Search Advisory Committee for the Yale University Press Director

The search advisory committee will advise the president 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

David Wan (Chair)
Chair of the Yale University Press Board of Governors; former CEO of Harvard Business Publishing


Stephen Barr
Vice Chair of Yale University Press London Board of Trustees; former President of SAGE International


David Blight
Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies


Laura Brown
Yale University Press Board of Governors member; Senior Advisor of ITHAKA S&R


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


Ian Shapiro
Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs


Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Assistant Dean and Professor of Architecture


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