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3:12 PM 02/08/2013

Members of the Provost's Office

Linda A. Bell, Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Economics
212-854-2708, 110 Milbank
provost@barnard.edu

Linda A. Bell is the Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Barnard College, where she is also a Professor of Economics. Previous to joining Barnard, Professor Bell was the Provost and John B. Hurford Professor of Economics at Haverford College. Provost Bell is also a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn Germany and a senior consultant for the labor practice group of the National Economic Research Associates.
 
Previously Provost Bell was a senior economist in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and project faculty on a Danish Research Council funded initiative at the Aarhus Business School in Denmark. She has served as a Board Member on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economic Association and has held visiting faculty appointments at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and at Stanford University. Provost Bell received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1986 and her bachelor degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 where she was a University Scholar. In her varied professional and scholarly capacities, Provost Bell has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the US Department of Labor. In addition to her academic work and teaching, she has been active in the American Association of University Professors, first in the capacity as Chair of the Committee on Faculty Compensation, where she authored the Association’s Annual Faculty Compensation Report from 1997-2001, and as a National Council Representative from 2003-2006.
 
Provost Bell is an empirical economist specializing in labor markets and public policy. She has written and lectured extensively on the topic of compensation, union concessions, and hours of work in the US and Europe. Her recent research focuses on the determination of gender compensation differences in executive pay in US large corporations generally, and on female mentorship at the executive level specifically. Her work has been published in the Journal of Labor Economics, Labour, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Economic Journal, Economic Letters, Proceedings of the ILLR, and the Federal Reserve Bank Quarterly Review.

Read about Barnard's new Provost and Dean of the Faculty: Introducing Linda Bell.

 

David Weiman, Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development
Alena Wels Hirschorn '58 Professor of Economics
212-854-5755, 7 Lehman
dweiman@barnard.edu

David Weiman leads efforts to cultivate effective faculty pipelines to attract and retain a diverse faculty, working with departments that are doing searches and helping to provide mentoring for junior faculty through to tenure.  He also oversees the programs that our office sponsors for junior faculty, such as New Faculty Orientation, and ascertains what else we should be doing in the way of "best practices." He is the Alena Wels Hirschorn '58 Professor of Economics at Barnard College. He is also an affiliated member of Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and History Department. He specializes in 19th and 20th century U.S. economic history and the political economy of contemporar U.S. criminal justice policy.

 

Hilary Lieberman Link, Vice Provost
212-854-7517, 110 Milbank
hlink@barnard.edu

Hilary Link was appointed Vice Provost in August 2012.  In this role, Link provides administrative leadership of the Barnard curriculum, foundation grants, faculty governance, and academic assessment and accreditation practices.  She chairs the Committee on Instruction, which includes regular review and implementation of the College’s general education requirements, and the Faculty Grants Committee; she also serves as the Provost's designee to the Faculty Governance and Procedures Committee and the Faculty Budget and Planning Committee. Link oversees all academic program reviews and accreditation for the College.  Working with the Provost and the Director of Institutional Support, she initiates and supervises projects that support faculty development and curricular innovation. Link also supervises the Provost's Office publications, and shares responsibility for academic and institutional assessment planning.  From July 2008 to August 2012, Link served as Barnard’s Associate Provost and Dean for International Programs; in this capacity she was responsible for the College’s international strategy and all efforts to enhance the global education, international engagement and research experiences for faculty and students.  She first joined Barnard in August 2002 in the Dean of Studies Office as First-Year Class Dean, and in October 2006 she became the Dean for Study Abroad. Prior to Barnard, she served as Director of Scholar Programs at New York University. Link holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University.

 

Jane Holmes, Coordinator, Academic Affairs 
212-854-2297, 110 Milbank
jholmes@barnard.edu

 

Dana Johnson, Manager, Academic Programs and Faculty Support
212-854-6627, 110 Milbank
djohnson@barnard.edu

Dana Johnson oversees the administrative support and related operational services for faculty members and academic departments and programs, a role she assumed in December 2012.  She is responsible for coordinating the faculty tenure process, as well as promotions and off-ladder reviews. She also supervises the faculty department and program assistants and serves as administrative manager for the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies, Reacting to the Past Program, and other special academic projects as assigned by the Provost. She is a Barnard alumna from the Class of 2004.

 

Tyson Kaup, Executive Assistant to the Provost
212-854-2708, 110 Milbank
tkaup@barnard.edu

Tyson Kaup facilitates all communication to and from the Provost’s Office and is the first point of contact for many. He is responsible for the day-to-day activities of the Provost, which include managing the Provost’s calendar, correspondence and travel arrangements. He also serves as the primary administrative support to the committees and meetings sponsored by the Provost.

 

 

Erin Stahl, Graduate Student Assistant
212-854-2708, 110 Milbank
estahl@barnard.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Gwen WilliamsGwendolyn Williams, Consultant
212-854-2709, 110 Milbank
gwilliams@barnard.edu

 
 

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