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.
Every year since 2002, Dr. Martha Lauzen of San Diego State University conducts the "It's a Men's (Celluloid) World" report to analyze the representation of women in film. This year's study found women's share of lead roles in 2023 movies decreased compared to 2022.
Dr. Robinson was most recently the college’s interim president and vice president of student services. Earlier, she served as assistant dean for student affairs and interim associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Health and Human Services at San Diego State University. She has also taught courses on leadership, social work, and community organizing at Sand Diego State University and the University of San Diego.
When she takes office on July 1, Dr. Garcia will be the college's tenth president, the first woman to lead the college in 50 years, and the first person of color to lead the college. Dr. Garcia is currently president of College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California, a post she has held since August 2021.
Dr. Smith taught at Long Beach City College, Grossmont Community College, San Diego City College, and San Diego State University. At San Diego State, she taught courses in writing & rhetoric, African American studies, and teacher education courses.
Dr. NuÌñez-Mchiri, a native of Calexico, California, has been serving as an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso. She began as a visiting assistant professor at UTEP, where she eventually gained tenure and became director of Women’s and Gender Studies.
The 12 new deans are Guillermina Gina NuÌñez-Mchiri, Autumn Tooms CypreÌ€s, Deborah M. Cady Melzer. Melinda R. Roberts, Kathy Giacomini, Mary Stromberger, Linda Haddad, Valerie Howard, Sonya Hardin, Cindy D. Kam, Andrea Hickerson, and Vicki Ellingrod.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
After moving to California in 1969, Smith taught at Long Beach City College, Grossmont Community College, and later San Diego City College, where she was a professor for 24 years. Smith also lectured at San Diego State University, teaching courses in teacher education and rhetoric and writing.
Seventeen former and current women athletes at San Diego State University have filed a class-action lawsuit charging the university with sex discrimination for not adhering to Title IX guidelines requiring gender equality in college sports.
Dr. McAlister first came to the Unversity of South Florida in 1982, After working for the state university system, she returned to the University of South Florida in 1987 as a professor of philosophy and women’s studies, specializing in feminist philosophy, the history of women in philosophy, and feminist film studies. She served as chair of the philosophy department from 1996 to her retirement in 1999.
