Leadership
Founder, Dr. Arien Mack
The Consortium was founded by Dr. Arien Mack, Alfred and Monette Marrow Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, where she has edited Social Research since 1970. She established the Social Research conference series in 1988, and she continues to direct it through the Center for Public Scholarship at the New School.
Mack is also the founder and director of the New School’s Journal Donation Project, which operated from 1990 when the Berlin Wall came down until the end of 2018. The Project made thousands of academic and research journals available to libraries and universities in countries where access to those publications was difficult for either political or economic reasons and often for both.
As a research psychologist, her most recent work focused on perception,
cognition, and attention. Her publications include more than 60 articles and the coauthored volume Inattentional Blindness (MIT Press 1998).
In 2007, she launched Endangered Scholars Worldwide, dedicated to drawing attention to the plight of scholars, students, and researchers around the world whose lives and livelihoods are under threat due to the nature of their work or political positions.
Associate Director, Nicole Tuszynski
In May 2019, Nicole Tuszynski joined the Consortium as Associate Director. Prior to joining the Consortium, Nicole worked for ten years at a global legal advocacy nonprofit on program development and network building.
Executive Committee
The Consortium was founded in collaboration with other New School faculty, including:
- T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Professor and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
- Ahmed Bawa, Chief Executive Officer, Universities South Africa
- Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies and Director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
Advisory Group Members
- Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University
- Ahmed Bawa, CEO, University of South Africa
- Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
- Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University
- Jerome Cohen, Professor of Law, New York University; Director, US-Asia Law Institute
- Jonathan Fanton, President Emeritus, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Masha Gessen, staff writer, The New Yorker
- Hadi Ghaemi, Executive Director, Center for Human Rights in Iran
- Allan Goodman, President and CEO, Institute of International Education
- Irena Grudzińska Gross, Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Science
- Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation
- Michael Ignatieff, Rector and President, Central European University
- Ann Werner Johnson, Trustee emeritus, Connecticut College
- Ira I. Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University
- Alison von Klemperer, Communications Consultant
- Robert Mundheim, Of Counsel, Shearman & Sterling
- Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus, Open Society Foundations
- Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
- Donna E. Shalala, University President, Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Ex Officio Advisory Members
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Joseph E. Aoun, President of Northeastern University
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Andrew Armacost, President, University of North Dakota
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Linda Bell, Provost, Barnard College
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney, President, Trinity College
- Julia von Blumenthal, President, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Rachel Croson, Provost, University of Minnesota
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Ann E. Cudd, Provost, University of Pittsburgh
- Linda Doyle, Provost & President, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
- Philippe Gervais-Lambony, President, Université Paris Nanterre
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Michael Hoch, Rector, University of Bonn
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Paula Johnson, President, Wellesley College
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Radenka Maric, President, University of Connecticut
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Thandwa Mthembu, Vice-Chancellor, Durban University of Technology
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Andreas Marx, President, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan University
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Peter Salovey, President, Yale University
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Ursula M. Staudinger, Rector, Technische Universität Dresden
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Gunter M. Ziegler, President, Freie Universität Berlin