• Dr. Renée T. White Appointed Next Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

    The New School is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Renée T. White as the university’s next Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. An accomplished higher education administrator and scholar on race, gender, and social inequality, Dr. White will begin at The New School August 1, 2021.

    Dr. White comes to The New School from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she has served as Provost and a Professor of Sociology since 2016. She previously was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Simmons University from 2011 to 2016. Before Simmons, she served as Professor of Sociology and Black Studies and as Academic Coordinator for Diversity and Global Citizenship at Fairfield University. Dr. White began her academic career at Purdue University, where she held a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the African American Studies Research Center.

    Dr.  White is the editor of three books, including the acclaimed Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions, and is the author of Putting Risk in Perspective: Black Teenage Lives in the Era of AIDS. She has served as editor of the Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children & Youth and as editorial advisor to the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services. Dr. White also was a Wye Faculty Fellow at the Aspen Institute and completed a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Black film studies. Her current research is in three areas: the impact of public discourse on social policy concerning reproductive rights, representations of blackness in popular culture, and applications of black feminist theory to higher education leadership.

    Dr. White holds an AB with honors from Brown University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where she was awarded a Mellon Foundation Doctoral Fellowship. She is a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education. She also serves on the Vision 2020 National Leadership Circle, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) Chief Academic Officers Task Force, and on the Advisory Committee for the MPH program at Simmons University.

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