Judith R. Shapiro

President
Barnard College

Judith R. Shapiro became president of Barnard College in 1994, after eight years as Provost of Bryn Mawr College. She taught at the University of Chicago before joining Bryn Mawr's Department of Anthropology in 1975 where she was successively Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, becoming Chair of the Department in 1982.

A native of New York City, she received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University. She is the author of numerous articles in the areas of gender differentiation, social theory, and missionization, many based on her field research in lowland South America. She has been President of the American Ethnological Society, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences and a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently serving on the Board of the Fund for the City of New York, the National Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Executive Committee of the Women's College Coalition, and the Board of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE).