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Release: February 8, 1995
Contact: Justin Harmon (609/258-5732)


Professor Amy Gutmann to
Become Dean of Faculty

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Amy Gutmann, Laurance S. Rockefeller University
Professor of Politics and director of the Princeton University
Center for Human Values, will become dean of the Princeton
faculty, effective July 1.

Gutmann is recognized as an expert in education, ethics and
political theory. She was named the first director of the
University Center for Human Values in 1990.

"I am very pleased that we have been able to attract such a
thoughtful and distinguished scholar to serve as our next dean of
the faculty," said Princeton President Harold T. Shapiro.
"Professor Gutmann has made many contributions to the intellectual
richness of this academic community and has done an outstanding
job in guiding the evolution of the University Center for Human
Values. I look forward to working with her in finding new ways to
enhance the quality of the Princeton faculty and our academic
programs."

Gutmann was recommended unanimously by the faculty search
committee, Shapiro noted.

A 1971 graduate of Radcliffe College, Gutmann joined the Princeton
faculty in the Department of Politics after earning her Ph.D. in
political science from Harvard in 1976. She earned tenure at
Princeton in 1981 and was promoted to full professor in 1987.

Gutmann served as director of the Program in Political Philosophy
from 1987 to 1989. At the University Center for Human Values, her
work has been dedicated to the establishment of a center for
faculty and students from disciplines across the humanities, the
social sciences and the sciences and from universities from around
the world to collaborate on teaching and scholarship, ranging from
freshmen seminars to faculty research, that address central
questions of the meaning and value of human life. As director of
the Program in Ethics and Public Affairs, she has begun editing a
series of books on ethics and human values with Princeton
University Press.

"Princeton University has long been devoted to meeting the highest
standards of scholarship and teaching," said Gutmann. "I look
forward to continuing this tradition by working with a
distinguished faculty, the president, provost and deans. At a time
when so much in our culture works against intellectual dedication,
the support of serious scholarship and teaching is all the more
urgent."

Gutmann's own teaching and research bring philosophy to bear on
practical problems in public life and combine the work of
historians of political thought and analytic philosophers. She
authored Liberal Equality (Cambridge University Press, 1980), a
defense of liberal egalitarianism, along with numerous articles in
philosophy and public affairs. Her second book, Democratic
Education (Princeton University Press, 1987), explores the central
challenges of education in a pluralistic society and suggests
principled ways of responding to these challenges; a reviewer in
the journal Ethics called it the "the finest addition to the
literature on democratic education in the last 70 years." She co-
authored Ethics and Politics: Cases and Comments (Nelson-Hall,
1989) and edited Democracy and the Welfare State (Princeton
University Press, 1988) and Multiculturalism and "The Politics of
Recognition" (Princeton University Press, 1992).

Gutmann will deliver the Tanner Lectures on "Responding to Racial
Injustice" at Stanford University in May.

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