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NEW
SCHOOL UNIVERSITY APPOINTS ANN-LOUISE SHAPIRO AS DEAN OF THE NEW SCHOOL
Wesleyan
Dean is Third High-Profile New School Appointment This Year
(March
8, 2001 — New York, NY) New School University announced the appointment
of Ann-Louise Shapiro as Dean of The New School, the founding division of the
university, beginning in July 2001.
Ann-Louise
Shapiro is currently Dean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs
at Wesleyan University, where she has been a professor of history since 1985.
As Dean of The New School, Ms. Shapiro will oversee the administration and operation
of an academic division with 1000 in five graduate and undergraduate programs
and 25,000 adult education students per year.
Ms. Shapiro’s
appointment is the third in a string of high-profile additions to New School
University this year. In January, former Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Nebraska) was
formally installed as President of the University, and Dr. Kenneth Prewitt,
former Director of the United States Census Bureau, was appointed Dean of the
University’s Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science.
New School
University President Bob Kerrey remarked on her appointment, "Ann-Louise
Shapiro will bring great potential for interdisciplinary scholarship to an academic
division that is world renowned for the diversity of its curriculum."
At Wesleyan,
Ms. Shapiro built departments in ways to preserve disciplinary integrity
while encouraging the development of complementary fields. She has focused specifically
on developing new areas of the curriculum while leading students toward a more
coherent program of studies, and in the process she has redefined faculty lines,
strengthened certificate programs, built clusters of linked courses, recruited
new faculty and enhanced the system of advising.
A specialist in the social
and cultural history of modern Paris, Dr. Shapiro's
current research concerns the relation between academic history
and the different kinds of histories produced in the media and more
public arenas. She is the author of Breaking the Codes: Female
Criminality in Fin-de-Siecle
Paris (Stanford, 1996) and Housing the Poor of
Paris, 1850-1902 (Wisconsin, 1985), the editor of a volume of feminist
history, and the author of numerous articles.
Dr. Shapiro studied at
Wellesley for three years before receiving her B.A.
from Connecticut College and holds a Ph.D. from Brown University.
New School University comprises
seven academic divisions: The New School, the Graduate Faculty of Political
and Social Science, Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban
Policy, Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College, Mannes College of Music,
and the Actors Studio Drama School. It also offers one of the largest selections
of online courses in the nation.
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