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The First Woman to Serve on a Permanent Basis as Archivist of the United States
Colleen Shogan has been confirmed by the United States Senate as the eleventh Archivist of the United States.
Yale University’s Beverly Gage Wins the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Beverly Gage, a professor of 20th-century U.S. history at Yale University, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the biography category. She was honored for her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.
Nancy Yao Named the Founding Director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum
Since 2015, nancy Yao has served as the president of the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City. She is also a lecturer on governance of not-for-profit organizations at Yale University’s David Geffen School of Drama.
A Quartet of Women Faculty Members Taking on New Roles
Delphine Dean was named chair of the department of bioengineering at Clemson University and Ania Jastreboff was appointed director of the new Yale Obesity Research Center. Kia Dolby was appointed professor of digital communication at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia and Amy Laurel Fluker has been granted tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor of history at Youngstown State University in Ohio.
A Quartet of Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Responsibilities in Higher Education
Taking on new duties are Anne M. Cafer at the University of Mississippi, Crystal Feimster at Yale University, Valentina A. Grasso at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and Shana O. Kelley at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
In Memoriam: Betty Glassman Trachtenberg, 1933-2023
Betty Trachtenberg worked in the admissions office Yale and then was named director of freshman affairs. She was then promoted to the role of associate dean of Yale College and dean of student affairs, adding all of undergraduate student affairs to her portfolio. She retired in 2007.
Two Women Scholars Win the Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is one of the nation’s top honors in the field of American history. The prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University. This year, two of the three winners are women: Beverly Gage, a professor of U.S. history at Yale University and Kelly Lytle Hernández who holds an endowed chair in history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Yale University Announces the Appointment of Three Women Scholars to Endowed Chairs
Lucila Ohno-Machado was named the Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Yale. Nancy Banasiak was recently appointed the Wendy U. and Thomas C. Naratil Professor of Nursing and Millicent Marcus was named the Sarai Ribicoff Professor of Italian Studies.
Universities Announce the Appointment of Three Women to Endowed Chairs
Deborah Small was recently appointed the Adrian C. Israel Professor of Marketing at Yale University School of Management. Lisa H. Harris, was named a Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan and Kathryn Howell is the inaugural holder of the Urban Child Institute Chair of Child Well-Being at the University of Memphis.
Katie McLaughlin to Lead the University of Oregon’s Ballmer Institute
The Ballmer Institute, made possible by a $425 million gift from Steve and Connie Ballmer, seeks to address the growing crisis in children’s behavioral health and well-being. The clinical institute will strive to effect change across family, community, and school aspects of children’s lives.
In Memoriam: Elizabeth Culler, 1948-2023
Dr. Culler served as an adjunct professor in the master’s degree program of marriage and family therapy at Fairfield University in Connecticut and as an associate professor in the master’s program in counseling psychology at Goddard College from 1993 to 1999. Until 2008, she worked at the Yale Child Study Center.
Joy Harjo Awarded Yale University’s Bollingen Prize for American Poetry
The Bollingen Prize, established by Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by Yale University Library through Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to an American poet for the best book published during the previous two years or for lifetime achievement in poetry. The prize includes a cash award of $175,000.
Hilary Link Has Been Named the Fifteenth President of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey
Since 2019, Dr. Link has been the president of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. From 2013 to 2019, she served as dean of Temple University Rome. As the senior Temple University administrator in Rome, she was responsible for all aspects of the Rome campus, which enrolls more than 600 students in graduate and undergraduate programs. Earlier, Dr. Link was vice provost at Barnard College in New York City.
Five Women Who Have Been Appointed Deans at Colleges and Universities
The new deans are Lerzan Aksoy at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University in New York, Megan Ranney at the Yale School of Public Health, Jenise M. Snyder at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio, Alma B. Littles at the College of Medicine at Florida State University, and Jennifer Frey at the Honors College at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.
Eight Women Who Have Been Assigned New Administrative Duties at Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
In Memoriam: Laura M. Whitman, 1964-2023
Dr. Whitman joined the faculty at Yale Medical School in 1997. She served as the associate program director for ambulatory education for the Traditional Internal Medicine Residency from 2004–2013. Later, Dr. Whitman was medical director of the Primary Care Center at Yale New Haven Hospital and then as a medical director of the New Haven Primary Care Consortium.
The American Astronomical Society Honors Yale University’s Meg Urry With the Distinguished Career Award
The award citation lauded Professor Urry “for her remarkable contributions to our understanding of a wide variety of topics in extragalactic high energy astrophysics, for establishing the unification paradigm of active galactic nuclei, her work on the origin of the extragalactic X-ray background, and for her tireless advocacy and support of women and underrepresented groups in science.”
