Ellen Ziliak now serves as the university-wide dean of faculty. There are three new assistant provosts: Julie Cowgill, Olga Lambert, and Cheryl Mascarenhas.
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions in the academic world. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
The new deans are Bethany Cieslowski at the George Mason University School of Nursing, Irma Medina at Holyoke Community College, Susan English at Wor-Wic Community College, and Raida Abuizam at the Honors and University College of Purdue University Northwest
The women who have been selected for endowed positions are Yuehwern Yih at Purdue University in Indiana, Dominique Somda at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, Abigail Swingen at Yale University, Erika Consoli at the University of Idaho, and Melanie Kornides at the University of Pennsylvania.
Indiana University has named three women scholars to lead implementation of the Chicago Principles on their campuses. The Chicago Principles are a statement of values that emphasize the role of universities as places to freely examine, debate and challenge ideas in the pursuit of knowledge.
The new assistant professors at Bryn Mawr College are Michelle Brann in chemistry, Marissa Fenley in theatre, Şehrazat G. Mart in sociology, Lauren Pryce McCarthy in social work, Danya Pilgrim in history, and Clara Stuligross in biology.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty 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.
Melissa Mazan and Amanda Durik are taking on interim dean appointments at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and the Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, respectively. Jenn Snow is dean of the Phyllis J. Washington College of Education at the University of Montana.
The women selected for endowed positions in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences are Gundula Kreuzer in music, Nancy Yousef in English, Marlene Daut in Black Studies and in French, and Leah Boustan and Xiaohong Chen in economics.
Prior to her new role, Dr. Walsh was dean and campus director of the University of Maine at Machias. Before that, she spent more than a decade with St. Bonaventure University in New York.
The six women promoted to associate professor and granted tenure in the College of Science at Clemson University in South Carolina are Sharon Bewick, Miriam Konkel, Lela Lackey, Xinyi Li, Emily E. Rosowski, and Anna Seekatz.
The five women who have joined the faculty of Teachers College at Columbia University in New York City are assistant professors Yaa Oparebea Ampofo, Alexandra Cooperstock, and Eleni Natsiopoulou as well as associate professors Naomi Lifschitz-Grant and Zoi Traga-Philippakos.
