Neil L. Rudenstine

Chairman

Neil L. Rudenstine is Chair of the Advisory Board for ARTstor. Previously, he was President of Harvard University from 1991-2001. From 1988-1991, he served as Executive Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. During the two preceding decades, Rudenstine was a faculty member and senior administrator at Princeton University. A scholar of Renaissance literature, he was an associate professor and then a professor of English. He also held a series of administrative posts: dean of students (1968-72), dean of the college (1972-77), and provost (1977-88). Previously, Rudenstine served at Harvard from 1964 to 1968 as an instructor and then an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Literature and Language.

Rudenstine received his bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1956. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied for the next three years at New College, Oxford University, where he earned a second BA and an MA. In 1964, he was awarded a PhD in English from Harvard, where he was a Harvard Prize Fellow. He then joined the faculty at Harvard, and stayed until leaving for Princeton in 1968.

During this time, Rudenstine published a scholarly work concerning Sir Philip Sidney, entitled Sidney's Poetic Development, which appeared in 1967. He was also co-editor of English Poetic Satire: Wyatt to Byron, published in 1972. His collaboration with William G. Bowen on a study of graduate education in the arts and sciences at American research universities resulted in the volume entitled In Pursuit of the PhD, published in 1992. More recently, he published a collection of writings on higher education, entitled Pointing Our Thoughts (2001).

Rudenstine is an honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, as well as Provost Emeritus of Princeton University. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former director of the American Council on Education, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Philosophical Society, and the Committee for Economic Development. Earlier, he was a member of various advisory groups, including the National Commission on Preservation and Access, and the Council on Library Resources. Rudenstine has also served as a trustee of the College Entrance Examination Board and of the Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut, of which he is a graduate. He is currently on the Board of the New York Public Library and the Goldman Sachs Foundation.