Upenn School of Arts and Sciences 2005 Deans Scholars
Leadership of Arts & Science
Antonio Merlo
Ph.D., Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science
Antonio Merlo rejoined NYU as the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of NYU's Faculty of Arts and Science in July of 2019. Antonio received his Ph.D. from NYU and was previously a member of NYU's Economic science and Politics kinesthesia. Earlier returning to NYU, he was the Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Rice University, where he was also the George A. Peterkin Professor and Founding Director of the Rice Initiative for the Study of Economics as well as the head coach of the men's and women'due south water polo teams. Between 2000 and 2014, he also held leadership roles at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Director of the Penn Institute for Economic science Inquiry, the Lawrence R. Klein Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, and the head coach of the men's h2o polo team.
Antonio is a distinguished political economist. His areas of scholarly involvement include political economic system, policy analysis, public economics, bargaining theory and applications, and empirical microeconomics. His research interests include the economics of crime, voting, the career decisions of politicians, the formation and dissolution of coalition governments, the industrial organization of the political sector, household bargaining, and the study of the residential housing market. He has published numerous articles in the leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Periodical of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. In 2018, he authored an innovative political economic system textbook for undergraduates, "Political Economy and Policy Assay" (Routledge). His numerous awards and honors include being elected a Beau of the Econometric Order; the Pareto Lecture in Economic science and Social Sciences; beingness a Peden Senior Fellow at Trinity Higher, Cambridge; and the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Laurels for Distinguished Teaching. In addition, he has been the recipient of the Passenger vehicle of the Year Honour for the Collegiate H2o Polo Association in 2013 (Men's Mid-Atlantic Division), 2017 (Women's Texas Division), and 2018 (Men'south Texas Division).
A first-generation higher graduate, Merlo received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in economics and social sciences from Bocconi University of Italy in 1987. He received his Ph.D. in economics from NYU in 1992, where he received the Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Accolade. He also received an honorary Thousand.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000.
Antonio believes that Arts and Science is the academic heart of New York University, and he hopes to advance our community by embracing our entrepreneurial spirit, investing in our exceptional faculty, upholding our values of diverseness and inclusion, and fostering our holistic approach to educational activity.
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Matthew Santirocco
Ph.D., Interim Seryl Kushner Dean of the Higher of Arts and Science
Dr. Matthew Southward. Santirocco is the Interim Dean of the Higher of Arts & Scientific discipline at New York University. He is Professor of Classics and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Aboriginal Studies; he also serves every bit Faculty Manager of NYU-Washington, DC. From 2011 to 2017 he was Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and from 1994 to 2011 he served every bit the Seryl Kushner Dean of the Higher of Arts and Science at NYU. Before that, he was College dean at the University of Pennsylvania, and had too taught at Pittsburgh, Columbia, Emory, and Brown.
Dr. Santirocco'southward scholarly interests focus on Greek and Latin literature and thought. He is the author or editor of several books, including Unity and Design in Horace's Odes; Latinitas: The Tradition and Teaching of Latin; and What's New nigh the Old (a special issue of Daedalus on new approaches to the Greco-Roman earth), also every bit numerous articles. He is currently working on a book about the poetics of patronage in Augustan Rome. A past editor of the American Philological Association's monograph series, American Classical Studies, and of the journal, Classical World, he currently edits the Palgrave Macmillan monograph series, The New Antiquity. He also founded and directs NYU's Center for Ancient Studies, which promotes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural written report of the by through conferences, student grants for international research, summer seminars for faculty from across the United states, and occasional publications.
In addition to his work in classics, Dr. Santirocco has promoted broader educational innovation. At Penn, he developed humanities curricula for the MBA and Executive Didactics programs at the Wharton Schoolhouse, with which he too partnered to create an undergraduate International Studies/Business organisation program. At NYU, he led faculty in the design of a new core curriculum, too every bit in the creation of a fully-funded undergraduate research program, Freshman and Advanced Honors Seminars, and cross-schoolhouse programs. Having worked on curriculum and faculty recruitment for NYU's co-operative campus in Abu Dhabi, he oversaw the evolution of the academic program for NYU Shanghai.
