Katherine S. Newman Biography

Of UMass Boston, she is the Interim Chancellor. Newman was serving as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs for the University of Massachusetts system, before joining her current position. As Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Torrey Little Professor of Sociology at UMass Amherst she previously servedfrom 2014 to 2017 and as the James B. Knapp Dean of the Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University from 2010 to 2014. On topics ranging from the sociological study of the working poor in America’s cities to school violence on a mass scale, she has authored many books. She has also been writer extensively on the consequences of globalization for youth in Western Europe, Japan South Africa and the U.S. At Johns Hopkins, prior to being the Dean, Dr. Newman was the Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton and Director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies the founding Dean of Social Science at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and the director of Harvard’s Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy. She taught for 16 years in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University and for two years in the School of Law at the University of California Berkeley."

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