The women taking on new academic leadership roles are Laura E. Lyons at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Mila Getmansky Sherman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Sheryl Oring at Virginia Commonwealth University, Maria Victoria Murillo at Columbia University, Madhusmita Misra at Washington University, and Ashley Nickels at Rutgers University-Camden.
The six women in academia who have received 2026 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards are Cindy Juyoung Ok of the University of California, Davis, Juliet Nebolon of Trinity College, Monisha Das Gupta of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Pacharee Sudhinaraset of New York University, Celine Parreñas Shimizu of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Sharon Quinsaat of Grinnell College.
The appointments are Katrina Armstrong at Columbia University, Melissa Schwartzberg at Princeton University, R.F. Kuang at the College of the Holy Cross, Khadijah Ali-Coleman at Coppin State University, Stacey Saunders-Adams at Ohio University, Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Jess Jones at the University of Pennsylvania.
The women appointed to new endowed chairs are Tetine Sentell at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Karen Foli at Baylor University, and Amy Millicent Morris at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
Kathy Cutshaw served as the vice chancellor for administrative, finance, and operations at the University of Hawai'i at MÄnoa under six chancellors from January 2005 until her retirement in August 2019.
Elizabeth “Libby†Char, an assistant clinical professor of surgery at the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has been chosen by Hawai'i; Governor David Ige to serve as interim director of the Hawaiʻi Department of Health.