A graduate of Columbia and Cambridge Universities, Dr. Santirocco has received research grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, American Numismatics Club, American Council of Learned Societies, and National Endowment for the Humanities. He has served as Vice President for Professional Matters and as Fiscal Trustee of the American Philological Association (now Club for Classical Studies); equally a founding member of the executive committee of the Reinvention Center (at present Collaborative), a national consortium of research universities committed to improving undergraduate didactics; and as a lath member of the South Street Seaport Museum, The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, and Commonweal magazine.
He currently serves on the boards of the artists' colony Yaddo and the Aquila Theatre. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2011 was appointed Assistant Secretary of the University for the humanities and social sciences. In 2018 he was elected as a Fellow of the New York Constitute for the Humanities. In January 2021 he became President-Elect of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Clan).
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Lynne Kiorpes
Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Scientific discipline
Dean Kiorpes joined the faculty of NYU in 1985. She served as Vice Dean of GSAS from 2018 to 2021, when she was appointed Dean of GSAS. A professor of neural science and psychology and Collegiate Professor for the College of Arts and Science, her enquiry seeks to empathize the neural mechanisms that underlie the evolution of visual office, with a focus on originating preventative and therapeutic interventions for amblyopia, a persistent trouble in pediatric ophthalmology. She has received numerous grants from NIH and other organizations to support her enquiry. Dean Kiorpes has served as the National Institute of Mental Health-funded Graduate Training Program Director in Neural Science since 2005. She was the founding managing director of the undergraduate neuroscience program likewise as manager of graduate studies in Neural Science. She has served as an NYU Global Inclusion Officer, a member of the Dean's Committee on Diversity, and every bit the inaugural faculty manager for the CAS Women in Science Initiative. She is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including the University Distinguished Education Medal (2003), a James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Honour (2007), and an Executive Leadership in Academic Engineering science and Engineering Program Fellowship (2015).
She received her BS with honors in physiological psychology from Northeastern Academy, and her PhD in physiological psychology from the University of Washington.
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Julie Mostov
Ph.D., Dean of Liberal Studies
Julie Mostov joined NYU in August 2017, from Drexel University, where she was Senior Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Professor of Politics. In addition to her many scholarly achievements, Dr. Mostov spearheaded a wide range of global initiatives and international research and bookish partnerships for Drexel as Senior Vice Provost and, earlier, as Director of International Area Studies. She has also been a long-time member of the University of Bologna'south network on Europe and the Balkans and a regular visiting professor in its graduate programs.
Her recent scholarship is on the politics of national identity, sovereignty, citizenship, and gender and explores the notions of soft-borders and transnational citizenship. Publications related to these themes include her book Soft Borders: Rethinking Sovereignty and Republic (2008); the co-edited volume, From Gender to Nation (2004, 2002); and book chapters such as "Soft Borders and Transnational Citizens" (2007) and "Nation and Nation-State" (2014). She has presented her interdisciplinary research with a focus on Southeastern Europe at universities and conferences in many parts of the earth. She served every bit a consultant for both the U.Southward. and the EU during the breakup of Yugoslavia and designed and implemented State Department grants in support of autonomous transitions in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Her earlier scholarship in democratic theory includes such works as Power, Process, and Popular Sovereignty (1992), "Endangered Citizenship," and "Democracy and the Politics of National Identity."
She has an A.B. in Politics from Mount Holyoke College, an M.A. from the University of Belgrade, and a Ph.D. in Political Theory from NYU. Returning to NYU as the Dean for Liberal Studies, she brings together these rich experiences in global engagements,
grounding in the liberal arts, and a commitment to interdisciplinary research and teaching.
Susan Antón
Ph.D., Divisional Dean at-Large and Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Faculty Development
Susan Antón is a Professor in NYU's Heart for the Study of Homo Origins, Department of Anthropology, where she expanded and directed the Thou.A. program from 2003-2019. Equally a biological anthropologist, she has research interests in the origin and development of humans and uses bear witness from the skeleton and fossil tape to understand how, over the past 2.5 million years, humans have adapted to environments, in turn shaping our environs. Her fieldwork has taken her to Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Her work is broadly published including in Nature, Science, Philosophical Transactions B, likewise as Journal of Human Development and American Antiquity, among others. In recognition of her research work she was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
In addition to her research, Dr. Antón is also committed to serving her discipline, creating pathways to the profession and enhancing equity and inclusion. She is the founding Managing director for Kinesthesia Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Evolution in the FAS Part of the Dean, and founded her national organization'southward (American Clan of Physical Anthropologists, AAPA) Committee on Diverseness, through which she runs pathways programming for underrepresented scholars. She served for a decade on the executive lath of the AAPA, including as President. For five years she was editor of the Journal of Human Evolution. Equally a onetime Ford Foundation Dissertation and Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow and in collaboration with other senior fellows, she has recently founded a new national organization, the Society for Senior Ford Fellows, which she serves as an elected member of the executive board.
