Dr. Walker, a professor of sport management, currently serves as senior vice president for academic affairs, student affairs, and equity at UMass Amherst. She is slated to assume new responsibilities as interim chancellor of UMass Boston on February 1.
The appointments are Madeleine Dobie at Columbia University, Ruth Bush at Methodist University, Dana Hogan at Middlebury College, Maya Binyam at Claremont McKenna College, Laura Dzurec at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Meike van der Heijden at Virginia Tech, Eun-song Koh at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Theresa Werner at the University of Utah.
Dr. Baker, Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is known for her research on decision-making under uncertainty as it relates to energy and the environment.
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.
Dr. Dasgupta is a provost professor of psychological and brain sciences and founding director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is known for her research on implicit bias.
“By making managerial performance attributable, comparable, and visible, firm structure can influence who advances to the highest levels of leadership. For women managers, divisionalized structures may provide a clearer path to CEO promotion because they make accomplishments harder to overlook and easier to evaluate,” the study authors write.
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
The women who have been selected for endowed professorships are Paula Marie Seniors at Virginia Tech, Elly R. Truitt at the University of Pennsylvania, and Nava Caluori at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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.
Lili He of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the inaugural recipient of the Phi Tau Sigma Mid-Career Accomplishment Award, which recognizes outstanding mid-career scholars in food science research. Professor He is known for her work in analytical food chemistry and food safety.
