Dr. Ramos currently serves as a professor of political science and international relations at Loyola Marymount University. She focuses her current research on peacebuilding in divided societies, the globalization of the far right, and the preventive use of force
The women appointed to dean positions are Grace Yoo at San Francisco State University, Denise J. Jamieson at the University of Iowa, Cathy Horn at the University of Houston, Brenda Ellington at Louisiana State University Alexandria, Brittini Brown at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Jennifer Kellman Fritz at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.
Dr. Mills has been serving as vice chancellor and senior vice provost for global programs and university life at NYU. Dr. Mills is also the Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor of Social Work, Public Policy, and Law and has served as the executive director of the NYU Center on Violence and Recovery. Dr. Mills’ principal areas of scholarly focus are trauma, bias, and domestic violence.
Taking on new faculty roles are Sana Khan Hussaini at San Francisco State University, DesireÌe Plata at MIT, Kristen Granger at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Alexandra Navrotsky at Arizona State University, Sharon Jacobs at the University of California, Berkeley, and Claire JimeÌnez at the University of South Carolina.
The six women scholars in new roles in higher education are Taleed El-Sabawi at Florida International University, Ehi Rajsky at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, Samantha Payne at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, Angela Koehler at MIT, Rae Shaw at San Franisco State University, and Julie Albee at Hannibal-LaGrange University in Hannibal, Missouri.
Dr. Fischer is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Yale University. Dr. Fischer will relocate to Washington, D.C. for the new job, but will continue to oversee her Yale research. She is the first Yale faculty member to be selected for the role.
The findings indicate that students are more likely to receive higher grades when they take classes with female instructors who hold positions with more contract uncertainty (temporary or pre-tenure) than if the instructor is tenured, but that there is little to no difference in grades received across faculty rank of male instructors.
Malveaux worked as a teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District and as a social worker with the San Francisco Department of Social Services. She joined the social work faculty at the Universsity of Mississippi in 1973.
In 1973, Dr. Gearhart was hired by San Francisco State University, where she became the first open lesbian to be granted tenure at a major university in the United States. There, she played a major role in developing one of the first women and gender studies programs in the nation.
Dr. Gutierrez has been serving as vice president of instruction at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California. She also was an instructor in educational leadership at San Francisco State University. Earlier, Dr. Gitierrez was dean of language arts and as acting president at Skyline College in San Bruno, California, and associate dean at Cascadia College in Bothel, Washington.
Thaking on new administrative roles are Jennifer Eriksen at Queens University in Charlotte, Daisy Desrosiers at Kenyon College in Ohio, Jamillah Moore at San Francisco State, Maria Michonski at the University of the South, Amanda Sutton at Southern Illinois University, and Marcy Muldrow Sanders at Florida A&M University.
