Dr. Maud S. Mandel, President of Williams College and Dr. Tom Gerety

The Trump Administration Targets Higher Education: A Dialog between Dr. Maud S. Mandel, President of Williams College and Dr. Tom Gerety

Friday, June 27 at 2:30 p.m.

In-person only
Zion Lutheran Church of Pittsfield, MA
Free and open to the public, registration required.

A conversation about the impacts of economic and political pressures on higher education and liberal arts colleges on topics such as speech, recruitment, and the economics of higher education.

Maud S. Mandel, Williams’ 18th president, earned her B.A. from Oberlin College in 1989 and her master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan in 1993 and 1998, respectively. She moved to Brown University as a visiting assistant professor, eventually becoming professor of history and Judaic studies and dean of the college—roles in which she served until joining Williams as president in July 2018.

An accomplished historian, President Mandel’s scholarship examines how policies and practices of inclusion and exclusion in 20th-century France have affected ethnic and religious minorities: most notably Jews, Armenians and Muslim North Africans. She has explored these themes in publications including In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France (Duke University Press, 2003) and Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict (Princeton University Press, 2014). She was also a co-editor of Colonialism and the Jews (Indiana University Press, 2017). In addition to her work as Williams’ president, Mandel holds the title of Professor of History and teaches as frequently as her schedule allows, including tutorials. 

Tom Gerety taught constitutional law through most of his career. He retired as Collegiate Professor of Law and Humanities at NYU.  He led the Brennan Center for Justice and was president of both Trinity and Amherst Colleges. Tom earned law and philosophy degrees from Yale. 

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