Robert J. Sternberg
Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
Robert J. Sternberg is Dean of the School of Arts and
Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Tufts University. Prior to accepting
this position, he was IBM Professor of Psychology and Education in the
Department of Psychology, Professor of Management in the School of Management,
and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and
Expertise at Yale. This Center, now relocated to Tufts, is dedicated to the
advancement of theory, research, practice, and policy advancing the notion of
intelligence as developing expertise--as a construct that is modifiable and
capable, to some extent, of development throughout the life span. The Center
seeks to have an impact on science, on education, and on society.
Dean Sternberg received the Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1975 and the B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with honors with exceptional distinction in psychology, from Yale University in 1972. He also holds eight honorary doctorates from universities around the world.
Dean Sternberg was the 2003 President of the American Psychological Association and is the 2007-2008 President of the Eastern Psychological Association. He has served on various boards and is currently on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Board of Trustees of the American Psychological Foundation (2005-2009) and on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Psychological Association (2005-2008). Dean Sternberg has also been president of the Divisions of General Psychology (1), Educational Psychology (15), Psychology and the Arts (20), and Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (24) of the APA.
Dean Sternberg is the author of over 1100 journal articles, book chapters, and books, and has received over $20 million in government and other grants and contracts for his research. The central focus of his research is on intelligence, creativity, and wisdom, and he also has studied love and close relationships as well as hate. This research has been conducted in five different continents.
Dean Sternberg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association (in 15 divisions), the American Psychological Society, the Connecticut Psychological Association, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics, the Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. He has won many awards from APA, AERA, APS, and other organizations.
Dean Sternberg has been listed in the APA Monitor on Psychology as one of the top 100 psychologists of the 20th century and is listed by the ISI as one of its most highly cited authors (top ½%) in psychology and psychiatry. He also was listed by the Esquire Register of outstanding men and women under 40 and was listed as one of 100 top young scientists by Science Digest. He is currently listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He has served as Editor of the Psychological Bulletin and of The APA Review of Books: Contemporary Psychology.
Dean Sternberg is most well known for his theory of successful intelligence, investment theory of creativity (developed with Todd Lubart), theory of thinking styles as mental self-government, balance theory of wisdom, WICS theory of leadership, and for his duplex theories of love and hate.
Brigette A. Bryant
Senior Director of Development of the School of Arts and Sciences
Brigette A. Bryant is the Senior
Director of Development for the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University
and is directly responsible for the major gifts team for arts and sciences and
works in close coordination with the leadership of the
Annual Fund for Arts, Sciences and Engineering. Ms. Bryant came to Tufts
from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland where she served as associate
vice president for philanthropic development. In that role, Ms. Bryant provided
strategic leadership for a team of 18 professionals responsible for the broad
range of individual giving across the university and its eight schools. She
also maintained an active portfolio of her own, working with principal gift
prospects and on presidential initiatives. During her tenure at Case Western
Reserve, Ms. Bryant also served as interim Associate Dean for Development and
Alumni Relations at the School of Medicine. Ms. Bryant played a key role in
several seven figure gifts to Case Western -- including two new endowed
professorships. She also helped coordinate a $10 million foundation gift.
Prior to joining Case Western, Ms. Bryant held chief development roles at the School of International Relations at Columbia University and the College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her first jobs in development were with Dance Theatre of Harlem, Liberty Science Center and New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Lee Coffin
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Enrollment Management
Lee Coffin has served as Tufts'
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Enrollment Management since 2003. Prior to
Tufts he was Dean of Admission at Connecticut College from 1995 to 2001, where
he also held concurrent appointments as Vice President for Enrollment (1998 to
2001) and Acting Vice President for Public Affairs (2000-01). Dean Coffin held
the Millet Chair in Admissions at Milton Academy from 2001-03 and also served
administrative appointments in Advancement at Trinity College and freshman
advising at Harvard College. In addition to his work in admissions, Dean Coffin
also serves as an adjunct lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School
of Education, where he teaches a seminar entitled "Principles and Policy Issues
of College Admissions." He earned a B.A. with Honors in History from Trinity
College and an Ed.M. in administration, planning and social policy from Harvard
University.
Margery Davies
Director of the Office of Diversity Education and Development
Dr. Margery Davies is the
Director of the Office of Diversity Education and Development (aka the Diversity
Office), which serves both the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of
Engineering. This office is responsible for developing, implementing, and
assessing a range of programs for faculty, staff, and students, and for
collaborating with offices, departments, and programs in the School of Arts and
Sciences and the School of Engineering and other parts of the University, as
appropriate, to promote diversity. Dr. Davies also serves as the Affirmative
Action Officer for the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of
Engineering, and in that capacity monitors all faculty searches and hires.
With a doctorate in Sociology from Brandeis University, Dr. Davies has written about women, work, families, and child and family policy in the United States. Her book, Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers, 1870-1930 (Temple University Press, 1982), is an analysis of the feminization of clerical work in the United States. With Professor Francine Jacobs of Tufts University, she edited More Than Kissing Babies? Current Child and Family Policy in the United States, (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994).
