The appointments are Jessamyn Neuhaus, the Meredith Professor of Teaching and Learning Excellence at Syracuse University; E. Nicole Melton, the Berthiaume Family Endowed Professor of Sport Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Michelle Kimzey, the Abell-Hanger Professor in Gerontological Nursing at Texas Christian University
A new survey from the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Newhouse School at Syracuse University has found a decline in the overall representation of women working in television newsrooms across the country. Declines were particularly sharp in leadership representation.
Gabriella Carini is director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source and Kira Reed is taking on a special assignment in community impact assessment at Syracuse University. Angel Jones and Alicia B. Batson have joined the faculties of the University of Washington Tacoma and Meharry Medical College, respectively.
Switzer, a two-time alumna of Syracuse University, made history in 1967 when she became the first woman to officially register for and run in the Boston Marathon. A successful broadcast journalist, Switzer has been instrumental in advancing the sport of women's running over the past several decades.
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions in academia. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
The appointments are Catherine Edmonds at North Carolina A&T State University, Brandy Barker at Eastern Michigan University, Sarah Bartlett at Georgia State University, LeNá Powe McDonald at the University of Alabama, and Nicole Harris at Syracuse University in New York.
Katherine Macfarlane of Syracuse University is chair of the Association of American Law Schools' section on Women in Legal Education and Tahira Probst was granted the title of Regents Professor at Washington State University. Karen Thole and Judy Schaechter are taking on leadership roles at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Vermont, respectively.
Dr. Bolles was a longtime professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Maryland. Trained as an anthropologist, she was known for her scholarship on the labor experiences of Caribbean women.
Dr. McCormick's award-winning book, The Last Door: A History of Torture in Mexico's War Against Subversives, examines how the Mexican government used torture to suppress dissent in the 1970s.
Avivia Abramovsky has been serving as a professor and dean of the University of Idaho College of Law. Before joining the University of Idaho faculty, she was dean of the University at Buffalo School of Law in New York.
Kecia Williams Smith was named dean of the College of Business and Economics at North Carolina A&T State University. Nicole Hand is the new dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Murray State University in Kentucky and Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz was appointed interim dean of the Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse University in New York.
Rose Cuison-Villazor, professor at Rutgers University Law School, and Lily Yan Hughes, assistant dean of the Syracuse University College of Law, are among this year's seven recipients of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association's 2025 Trailblazer Award.
