Leadership TeamJoanne Berger-Sweeney
John Barker Prior to his arrival at Tufts, Dean Barker was assistant provost of undergraduate education at the University of Miami in Florida, with the scope of university-wide responsibilities in the areas of undergraduate research, diversity, academic counseling and advocacy, and academic achievement. He was also the founding director of the Office of Academic Enhancement. His overall portfolio included the honors program; multicultural student affairs; programs of academic excellence; and the academic and career advisors in residence, academic fellows, special interest housing, and prestigious awards and scholarships. In addition, Dean Barker served as a faculty master for one of the
University of Miami's residential colleges and as an adjunct faculty
member in the university's Department of Educational and
Psychological Studies, in Miami's School of Education. Nancy Bauer Lee Coffin
William Gehling
James M. Glaser
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. Kathryn Link  Dean Link joined Tufts University in February 2013 as executive
administrative dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Over the
previous ten years, Dean Link held a variety of administrative
positions at Harvard University, most recently as the executive
director of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology.
There, she spearheaded the development of comprehensive academic and
financial plans and governance structures to support decisions
across school boundaries. She held two other administrative
positions at Harvard: assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences and special projects assistant for the executive dean of
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in which she supported academic
endeavors in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural
sciences. Her academic experience also includes the University of
Trento, Italy, where she consulted to the university president.Dean Link's academic background speaks to her intellectual versatility. A cum laude graduate of Washington University, Dean Link received her Bachelor of Arts in history. Her Master of Arts from Georgetown University is in applied linguistics and teaching English as a second language. She holds a Juris Doctorate magna cum laude from Vermont Law School, where she served on the Law Review and received the first prize AmJur Award in torts. She practiced law at Goodwin Proctor LLP prior to beginning her career in university administration. Lynne Pepall
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Professor Berger-Sweeney was appointed Dean of the School of Arts
and Sciences as of August 23, 2010. She comes to us from Wellesley
College, where she was Associate Dean of the College and Allene
Lummis Russell Professor in Neuroscience. 
John Barker came to Tufts University from the University of
Miami in 2012 as the Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Students. In
this newly reconfigured position, Dr. Barker has overall
responsibility for enhancing the undergraduate and graduate
student experience in the School of Arts and Sciences and
strengthening the integration of university-wide undergraduate and
graduate academic and cocurricular initiatives.
Nancy Bauer is Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences and
Professor of Philosophy. She joined the Tufts faculty in 1998, after
completing her doctorate in philosophy at Harvard University, from
which she also holds a bachelor of arts in social studies and a
master of theological studies. Her areas of specialization include
feminist philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy and film, and
ordinary language philosophy. She is the author of Simone de
Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism (2001) and How to Do Things With
Pornography (forthcoming), and is currently working on a guidebook
to Beauvoir's The Second Sex. A former Radcliffe fellow, she has
also written numerous articles about the philosophical dimensions of
real-world issues for both academic and nonacademic publications,
including n+1, The New York Times, and The Tehran Times. 
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.
Now
his fourteenth year as director, Bill Gehling has been at
Tufts for more than forty years, as a student, coach,
and administrator. He graduated in 1974 following an all-star
soccer career and was hired to coach the new women's soccer
program in 1979. During twenty seasons he guided the Jumbos to
the NCAA national quarterfinals in 1998, which was his final
season. In addition to coaching, Gehling took on greater
administrative responsibilities as associate director of
athletics and in July 1999 he became the fifth director of athletics.
James
Glaser is Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences and
Professor of Political Science. Prior to assuming this role, he
served as Dean of Undergraduate Education for Arts, Sciences, and
Engineering from 2003 to 2010.
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,
Laura Wood joined Tufts University in 2011 as the director of Tisch Library.
She is the current chair of the University Library Council. From 2004 to 2011,
she was the librarian of Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard
Divinity School. Prior to working at Harvard, Laura held the position of
technical services librarian and periodicals librarian at Pitts Theology
Library, Emory University. Beyond Tufts, she serves on the Board of Directors
for the Boston Library Consortium and for DuraSpace, and was previously a
board member and board president for the American Theological Library Association.
Laura holds the following degrees: M.B.A. from Emory University; M.S. in
Information and Library Sciences from the University of Michigan; M.A. in
Religion magna cum laude from Yale Divinity School; and B.A. magna cum laude
from Mount Holyoke College.