Katrina Spencer and Kerry Bierman are the new chief financial officers at Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, respectively. Amy Bantle is chief marketing and communications officer at Washington University in Missouri.
An applied microeconomist, Dr. Goldberg, former chief economist of the World Bank Group, has fundamentally shaped the empirical study of global trade and development. She has been a faculty member in the department of economics and the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University of the past 25 years.
Vanderbilt University's Shatema Threadcraft received two book awards from the American Political Science Association. Lisa Messeri of Yale University was honored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology and Fiona Cunningham of the University of Pennsylvania was honored by Cornell University.
The women who have been appointed to endowed faculty positions are Uma Reddy at the Yale School of Medicine, Carolyn J. Anderson at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Laura Murray-Kolb at Purdue University in Indiana.
Dr. Kane was a curator with Yale University's Garvan and Related Collections of American Art for nearly six decades. She was a scholar of American decorative arts who specialized in early American furniture, seventeenth-century silver, and contemporary craft.
In an examination of the exhibition history of more than 65,000 contemporary visual artists, a new study found men are more likely than women to have their work featured in a museum or gallery and men's art is more likely to be sold at an auction than art created by women.
Dr. Currie, an endowed professor at Yale University, is known as a pioneer in the economics of child development. Her work has significant advanced the understanding of how family, social, environmental, and healthcare factors impact children's longterm outcomes.
Dr. Mayeri's award-winning book, Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law, examines how the privileged legal status of marriage survived decades of constitutional struggle and social change.
Dr. di Bonaventura was an academic administrator for Yale University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for nearly two decades. She ultimately served as the school's lead academic dean for students.
Dr. Balidemaj-Basha has been a member of the RIT Kosovo community for nearly two decades. Most recently, she served as dean of faculty. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Dr. Balidemaj-Basha earned her Ph.D. from Clemson University in South Carolina.
The women taking on new roles in higher education are Jennifer Soyka at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, Amanda Voigt at the University of North Dakota, Anne Marie Schettini-Lynch at Hofstra University in New York, Dawn Osborne-Adams at Yale University in Connecticut, Tracy Foster at Texas A&M University, and Precious McKenzie at Montana State University Billings.
Jennifer Gandhi was named the Phyllis A. Wallace Dean of Faculty Development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. Catherine Volle is the inaugural Joanne Paulsen Buresh '51 and Wendy Buresh, MD '74 Endowed Chair in Biology at Cornell College in Iowa and Kalmia Kniel was named the Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair at the University of Delaware.
