Gretchen Ritter
Gretchen Ritter | |
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Alma mater | Cornell University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Occupation | Academic administrator |
Employer | The Ohio State University |
Gretchen Ritter is an American academic administrator who is the dean and vice provost of The Ohio State University's College of Arts and Sciences. She was previously the Harold Tanner Dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences from 2013 to 2018, and is the author of two books.
Early life
Gretchen Ritter grew up in New York state.[1] A "third-generation Cornellian", she graduated from Cornell University in 1983.[1] She later earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
Career
Ritter taught at MIT, Princeton University and Harvard University.[2][3] She was a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin from 1992 to 2013.[1] She was the director of UT Austin's Center for Women's and Gender Studies from 2004 to 2009, and the vice provost for undergraduate education and faculty governance from 2009 to 2013.[1] Between 2013 and 2018, she served as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University.[4] Ritter began her term as dean and vice provost of The Ohio State University's College of Arts and Sciences on August 1, 2019.[5]
Ritter is the author of two books, The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order and Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonology Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865–1896.[6] She is a co-editor of Democratization in America: A Comparative and Historical Perspective.[6]
In 2014, Ritter interviewed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the New-York Historical Society.[7][8]
Works
- Ritter, Gretchen (1997). Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865–1896. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521653923. OCLC 181692643.
- Ritter, Gretchen (2006). The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804754385. OCLC 654816215.
References
- ^ a b c d e Aloi, Daniel (April 11, 2013). "Gretchen Ritter '83 named dean of Arts and Sciences". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
- ^ "Cornell arts and sciences dean: Colleges must foster good citizenship". The Washington Post. March 20, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
- ^ Guajardo, Gaby (April 11, 2013). "UT Vice Provost Accepts Position at Cornell". The Alcade. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
- ^ "CU college names first female dean". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, New York. April 13, 2013. p. A4. Retrieved November 4, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Booker, Christ (May 15, 2019). "Gretchen Ritter to lead Ohio State's College of Arts and Sciences". The Ohio State University. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ^ a b "The Department of Government - Gretchen Ritter". Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences. Cornell University.
- ^ Craig, Jon (September 22, 2014). "Ruth Bader Ginsburg reminisces about her time on the Hill". Cornell Chronicle. Archived from the original on February 18, 2020. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ^ "Ruth Bader Ginsburg: From Brooklyn to the Bench". YouTube.