Her numerous honors and achievements in teaching include the Distinguished Didactics Medal from NYU. She received the AAPA Gabriel Lasker Lifetime Distinguished Service Honor for her piece of work toward developing disciplinary infrastructure by and large and disinterestedness and inclusion programs specifically.
Dr. Antón earned her BA, MA, and PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Before moving to NYU every bit an associate professor in 2003, she was a faculty member in Anthropology at the University of Florida and Rutgers University.
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Una Chaudhuri
Ph.D., Divisional Dean for the Humanities and Vice Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Una Chaudhuri is Collegiate Professor in the College of Arts & Scientific discipline, and holds appointments in the departments of English language and Ecology Studies in Arts & Science too as in the department of Drama at the Tisch School of the Arts, which she chaired for half dozen years. She was a member of the founding faculty at NYU's Abu Dhabi campus, and taught there from 2010 to 2018. Most recently, she served as Director of GSAS's XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Appointment.
Una Chaudhuri is a scholar of ecology humanities with a focus on theatre history, performance studies, and dramatic literature. She has been a pioneer in the field of "eco-theatre"—plays and performances that engage with the subjects of ecology and environment—equally well equally the related field of ecocriticism, which studies art and literature from an ecological perspective. She helped launch both these fields when she guest-edited a special outcome of Yale's Theater journal on "Theatre and Ecology" in 1994. Her introduction to that effect, entitled "'There Must Exist a lot of Fish in That Lake' : Theorizing a Theatre Ecology," is widely credited as a seminal contribution to the field. Professor Chaudhuri was also among the kickoff scholars of drama and theatre to appoint with another rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field, Animal Studies. She has written and lectured widely on two concepts she has proposed and theorized: "zooësis," the discourse and representation of species in gimmicky culture and performance, and "AnthropoScenes," dramaturgies beyond the human. Her current research explores what she calls "ecospheric consciousness": ideas, feelings, and practices that attend to the multi-species and geo-physical contexts of human being lives. Chaudhuri is the author and editor of several books, including The Phase Lives of Animals: Zooesis and Functioning, The Ecocide Project: Research Theatre and Climatic change (co-writer), and Animal Acts: The Stage Lives of Animals (co-editor).
Una Chaudhuri has been an active fellow member of the theatre customs in New York, serving as a judge for the Obie Awards and equally a voter for the Tony Awards. She chairs the console of judges for NYU'southward prestigious Callaway Prize in Drama and Theatre. She participates in numerous collaborative art, performance, and research projects, including the on-going multi-platform Dear Climate, which has been featured in exhibitions in Dublin, the Netherlands, Storm Rex Arts Center, the New York Public Library, the Dense Art Festival, Rice Academy, and Appalachian Land University.
Una Chaudhuri attended loftier school in Paris, France, and Simla, India, received her Available'due south and Master'due south degrees from Delhi University in New Delhi, Bharat, and her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She has been a member of the NYU kinesthesia since 1982.
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Gregory Gabadadze
Ph.D., Bounded Dean for Scientific discipline and Vice Dean for Research
Greg Gabadadze is a Professor in the Department of Physics where he served equally the chair (2013-2019), and director of the Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics (2008-2011, 2012-2013).
Dean Gabadadze is a theoretical physicist with enquiry interests in particle physics, cosmology, gravitation, and condensed media. He is best known for pioneering highly cited works on theories beyond Einstein's gravity, and their cosmological implications, for which he received a number of awards and grants from NASA and NSF.
Gabadadze received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1998, and his physics undergraduate degree from the Moscow State University in 1994.
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David Stasavage
Ph.D., Bounded Dean for the Social Sciences and Vice Dean for Strategic and Global Initiatives
David Stasavage is the Julius Silver Professor in NYU'due south Department of Politics and an Affiliated Professor in NYU'due south Schoolhouse of Law, equally well every bit its Department of History. He uses both current and historical information to investigate
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