Ombudsman: Lynn Hollen Lees |
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July 15, 2014, Volume 61, No. 01 |
Dr. Lynn Hollen Lees, professor of history and former Vice Provost for Faculty, has agreed to serve as the University Ombudsman, as of July 1, 2014 for a two-year term, President Gutmann announced recently. Professor Lees will succeed Dr. Thadious Davis. “We are grateful to Thadious who served Penn so well during her term as Ombudsman.”
“Lynn, who served as Vice Provost for Faculty from 2010 to 2013, brings a breadth and depth of experience, excellent judgment and a record of exemplary service to the role of Ombudsman that will be invaluable. I am delighted that she has agreed to serve as Penn’s next Ombudsman.”
As Vice Provost for Faculty, Dr. Lees, oversaw all aspects of faculty life and the academic personnel process at Penn, including recruitment, retention and retirement; enhancement of faculty diversity; and the resolution of individual faculty concerns. A scholar of European urban history, Dr. Lees served as co-director of the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, chair of the Graduate Group in International Studies and a member of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. She taught at Penn for 38 years and served two terms as chair of the department of history. Dr. Lees has published eight books, including histories of English poor laws and Irish migrants in Victorian London. Her influential The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1995, co-written with economist Paul Hohenberg, is in its second edition and has been translated into French and Italian. She earned a PhD and MA in history from Harvard University and a BA with high honors from Swarthmore College. |