Provost Barry P. Scherr
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Provost Barry P. Scherr
Barry Scherr was appointed Provost in September 2001 after serving a brief
term as Associate Provost. Barry is the Mandel Family Professor of Russian at
Dartmouth. Prior to joining the Provost's Office, he was the Associate Dean for
the Humanities in the Arts and Science. Provost Scherr received his A.B. degree
at Harvard University and his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Chicago. Barry joined the Dartmouth faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1974,
promoted to Associate Professor in 1980 and Professor in 1986. He has chaired
both the Department of Russian and the Program in Linguistics and Cognitive
Science. Among his many grants and honors, in 1998 he was the recipient of the
Joe Malik Award for Outstanding Service to the American Association of Teachers
of Slavic and East European Languages. He served as President of the American
Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, as an outside
reviewer for Russian studies programs at a number of universities, as well as
on editorial boards, committees and co-organizer of conferences. His teaching
interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature,
comparative literature, and film. The topics of his several dozen articles
include Russian verse theory and early twentieth-century Russian prose; among
his books are Russian Poetry: Meter, Rhythm, and Rhyme; Maksim
Gorky: Selected Letters, co-edited and co-translated with Andrew Barratt;
and Eisenstein at 100: A Reconsideration, co-edited with Al
LaValley.
Previous Provosts of Dartmouth
- Donald H. Morrison (Professor of Government), 1955-59
- John Masland (Professor of Government), 1959-67
- Louis Morton (Professor of History), 1971-72
- Leonard M. Rieser (Professor of Physics), 1967-71 and 1972-82
- Agnar Pytte (Professor of Physics), 1982-87
- John W. Strohbhen (Professor of Engineering), 1987-93
- P. Bruce Pipes (Professor of Physics), 1993-94
- Lee C. Bollinger (Professor of Government), 1994-96
- James E. Wright (Professor of History), 1997-98
- Constance E. Brinckerhoff (Professor of Medicine & Biochemistry),
1998-99
- Susan Westerberg Prager (Professor of Law ), 1999-2001
- Barry P. Scherr (Professor of Russian), 2001-present
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