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Bachelor's and Master's Programs

Former Trustees

Trustee Name

Years

Title

Jules Blache

1958 - 1963

Rector, University of Aix-Marseille

Franklin L. Burdette

1958 - 1976

Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland; Director, Bureau of Governmental Research

George F. Donovan

1958 - 1963

Professor of Higher Education, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Catholic University of America; former President, Webster College

Ralph C.M. Flynt

1958 - 1959

US Office of Education

Etienne Gros

1958 - 1965

Dean Emeritus, Founder and Director, Institut d'Etudes Françaises pour Etudiants Etrangers

James H. Halsey

1958 - 1963

President, University of Bridgeport

Max M. Kampelman

1958 - 1985

Attorney, Washington, DC

Evron M. Kirkpatrick

1958 - 1995, Chair 1958 - 1995

President, Helen Dwight Reid Foundation, Executive Director, American Political Science Association

Camillo P. Merlino

1958 - 1965

Chairman, Romance Language Department, Boston University; Editor, The Modern Language Journal

J.R. Palanque

1958 - 1963

Dean, Faculté des Lettres, University of Aix-Marseille

Judah J. Shapiro

1958 - 1960

National Director, Hillel Foundations

Harold E. Snyder

1958 - 1967

Director, International Affairs Seminars of Washington, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee

Elmo C. Wilson

1958 - 1968

President, International Research Associates, Inc.

Alden H. Clark

1961 - 1967

Vice President, Franklin Book Programs Incorporated

Henri Peyre

1961 - 1963

 French Emeritus, Yale University

Helen Dwight Reid

1961 - 1965

 Political Scientist, Bryn Mawr College, SUNY Buffalo

Robert K. Carr

1963 - 1967

President, Oberlin College

David D. Cochrane

1963 - 1967

Director of Cabor Corporation

Angier Biddle Duke

1963 - 1975

Ambassador, Madrid, Spain; Former Ambassador, Spain, Denmark, Morocco; Chancellor, Long Island University

Jameson M. Jones

1963 - 1974

Dean of Southwestern at Memphis

Edward McCrady

1963 - 1970

President, University of the South

John D. Millett

1963 - 1986

Chancellor, Emeritus, Ohio Board of Regents

John Rewald

1963 - 1974

Art Historian, Professor of Art, University of Chicago

C. Easton Rothwell

1963 - 1967

President, Mills College

Claude E. Hawley

1965 - 1971

Dean of Graduate Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York

Rev. James B. Horigan

1965 - 1986

S.J. Professor, Georgetown University

Paul de Geouffre de la Pradelle

1965 - 1977

Professor, Director, Institute for Political Studies, University of Aix-Marseille

Jack W. Peltason

1965 - 2004

President, University of California

Donald G. Herzberg

1966 - 1979

Dean, Graduate School, Georgetown University

Darius Milhaud

1966 - 1974

Composer, Mills College

Jesse M. Unruh

1966 - 1987

Speaker of the Assembly, State Capitol, Sacramento, California

Rodolfo Alvarez

1967 - 2017

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, 
University of California — Los Angeles

Harry D. Gideonse

1967 - 1984

Chancellor, New School for Social Research

Franklyn  A. Johnson

1967 - 1997

Consultant, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

Donald C. Platten

1967 - 1970

Senior Vice President, Chemical Bank New York Trust Co.

Austin Ranney

1967 - 2002

Professor of Political Science, University of California-Berkeley

Laurence Wylie

1967 - 1983

Professor, Emeritus, Department of Social Sciences, Harvard University

Lucius J. Barker

1970 - 1977

Gellhorn University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

Germaine Brée

1970 - 1997

Kenan Professor of French, Emerita, Wake Forest University

Warren E. Miller

1970 - 1999

Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan

Michel Fabre

1976 - 1992

Recteur Honoraire, Doyen Honoraire, Professeur, Faculté de Droit, Université d'Aix-Marseille

Jeane Kirkpatrick

1982 - 2006

Former Ambassador to the United Nations; Professor, Georgetown University

Amos Booth

1982 - 1983 

President, Institute for American Universities (ex-officio)

Herbert Maza

1983 - 1996

Founder, President Emeritus, Institute for American Universities (ex officio); Chairman, European Council, International Association of University Presidents

Anne de Lattre

1987 - 1994

Special Advisor, O.E.C.D., Paris

Robert Myron Rosenzweig

1987 - 2009

President, Association of American Universities

Robert Mantran

1992 - 1999

Professor Emérite de Langues et Civilisation Islamiques, Membre de l'Institut de France (Académie des Belles Lettres), Président d'Honneur du Comité International d'Etudes Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes

Nina T. Shepherd

1993 - 2003

Founding Director, Study Abroad Office, University of Illinois-Chicago

Barbara Freed

1994 - 2018

Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Applied Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University

Thomas E. Cronin

1997 - 2012

President Emeritus, Whitman College, McHugh Professor of Political Science, Colorado College

Christian Joly

1999 - 2013

Cooperation Attaché Embassy of France in Ghana

Mary Louise Hart

2000 - 2015

Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Charles E.M. Kolb

2001 - 2004

President, Committee for Economic Development

Anne Chasser

2004 - 2011

Associate Vice President, Intellectual Property Office, University of Cincinnati

Sarah Maza

2007 - 2014

Professor of History, Northwestern University

Philip Breeden

2010 - 2015

Former Minister-Counselor Public Affairs, US Embassy, Paris, France

Frances D. Cook

2010 - 2020

Former U.S. Ambassador to Oman, Cameroon and Burundi

Jean-Claude Eude

2010 - 2020

Council Member, Stelios Foundation, Honorary Consul Republic of Latvia to the Principality of Monaco


Stephen Mittelstet


2010- 2021

President Emeritus of Richland College of the Dallas County Community College District

Greg Wyatt

2014 - 2023

Sculptor-in-Residence, Cathedral St. John the Divine and Director, Newington-Cropsey Foundation Academy of Art

Lisa Anderson

2017 - 2019

Former President, American University in Cairo
Senior Lecturer, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs