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  • Leadership

  • The New School for Social Research is supported and advised by a Board of Governors. Our Board is committed to upholding the core values that have defined our school since its beginning as the University in Exile and to fostering an intellectual environment that challenges orthodoxy, promotes public debate, and cultivates academic rigor.

    The NSSR Board of Governors upholds our mission to create a school of free inquiry for students and faculty of different ethnicities, religions, and geographical origins who are willing to challenge academic tradition, connect social theory to empirical observation, and take the intellectual and political risks necessary to improve social conditions.

    Board of Governors

    Susan L. Foote, PhD, Chair
    Paul Vidich, Vice Chair
    Michael E. Gellert
    Diana Gordon, PhD
    Eva Susan Haller
    Paul B. Marrow, Esq. 
    David E. McClean, PhD
    Caitlin McKoy, PhD
    Ilse Melamid
    Montie Mills Meehan, PhD
    Robert H. Mundheim, Esq.
    Robert N. Pollin, PhD
    David Poma
    Robin Schletter
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    Malcolm B. Smith 
    David E. Sternberg
    Guido Zanni, PhD

    Office of the Dean

    William Milberg
    Dean
    212.229.5777 x3038
    MilbergW@newschool.edu

    Desiree Lavecchia 
    Executive Assistant to the Dean 
    212.229.5777 x3038 
    Lavecchd@newschool.edu

    Robert Kostrzewa
    Vice Dean
    212.229.5712 x3003
    KostrzeR@newschool.edu

    Ellen Freeberg
    Associate Dean of Faculty and Curriculum
    212.229.5777 x3000
    FreeberE@newschool.edu

    Tsuya Yee
    Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
    212.229.5712 x3005
    YeeT@newschool.edu   

    Seth Cohen
    Director of Operations
    212.229.5777 x3395
    CohenS@newschool.edu

    Jennifer MacDonald
    Director, Center for Graduate Career and Professional Development
    212.229.5600 x1768
    Macdonaj@newschool.edu   

    Sherri Cohen
    Director of Communications
    212.295.5777 x 3019
    Sherri.Cohen@newschool.edu

    Kiril Glavev
    Associate Director of Faculty Affairs
    212.229.5777 x3039
    GlavevK@newschool.edu

    Aleanna Sonnylal
    Senior Office Assistant
    212.229.5777 x3146
    SonnylaA@newschool.edu

    Randy Brown, Jr.
    Executive Secretary, Academic Affairs
    212.229.5712 x3001
    NssrAcademicAffairs@newschool.edu

  • Contact Us

    General Admission Contact
    The New School for Social Research
    Office of Admission
    79 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
    New York, NY 10003
    212.229.5600 or 800.523.5411
    SocialResearchAdmit@newschool.edu

  • Admission

  • Take The Next Step

Submit your application

Undergraduates

To apply to any of our undergraduate programs (except the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs) complete and submit the Common App online.

Undergraduate Adult Learners

To apply to any of our Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

Graduates

To apply to any of our Master's, Doctoral, Professional Studies Diploma, and Graduate Certificate programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.