Search Advisory Committee for the Yale Center for British Art

The search advisory committee will advise President Salovey about potential candidates for the next director of the Yale Center for British Art. The advisory committee will solicit broad input from the Yale community and welcome recommendations on candidates and views about the future of the center through this webform.

Committee Members

Edward Cooke (Chair)
Charles F. Montgomery Professor of the History of Art


Tim Barringer
Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art


Susan Gibbons
Vice Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communication and Chief of Staff to the President


Margaret Homans
Bird White Housum Professor of English and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies


Kym Pinder
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the School of Art and Professor of Art and History of Art


Ben Polak
William C. Brainard Professor of Economics and Professor of Management


David Sadighian
Assistant Professor of Architecture


Sarah Victoria Turner
Director Yale’s Paul Mellon Centre for Studies of British Art


Stephanie Wiles
Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery


Elizabeth Williams
(staff for the committee)
Director of Cross-Collection Initiatives in the Office of the Provost