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GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYe. Frances WhiteProfessorB.A. 1971,Wheaton College; M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1978, Bostone. Frances White is Professor of History and Black Studies at Gallatin and the Departmentof Social and Cultural Analysis in the Faculty of Arts and Science. She has served as NYU’sVice Provost for Faculty Development from 2005 to 2008 and Dean of the Gallatin Schoolfrom 1998 to 2005. She has been awarded fellowships from the Danforth Foundation, theMellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities,among others.She hasalso been a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Sierra Leone and the Gambia. Before comingto NYU,she taught at Fourah Bay College of the University of Sierra Leone and at HampshireCollege. Her awards include the Catherine T. and John D. MacArthur Chair in History(1985-1988) and the Letitia Brown Memorial Publication Prize for the best book on blackwomen (1987). Her teaching and research interests include the history of Africa and its diaspora,history of gender and sexuality and critical race theory. Her books include Sierra Leone’sSettler Women Traders, Women in Sub-Saharan Africa and Dark Continent of Our Bodies. She is atwork on a book about Afro-British Cultural Studies.Susanne L.WoffordProfessorB.A. 1973,Yale College; B.Phil. 1977, Oxford; Ph.D. 1982,YaleSusanne L.Wofford is the Dean of the Gallatin School. Before coming to Gallatin, ProfessorWofford taught atYale University and the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where sheserved as Director of the Center for the Humanities and as the Mark Eccles Professor ofEnglish, having formerly been Chair of the Divisional Committee for Arts and Humanitiesand Director of Graduate Studies in English. She has been a member of the faculty of theBread Loaf School of English since 1989 and was aVisiting Professor at Harvard Universityand Princeton University.A distinguished scholar of epic poetry and of Renaissance and earlymodern literature,ProfessorWofford is the recipient of many prizes and honors,including theUniversity of Wisconsin Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching; the University ofWisconsin Romnes Fellowship; the Hilldale Award for Collaborative Research, UW-Madison;the Robert Frost Chair at the Bread Loaf School of English;the Isabel MacCaffrey Prize(awarded by the Spenser Society);theWilliam Cline Devane Medal for DistinguishedTeachingatYale University; the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching inYaleCollege; and theYale College-Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize forTeaching Excellence in theHumanities. She was also appointed to the Charles B. G. Murphy Chair while at Yale.As agraduate student, won a Mellon Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, a Danforth Fellowshipand a Marshall Scholarship. Currently a member of the Modern Language Association’s ExecutiveCommittee for the Division on Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Lit-NewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013 47