Michele M. Moody-Adams
Michele M. Moody-Adams will be the 15th Dean of Columbia College, succeeding Austin Quigley on July 1, 2009. She will be the first woman, and first African-American, to hold the post. Prior to her accepting the deanship, Moody-Adams was the Hutchinson Professor and Director of the Program on Ethics and Public Life at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell, where she was also the vice provost for undergraduate education.
Moody-Adams will also take on the additional title of Vice President for Undergraduate Education, which on its face appears to be an increase in status from her predecessors title of Associate Vice President. If the move is what it appears to be, then it means that the central administration will have a direct representative of the undergraduate schools, rather than the schools being spoken for by the Vice President of Arts and Sciences.
The new dean will also hold a post in the Philosophy Department, where she eventually hopes to teach. Moody-Adams will be accompanied to Columbia by her husband, James Eli Adams a Victorianist who will teach in the English Department.
Education
Moody-Adams graduated from Wellesley College in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. She attended Somerville College at the University of Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship and received a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics in 1980, and went on to earn Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1986. Moody-Adams wrote her dissertation on “Moral Philosophy Naturalized: Morality and Mitigated Skepticism in Hume” under the supervision of philosopher John Rawls. Before coming to Cornell in the fall of 2000, Moody-Adams worked at Indiana University, Bloomington as associate dean for undergraduate education.
External links
- Cornell Vice-Provost New Dean of the College, The Bwog, February 26, 2009
- Breaking: Moody-Adams Appointed CC Dean, Spectator, February 26, 2009
- President Bollinger Names Cornell Philosophy Professor and Vice Provost Michele M. Moody-Adams Next Dean of Columbia College, Columbia News, February 26, 2009
- Moody-Adams Selected as Next Dean of CC, Spectator, February 27, 2009
- New Columbia College Dean To Come With Love of Plato, Fresh Philosophy, Spectator, February 27, 2009
- Staff Editorial: In the Mood for Change, Spectator, February 27, 2009
| Preceded by Austin Quigley |
Dean of Columbia College 2009- |
Succeeded by 'Incumbent' |
