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They are Kristen Ghodsee, a professor of Russian and East European studies; Ayako Kano, a professor of East Asian languages and civilizations; Leigh Stearns, a professor of Earth and environmental sciences; and Deborah A. Thomas, a professor of anthropology.

Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.

Dr. Haipt was a faculty member in the education department at the College of New Rochelle in New York. In retirement, she founded Serviam Girls Academy, a middle school for girls in Wilmington, Delaware.

In 2023, a group of five current and former women professors filed a class action lawsuit alleging Vassar College was aware of long-standing gender pay discrimination among full professors but failed to adequately address the issue. Now the liberal arts college has settled the suit, agreeing to pay $5 million to compensate 84 professors.

Kathy Brittain Richardson began her presidency at Westminster College in 2016. Earlier, she was provost and a professor of communication at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia.

The women appointed to new faculty roles at Monica L. Baskin at Virginia Commonwealth University, Elizabeth Richards at Purdue University, Denise Davis-Maye at Albany State University, Maxie Hollingsworth at Sam Houston State University, Shana E. Harrington at East Carolina University, Linda R. Baker at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and Tara Richards at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

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.

The new deans are Tomiko Brown-Nagin at Stanford University in California, Katherine Reeves at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Wendy N. Nembhard at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, MiSchelle A. Edwards at Jarvis Christian University in Texas, Marie Ripoll at the University of Pittsburgh, and Erika C. Burt at Oakton College in Illinois.

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.

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.

"Done well, simulation doesn't just teach skills. It shapes safer, more thoughtful clinicians," said Dr. Fogg, an associate professor and assistant dean at the Texas Woman's University College of Nursing. "When it's interprofessional, it prepares them to work as part of the collaborative healthcare teams patients depend on."