denise Soares at the University of West Florida. -
Six Women Appointed to Administrative Roles in Higher Education
Dec. 19, 2024 - Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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The 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Has Been Awarded to Two Women Scholars
Dec. 19, 2024 - The 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize has been awarded to Marlene Daut, professor at Yale University, and Sara Johnson, professor at the University of California, San Diego. -
University of Louisville Honors Julia Belser for Book on Disability Studies and Religion
Dec. 19, 2024 - Julia Watts Belser currently teaches at Georgetown University as a professor of Jewish studies and conducts research with the university's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. -
Caitlin Cain Recognized for Early-Career Research on Gas Chromatography
Dec. 19, 2024 - Dr. Cain currently serves as a research fellow at the University of Michigan, where she is working to develop novel analytical and computational tools to study neurochemical dynamics. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [12.23.2024]
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [12.23.2024]
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
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University of Pittsburgh Launches New Initiative to Leverage Artificial Intelligence in Women’s Health Research [12.23.2024]
The Vijayalakshmi Innovation Center in Women’s Health Analytics and Research at the University of Pittsburgh will use emerging AI technology to research global disparities in women’s health. It will led by Vanathi Gopalakrishnan, associate professor of biomedical informatics.
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In Memoriam: Kelly Quin, 1969-2024 [12.20.2024]
Quin was a staff member at Rice University in Houston, Texas, for more than three decades. She most recently served as assistant vice president of campaign and constituent strategy.
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Bates College Appoints Five Women Scholars to Endowed Professorships [12.19.2024]
Therí Pickens, Beverly Johnson, Lillian Nayder, Sonja Pieck, and Amy Bradfield Douglass have been appointed to endowed professorships at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [12.16.2024]
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [12.16.2024]
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [12.16.2024]
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
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In Memoriam: Michèle Longino, 1947-2024 [12.16.2024]
Dr. Longino was a longtime professor of romance studies at Duke University in North Carolina. She was a prominent scholar of seventeenth-century French literature and the author of several books.
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Penn Libraries Receives $5 Million Gift and Collection of Papers From Medieval Historian Elizabeth A.R. Brown [12.13.2024]
Dr. Brown’s gift will be used to create an archive for medieval history research at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, as well as an endowed archivist position to oversee the collection
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In Memoriam: Nikki Giovanni, 1943-2024 [12.13.2024]
Giovanni was a professor at Virginia Tech for 35 years. She was the author of numerous poetry collections, children’s books, and works of nonfiction.
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Four Women Scholars Appointed to New Faculty Positions [12.12.2024]
The new facultu appointments are Alexi Johnson at the College of Charleston, Colby Tofel-Grehl at Columbia University, Michelle DiBenedetto at Princeton University, and Elizabeth Freimuth at Rice University.
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American Society of Criminology Honors Nicole Rader for Distinguished Feminist Scholarship [12.12.2024]
The American Society of Criminology’s Division of Feminist Criminology has honored Dr. Nicole Rader for her book, Teaching Fear: How We Learn to Fear Crime and Why It Matters, which analyzes how society teaches young girls to be afraid of crime.
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New Dean Positions for Three Women in Higher Education [12.12.2024]
The new deans are Esther Nir at New Jersey City College, Laura Stephenson at the University of Kentucky, and Moe McGuinness at Bucknell University.
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Debra Bangasser Receives National Recognition for Outstanding Psychiatric Research [12.12.2024]
Dr. Bangasser conducts research on how stress affects the risk for various psychiatric disorders, with a focus on addressing women’s historical underrepresentation in clinical studies.
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Ten Women Appointed to Administrative Roles at Universities [12.12.2024]
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
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Two Women Scholars Receive the 2024 First Book Award From the Modernist Studies Association [12.12.2024]
The Modernist Studies Association has presented its First Book Prize to Pardis Dabashi, assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College, and Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, lecturer at University College London who earned her Ph.D. at Yale University.
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Four Women Scholars Selected for New Endowed Faculty Appointments [12.12.2024]
The women appointed to endowed profeessorships are Shola Lynch at Spelman College in Atlanta, Karla Neugebauer at Yale University, Vikki Katz at Chapman University in Orange, California, and Judith Anne Garretson Folse at the University of Arkansas.
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United Nations Report Finds Most Femicides Are Committed by Intimate Partners and Family Members [12.11.2024]
According to the United Nation’s findings, roughly 140 women are killed by an intimate partner or family member every day, equating to one woman or girl every 10 minutes.
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Kristi Mindrup Appointed the Thirteenth President of Western Illinois University [12.11.2024]
A Western Illinois University administrator for nearly three decades, Dr. Mindrup has served as interim president since April. Her official appointment makes her the university’s first-ever woman president.
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Study Finds Women Leaders Encounter 30 Distinct Types of Discrimination in the Workplace [12.11.2024]
Led by Amy Diehl of Wilson College in Pennsylvania, Leanne Dzubinski of Westmont College in California,, and Amber Stephenson of Clarkson University in New York, a new study has identified 30 distinct forms of discrimination encountered by women leaders in four women-dominated industries where men represent the majority of leadership roles.
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Shelly Blunt Appointed Provost of the University of Southern Indiana [12.11.2024]
After over a year of service as interim provost, Dr. Blunt has been officially appointed provost at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. A scholar of organic chemistry, she has been a faculty member with the university since 1999.
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Women Continue to Earn More Than Half of All Doctorates Awarded to U.S. Citizens [12.11.2024]
If we exclude data for foreign students and restrict the data to U.S. citizens and permanent residents of this country, we find that 18,893 women earned doctorates in 2023. This was 53.1 percent of all doctoral recipients among U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
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