GSAS Dean Stimpson Elected Vice Chair of Carnegie Foundation Board

    Graduate School of Arts and Science Dean Catharine R. Stimpson was recently elected vice chair of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Board of Trustees. Her term began in November.

      Stimpson, a University Professor, previously served as University Professor at Rutgers, where she was also dean of the graduate school and vice provost for graduate education. A former chair of the New York State Humanities Council and the National Council for Research on Women, she was the first director of the Women’s Center of Barnard College and of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers.

   Stimpson’s publications include the book Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces and two volumes on Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932 and Gertrude Stein: Writings 1932-1946, both published by the Library of America. The author of a novel, Class Notes, she is the editor of seven books and has published over 150 monographs, essays, stories, and reviews in the Transatlantic Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Critical Inquiry, boundary 2, and others. She was the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society for the University of Chicago Press.

      The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, located in Stanford, Calif., is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher.

—James Devitt