One of the nation's leading scholars in the field of legal evidence, Dr. Mnookin has served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2022. She is slated to become the next president of Columbia University in July.
Cristina RodrÃguez was named the Sol and Lillian Goldman Dean and Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Katy Lundell-Stuhr is the new dean of technical programs at Ridgewater College in Minnesota, and Heather Pendleton-Helm is dean of the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado.
The professors that have been appointed to endowed faculty positions are Michelle Marincel Payne at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana, Heather Gerken at Yale Law School, and Line Roald at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Currently serving as dean of Yale Law School, Heather Gerken is slated to become the eleventh president of the Ford Foundation in November. She is an expert on constitutional law and democracy whose work on election reform has informed policy at the national level.
The Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation has announced the selection of 25 individuals in this year’s class of MacArthur Fellows. Fourteen women are among the 25 new MacArthur Fellows.
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.
A graduate of Barnard College and Harvard Law School, Studley has served as deputy dean of Yale Law School and as president of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Cristina Rodriguez is joining the faculty at Yale Law School, Nikky Finney was named to an endowed chair at the University of South Carolina, and Eriz Suzuki has joined the English department faculty at Emory University in Atlanta.
The three women in new faculty positions are Fiona Doherty at Yale Law School, Judith Shrum at Virginia Tech, and Joanne Pierce at the College of the Holy Cross.
