Rosalind Morris of Columbia University and Katherine Kiesel of the University of California, Davis are taking on academic leadership roles at their institutions. Elena Shadrina is a new assistant professor at Princeton University, and Heather Lerner joined Amherst College as director of the Beneski Museum of Natural History.

The six women in academia who have received 2026 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards are Cindy Juyoung Ok of the University of California, Davis, Juliet Nebolon of Trinity College, Monisha Das Gupta of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Pacharee Sudhinaraset of New York University, Celine Parreñas Shimizu of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Sharon Quinsaat of Grinnell College.

Margarita David was named interim dean of the Rita & Larry Salva School of Nursing & Health Professions at Rowan University in New Jersey and Jennifer Jackowski was named dean of STEM at Northern Essex Community College in Massachusetts.

Tayari Jones, an endowed professor at Emory University, has received the 2026 Kirkus Prize for Fiction for her latest novel, Kin. The book is Professor Jones' fifth novel.

The administrative appointments are Amanda Peters Hopkins at Rollins College in Florida, Deborah Armstrong at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania, Ana Ayala Barker at the University of Arkansas, Brianna Clark-Williams at the University of Richmond in Virginia, and Claudia F. Lucchinetti at the University of Texas at Austin.

Anna Romina Guevarra, professor of global Asian studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, are the 2026 recipients of the Public Understanding of Sociology Award from the American Sociological Association/

The appointments are Jessamyn Neuhaus, the Meredith Professor of Teaching and Learning Excellence at Syracuse University; E. Nicole Melton, the Berthiaume Family Endowed Professor of Sport Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Michelle Kimzey, the Abell-Hanger Professor in Gerontological Nursing at Texas Christian University

For all doctoral recipients in 2025 who had employment commitments by the time they received their doctorate, women were to receive a median salary of $87,800 compared to a median salary of $114,750 for men.

Dr. Weaver has served as provost of the University of Dayton since July 2023. On July 1, 2027, she will become the first woman to lead the university.

Across a large sample of faculty at nearly 300 universities, women were more than twice as likely as men to report prior experiences of devaluation at work. Among respondents who had experienced devaluation, women were more likely than men to say devaluation was tied to their gender, race, age, or parenthood status.

In November, Dr. Holley will be installed as the eighteenth president of Payne Theological Seminary in Ohio. She previously served as the seminary's interim president, academic dean, and director of the Alternative Theological Extension Program.

“These data show us that a very large portion of those entering our specialty are struggling and not getting the help they need, and we’re not having meaningful discussions about how to help them,” said Helen Kang Morgan, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School.