A distinguished profesor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, Dr. Suding is a plant community ecologist who studies ecosystem landscape and population biology.
Williams College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has announced the promotion of 16 faculty members to the rank of associate professor. Eight of these promotions went to women.
Dr. Dennie's award-winning book, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist, examines the works of North America's first Black woman newspaper editor.
Dr. Courtney joined the faculty in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins University in 1999. She conducted research on how the brain's structure is altered through aging and disease.
Currently, Dr. Zaki is dean of the faculty and the John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy Professor of Psychology at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She joined the faculty at Williams in 2002 as an assistant professor of psychology and was promoted to associate professor in 2005 and to full professor in 2010.
A distinguished researcher and dedicated mentor, Dr. Kornbluth has served for the past eight years as provost at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She also is the Jo Rae Wright University Professor of Biology at the university. Dr. Kornbluth first joined the faculty at Duke in 1994.
Dr. Goodyear taught at Williams College in Massachusetts and, for most of her career, at Yale University, beginning in 1983. She was a founding editor of the Yale Journal of Criticism.
Dr. Siniawer is the ’97, the Class of 1955 Memorial Professor of History and chair of Asian studies at the liberal arts college. She joined the faculty at the college in 2003. A scholar of modern Japan, Professor Siniawer teaches a variety of courses on Japanese history.
Margaret Vendryes has been appointed dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Heather K. Gerken, the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, has been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of Yale Law School, and Gretchen Long, the Frederick Rudolph ’42 – Class of 1965 Professor of American Culture at Williams College in Massachusetts, will serve as the next dean of the college.
The four women who have been appointed deans are Nicquet Blake at the University of California, San Francisco, Allison Brashear at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York System, Mary Edith Stacy at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and Christina Walsh at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Nan Jenks-Jay, former dean of environmental affairs at Middlebury College in Vermont, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. She retired from Middlebury College in 2019 after serving on the faculty for 21 years.
The board of trustees of Williams College, the highly rated liberal arts institution in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has promoted four women to associate professor and granted them tenure. They are Christine DeLucia in history, Lama Nassif in comparative literature, Christina Simko in sociology, and Emily Vasiliauskas in English.
