Maurie D. McInnis explained

Maurie McInnis
Status1:President
Office2:6th President of Stony Brook University
Term Start2:July 1, 2020
Predecessor2:Michael Bernstein (acting)
Birth Date: January 11, 1966
Education:University of Virginia (BA)
Yale University (PhD)
Module:
Child:yes
Thesis Title:The politics of taste: Classicism in Charleston, South Carolina, 1815-1840
Thesis Url:https://www.proquest.com/docview/304308246/
Thesis Year:1996
Doctoral Advisor:Edward S. Cooke
Discipline:Art history
Workplaces:
Office:24th President of Yale University
Term Start:July 1, 2024
Predecessor:Peter Salovey

Maurie D. McInnis (born January 11, 1966)[1] is an American author and cultural historian. She currently serves as the 24th president of Yale University, succeeding Peter Salovey on July 1, 2024. She previously served as the sixth president of Stony Brook University.

McInnis is a scholar in the cultural history of American art in the colonial and antebellum South, focusing on the history of academia, cultural trends, and slavery.

Education

McInnis attended the University of Virginia, where she was a Jefferson Scholar.[2] She received a B.A. from Virginia in Art History with Highest Distinction in 1988, and her Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University in 1996.[3]

Career

Academic research

McInnis is a scholar in the cultural history of American Art in the colonial and antebellum South.[4] Her work has focused on the relationship between art and politics in early America, especially on the politics of slavery. Her first book, "The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston," was awarded the Spiro Kostof Award by the Society of Architectural Historians.[5]

Her 2011 book, "Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade" was awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Book Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum[6] as well as the Library of Virginia Literary Award for nonfiction. In 2019 University of Virginia Press published her co-edited volume, "Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University." She has also served as a curator,[7] consultant, and advisor to multiple art museums and historic sites.

Academic administration

University of Virginia

McInnis served as vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Virginia. Over her almost 20 years' experience at UVA, McInnis held various academic leadership and administrative appointments, including vice provost for academic affairs, associate dean for undergraduate education programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, director of American Studies, and as a professor of art history. She joined the faculty of UVA in 1998, earned tenure in 2005 and became a full professor in 2011.

University of Texas at Austin

McInnis served as the provost of the University of Texas at Austin from 2016 to 2020.[8]

Stony Brook University

On March 26, 2020, McInnis was announced as the sixth president of Stony Brook University. She began serving in this role on July 1, 2020.[9] McInnis won several political battles in support of Stony Brook University, including securing a $500 million donation from Jim Simons' Simons Foundation (the second-largest gift to a public university in American history), and a $700 million bid to lead the New York Climate Exchange campus on Governors Island.[10]

On May 13, 2024, the Stony Brook University Faculty Senate defeated a motion to censure McInnis, by a count of 55–51, over her role with regards to the arrest of 29 pro-Palestinian campus protestors earlier that month.[11]

Yale University

In April 2024, the Yale Daily News reported that McInnis, who was appointed to Yale's Board of Trustees in 2022, was a candidate for the presidency of Yale University.[12] On May 29, 2024, McInnis was announced as the 24th president of Yale University. She is the first woman to serve as non-interim president of Yale.[13]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Independent . Paul Bass New Haven . 2024-05-29 . Yale names Maurie McInnis new president . 2024-07-07 . CT Mirror . en-US.
  2. Web site: Maurie McInnis, JS '88, named Provost at University of Texas . www.jeffersonscholars.org. 2020-02-11. April 3, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170403191717/http://jeffersonscholars.org/story/maurie-mcinnis-js-88-named-provost-university-texas. dead.
  3. The politics of taste: Classicism in Charleston, South Carolina, 1815-1840 . 1996 . Yale University . Ph.D. . McInnis . Maurie Dee . . 37128160.
  4. Web site: 2016-01-11 . Maurie McInnis Named Provost at The University of Texas at Austin . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200703045036/https://news.utexas.edu/2016/01/11/maurie-mcinnis-named-provost-at-the-university-of-texas/ . July 3, 2020 . 2020-02-11 . UT News.
  5. Web site: Kostof Book Award Recipients . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190920022249/https://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/award-programs/publication-awards/kostof-book-award-recipients . September 20, 2019 . 2020-02-11 . www.sah.org.
  6. Web site: Maurie D. McInnis Is Awarded the 24th Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Book about Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200703043914/https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/maurie-d-mcinnis-awarded-24th-annual-eldredge-prize-her-book-about-abolitionist-art-and-ame . July 3, 2020 . 2020-02-11 . Smithsonian Institution.
  7. Web site: Ball . Edward . Retracing Slavery's Trail of Tears . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200612022023/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/slavery-trail-of-tears-180956968/ . June 12, 2020 . 2020-02-11 . Smithsonian Magazine.
  8. Web site: 26 March 2020 . Maurie McInnis Named Sixth President of Stony Brook University . SBU News . March 26, 2020 . April 14, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200414075921/https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/maurie-mcinnis-named-sixth-president-of-stony-brook-university/ . live .
  9. Web site: Dunaief . Daniel . 2022-01-01 . SBU's President McInnis 'makes big ideas happen' . TBR News Media . 2024-05-15 . en-US.
  10. Web site: Raab . Zachary . Suri . Ben . 2024-04-19 . Yale Trustee Maurie McInnis has mixed legacy at UT Austin, Stony Brook . 2024-05-15 . Yale Daily News . en.
  11. Web site: 2024-05-14 . Stony Brook University faculty narrowly defeats resolution censuring school president over protest arrests . 2024-05-15 . Newsday . en.
  12. Web site: Hernandez . Benjamin . 2024-04-16 . Presidents of Stony Brook and Morehouse sit on the Yale Corp. Could either be Yale's next president? . 2024-05-15 . Yale Daily News . en.
  13. News: Saul . Stephanie . 2024-05-29 . Yale Chooses Head of Stony Brook University to Be New President . 2024-05-29 . The New York Times. en.
  14. Web site: The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and its Aftermath. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). en. 2020-02-14. February 5, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200205093102/https://www.neh.gov/programinstitutefellowship/visual-culture-american-civil-war-and-its-aftermath. live.
  15. Web site: Meet VFH Board Member Maurie McInnis. 2013-12-10. Virginia Humanities. en. 2020-02-14. July 3, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703014944/https://virginiahumanities.org/2013/12/meet-vfh-board-member-maurie-mcinnis/. live.
  16. Web site: Huddle, McInnis, and Wojahn Receive Literary Awards. Library of Virginia. 2020-02-14. August 21, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170821220923/http://www.lva.virginia.gov/news/press/2012LiteraryAwardWinners.pdf. live.
  17. Web site: The International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture. www.pioneeramerica.org. 2020-02-14. November 21, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191121015134/http://www.pioneeramerica.org/awardkniffen.html. live.
  18. Web site: Downing College - Association Newsletter and College Record 2006. Downing College Cambridge. 2020-02-14. July 3, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703123547/https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/associationnewsletter_2006_web.pdf. live.
  19. Web site: A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. & Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts . https://web.archive.org/web/20240606104833/https://embark2.eservices.virginia.edu/exhibitions/info/420 . 2024-06-06 . 2024-06-06 . The Fralin Museum of Art . The University of Virginia.
  20. Book: McInnis, Maurie . Revisiting Cincinnatus: Houdon’s George Washington . Shaping the body politic: art and political formation in early America . 2011 . 978-0-8139-3102-9 . McInnis . Maurie . Charlottesville . University of Virginia Press . 128–161 . 663101340 . Nelson . Louis P. . https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780813931029/page/n9/mode/2up . registration.

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