Peggy Ann Brainerd Way was the first woman to hold a full-time faculty post at Vanderbult Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee, and the first woman to hold a full-time faculty position at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
The honorees are Neri Oxman from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Karin Edwards of Three Rivers Community College in Connecticut, Ling Hwey Jeng of Texas Woman's University, and Christine Starr Davis of Doane College in Nebraska
