The women who have been selected for endowed professorships are Kimberly Stegmaier at Harvard Medical School, Morgan Loechli at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, and Joan Wennstrom Bennett at Tulane University in New Orleans.
“Representation is important, and especially representing [gendered] violence is important because most of the time, [agents] just reproduce the same idea that women are the one to blame, and there is not really a space where women can express their traumatic experience of the sexual abuse,” said Dr. Huamán Andía, endowed professor at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota
The new deans are Barbara Ritter at the University of Toledo in Ohio, Cora Thompson at Savannah State University in Georgia, Amelia Manning at Tulane University in New Orleans, Amy Bronson at Pepperdine University in California, Kathy Phillips at Duke University in North Carolina, and Hillary Richardson at Mississippi University for Women.
Karisma Price is an assistant professor of English at Tulane University. Aisha Sabatini Sloan is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan and Shubha Sunder teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Dr. Bolton is slated to become Columbia College Chicago's first woman of color president on July 1. She has extensive experience in higher education administration, including key leadership positions with Georgia Tech, Washington University, and Tulane University.
Dr. Guillory has served as Dillard University's interim president for the past seven months. Her background includes over three decades of higher education administration experience.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
When pursuing her graduate education in the 1950s, Haydel Morial was denied enrollment at Tulane University and Loyola University because of her race. She went on to become an active member of the civil rights movement and advocate for voting rights in New Orleans as well as aerving as an administrator at Xavier University of Louisiana.
For the past three years, Dr. Capetola served on the faculty of the department of African American studies at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Capetola's work centered around the intersections of queer, Black, sound, affect, and performance studies.
The study found that in 2022, California underwent $73 billion in healthcare expenses, lost productivity and income, criminal justice expenditures, and resource programs due to domestic violence cases.
Since 2018, the College-in-Prison program at Tulane University has offered for-credit college courses for women at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women. Now, women at the facility have the opportunity to earn a bachelor's degree in social science.
Since 2018, the College-in-Prison program at Tulane University has offered for-credit college courses for women at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women. Now, women at the facility have the opportunity to earn a full bachelor's degree in social science.
