Dr. Siddiqui was honored for her book Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan, which discusses how political parties behave in anti-democratic behaviors because of political incentives.
Ryerson assumed the presidency of Southern New Hampshire University on July 1. The primarily online university enrolls over 160,000 combined students in undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.
Taking on new assignments are Carla S. Freeman at Emory University in Atlanta, Dina Refki in the Rockefeller Institute of Government of the State University of New York in Albany, Lynne Steuerle Schofield at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Nicole B. Burwell at North Carolina A&T State University, and Amy Fleming, at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.
A study by researchers at the University at Albany finds that female educators with and without childcare responsibilities back home reported similar levels of stress throughout the pandemic. It was higher levels of stress associated with work and the pandemic itself that were the primary drivers of dissatisfaction among women teachers.
Marlese Durr, professor of sociology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, was honored with the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association. Dr. Durr has taught at Wright State University for 28 years. Her research and publications largely focus on African American women and managerial and labor markets in the public sector.
In addition to her faculty post at Wright State University, Professor Durr is a senior fellow of the Yale University Urban Ethnography Program and a research associate at the University of Albany’s Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities.
Kate Coddington, an assistant professor of geography and planning at the University at Albany of the State University of New York System, was honored for making an innovative, original contribution to the conceptual and/or methodological embrace of political geography.
Since July 2014, Dr. Edwards has served as president of Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus. Dr. Edwards has served in administrative roles at community colleges for the past 38 years. She will become president of Clark College this coming summer.
A research study conducted by the Oral Health Workforce Research Center at the University at Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies found that women now make up 30 percent of all dentists, up from 24 percent in 2010.
Dr. Wilcox joined the College of Education, Health and Aviation faculty at Oklahoma State University in 2018. Prior to coming to OSU, Wilcox was an assistant professor and director of the Psychological Services Clinic at Louisiana Tech University.
The Southern Regional Council in conjunction with the University of Georgia, Piedmont College and the Georgia Center for the Book have announced three winners of the 2019 Lillian Smith Book Awards. The three winners are all women with current academic affiliations: Rachel Devlin, Virginia Eubanks, and Vanessa Siddle Walker.
