Richard Foley
Ph.D., The Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science

FAS Dean and Philosophy Professor Richard Foley is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the field of epistemology (the origin and nature of knowledge), his field of expertise.

In addition to numerous articles, Dean Foley is the author of The Theory of Epistemic Rationality, Working Without a Net, and Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others.

An award-winning teacher, he received the University of Notre Dame's Madden Award for outstanding teaching of first-year students. He was also named the outstanding teacher in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dean Foley is a member of the Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession, American Philosophical Association; Executive Board, The Center for Philosophical Education; and Committee on Research Universities, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. He is also on the editorial boards of American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Issues and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Before coming to NYU, he served as the Executive Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Graduate School, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Earlier, he chaired the Philosophy Department at the University of Notre Dame.

Dean Foley holds a B.A. from Miami University, and received his Ph.D. from Brown University. In 1999, he received Brown University's Distinguished Graduate Alumnus Award.

Ph.D., The Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science

CAS Dean Matthew S. Santirocco is also Associate Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Professor of Classics and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies at New York University.

With research interests in Latin literature, Greek poetry, and the classical tradition, Dean Santirocco's publications include a book on Latin lyric poetry (Unity and Design in Horace's Odes), several edited volumes on the classics and the classical tradition (Latinitas: The Tradition and Teaching of Latin); (Reconsidering Horace); (Saving the City: Destruction, Loss and Recovery in the Ancient World) and many scholarly articles. He is currently working on a book about the poetics of patronage in Augustan Rome. In addition, Dean Santirocco has been the editor of the American Philological Association's two monograph series, American Classical Studies and Philological Monographs, and is currently the editor of the quarterly Classical World, one of the most widely circulated professional journals in the field.

Dean Santirocco has served as Vice President for Professional Matters for the American Philological Association and is now Senior Financial Trustee of the Association. He is also on the Executive Councils of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and the Reinvention Center, and served on the American Association of Universities's Presidential Task Force on K16-Education. He has received grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the American Numismatics Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Dean Santirocco founded and directs NYU's Center for Ancient Studies, which promotes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study of the past through undergraduate and graduate courses, annual conferences and colloquia, an international scholars program, and summer outreach seminars for faculty from throughout the United States; the Aquila Theatre Company is also based at the Center.

Before coming to NYU in July 1994, Dean Santirocco was Professor and Chair of Classical Studies and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He also chaired the Classics Department at Emory University and has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, and Brown University.

Dean Santirocco holds a B.A. from Columbia University, a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science Catharine Stimpson is also a University Professor.

Currently the editor of a book series for the University of Chicago Press, she was the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her many other publications include a novel, Class Notes; a selection of essays, Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces; and a book on Gertrude Stein, which is under contract to the University of Chicago Press. In addition, more than 150 of her monographs, essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in Transatlantic Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Critical Inquiry, boundary 2, and other publications.

Dean Stimpson is the Chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and past president of the Association of Graduate Schools. She is former chair of the New York State Humanities Council, the Ms. Magazine Board of Scholars, and the National Council for Research on Women, as well as past president of the Modern Language Association. She serves on the boards of other educational and cultural organizations, and from 1994-2000, was on the board of PBS.

She has been awarded both Fulbright and Rockefeller Humanities Fellowships, as well as grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Before coming to NYU, Dean Stimpson was Director of the MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program and University Professor at Rutgers, where she was also Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for graduate education. She was the first Director of the Women's Center of Barnard College and of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers.

Dean Stimpson holds an A.B. from Bryn Mawr College, and a B.A. from Cambridge University. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, and holds numerous honorary degrees.

Edward J. Sullivan
Ph.D., Dean for the Humanities

Dean for the Humanities Edward J. Sullivan is one of the most respected experts on the history of modern and contemporary Latin American art.

Dean Sullivan is the author of many articles and has done extensive work in the museum field, curating exhibitions throughout the US, Latin America and Europe.

Among his books and book-length catalogues are: Baroque Painting in Madrid, (1986), Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Painting (1990), Women in Mexico (1990), Emilio Pettoruti (2004) and Latin American Art of the Twentieth Century (edited, 1996). In 2001 he served as Chief Curator and editor of the catalogue of the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition Brazil: Body & Soul.

Dean Sullivan is a former member of the Board of Directors of the College Art Association. He serves on advisory boards of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Monterrey, Mexico). He is Vice-President of the American Friends of the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba (Havana). He is an Honorary Member of the Hispanic Society of America.

Dean Sullivan has served as Chair of the Department of Fine Arts and is also a member of the faculty of the Institute of Fine Arts. He has also taught at Williams College and Trinity College, Dublin.

Dean Sullivan holds his academic degrees from NYU, receiving his Ph.D. from the IFA in 1979.

Jr., Ph.D., Dean for the Social Sciences

Dean for the Social Sciences George W. Downs is also Professor of the Department of Politics.

His areas of specialization are international institutions and international cooperation. Current research projects include books on democratization and the evolution of international law. His publications include Tacit Bargaining, Arms Races and Arms Control; Collective Security Beyond the Cold War; and Optimal Imperfection: Domestic Uncertainty and Institutions in International Relations, as well as articles for both theoretical and applied journals in political science, statistics, and international law.

Dean Downs’ awards and honors include appointment as the William P. Boswell Professor of Peace and War, at Princeton University, the Louis Brownlow Book Award, and the Youden Prize from the American Society for Quality Control.

Before coming to NYU, Dean Downs was Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He was also Professor in the Department of Political Science and Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis.

Dean Downs holds an A.B. from Shimer College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Daniel Stein
Ph.D., Dean for Science

Dean for Science Daniel Stein is also a Professor of Physics and Mathematics at NYU, and he was a Provost Faculty Fellow in 2005-2006.

With research interests that include theoretical condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics and mathematical physics, Dean Stein’s research primarily focuses on randomness and disorder in condensed matter systems with an emphasis on magnetic materials and on stochastic processes leading to rare nucleation events. He has also conducted research in a variety of areas, including protein biophysics, biological evolution, amorphous semiconductors, superconductors and superfluids, liquid crystals, neutron stars, and the interface between particle physics and cosmology.

Dean Stein earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 1979 and remained on the faculty there until 1987. From 1987-2005, he taught at the University of Arizona, serving as Head of the Department of Physics from 1995-2005.

He has been awarded numerous honors and awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the University of Arizona College of Science Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Commission on the Status of Women Vision 2000 Award. Dean Stein was also elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Fred Schwarzbach
Ph.D., Associate Dean of the General Studies Program

Associate Dean of the General Studies Program Fred Schwarzbach is also a Master Teacher of Humanities.
 
His publications include the books Dickens and the City and Victorian Artists and the City, editions of Dickens' American Notes and Anne Bronte's Agnes Gray, as well as numerous scholarly chapters, articles, and review essays on Victorian and modern British literature and culture. He is also a founding member of the American Friends of the Dickens House Museum.

Associate Dean Schwarzbach earned his A.B and M.A. from Columbia University, and received his Ph.D. from London University. He has taught at University College London, Washington University in St. Louis, Louisiana State University, Washington State University, and Kent State University, where he served for eight years as chair of the Department of English. He joined the General Studies Program as Associate Dean and Master Teacher of Humanities in 2004.

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