Neil L. Rudenstine

Neil L. Rudenstine currently serves as chair of ARTstor, a nonprofit organization created by the A. W. Mellon Foundation that develops, maintains, and distributes digital resources for the study of art, architecture, design, and related fields in the Humanities. Dr. Rudenstine was president of Harvard University from 1991 until he retired in 2001. He received his undergraduate degree at Princeton University, a B.A and an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University. He was a member of the Harvard English Department prior to becoming a professor and senior administrator at Princeton University. He is a published author, and among many other accomplishments is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a trustee of the Barnes Foundation, the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), and the Goldman Sachs Foundation.