Gretchen Ritter

Gretchen Ritter is an American academic administrator. She was the Harold Tanner Dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences from 2013-2018, and the author of two books. She began her term as dean and vice provost of The Ohio State University's College of Arts and Sciences on August 1, 2019.[1]

Gretchen Ritter
Alma materCornell University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
OccupationAcademic administrator
EmployerThe Ohio State University

Early life

Gretchen Ritter grew up in New York.[2] A "third-generation Cornellian", she graduated from Cornell University in 1983.[2] She later earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]

Career

Ritter taught at MIT, Princeton University and Harvard University.[3][4] She was a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin from 1992 to 2013.[2] 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.[2] Between 2013 - 2018, she served as the Harold Tanner[5] dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University.[6]

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, 1865-1869.[7] She is a co-editor of Democratization in America: A Comparative and Historical Perspective.[7]

In 2014, Ritter interviewed Justice Ruth Bater Ginsburg at the New York Historical Society.[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
  1. 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.
  2. Aloi, Daniel (April 11, 2013). "Gretchen Ritter '83 named dean of Arts and Sciences". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  3. "Cornell arts and sciences dean: Colleges must foster good citizenship". The Washington Post. March 20, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  4. Guajardo, Gaby (April 11, 2013). "UT Vice Provost Accepts Position at Cornell". The Alcade. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  5. "College Leadership". The College of Arts & Science. Cornell University. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  6. "CU college names first female dean". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, New York. April 13, 2013. p. A4. Retrieved November 4, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "The Department of Government - Gretchen Ritter". Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences. Cornell University.
  8. "Ruth Bater Ginsburg: From Brooklyn to the Bench". Youtube.


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