Michael S. Roth
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| 16th President of Wesleyan University | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Douglas J. Bennet |
| 8th President of California College of the Arts | |
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In office 2000–2007 |
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| Born | Brooklyn, New York |
| Spouse(s) | Kari Weil |
| Residence | Middletown, Connecticut |
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Wesleyan University Princeton University |
| Profession | Professor |
| Website | Office of the President |
Michael S. Roth (born April 8, 1957) is an American academic and university administrator. He became the 16th president of Wesleyan University in 2007. Formerly, he was the 8th president of the California College of the Arts (2000–2007), associate director of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, and Director of European Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He was also H.B. Professor of Humanities at Scripps College, where he founded and directed the Scripps College Humanities Institute.
A native of Brooklyn, Roth was the second in his family to attend college. He graduated from Wesleyan in 1978, completing his studies in three years and graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. While there, he was a member and eventual president of the Alpha Delta Phi Society; he designed his own major in the history of psychological theory. He later went to earn his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984. Roth teaches every semester and, in May 2009, was appointed University Professor at Wesleyan. Roth is Jewish.
Roth has described his scholarly interests as centered on “how people make sense of the past.” He has edited many volumes in intellectual and cultural history and is the author of five books: Psycho-Analysis as History: Negation and Freedom in Freud (Cornell University Press, 1987, 1995); Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth Century France (Cornell University Press, 1988); The Ironist’s Cage: Trauma, Memory and the Construction of History (Columbia University Press, 1995); and Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed, with Clare Lyons and Charles Merewether (Getty Research Institute, 1997). His current book Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living With the Past was published in the fall of 2011 by Columbia University Press. "[H]e is currently preparing his next book, Why Liberal Education Matters, for Yale University Press."
Roth co-edited Looking for Los Angeles: Architecture, Film, Photography and The Urban Landscape and Disturbing Remains: Memory, History, and Crisis in the Twentieth Century (both Getty Research Institute, 2001). Roth has published, in recent years, essays and book reviews in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post,The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Huffington Post,Book Forum, Rethinking History, and Wesleyan's History and Theory.
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