Douglas Greenberg, Executive Dean, Arrives at Rutgers

Douglas Greenberg, the new Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, arrived on campus on August 15.  After leading SAS during two years of transition, Acting Executive Dean Ziva Galili will be taking a year’s research leave and then returning to teaching in the history department.  A graduate of Rutgers College, Dean Greenberg is happy to be returning to his alma mater after a multi-layered career as an academic and administrator took him to Princeton, Chicago, and then, most recently, to California, where he was Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and Professor of History at the University of Southern California.  "I am thrilled to be here – Rutgers!  My home university – the place that had made everything possible for me by offering me a peerless education in my home state, New Jersey," Dean Greenberg said.  "Leading the School of Arts and Sciences is an opportunity to participate in the work of a great and ambitious public enterprise.  The work we do here in the School of Arts and Sciences, research and teaching alike, is work from which citizens of our state, our nation, and our entire world benefit directly.  We do it not only because it matters to us, but because it matters to everyone, and it is an honor for me to have the opportunity to broaden both its scope and its impact."