The women who have been selected for endowed faculty positions are Xiumin Martin at Washington University, Suzanne Bart at Purdue University, Vida Praitis at Grinnell College, Erica Edwards at Yale University, Christian Cipriano at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Padma Gulur at Washington University.
“Our findings show that later-life family structures in the United States are far more unequal than traditional narratives suggest,” said Zoey Wang of the University of Michigan. “Because many social policies are built around the assumption of stable, long-term marriage, they often fail to protect older adults — especially minority women — whose life courses follow very different family trajectories.”
The American Stroke Association recently announced the winners of 11 awards for excellence in stroke and brain health care research. Three of the winners are women with academic ties to universities in the United States.
Saint Louis University's Amanda Izzo was recognized by the American Society of Church History for her research on the history of LGBTQ+ communities and individuals in Christian religious life during the early twentieth century.
Dr. Freccero taught literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz for over three decades. Her scholarship centered on gender, feminism, and queer studies.
Dr. Black was named dean of Columbia Law School in 1986, making her the first woman to lead a law school at an Ivy League institution. In addition to her administrative accomplishments, she conducted research on the intersection of law and Anglo-American history, leading her to serve two terms as president of the American Society of Legal History.
Leveraging perspectives from cognitive science, social psychology, philosophy, science and technology studies, and data science, Dr. Crockett's lab investigates relationships between self and society, power and knowledge, and technology and culture.
Dr. Rutkow, professor of health policy, has been tapped to serve as interim provost at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Currently serving as executive vice provost, Dr. Rutkow is an expert on public health law and founder of the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
At the time of her passing, Dr. Ho was the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy at Princeton University. As a scholar, she focused on industrial organization and healthcare economics, particularly how markets and policymaking impact patients.
The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is presented annually by Yale University in honor of the preceding year's best book on topics of slavery, resistance, or abolition. Dr. Edwards, associate professor at the University of Virginia, was honored for her latest book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W.W. Norton and Company, 2024).
The Society for the Anthropology of Work recently presented its highest honor to Kathryn Dudley, professor of anthropology and American studies at Yale University. As a sociocultural anthropologist, she has explored the production of embodied knowledge and social trauma under the regimes of labor marginalized by transformations in global capitalism
Dr. Daut, professor of French and of Black studies at Yale University, was honored for her newest book, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, which examines the complex political and intellectual life of early nineteenth-century Haiti.
