Lilly J. Goren, a professor of political science and global studies at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, is sharing, with her co-editor, the 2014 Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies, presented by the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association. The editors are being honored for their book Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics (University Press of Kentucky, 2012).
Professor Goren is the author of The Politics of Military Base Closings: Not in My District (Peter Lang Publishers, 2003). She is a graduate of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she double majored in English and political science. Dr. Goren earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in political science at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Dr. Crowley has served as provost at Ohio Wesleyan University since 2020. She is slated to become the nineteenth president of Kalamazoo College on July 1.
The three women named to provost positions are Nancy Marchand-Martella at the University of Northern Colorado, Lise Youngblade at Colorado State University, and Randi Storch at Western Oregon University.
Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.
The women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.