Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Kazama has worked in the University of Hawai'i system since 1987, starting as a librarian at Maui College and Honolulu Community College. She spent 12 years on the staff at the Hamilton Library at the University of Hawai'i MÄnoa’s before accepting the library director position at KapiÊ»olani Community College in 2001.
Nora E. Warshawsky, professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida, was recently elected to serve a two-year term as president of the Association of Leadership Science in Nursing (formerly known as CGEAN). Before joining the faculty at the University of Central Florida in 2018, Dr. Warshawsky taught at the University of Kentucky.
Anna Marie Stirr, an associate professor of Asian studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is the recipient of the 2019 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. The award honors outstanding and innovative scholarship across discipline and country of specialization for a first, single-authored monograph on South Asia.
Ruth D. Gates was the director and researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawaii Manoa. She had been serving as president of the International Society for Reef Studies since 2015.
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.