| 1 | Name: | Dr. Neil Leon Rudenstine | |
| Institution: | Harvard University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1992 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1935 | ||
An educator, administrator and literary scholar, Neil L. Rudenstine is president emeritus of Harvard University and chair of ARTstor, an initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In addition to his fine work as a teacher and scholar of English literature, he has proved himself to be a clear-sighted academic administrator who is deeply imbued with and committed to intellectual inquiry and the life of the mind. Dr. Rudenstine studied the humanities at Princeton University (B.A., 1956) and later attended New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received another B.A. and an M.A. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard University. Most of Dr. Rudenstine's subsequent career has been dedicated to educational administration. Between 1968-88, he was a faculty member and senior administrator at Princeton University, serving as dean of students (1968-72), dean of the college (1972-77) and provost (1977-88). Previously, he served at Harvard from 1964-68 as an instructor and then as an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Literature and Language. After his time as provost of Princeton University, he served as executive vice-president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 1988-91, becoming president of Harvard University in 1991 and serving until 2001. In addition to being an honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Dr. Rudenstine is Provost Emeritus of Princeton University as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2011, he replaced Catherine Marron as the Chair of the Board of the New York Public Library, on which he has served as a trustee since 2001. In 2012 he published The House of Barnes: The Man, the Collection, the Controversy, for which he won the John Frederick Lewis Award of the American Philosophical Society. | |||