Tag: Williams College

Zophia Edwards Receives National Book Award in Sociology

Dr. Edwards is an assistant professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She was recently honored by the American Sociological Association for her latest book, Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago.

New Faculty Appointments for Five Women Scholars

Charlotte Connop, Danielle Howard, and Yi Qun Xu are new assistant professors at Bates College, Clemson University, and the University of Denver, respectively. Sarah Olsen of Williams College in Massachusetts and Karen Kopera-Frye of New Mexico State University are taking on academic leadership roles with their institutions.

Williams College Promotes and Awards Tenure to Four Women Faculty Members

Williams College in Massachusetts has promoted Allison Gill, Cynthia K. Holland, Munjulika R. Tarah, and Elizabeth Upton to associate professor. All four women were also awarded tenure.

Haverford College President Wendy Raymond Announces Upcoming Retirement

Dr. Raymond has served as Haverford College's sixteenth president for the past six years. She is slated to retire in June 2027 following more than three decades in academia.

Franklin Institute Recognizes Katharine Suding for Transformative Contributions to Restoration Ecology

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.

Eight Women Promoted and Granted Tenure at Highly Rated Williams College

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.

Nneka Dennie Receives National Book Prize for Outstanding Bibliographical Scholarship

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.

In Memoriam: Susan Courtney, 1966-2024

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.

Safa Zaki Will Be the First Women to Lead Bowdoin College Since Its Founding in 1794

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.

Sally Kornbluth Will Be the Eighteenth President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

In Memoriam: Sara Suleri Goodyear, 1953-2022

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.

Eiko Maruko Siniawer Appointed Provost at Williams College in Massachusetts

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.