Jillian Dubman
Executive Assistant to the Dean of Arts and Sciences
Jillian Dubman has served as the
Executive Assistant to the Dean of Arts and Sciences since 2004. In this role,
Ms. Dubman manages a range of projects, including several faculty development
programs, ad hoc task forces and communications initiatives. She coordinates
various events, including the Dean's Faculty Forum, Department Chairs' and
Program Directors' Meetings, and the Board of Overseers Meetings, and she works
on special projects as designated by the Dean. Ms. Dubman serves as a liaison
to department chairs, program directors, faculty, staff, and administrators
within the School of Arts and Sciences and maintains relationships across the
University.
Prior to joining Tufts, Ms. Dubman was a project manager at Brigham and Women's Hospital and coordinated training and education grants for a Harvard University faculty member. Ms. Dubman relocated to the Boston area in January 2004 from San Francisco, CA where she was a program coordinator at Stanford University for a training grant that focused on educating health care providers about multicultural issues.
Ms. Dubman received her MA in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University in 2001 and her BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University in 1999.
James M. Glaser
Dean of Undergraduate Education
Professor of Political Science
James Glaser is Dean of
Undergraduate Education for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering and Professor of
Political Science. He serves as the administration's point person on
educational policy and curriculum, as a member of the leadership teams in the
School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering, and as the presiding
officer of the Undergraduate Education organization. A member of the
President's 2003 Task Force on the Undergraduate Experience, Dean Glaser also
takes responsibility for tracking the recommendations that flowed from this
important initiative.
Dean Glaser received his B.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley. He joined the Tufts faculty in 1991 and the administration in 2003. A student of electoral politics and political behavior, he is the author of two books. Both of them, The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics (2005, Yale University Press) and Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South (1996, Yale University Press), received the Southern Political Science Association's V.O Key Prize awarded to the year's best book on southern politics. Dean Glaser also has published articles in some of the premiere journals in the discipline. At the present time, he is at work on a project looking at group conflict theory and its application to thorny electoral issues.
Andrew McClellan
Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Museum Studies
Andrew McClellan is Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences and Professor of Art History.
He joined the Tufts faculty in 1986, having previously taught Art History and American Studies at the University of Sussex in England. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and History of Art from University College London in 1978, an M.A. in History of Art from the University of East Anglia in 1980, and a Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London in 1987. His doctoral thesis was on the origins of museums in Enlightenment France. He is the author of numerous articles and three books: Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in 18th-Century Paris (1994); Art and its Publics (2003); and The Art Museum: From Boullée to Bilbao (2007).
During his twenty years on the Medford/Somerville campus, Dean McClellan has served in a number of administrative roles. He has been Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, Director of Graduate Programs in Art History, and Director of Museum Studies. He has also served as Chair of the Faculty Research Awards Committee and University Art Collections, as well as Academic Director of Talloires.
Leah McIntosh
Executive Administrative Dean for the School of Arts and Sciences
Leah McIntosh has been the
Executive Administrative Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University since January 2006. Prior to joining Tufts, she was the Associate Dean for Administrative Planning at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard
University from 2001 to 2006. She came to Harvard in 1995 as a major gifts
officer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dean McIntosh spent the first
part of her career in the entertainment industry and consulting. She serves on
the Board of Directors of Temple Israel in Boston and on the Board of Advisors
for the University of the Middle East. Dean McIntosh received her AB in 1978
and her MBA in 1984, both from Harvard University.
Lynne Pepall
Dean of the Graduate School for Arts and Sciences
Professor of Economics
Lynne Pepall received her Ph.D.
from Cambridge University in 1983, and worked as a Research Fellow at the
European University Institute in Florence from 1981-82. In 1983 she became an
Assistant Professor at Concordia University and in 1987 she joined the
Department of Economics at Tufts,
http://ase.tufts.edu/econ/faculty/pepall.asp. She was promoted to
Professor of Economics in 2003 and served as Chair of Economics for 2005-06.
Dean Pepall's primary field of research is industrial organization and the
economics of imperfect competition. She has published her work in many leading
economic journals including Journal of Finance, Economic Journal,
Journal of Business, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal
of Economics
and Management Strategy, and Journal of Industrial Economics.
She is also a co-author of the textbook Industrial Organization:
Contemporary Theory and Practice. Dean Pepall's current research is focused
on two areas: information and complementarities in business development, and
civic engagement and the nonprofit sector.
Vickie Sullivan
Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences
Professor of Political Science
Vickie Sullivan is Dean of
Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences. She received her BA from Carleton
College and her MA and, in 1990, her PhD from the University of Chicago. She
came to Tufts in 1996 as an assistant professor in the Department of Political
Science, where she was tenured and promoted to the rank of associate professor
in 1998 and promoted to the rank of full professor in 2005. She served as Chair
of the Department of Political Science from 2003 until 2005.
Her research interests include political thought and philosophy, as well as politics and literature. Dean Sullivan is the author of the books Machiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed (1996) and Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England (2004). In addition, she is the editor of the volume The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli: Essays on the Literary Works (2000) and co-editor of Shakespeare's Political Pageant: Essays in Politics and Literature (1996). She has published articles in American Political Science Review, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, and Polity, and in various edited volumes. Her current project is on the political thought of Montesquieu.
