Current and Past Deans of the School of Arts and Sciences

Bárbara M. Brizuela

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, 2024-Present
Department of Education
EdD, Harvard University

James M. Glaser

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, 2014-2024
Department of Political Science
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

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Joanne Berger-Sweeney

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, 2010-2014
Department of Biology
PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Robert Sternberg

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, 2005-2010
Department of Psychology
PhD, Stanford University

Susan Ernst

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, 2001-2005
Department of Biology
PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst

I. Melvin Bernstein

Vice President for Arts, Sciences and Engineering, 1991-20011
PhD, Columbia University

Mary Ella Feinleib

Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Technology, 1991
Department of Biology
PhD, Harvard University

Robert I. Rotberg

Vice President for Arts, Sciences and Engineering 1987-1990
PhD, St Antony's College, Oxford University

Frank C. Colcord, Jr.

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, 1980-1987
Department of Political Science
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bernard W. Harleston

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1970-1980
Department of Psychology
PhD, University of Rochester

Julian Knause Knipp

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1968-1969
Department of Physics
PhD, Harvard University

Albert Daniel Ullman

Acting Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, 1967
Department of Sociology
PhD, Harvard University

Charles Edward Stearns

Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, 1954-1967
Department of Geology
PhD, Harvard University

Nils Yngve Wessell

Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, 1952-1953
PhD, University of Rochester

George Stewart Miller

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1939-1951
Department of History and Government
AM, Tufts University

Frank George Wren

Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, 1907-1938
Department of Mathematics
AM, Tufts University

William Rollin Shipman

Dean of the Faculty of the College of Letters, 1900-1907
Department of Philosophy
MA, Middlebury College

John Potter Marshall

Dean of the Faculty of the College of Letters, 1882-1898
Department of Geology
AM, Yale University

Sources include: Tufts Combined Catalogs, Bulletins, and Course Announcements, Tufts University Fact Book.

1 The Office of the Vice President for Arts, Sciences and Technology (also known as the Vice President for Arts, Sciences and Engineering) was established in the fall of 1986 and ceased to exist in 2001. Various deans, including the Dean of Liberal Arts and Jackson, the Dean of the School of Engineering, and the Dean of the Graduate School of Art and Sciences, reported to the VP, who in turn reported to the University Provost and Senior Vice President. The Office of Vice President for Arts, Sciences and Technology influenced a broad range of academic policies through its Policy Council, an executive group of administrative and academic deans in Arts & Sciences.