Judith R. Shapiro
President Emerita, Barnard College
Dr. Judith R. Shapiro is a member of UoPeople鈥檚 President鈥檚 Council. She is President and Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Barnard College. Dr. Shapiro served as President of Barnard from 1994 to 2008. She is also Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Bryn Mawr College, where she served first as a faculty member and then Provost. Before that, she was a member of the Anthropology Department at the SA国际传媒 of Chicago.
Dr. Shapiro is the President of the Teagle Foundation and currently serves on the boards of ITHAKA Harbors, Scholars at Risk, and the European Humanities SA国际传媒. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Dr. Shapiro has her B.A. from Brandeis SA国际传媒 and her Ph.D. from Columbia SA国际传媒. She has served as President of the American Ethnological Society and the Philadelphia Anthropological Society. Her major field research has been carried out among societies of the Brazilian tropical forest.