Danielle Holley Will Be the Twentieth President of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts
In 2014, President-elect Holley was named dean and a professor of law at the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. Previously she was associate dean and a professor of law at the University of South Carolina Law School. Earlier in her career, she taught at the Hofstra University School of Law in New York.
In Memoriam: Christine M. Cano, 1962-2022
Dr. Cano joined the department of modern languages and literatures at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, 1999. She taught courses on a wide range of language, literature, and culture courses at the university, including courses on French cinema and the contemporary novel.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Three Women Faculty Members at Yale University Win Book Prizes From the Modern Language Association
The three women scholars at Yale University who were honored by the Modern Language Association for their books are Katerina Clark, a professor of comparative literature and of Slavic languages and literatures, Jill Jarvis, an assistant professor of French, and Jessica Gabriel Peritz, an assistant professor of music.
Three Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Research Universities
Kia Nobre will join Yale University in July 2023 as the Wu Tsai Professor in the department of psychology. Marisol Berti, a professor of plant sciences at North Dakota State University, has been appointed to the Jordan A. Engberg Presidential Professorship and Shabaana A. Khader has been named the inaugural Bernard and Betty Roizman Professor in the department of microbiology at the University of Chicago.
Study Examines How an Academic Department’s Gender Composition Impacts Teacher Evaluations
A new study led by Oriana Aragón, an assistant professor of marketing in the College of Business at the University of Cincinnati, finds that professors in the gender minority of university academic departments tend to receive lower scores in their performance evaluations because of gender bias.
In Memoriam: Josephine Rachel Broude, 1927-2022
Josephine Broude was executive assistant to the provost at Yale University for over 30 years. During her tenure, she ran the executive office for 10 different provosts of Yale University.
New Administrative Appointments for Six Women in Higher Education
Taking on new administrative positions are Patrese Atine at Colorado State University, Catherine Didion at Boise State University in Idaho, Lauren Di Monte at Yale University Library, Lou Avotri at Talladega College in Alabama, Christina Kline at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Neelam Bharti at Florida State University Libraries.
Hillary Rodham Clinton to Teach at Columbia University
Hillary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady of the United States, former U.S. senator from the State of New York, former U.S. Secretary of State, and the only woman to win a major nomination for President of the United States, is joining Columbia University in New York City as professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs and presidential fellow at Columbia World Projects.
In Memoriam: Nanxiu Qian, 1947-2022
Nanxiu Qian was a professor of Chinese literature in the School of Humanities at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She taught at the university for nearly 30 years.
Five Women Win Mitchell Scholarships for Graduate Study in Ireland
The US-Ireland Alliance has announced the 12 members of the George J. Mitchell Scholar Class of 2024. This year, five of the 12 Mitchell Scholars are women.
Daphne Brooks of Yale University Received the Music in American Culture Award
Daphne Brooks, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University, was presented with the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society.
Study Finds Women Medical Students Publish Less Scholarly Research Than Their Male Peers
A new study led by Mytien Nguyen an M.D.-Ph.D. student at Yale School of Medicine found that there were only slight differences between men and women medical school students in research experiences. But women students had 10 percent fewer publications than their male peers.
Is the Art Market Biased Against Works Created by Women?
A study led by researchers at the Yale School of Management notes that a large percentage of artworks sold at auction or displayed at major museums were created by men. But their research shows that for graduates of the Yale School of Art, the gender gap no longer exists.
Yale’s Vanessa Ogle Win the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal
Dr. Ogle, a historian of global Europe from the 18th century to the present, was honored for her historical research on capitalism and globalization. Before joining the faculty at Yale this fall, Dr. Ogle taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania.
A Trio of Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships
The three women who have been appointed to endowed chairs are Bonnie Lucero at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Danielle Dick at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Kristen Brennand at the Yale School of Medicine.
Study Finds Role-Playing May Boost Young Girls’ Interest in STEM Fields
A new study by scholars at Yale University, Duke University, and the University of Chicago, finds that science role-playing may help tighten the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math education and careers for women simply by improving their identity as scientists.
Bonnie Fleming Has Been Named Chief Research Officer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Dr. Fleming was a professor of physics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University and a faculty member of Yale’s Wright Lab. She had been on the faculty at Yale since 2004. She will also hold a faculty position as a professor of physics at the University of Chicago.
