Office of the President
Curriculum Vitae
Richard Levis McCormick

Birth Date: December 26, 1947
Birthplace: New Brunswick, NJ

Current Position
President
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2002–

Education
Yale University, Ph.D. (History), 1976
Amherst College, B.A. (Magna Cum Laude, American Studies), 1969
Piscataway Township High School, Piscataway, NJ, 1965



Previous Positions
President
University of Washington, 1995–2002

Executive Vice Chancellor, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992–1995

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1989–1992

Chair of the Department of History
Rutgers University, 1987–1989

Founding Director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
Rutgers University, 1988–1989

Assistant Professor, 1976–1981; Associate Professor, 1981–1985; Professor, 1985–1992
Department of History, Rutgers University

Selected Awards and Fellowships
Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, 1968

George Washington Egleston Historical Prize, Yale University, 1977
(awarded annually for the best dissertation in American History)

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, Visiting Fellowship, 1981–1982

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship, 1985

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1985


Selected Publications (History)

Books

From Realignment to Reform: Political Change in New York State, 1893–1910
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981)

Progressivism, coauthored with Arthur S. Link
(Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1983)

The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)

Articles

"Ethno-Cultural Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century American Voting Behavior,"
Political Science Quarterly 89 (June 1974): 351–77

"The Party Period and Public Policy: An Exploratory Hypothesis,"
Journal of American History 66 (September 1979): 279–98

"The Discovery That Business Corrupts Politics: A Reappraisal of the Origins of Progressivism,"
American Historical Review 86 (April 1981): 247–74

"Public Life in Industrial America, 1877–1917," in Eric Foner, ed.,
The New American History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990): 93–117

Speeches and writings as President of Rutgers University may be found at http://www.president.rutgers.edu/speeches.shtml.

 


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